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Geert Beiboer
b.23 Feb 1889 Lutjewoude (Augsbuurt), Kollumerland, Friesland
d.6 Mar 1963 Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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m. 28 Jul 1883
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m. 9 Apr 1921
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My Granddad was 25 when he left the Netherlands on the 9th of May 1914 and migrated to the US (Grand Rapids, Michigan to be exactly. Maybe his Brother Taeke sent him a letter and asked him to come over. Taeke migrated 4 years earlier in March 1910. "Pake" arrived on the 18th May 1914 with the ss Rotterdam on Ellis Island and travelled to Grand Rapids, where het stayed with his brother on 1131 Fremont Avenue NW. The same year on the 28 July 1914 World War I started, and men in the Netherlands had to mobilize. In the 1th week of August, many young emigrants received a telegram from the Mayor of their Birthplace, in which he asked them to return to get mobilized. Many Young emigrants did, and on the 25th August 1914 173 Young Dutch Emigrants returned home on the ss Amsterdam. Amongst them about 50 Frisians, 1 of them Pake Geert. On the 7th September 1914 they arrived back in Rotterdam. From where the travelled to Leeuwarden,and received a Bike in the Oranje hotel. The Netherlands were neutral in WWI so he never became active. He had to find a job in that period and started working for a Railroad company in Leeuwarden In 1916 he lived as a lodger with a collegue. This collegue was married and he and his spouse raised 3 children. I always wondered why he didn't return to the US again, but the answer was obvious. In 1917 he became father of a son, followed by a second son in 1919 and a 3th in 1920. In 1921 he married the mother of these children, my Grandmother. Btw His sister Saapke migrated in 1923, not to Grand Rapids but to Montague in California and (strange enough) his father Hendrikus migrated in 1924 Image Gallery
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