Person:Oepke Plantinga (1)

Name	Oepke Plantinga
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	27 Oct 1846	Abbega, Wymbritseradeel, Friesland, Netherlands
Residence^[5]	1 Jan 1850	Abbega, Wymbritseradeel, Friesland, Netherlandsnr. 19
Occupation`^?`	1873	Farmers Hand/Laborer
Marriage	3 May 1873	Wymbritseradeel, Friesland, Netherlandsto Murkjen Zandstra
Residence^[3]	17 Sep 1873	Abbega, Wymbritseradeel, Friesland, NetherlandsWijk VII, nr 25
Residence^[4]	1 Jan 1881	Abbega, Wymbritseradeel, Friesland, NetherlandsWijk VII, nr 25/Wijk 16
Religion`^?`	1881	Reformed
Residence`^?`	1 Apr 1892	Abbegaasterketting, Wymbritseradeel, Friesland, Netherlands
Other^[8]	5 Apr 1892	New York City, New York, United StatesArrival
Emigration^[4]^[7]	23 Apr 1892	Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
Other`^?`	24 Apr 1892	Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, FranceDeparture 200 AM
Other`^?`	24 Apr 1892	Lizard, Cornwall, EnglandPassing 1100 AM
Immigration^[6]	6 May 1892	Ellis Island, New York, New York, United Statess.s. Obdam
Death^[2]	17 Jan 1907	Northbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts, United StatesCastle Hill
Cause of Death^[2]	17 Jan 1907	Lobar pneumonia
Burial^[2]	19 Jan 1907	Riverdale Cemetery, Northbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Religion`^?`		Nederlands Hervormd/Dutch Reformed

In 1844 Pier Plantinga bought a house, shed and a small piece of land in Abbegaasterketting for fl 725,-- , where he started a Coopery. Abbegaasterketting is just a few houses near Abbega, a place where a small ferry crossed the water.(Ketting is a chain, over the water to pull the Ferry across). Pier must have been rather successful because when the family sold the place in 1876, they earned fl 3.700 (abt € 38.000 nowadays). Six children were born, one who died in infancy. Oepke was the second son, born in 1846. In the Civil Registration (Bevolkingsregister) we see that Oepke was a farmhand.

The church: His father, Pier Plantinga, was Nederlands Hervormd (Dutch reformed) when he married in 1844, so it appears that he wasn't with the Secession of 1834 from which Hendrik de Cock and Albertus van Raalte were a few known leaders. The Plantinga family must have gone to the Gertrudiskerk in Abbega which was a Nederlands Hervormde Kerk in those days just about 2 miles from their house.

In 1881 Bevolkingsregister Oepke already left the Dutch Reformed Church and might have joined the Christian Reformed Church. In 1886, a second schism appeared, named the Doleantie, of Rev. Abraham Kuyper and from what I found so far is that especially in the region of Abbega, Folsgare and Oosthem many people turned away from the Dutch Reformed Church and joined new Churches or the Christian Reformed Church. The reverends were not ministers in one place, they traveled from town to town, so it is most likely that Oepke who left also (Bevolkingsregister) went to church in a house or barn in Oosthem about 6 miles from where the family lived . Namely, in 1892 when the different Reformed Churches merged into the Reformed Church a new church was built there.

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