Person:Sjoerd Osinga (1)

Watchers
m. 18 Oct 1807
  1. Eelkje Johannes OsingaAbt 1813 -
  2. Sjoerd Osinga1818 - 1899
m. 28 Jun 1838
  1. Sytske Osinga1841 - 1916
m. 8 Sep 1842
  1. Houkje Osinga1843 - 1847
  2. John OsingaAbt 1848 - 1870
  3. Gerbrandina Antonia OsingaAbt 1853 -
  4. Gerbrandus Antonius Osinga1855 - 1928
m. 14 Jun 1859
Facts and Events
Name Sjoerd Osinga
Immigrant Name Rev. Seward Osinga
Alt Name S Osinga
Gender Male
Birth[1] 27 Jan 1818 Menaldum, Menaldumadeel, Friesland, Netherlands
Marriage 28 Jun 1838 Het Bildt, Friesland, Netherlandsto Dirkje Aebelina Albertina Schepers
Marriage 8 Sep 1842 Het Bildt, Friesland, Netherlandsto Hendrina Catrina van Ringh
Immigration[6][9] 2 Aug 1847
Marriage 14 Jun 1859 Connecticut, United Statesto Catherine Remer
Census[7] 23 Jun 1860 Thornton, Cook, Illinois, United States
Residence[8] From 1867 to abt 1876 Unadilla, Livingston, Michigan, United States
Occupation[4] Minister
Death[2] 18 Dec 1899 Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States
Burial[2][3] 19 Dec 1899 Hillside Cemetery, Plainwell, Allegan, Michigan, United States
  • For an account of Osinga's travels see: S. Osinga, Dagboek mijner reize naar Noord- Amerika 's Vereenigde Staten in den jare 1847 gedaan (Franeker: T. Telenga, 1848)
References
  1. Geboorte, in Menaldumadeel, Friesland, Netherlands. Burgerlijke Stand
    blad nr. 9, 1818.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Cook, Illinois, United States. Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1878-1998.
  3. .
  4. Robinson, Edgar Sutton. The Ministerial directory of the ministers in the Presbyterian Church in the United States... (1898)
    pg. 426.

    OSINGA, Seward, Plainville, Mich. - Born, Kingdom of Holland, 1818; Lic. Sept. 27, '57, Ord. Nov. 8, '58, Pby. of Chicago; S.S. Crete, Ill., Cong. Ch., 3 yrs.; S.S. Thornton, Ill., 2 yrs.; S.S. Plainwell, Mich., 2 yrs.; P. Unadilla, Mich. 9 yrs,; P. Plainfield, Mich., 9 yrs.; P. Stockbridge, Mich., 7 yrs P. Edwardsburg, Mich., Harris Prairie, Ind., 3 yrs.; S.S. Parma, Mich., 1 yr.; S.S. Pawamo, Mich., 3 yrs.; Member of Pby. of Kalamazoo

  5.   Biltske emigranten yn 'e foarige ieu, in Leeuwarder Courant. (Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands)
    15 Jul 1955.
  6. van Hinte, Jacob. Netherlanders in America: a study of emigration and settlement in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the United States of America. (Grand Rapids [Michigan]: Baker Book House, 1985).
  7. Cook, Illinois, United States. 1860 U.S. Census Population Schedule.

    Other children in the 1860 census:
    John Osinga; male; born abt 1847, New York
    G. Antonia Osinga; female; born abt 1851, Wisconsin
    G. Antonius Osinga; male; born abt 1855, Illinois

  8. .

    http://www.memoriallibrary.com/MI/Livingston/1880/Unadilla%20Twp/c.htm
    "Rev. Seward Osinga came in 1867, and remained nine years."

  9. Passenger record Louisa 2 Aug 1847