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[27 July 2014]
- In finding information about his family did you come across information on the Douwe (Douma/David) Alles Zuidema family?
- According to our family history book Douwes' family immigrated from Friesland, Netherlands arriving in New York on 1 June 1852 on ship, Jan Van Brakel from (port) Rotterdam.
- (His name was written wrong, as Donnie Alles Weidema.) He cam with his wife, Grietje (Margaret) Pieters (Nieuwsma),
- and my great grandmother, Froukje (Francis) Douwes Zuidema (2 years old).
- They missed the 1850 U.S. census, can't find them in the 1860 U.S. census and are shown in the 1870 U.S. census living in Holland, Ottawa County, Michigan.
- Our family book shows that two children were born in the Village of Lancaster, Erie, NY:
- Nanke (Nancy) Douwes Zuidema on 27 Nov. 1854 and Albert Pieter Zuidema on 1 Sept. 1856.
- If the Jan Harke Zuidema family is the only Zuidema family listed in the 1850's and Nanke and Albert were born in Lancaster,
- my assumption is that these families were related and/or knew each other.
- I have read that Worp Van Payma started a small Dutch community in Lancaster around 1849,
- so it's possible that these two Zuidema families made their way to Lancaster, because of that.--henk 10:02, 27 July 2014 (UTC)
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