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Biography
Gerrit married his full cousin Pietertje Cornelis Sluijs on May 1 1878 in Andijk. Children: Neeltje (Aug 26 1880, married Daniel Nannesz Vriend), Grietje (May 6 1882, married Klaas Kostelijk & Jan Wagemaker), Cornelis (Oct 14 - Nov 25 1887), Cornelis (Nov 21 1889 - March 1983 in San Jose, California, evangelist & author, married Femke Woudstra),
Gerrit and Pietertje left the Mazereeuws once they were married & joined the Gereformeerde Kerk; their son Cornelis wrote Vrije Westfriezen I and II, and moved to California where most of the family still lives in Modesto and San Jose; in 1880 the Netherlands had the worst potato famine since 1845. Strong rains had also destroyed wheat, beans and peas. And a bank debacle in Austria in 1878 had thrown all Europe into financial crisis so that prices didn't rise either. Many farms were bankrupted. Many families, including a few Sluys families, immigrated to the US; others started working in cooperatives.
Death
- Y
- 22 JAN 1937
- Andijk
- 81
Record ID Number
- ID Number: MH:I2059
User ID
- ID: 7CC0AABC-E223-45B1-A457-F3B432D4717E
Sources
- Andijker Buurtjeskerk Database as found at [1]
- Marriage as found at [2]
- Death as found at [3]
- "Vrije Westfriezen II" by Cornelis Gerritsz Sluys (yes, his own son), published by Uitgeversbedrijf Edecea - Hoorn. No copyright date listed; forward written 1945. Most likely it is now considered public domain.
Acknowledgments
Thank you to Arnold Groot for creating WikiTree profile Sluijs-18 through the import of gedcomdata van Oom Jan de Vries.ged on Feb 16, 2013.
Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Arnold and others.