Person Sheet


Name Arend Jan Ruesink [immigrant] - 1A10
Birth 5 Oct 1828, Dinxperlo, Netherlands10
Death 30 Jul 1893, Chester Twp., Dodge Co., Wisconsin82
Burial Oak Mound Cem., Alto, Fond du Lac Co., Wisc.82,83
Occupation Farmer84
Father Gerrit Hendrik Ruesink [immigrant] - 1 (1800->1870)
Mother Aaltjen te Warle (1798-1869)
Spouses
1 Alida Engelina Klompenhauer [immigrant]82
Birth 7 Mar 1833, Westphalen, Prussia82,83
Death 29 Aug 1891, Chester Twp., Dodge Co., Wisconsin82,83
Burial Oak Mound Cem., Alto, Fond du Lac Co., Wisc.82
Occupation Housewife84
Father Arend Johann/Jan Klompenhouwer (ca1787-)
Mother Johanna/Janna Wilhelmina Leurvink (ca1790-)
Marriage ca 1857, Wisconsin?
Children Johaan (John) (1858-1923)
Anna (Annie) (ca1861-)
Johanna Wilhelmina (Minnie) (ca1865-)
Gerrit Hendrik (Henry G.) (1869->1930)
Notes for Arend Jan Ruesink [immigrant] - 1A
Emigrated to America from house number 235 in De Heurne 16 July 1856; occupation listed as "servant.". His father and youngest sister followed 14 years later.10

In 1978 I wrote: The American connection for Arend Jan is not yet certain, but I believe the information presented for his wife and children belong here. The 1880 U.S. Census of Dodge Co., Chester Town, Wisconsin, included:

A. John Ruesink a. 51 b. Holland
Allice Ruesink a. 46 b. Holland
John Ruesink a. 21 b. Wisc.
Minnie Ruesink a. 14 b. Wisc.
Henry Ruesink a. 10 b. Wisc.

The parents and sons are also found in the 1900 census for the same town.

In 1995 I received confirming report from Virgil Hoftiezer, but his evidence is not totally convincing.82
Notes for Alida Engelina (Spouse 1)
Date of birth computed from age at death from cemetery records.83 Surname is probably Klompenhouwer in Dutch records.
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