Person Sheet


Name Manes Ruesink [immigrant] - 8A10
Birth 24 Jan 1830, Dinxperlo, Netherlands10
Death 19 Mar 1902, Fillmore Co., Minnesota3
Burial Greenleafton Cemetery, Greenleafton, Minn.3
Occupation Farmer (in America)
Father Derk Jan Ruesink (1805-1875)
Mother Janna (=Johanna) Smits (1808-1852)
Spouses
1 Gazina Elizabeth Meinen [immigrant]
Birth 28 Feb 1838, Winterswyk, Netherlands3
Death 25 Nov 1874, Fillmore Co., Minnesota3
Burial Greenleafton Cemetery, Greenleafton, Minn.3
Father Christiaan Meinen [immigrant] (ca1807-)
Mother Johanna Geertruijd (Janna) Veenhuis [immigrant] (ca1808-)
Marriage ca 1857, prob. Wisconsin
Children Johanna (Jane) (1858-1884)
Christina (1861-1947)
Denke (ca1864-)
Aaron (1866-1951)
Hannah (1869-1927)
David (1872-1964)
Notes for Manes Ruesink [immigrant] - 8A
Emigrated to "Millwauki in N. America" from house number 142 in Dinxperlo (not De Heurne) in 1854. He travelled alone without family; occupation was listed as "boerenwerker" (farmworker).10,110 Settled first is Wisconsin and moved later to Minnesota. In America his name is usually written as Manus, but sometimes Monas.31

In 1870 US census for York, Fillmore Co, MN, as Manus Rusink w/wife and 5 children.

1880 US census of York, Fillmore Co, Minnesota has:
Manus RUESINK Self W Male W 49 HOLLAND Farmer HOLLAND HOLLAND
Christina RUESINK Dau S Female W 19 WI Keeping House HOLLAND HOLLAND
Aaron RUESINK Son S Male W 14 MN HOLLAND HOLLAND
Hannah RUESINK Dau S Female W 10 MN HOLLAND HOLLAND
David RUESINK Son S Male W 8 MN HOLLAND HOLLAND
Martin WESLINK Other S Male W 21 HOLLAND Farm Laborer HOLLAND HOLLAND
Jane BRUSS Other S Female W 33 HOLLAND Seamstress HOLLAND HOLLAND

Tombstone gives birth date as 25 Jan 1831.3
Notes for Gazina Elizabeth (Spouse 1)
Emigrated to America from Aalten in 1855. In 1880 U.S. census Manus is listed as a widower.

American spelling of Gazina's name seems to be usually Gasena.31 Grave marker gives her name as "C.E. Meinen, wife of Manus Ruesink."3
Last Modified 11 Feb 2004 Created 26 Nov 2004 using Reunion for Macintosh

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