Person Sheet


Name Derk Jan Ruesink [immigrant] - 5B10
Birth 24 Sep 1835, Dinxperlo, Netherlands10
Death 7 Sep 1909, Fillmore Co., Minnesota1
Burial Greenleafton Cemetry, Preston, Minn.3
Occupation Farmer47
Father Grades Ruesink (1802-1864)
Mother Johanna Somsen (1806-1855)
Spouses
1 Berendina (Dina) Johanna Catherina Nagel [immigrant]
Birth 13 Sep 1843, Aalten, Netherlands1
Death 28 Jan 1909, Fillmore Co., Minnesota1
Burial Greenleafton Cemetry, Preston, Minn.3
Father Berend Nagel [immigrant] (1808-1865)
Mother Janna Geertruid Dedert [immigrant] (1807-1901)
Marriage 26 Mar 18621
Children baby boy (?1863-1871)
Jane (1865-1940)
Elizabeth (Betsy) (1866-1923)
Garret (1867-1868)
baby boy (1869-1869)
Garret John (1871-1927)
Hannah (ca1873->1880)
Cornelia (1875-1923)
John (1879-1944)
Derk (Dicky J.) (1881-1886)
Hannah (1882-1903)
Benjamin (Ben) (1884-1945)
Notes for Derk Jan Ruesink [immigrant] - 5B
Emigrated from De Heurne house number 420 to America August 1855. [Also listed as emigrating from Aalten (IJzerlo) 15 August 1854, if this be the same Derk Jan; occupation a "farmer-servant" in Lintelo. There is a Derk Jan Ruesink, age 20, who arrived 30 Sep 1854 in New York on the ship Leila from Rotterdam.] His sister Christina emigrated from same house number May 1855.10 In 1860 he was living in Alto Twp., Fond du Lac Co., Wisconsin. The 1880 and 1900 censuses have him with his wife in York Twp., Fillmore Co., Minnesota.

1880 census:
Census Place: York, Fillmore, Minnesota
Source: FHL Film 1254619 National Archives Film T9-0619 Page 417B
Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace
Derrick RUESINK Self M M W 44 HOLLAND
Occ: Farmer Fa: HOLLAND Mo: HOLLAND
Dinah RUESINK Wife F M W 36 HOLLAND
Occ: Keeping House Fa: HOLLAND Mo: HOLLAND
Jane RUESINK Dau F S W 15 MN
Fa: HOLLAND Mo: HOLLAND
Betsey RUESINK Dau F S W 13 MN
Fa: HOLLAND Mo: HOLLAND
Garret RUESINK Son M S W 9 MN
Fa: HOLLAND Mo: HOLLAND
Hannah RUESINK Dau F S W 7 MN
Fa: HOLLAND Mo: HOLLAND
Cornealia RUESINK Dau F S W 5 MN
Fa: HOLLAND Mo: HOLLAND
John RUESINK Son M S W 5M MN
Fa: HOLLAND Mo: HOLLAND
Albert WIBBLES Other M S W 17 MN
Occ: Farm Laborer Fa: HOLLAND Mo: HOLLAND47

Gravestone has birth date as 25 Sep 1835 and death as 7 Nov 1909.3

R. Wartena traces this family to the farm Nellishuis but has not connected it to the other Ruesink family living nearby and from which all other Ruesink immigrants descend.10
Notes for Berendina (Dina) Johanna Catherina (Spouse 1)
In about 1855 or 1856 she emigrated to America, probably with her parents.
Last Modified 11 Feb 2004 Created 26 Nov 2004 using Reunion for Macintosh

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