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GRIEP in Bergen County,
NJ
From Zeeland in the
Netherlands to the suburban region around the
'Big Apple'>
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 Between
1870 and 1885, the village of
Yerseke in the
Dutch province
Zeeland grew very rapidly. The
newly invented method of oyster-farming made that
possible. In those days, Yerseke was even referred
to as the Klondike of
Zeeland. After 1885 the
oyster-culture fell back to a much lower level.
Many people lost faith about their future in
Zeeland, and they decided to emigrate. Between
1885 and 1900, 484 people left Yerseke for America.
Many of them settled in West-Sayville (NY), where
oyster-farming was also practised.
Others, among them
several Griep's, settled in Bergen County, New
Jersey. In this region, the fast growing
industries offered jobs to the ones that arrived
with the immigrant
ships.
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THE
ANCESTORS IN ZEELAND
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1.
In 1666 at Hoedekenskerke, a coastal
village in the province of Zeeland, Jan
Adriaenszoon Griep was born. In 1694 he
married Cornelia Abrams Verschure
and a few weeks later she gave birth to the first
of their six children.2.
Their fourth child, Abram Griep,
was born in 1697. His wife Johanna
de Bats was a shopkeeper and Abram a
bargeman. They had eight children.
3.
Number four of them was Cornelis Griep,
born in 1737. He married to the widow Jacoba
Steketee from Borssele. Around 1770 the
family moved to Hansweert. There he operated the
regular boat service to Middelburg. In 1793 his
24-year old son Janus died. When in 1797 also his
wife died, Cornelis drowned himself in despair.
4.
Jacob Griep (Job), their youngest son, was
born in 1771, and married Tannetje Snoep.
They had eight children. Jacob operated the ferry
service at Hansweert to
Walsoorden.
5.
The second son of Jacob, also named Jacob
Griep, was born in 1798. When he married
Apolonia Sinke they moved to Yerseke. His
wife was a shopkeeper and Jacob operated the
regular boat service to Rotterdam. They had ten
children; one of them migrated to
America.
6.
Their fourth child,
Joos Griep, was
born in 1834. He worked as a bargeman at Yerseke
and married to Neeltje Stroosnijder from
Kruiningen. They had six children; one of them
migrated to America.
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Yerseke
in 1930, with the fishing harbour
and the oyster basins
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LODI,
PASSAIC AND BERGEN COUNTY
BOTH FROM JACOB GRIEP AND FROM
JOOS GRIEP A SON MIGRATED TO AMERICA
THEY SETTLED IN BERGEN COUNTY, NEW JERSEY
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BERGEN COUNTY
Settled by the
Dutch, Bergen was created in 1683 as one of the
four original Counties in New Jersey.
When the immigration was at his
highest, immigrants arriving at New York were
already awaited for by Dutch speaking agents,
offering jobs for the newcomers. Many poor
immigrants could start to work immediately in the
factories at Bergen County, the region in New
Jersey opposite Manhattan on the other side of
the Hudson River.
Immigrants worked there at
textile mills, engineering works, at the railroad
or on farms. Around 1920 some 35,000 Dutchmen
from the first and second generation lived in New
Jersey. In the region around Paterson there were
quite some villages with a Dutch atmosphere,
like: Clifton, Passaic, Midland Park, Ridgewood,
Paramus, Bergen Field and Lodi.
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 Cornelis
Griep (1839-1912)
Migrated from Yerseke to
Passaic, New Jersey, USA Cornelis
Griep was born on September 10, 1839 at
Yerseke. He was the third son of Jacob Griep and
Apolonia Sinke and was a skipper. In 1873 he
married Maria van den Bosch from Waarde. After
she died, he remarried in 1876 to Jacoba Kopmels,
widow of Ary Kaat. In 1896 they migrated, together with
their six children, to America.
They
crossed the Atlantic Ocean from Antwerp to New
York with the vessel Kensington of the Red
Star Line. They arrived in New York on May
19, 1896 and settled in Passaic, Bergen County,
New Jersey. Cornelis worked there as a laborer.
He died on September 24, 1912 and his wife on
August 5, 1930.
THEIR
DESCENDANTS ARE SHOWN ON PAGE:
Cornelis
Griep (1839-1912)
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Marinus Griep (1862-1929)
Migrated from Yerseke to
Lodi, New Jersey, USAMarinus
Griep was born in Yerseke on October 24,
1862, as the oldest son of Joos Griep and Neeltje
Stroosnijder. He was a bargeman and in 1884 he
married to Anna Abrahamse from Wissenkerke. In
Yerseke they had 9 children, from which one, Joos
Marinus, died after one year.
Marinus
and Anna lived at Yerseke in the house at the
middle in the 'Lepelstraat'
In 1901,
they decided to emigrate. On April 11,
1901 the family arrived at New York, with the
ship Statendam of
 the Holland-America-Line
from Rotterdam.
They
settled at Lodi, Bergen County, New Jersey. After
the death of Marinus on April 7, 1929, Anna went
to live with her son Henry in Maryland.
THEIR
DESCENDANTS ARE SHOWN ON PAGE:
Marinus
Griep (1862-1929)
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