Familie Ven-Kansen » Maaike Jans Streekstra (1827-1893)

Personal data Maaike Jans Streekstra 

  • She was born on October 12, 1827 in Hallum, Ferwerderadeel.
  • She died on November 12, 1893 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, she was 66 years old.
    Maaike Streekstra was born in October 1827 in the country village Hallum in the utter northern part of the Dutch northern province Friesland, municipality Ferwerderadeel, daughter of the 26 years old laborer Jan Pieters Streekstra and Albertje Harmens Vriesema.

    On Thursday 30 December 1852 Maaike Jans Streekstra, daughter of late Jan Pieters Streekstra and laborer Albertje Harmens Vriesema, married in the country village Ferwerd, seat of municipality Ferwerderadeel, at the age of 25 years to the five older laborer Marten Jans Spoelstra, born in Hallum too, son of late Jan Klazes Spoelstra and laborer Grietje Martens Swart.

    They had in Hallum the following five children Spoelstra:
    * Jan, born on 11 December 1852;
    * Albertje, 18 November 1854, died on 5 September 1861 in Hallum;
    * Pieter, 1 July 1857;
    * Klaas, 22 November 1859;
    * Albert, 23 September 1863.

    Her husband and father Marten Spoelstra was in all those birth years a laborer.

    In March 1864 her husband, laborer Marten Jans Spoelstra died at the age of 41 years in house number 38 of his birth and residence place Hallum, municipality Ferwerderadeel, Friesland.

    On Saturday 11 May 1867 Maaike Jans Streekstra, daughter of Jan Pieters Streekstra and Albertje Harmens Vriesema, both deceased, remarried in the country village Ferwerd at the age of 39 years to the six years older laborer Marten Sjoerds Swart aka Zwart (= Black), born in Hallum too, son of Sjoerd Martens Swart and Feykje Andries van der Wal, both deceased.

    They had in Hallum the following children Zwart:
    * Sjoerd Martens, 21 December 1867;
    * Albertje "Ella", 31 December 1869.

    Their father Marten Sjoerds Zwart was in both years a laborer.

    In the period 1870-1880 Maaike Streekstra was living in house number 114a of Hallum, with her husband Marten Sjoerds Zwart (truck farmer [gardenie], their children Sjoerd and Albertje Martens Zwart, and her children from her first marriage to Marten Jans Spoelstra: Jan, Pieter, Klaas and Albert Martens Spoelstra. They were all Christian Reformed (Gereformeerd). Her son, laborer Jan Martens Spoelstra married on 11 November 1876 Sjieuwke Aukes Bennema, also born and living in Hallum, and moved to the house of her parents, number 94a in Hallum, where they had on 10 December 1877 daughter Aaltje Jans Spoelstra and on 20 December 1879 son Marten Jans Spoelstra. They were all four four noted as Dutch Reformed (Nederlands Hervormd).

    In 1880 Maaike Streekstra was living in house number 263 of Hallum, with her husband Marten Sjoerds Zwart (laborer), their children Sjoerd and Albertje Martens Zwart, and her children from her first marriage to Marten Jans Spoelstra, Pieter (laborer), Klaas (laborer) and Albert Martens Spoelstra (laborer).

    They all seven emigrated in 1882 to North America, very probably to the Dutch truck farmers settlement of Roseland, since 1892 a southern district of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, where her son Jan Martens Spoelstra was already living with his family since 1881.

    In 1880 her son Jan Martens Spoelstra (b. 18 [has to be: 11] December 1852 in Hallum, laborer) was living in house number 220 of Hallum, with his wife Sjieuwke Aukes Bennema (18 Dec 1854, Hallum), daughter Aaltje Jans Spoelstra (10 Dec 1877, Hallum) and son Marten Jans Spoelstra (20 Dec 1879, Hallum). They were then Christian Reformed (Gereformeerd) and emigrated in 1881 to North America.

    Her husband Martin Swart died in March 1892 at the age of 70 years in the Dutch truck farmers settlement of Roseland, since 1892 a southern district of Chicago. Widow Maaike died in Chicago too, in November 1893 at the age of 66 years.
  • This information was last updated on January 24, 2018.

Household of Maaike Jans Streekstra

(1) She is married to Marten Jans Spoelstra.

They got married on December 30, 1852 at Hallum, she was 25 years old.


Child(ren):



(2) She is married to Marten Sjoerds Swart.

They got married on May 11, 1867 at Hallum, she was 39 years old.


Child(ren):

  2. Albertje Swart  1869-1942 


Notes about Maaike Jans Streekstra

Op 1 juli 1882 vertrokken van FERWERDERADEEL naar USA-UNIDENTIFIED REGION.
MARTEN SJOERDS ZWART (werkman) geboren op 10-08-1821 , wonende te Hallum husband, married
MAAIKE JANS STREEKSTRA (geen) geboren op 12-10-1827 , wonende te Hallum wife, married
SJOERD MARTENS ZWART geboren op 21-12-1867 , wonende te Hallum son, unmarried/single
ALBERTJE MARTENS ZWART geboren op 31-12-1869 , wonende te Hallum daughter, unmarried/single
PIETER MARTENS SPOELSTRA (werkman) geboren op 19-07-1857 , wonende te Hallum, step-son,unmarried/single
KLAAS MARTENS SPOELSTRA (werkman) geboren op 22-11-1859 , wonende te Hallum, step-son,unmarried/single
ALBERT MARTENS SPOELSTRA (werkman) geboren op 21-10-1863 , wonende te Hallum, step-son,unmarried/single

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Maaike Jans Streekstra

Maaike Jans Streekstra
1827-1893

(1) 1852

Marten Jans Spoelstra
1822-1864

Jan Martens Spoelstra
1852-1922
Pieter Martens Spoelstra
1857-1938
Klaas Martens Spoelstra
1859-????
Albert Martens Spoelstra
1863-1936
(2) 1867

Marten Sjoerds Swart
1821-1892

Sjoerd Martens Swart
1867-????
Albertje Swart
1869-1942

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Birthday October 12, 1827

  • The temperature on October 12, 1827 was about 14.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: half bewolkt regen bui. Source: KNMI
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    De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
  • In the year 1827: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 28 » The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.
    • March 15 » University of Toronto is founded.
    • April 7 » John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match that he had invented the previous year.
    • July 4 » Slavery is abolished in the State of New York.
    • October 1 » Russo-Persian War: The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination of Armenia.
    • October 20 » In the Battle of Navarino, a combined Turkish and Egyptian fleet is defeated by British, French and Russian naval forces in the last significant battle fought with wooden sailing ships.

Day of marriage May 11, 1867

  • The temperature on May 11, 1867 was about 12.6 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • From June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
  • In the year 1867: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • May 15 » Canadian Bank of Commerce opens for business in Toronto, Ontario. The bank would later merge with Imperial Bank of Canada to become what is CIBC in 1961.
    • June 19 » Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
    • July 1 » The British North America Act takes effect as the Province of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia join into confederation to create the modern nation of Canada. Sir John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada. This date is commemorated annually in Canada as Canada Day, a national holiday.
    • July 17 » Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the first dental school in the U.S. that is affiliated with a university.
    • November 9 » Tokugawa shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
    • November 23 » The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish Republican Brotherhood members from custody.

Day of death November 12, 1893

  • The temperature on November 12, 1893 was about -1.0 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1893: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • January 13 » The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom holds its first meeting.
    • June 20 » Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.
    • June 22 » The Royal Navy battleship HMSCamperdown accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMSVictoria which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.
    • July 22 » Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful" after admiring the view from the top of Pikes Peak near Colorado Springs, Colorado.
    • August 14 » France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
    • November 12 » Abdur Rahman Khan accepts the Durand Line as the border between Afghanistan and the British Raj.


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