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Personal data Jacob Gerrit Steenhoek 

• He was born on June 30, 1904 in Zwijndrecht, Nederland.

  Register Burgerlijke Stand Zwijndrecht 627.76||Jacob Gerrit Steenhoek|Plaatsnaam: Zwijndrecht|Voornaam: Jacob Gerrit|Achternaam: Steenhoek|Archiefnummer: 627 Burgerlijke stand en bevolking van Zwijndrecht|Inventarisnummer: 76|Bladzijde: 1697|Geboortedatum: 30 Juni 1904|Geboorteplaats: Zwijndrecht|

• Emigrated in the year 1953, Alliston, Ontario, Canada.
• Profession: Tuinman, tuindersknecht in Rotterdam, Nederland.
• He died on August 10, 1990 in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada, he was 86 years old.
• He is buried in Schomberg Union Cemetery, King, Ontario, Canada.
• A child of Klaas Steenhoek and Arendje van Etten

Household of Jacob Gerrit Steenhoek

He is married to Maria Johanna Hoogland.

They got married on August 13, 1930 at Rotterdam, Nederland, he was 26 years old.

Child(ren):

1. (Not public)
2. (Not public)
3. Jacob Arend Steenhoek  1939-2008 
4. (Not public)

Notes about Jacob Gerrit Steenhoek

Gedurende 1 jaar woonde dit echtpaar aan de Hoofdlaan 37, Rotterdam alvorens op 28-8-1931 te verhuizen naar de Hoofdlaan 5a, Rotterdam, waar de oudste dochter geboren is. De overige kinderen kwamen ter wereld in het pand Kralingseweg 322, Rotterdam, waar men sinds 29-12-1933 woonachtig was.

THE DECISION TO GO TO CANADA

Here is a typical Dutch family: Father, Mother and four children.

Life was good. The father worked as a supervisor on a vegetable farm at the Kralingscheweg 322 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. A job with many benefits, for one of them included a home at the farm. Fresh vegetables were plenty, their own potatoes, the pears, the apples and the cherries from the orchard. And the use of the barn, to allow them to have a couple of goats and sheep.

The place was about a 20 minutes bike ride to the city (Rotterdam). They came through the WW2 very well, especially compared to the people living in the cities.

The 3 younger children were born in that house. In those days childbirth was a home affair, usually with the help of a neighbour. After the war, everything went along normally.

Then in 1952 things chanced, through no fault of his, the father lost his job of 25 years, and they had to move out of their home.

By then, the oldest girl, Truus, worked as a seamtress. The oldest boy Nico, worked at a furniture factory, and the youngest two children, Jacob and Irene were still in school.

They found another home, and the father got a job as a dockworker at the harbour.

The mother, did have a brother who had moved to USA, before the 2nd worldwar, and build a large dairy farm in California. And a niece of the mother, was married to a vegetable farmer, but he had to share land with his brothers, so after the war, in 1947, the young couple with two small children, decided to go to Canada,.

So with a little prodding from the mother, the idea was brought up to emigrate to Canada.

There was one problem though, the oldest daughter was engaged to a boy, an only child, and was not going to leave Holland. So it was arranged that she would move in with her future inlaws. (= Truus)

Then came the applications, the medical examinations and interviews at the Canadian Consulate, in Den Haag. And having some tutoring in English. And the father had to apply for exemption of the militairy draft for his oldest son.

So one day in May 1953, five people, the father age 49, mother age 45, two boys, age 18 and age 13 and the youngest daughter age 12, went aboard the Emigrant ship, the S.S. Waterman, at the harbour in Rotterdam, and sailed of into a new future.

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