Getuigen van de aangifte, Jacobus Meulenberg, 43 jaar, boer, en Jan Traas, 35 jaar, schilder, beide wonende in 's-Heer Arendskerke.
(1) Elle est mariée avec Johannes van Strien.
Ils se sont mariés le 2 juin 1911 à Sheboygan,Wisconsin,USA., elle avait 24 ans.
Enfant(s):
Le couple a divorcé de 16 septembre 1911 chez Sheboygan.Source 1
(2) Elle est mariée avec Johan Hendrik Schilpzand.
Ils se sont mariés le 3 octobre 1919 à Plainwell,Michigan,USA., elle avait 32 ans.
Enfant(s):
Her elder child, Catharina Johanna, was born in 's Heer Arendskerke op 01-02-1908. The child and her mother, Catharina Schipper(s), sailed with the SS.Noordam from Rotterdam to the USA on April 29nd 1911, arrived in New York on May 9, 1911.
Naturalization: February 11, 1942, Kalamazoo, MI.
According to the ship passage record they left 's Heer Arendskerke bound for Sheboygan, WI. with Johannes van Strien as the person they were going to meet. It list that Cartharina was traveling to be with her future husband and young Catharina Johanna to be with her father. They arrived in New York on May 9 1911.
Johannes van Strien woonde toen North 41 street 14.Sheboygan WI.
Catharina and Johannes were married in Sheboygan on June 2 1911.
To the best of our (Jonathan) ability to reconstruct events, we have determined the following facts.
Catharina Schipper had an illegitimate daughter (Catharina Johanna) by Jan Van Strien in Holland.
Catharina and her daughter Catharina Johanna emigrated to America to join the van Strien family in Sheboygan.
Catharina was married to Johannes van Strien, son of Jan van Strien, but had no children by him.
Johannes van Strien divorced Catharina, due to infidelity which was discovered only weeks after his marriage.
Catharina had an illigitimate son (John Johannes) by Jan van Strien, born in Kalamazoo.
Cartharina later married Johan Schilpzand, and had three daughters by him.
Catharina Johanna and John Johannes used the name Schilpzand. Both lived to adulthood. Both died childless.
Info from Betty: Catherine never married nor had any children; my mother and aunts say she was never extrememly healthy; from photographs, she appears very thin and slender (Unlike my grandmother who appears very plump in photos.) Catherine went by the name Catherine Johanna Schilpzand although I cannot find any adaption of her by my grandmother.
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