Stamboom familie Eilders » Jan Nonkes (1916-1990)

Persoonlijke gegevens Jan Nonkes 

• Hij is geboren op 5 maart 1916 in Mussel, Onstwedde, Groningen, Netherlands.
• Beroepen:
• tussen 1935 en 1950 in Peat and straw dealer.
• tussen 1956 en 1981 in Dairy farmer.
• Hij is overleden op 8 mei 1990 in Wingham Hospital, Ontario, Canada, hij was toen 74 jaar oud.
• Hij is begraven op 11 mei 1990 in Blyth Cementary, Ontario, Canada.

Gezin van Jan Nonkes

Hij is getrouwd met Grietje Volders.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 27 november 1951 te Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, hij was toen 35 jaar oud.

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Notities over Jan Nonkes

He was born in Mussel, Gr Netherlands in 1916. His father was a ditch cleaner for the local municipality as well as a small farmer with a few hectares. His mother stayed at home and did the farm work. He was oldest followed by a a brother Lambertus and sister Hendrickie. She died at age one, followed by another sister by the same name. When Jan was eight or nine he spend several months in bed with rheumatic fever. He finished school at twelve and went to work for local farmers and took some night classes, and boxing. He said this was time he had to work the hardest physically, until he came to Canada. When he was fourteen he took smoking, a life long habit. At eighteen, he served in the calvary as a bat boy. He really enjoyed the horses. After this he made his living as a dealer/hauler in straw, hay peat, and potatoes. He had a lot of interaction with his uncles and grandfather. He was in the hatless young men/peoples society when essays were mandatory.
In 1939, he was called up for military service, but the war lasted one week. After a short detention they were demobilized and sent home. He continued on dealing. They butchered pigs in the darks, and tried to beat curfew. His brother died in 1944 as a result of an accident with a set of runaway horses. At the war's end he was part of an "army" fighting in Germany for a few months. Talking to relatives Jan had a least one serious girlfriend and possibilily engaged to another. After the war he became a potato inspector. He meet Grietje Volders when he needed directions to a potato field. But he was dissatisfied with the lack of everything in Holland and some of his friends were emigrating to Canada, USA, Australia, South
America. He emigrated to Canada in August 1949. He was sent to dairy farmer near Drumbo, ON for a one year period. He instensely disliked the long hours on a dairy farm, but he learnt English from their eight year old son. After the one year he
worked in the sugar beets for a while, then up to Northern Ontario around Cochrane to lumber camps for one winter, all with a few friends from Holland. The pay was good enough to be able to buy a share in an old car, and take a trip to Holland.
From stories by the Volders he made one visit there, and they saw him in the dark in the front room. After returning to Canada he worked in the sugar beets again, but mainly for the Campbells near Petrolia. Grietje Nonkes immigrated in Oct 1951, and they married on Nov 27, 1951 in Sarnia. They lived in a farmhouse, owned by the Campbells. Both William and Jack were born there. Dad served as a deacon in the Wyoming CRC. In April 1955 they purchased a farm between Lucknow and Ripley. It had a kilometre long lane, no electrical service , but had a seven bedroom house and a large barn. But they couldn't afford much equipment or animals. Dad worked on the Goderich pier construciton one winter. They were helped a lot buy the Raulstons across the road, who still ahd horses and a very small tractor. After a few years they had some pigs and enough dairy cows to fill the barn along with a few hundred chickens. A new CRC was just started in Lucknow, and he was an elder most of the five years there. Eric and Emmy were born in the Kincardine hospital. The Middlecamps who were Grietje's cousins, but schoolmates of Dad's were only 15 kilometres away. but the lane was too long in the winter. In April 1960 they moved to the old Kechnie farm near blyth. Life wa poor here for a while, as the farm was in poor condition and the barn much smaller. There was space only for dairy cattle. This was a time of long hours and hard work, especially in the
summer. He has a short temper at this time. But as the farm improved so did other things, including new and better machinery. The second farm was purchased in 1965. After several years of inflation income was very good. He enjoyed adding to the barn and having purchase of new equipment, althought the haggling aspect seemed to the most fun. Alll through it though he threatened to get rid of the cows and buy something else. He achieve this by selling the dairy farm to Jack in 1891.
He cam back to the farm at least 2 or 3 times a week to get mil and visit with Jack and Sylvia. The family went to church in Clinton, but the CRC was started in Blyth in 1962. Dad spent most years as an elder from 63 to 82, with two year off between terms. He was clerk and vice chairman a few time. It was always hard work between pastors and he many reading services. He went on a vacation to Holland in 1972 and 1976, but sledom talked about Holland after that. it was nolonger the country he grew up in. In 1978 they built a new house near Blyth, with windows to kep an eye on the traffic. He also added a silo, grain bins, and driving shed there. Up to the last six months he had to go out and visit the barn or chickens in the shed every day, preferable twice. In 1898 that farm was sold to Gary. He enjoyed helping settting his sons, Jack, Eric, Gary and daughter Emmy on their own farms. The grandchildren remember him as tickler, funny, his pipe and handing out peppermints. In 1989 his gall bladder became severly infected. A few months later he was diagnosed with lung cancer. He died in Wingham hospital with Will, Alice, and his wife at his bedside.
In 1969, Opa had another bout of rheumatic fever and church members helped to put spring crop in one day. In 1975 he suffered a bleeding ucler and cancer of the instensines. He died of lung cancer, had skin cancer

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