Hij is getrouwd met Elisabeth (Elisa) Kroes.
The family Kroes or Croes is a Duffelt family and got related to the Oteman family the mariage of Elisabeth ( Betty) Kroes on 27-2-1891 with Johannes Wilhelmus (William) Oteman at Erlecom.
Betty was 19 years at the time and passed her youth at her fathers , Gerard Kroes , farm " The Big Cat", a monumental farm on the dike along the Waal ( Rhin) at Ooy.
Before she got married,Williams mother , Hendrina Awater, had served as a milkmaid at the same farm.Shortly after that mariage, on May 13, 1891 , the young couple, emigrated to America and settled down at Little Chute in Wisconsin. William Oteman was blacksmithand his fist three children were born in that place. Later they went to Racine in Wisconsin.
William and Elisabeth have been back to the Netherlands only one time, in 1934, after 43 years! William died in 1941 in Racine and Elisabeth in 1962, 90 years old.
Together with Wiliam and Elisabeth, her brother Theodorus Kroes ( Ted) went with them to the States and in 1898 another brother of Elisabeth, Paul Kroes, emigrated also and came to Wisconsin.To day many Kroes live in Racine and are spread in all States of USA, like the descendants of William and Elisabeth did. The last got twelve children: two sons and ten daughters.
Zij zijn getrouwd op 3 maart 1891 te Ooij, Ubbergen, hij was toen 24 jaar oud.
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