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Geertje Roelofs <I>de Jong</I> Schuiling

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Geertje Roelofs de Jong Schuiling

Birth
Sint Jacobiparochie, Het Bildt Municipality, Friesland, Netherlands
Death
11 Feb 1911 (aged 38)
Belgrade, Gallatin County, Montana, USA
Burial
Churchill, Gallatin County, Montana, USA Add to Map
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Her parents are miller Roelof de Jong and Sytske van der Zee.
On 6 May 1872 she married in the Friesian northwestern municipality Het Bildt to the three years older baker and farmer Klaas Schuiling of the nearby village Sint Annaparochie, seat of Het Bildt.
About 1899 they emigrated with their son Thijs to the USA, Montana, Gallatin County, Bozeman, where they had from 16 April 1901 until 10 January 1911 five more children, Sietske, Ytje, Roelof, Adriaantje and Grietje Schuiling.
A month after Grietje's birth she died at the age of 38 years.
Many of their letters to their family-in-law Hoogland in Friesland are preserved.
Her parents are miller Roelof de Jong and Sytske van der Zee.
On 6 May 1872 she married in the Friesian northwestern municipality Het Bildt to the three years older baker and farmer Klaas Schuiling of the nearby village Sint Annaparochie, seat of Het Bildt.
About 1899 they emigrated with their son Thijs to the USA, Montana, Gallatin County, Bozeman, where they had from 16 April 1901 until 10 January 1911 five more children, Sietske, Ytje, Roelof, Adriaantje and Grietje Schuiling.
A month after Grietje's birth she died at the age of 38 years.
Many of their letters to their family-in-law Hoogland in Friesland are preserved.


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