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Mail
van Jack Verhoeven na identyificatie via telefoon en opzending van
stamboomgegevens.
Hello from far away Thunder Bay, Canada. I was
very pleasantly surprised today when I picked up the mail and found a package. Thank
you. Sorry about the e-mail confusion. Your recent telephone call was very weil
timed as our son , expecting a June birth with his new wife, had called asking
for family names to throw into the selection list for their new offspring. Will
he be surprised when I show him your data, he certainly wasn't expecting to get
a list going back to 1570!
Responding
to some of your specific inquiries, my father was known as John Verhoeven and
had the occupation of market gardener, growing and selling hothouse tomatoes
before modern transportation systems allowed importing from the southern US. My
mother's maiden name was Hendrika Kuipers and she was known as Rita by her
friends. She had a brother, Theodore Kuipers, who operated a small trucking
operation in Dunnville, and a sister, Nellie Vloet (married name) who also
lived in Dunnville. A second sister, Kaye Mesdagh ( married name. I'm sure the
spelling is wrong, it may not even be close) lived in Delhi, Ontario, about 60
miles away from Dunnville. My older brother, George, was conceived through the
union of my mother and a farm owner for whom she was employed. My parents
married in Tilsonburg, Ontario, I think, sometime in the early 1930s.
George carried the Verhoeven name until he left home at about age 15, when he
then took his mother's maiden name and was known as George Kuipers, last known
address, early 80s, in Saskatchewan where he had teamed up common law with a native
lady and sired 4, I think, sons. ( all of whom spent time in the prison system
- a bit of a black sheep story...) My younger brother Neal, bom in 1948,
married and divorced without offspring. He died in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in
November, 1981.
I am a
chemical engineer by training and have worked all my career in the pulp and
paper industry. My wife Carolyn is a teacher by training and taught
high school for several years before " retiring " to raise our
children. We were both born on November 20,1941, married
Sept 8,1962 and have lived in some 8 different towns as I took promotions/transfers throughout
my career, finally retiring in 1998 and moving back to Thunder Bay where we had lived for 5 years in
the early 80's. We have two children, a daughter, Julia Louise (Julie), born
May 31,1964 and married to Kevin Cleghorn. They live in Thunder Bay and have 2
daughters Kristen, born 1988 and Jacqueline, born 1998. Our son Michael John
(Mike) was born July 31, 1968 and now resides in Gibsons , British Columbia,
Canada's west coast province bordering on the Pacific ocean. His first marriage
produced a daughter Karlee who still carries the name Verhoeven, although
mother has remarried and moved back to Ontario, 2000 kilometers away from dad.
Mike has remarried also, to Debra SmalI, and they are expecting their first
child in June .
We are just
getting ready to leave for a 3-week trip to the southern United States to do
some hiking and see the desert in bloom. As we look out our window today, we
have a meter of snow in the garden; it should be gone, hopefully, by the time
we return. I'll try to find more precise dates to add to your very well
developed genealogical record for the Verhoeven clan and will call you after we
return in April to get some help with the translation. We have a friend who
speaks some Dutch and started this winter with a family tree project; he
will be able to give us some initial
help and certainly will be impressed with your work. I'll alert you
with an e-mail before I call. (We are on broadband)
Again, thank you for sharing, looking forward to
calling you next month.
Jack