Jan Aukes Freerksen
Jan Aukes Freerksen was born at Upleward in the Krummhörn, the flat marsh country of East Frisia on the North Sea coast of Germany, on 26 November 1845. His parents were Geerd Tjaards Freerksen and Geeske Janssen Aukes, and he carried the name of his mother's father, Jan Aukes. His parents had baptized an earlier son by the same name, born on 2 May 1843, and a family that reused a name usually did so because the first child had died.
On 5 April 1879 Jan married Trientje Reemts Reemtsma in the church at Upleward. Their daughter Frauke Gesina was born on 12 January 1882, with Gesina, a fuller form of her grandmother Geeske's name, as her second name. Another daughter, Geeske, also married at Upleward.
Frauke married Zeede Geerds Rüter at Upleward on 2 July 1904, with her parents named as Jan Aukes Freerksen and Trientje. In 1924 she emigrated to Illinois with her husband and children. She lived to ninety-four.
Parents
Geeske Janssen Aukes
Geerd Tjaards Freerksen
Children
Frauke Gesina Freerksen (1882-1976)
Sources
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Cite: Heirology, "Jan Aukes Freerksen (b. 1845)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/jan-aukes-freerksen-1845-31d90c.