Ancestors

Maria Bartelds

Maria Bartelds was born on 25 August 1860 at Oosterdiep, the settlement along the eastern canal of Veendam in the Groningen peat colonies, and her birth was registered two days later. Her father, Jan Lammerts Bartelds, was a zeeman, a seaman, at a time when Veendam's men sailed the coasting and Baltic trade in their own small ships; her mother was Harmina Bijl, a labourer's daughter from the town. Maria was one of at least seven children, born between 1857 and 1873, among them Lambertus, who later lies at Byron Center, Michigan, and Catherina, who married a Seif and lies at Grandville.

On 26 January 1884 at Veendam, aged twenty-three, she married Jan Tiemeijer, a twenty-two-year-old barge skipper from Sappemeer. Their eight children were born at Veendam and its hamlets: Marie Frances (1885), Minnie (1887), Nellie Helena (1889), Jantena (1891), Frances (1893), Jan Lambertus (1894), Peter Hendrik (1896) and Lambertus (1901). Her mother died at Oosterdiep in April 1901 and her father at Molenstreek that August, and in the same year the family was entered in the provincial list of emigrants, Maria, forty, "echtgenote van Jan Tiemeijer", wife of Jan Tiemeijer, bound for Grand Rapids. In Michigan she was Mary.

The family farmed at Grandville. Mary died at Grand Rapids on 12 May 1928, aged sixty-seven, and was buried in Rest Lawn Memorial Park. John outlived her by twenty years and lies beside her.

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Cite: Heirology, "Maria Bartelds (1860-1928)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/maria-bartelds-1860-1928-dada4f.