Wessel Gerrits van Tuinen
Wessel Gerrits van Tuinen was born about 1801 at Kollum in Kollumerland, Friesland, the son of Gerrit Aljes van Tuinen and Wesseltje Jacobs Osinga; the van Tuinen name was taken by his father at the name adoption of 1811. He was admitted a church member at Kollumerland in 1827 and at Dantumadeel the next year. On 11 May 1828 at Dantumadeel, aged twenty-seven, he married Aukjen Jacobs Kuipers, thirty-four, born at Augustinusga, daughter of Jacob Romkes Kuipers and Sytske Jans. Their children were born at Dantumawoude in 1829, Gerrit, and at Ee in Oostdongeradeel in 1831, a Jacob who died at a year old in February 1833, and on 18 July 1833 a second Jacob. The family lived at Ee, where Wessel was a church member from 1831.
Aukje died in September 1855, aged sixty-two. On 6 October 1860, aged sixty, Wessel married Tyttje Jans Wilman, fifty-five, of Oosternijkerk. His son Gerrit was a shoemaker at Ee and his son Jacob, also a shoemaker, took his family to America in 1881. Wessel's death has not been found with certainty; a Wessel van Tuinen died in Oostdongeradeel on 18 February 1873.
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Cite: Heirology, "Wessel Gerrits van Tuinen (1801-1873)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/wessel-gerrits-van-tuinen-1801-1873-da05fe.