Johannes Peters, 18291923 (aged 93 years)

Name
Johannes /Peters/
Given names
Johannes
Surname
Peters
Birth
Note: Hoogeveen is about 42 miles NE of Apeldoorn.

Hoogeveen is about 42 miles NE of Apeldoorn.
The birth was officially recorded in Apeldoorn which suggests they might have been traveling.

Birth certificate witnessed by Jan Gerretr Hulleman, supervisor of the hunt, 45 years old and
Herfel van Loar 30 years old and landsman.

Death of a maternal grandfather
Death of a maternal grandfather
Birth of a brother
Birth of a brother
Citation details: Record 170
Birth of a brother
Birth of a brother
Birth of a sister
Death of a maternal grandmother
Marriage
Occupation
Birth of a son
Citation details: Vol. III.1
Occupation
Servant of King William III
1856
Note: Johannes also worked in the stable and had the thumb of his left hand pulled off while hitching up a team of horses.

Johannes also worked in the stable and had the thumb of his left hand pulled off while hitching up a team of horses.
He was also a messenger and often carried money to the local bank.

Death of a father
Birth of a son
Citation details: Vol. III 2
Death of a brother
Citation details: Record 222
Birth of a daughter
Citation details: Vol. III. 3
Birth of a son
Birth of a son
Birth of a son
Birth of a son
Birth of a son
Birth of a son
Marriage of a son
Birth of a son
Death of a sister
Birth of a son
Death of a son
Death of a son
Marriage of a son
Marriage of a daughter
Death of a sister
Immigration
Note: Johann Peters

Johann Peters
Arrival Date 5 Aug 1881
Birth Date abt 1829
Age 52 3/12
Gender Male
Ethnicity/ Nationality Netherlander
Place of Origin Netherlands
Port of Departure Rotterdam, Netherlands
Destination United States of America
Port of Arrival New York, New York
Ship Name W A Scholten

Death of a mother
Citation details: Record 188
Marriage of a son
Death of a brother
Marriage of a son
Marriage of a son
Marriage of a son
Note: Married by Father Wahl

Married by Father Wahl
Witnessed by John Stoddart and Katie Sullivan

Marriage of a son
Death of a daughter
Cause: Tuberculosis
Marriage of a son
Citation details: Marriage Records D433
Note: Second marriage to Henrietta Boom 3/25/1896 (Book D/433) Dodge Co, Wis., marriage witnessed by John and Henry Peters.
Marriage of a son
Citation details: Marriage Records E/371
Note: Marriage witnessed by Cornelius and Annie Peters
Marriage of a son
Citation details: Marriage Records F/253
Census
Death of a wife
Cause: Tuberculosis
Note: Died in her home at Lipke farm
Death of a brother
Census
Residence
Address: Living with Cornelis J. after his wife's death.
Marriage of a son
Death of a brother
Death of a son
Cause: Cancer of the liver and gall bladder
Residence
Address: Living with Cornelis J in Twin Falls ID.
Death of a brother
Death
Burial
Address: Twin Falls Cemetery
Family with parents
father
18021856
Birth: August 27, 1802 29 31 Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Netherlands
Death: March 19, 1856Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Netherlands
mother
18081882
Birth: June 3, 1808 35 37 Hoog Soeren, Gelderland, Netherlands
Death: May 27, 1882Hoog Soeren, Gelderland, Netherlands
Marriage MarriageDecember 9, 1825Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Netherlands
-5 months
elder brother
18251858
Birth: June 2, 1825 22 16 Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Netherlands
Death: October 21, 1858Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Netherlands
21 months
elder sister
18271879
Birth: February 10, 1827 24 18 Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Netherlands
Death: November 15, 1879
2 years
himself
Johannes Peters
18291923
Birth: March 9, 1829 26 20 Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Netherlands
Death: February 28, 1923Twin Falls, Twin Falls Co, Idaho, USA
2 years
younger brother
Dries Peters
18311907
Birth: April 9, 1831 28 22 Hoog Soeren, Gelderland, Netherlands
Death: August 9, 1907
3 years
younger brother
18331922
Birth: September 17, 1833 31 25 Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Netherlands
Death: September 2, 1922
3 years
younger brother
18361912
Birth: August 24, 1836 33 28 Hoog Soeren, Gelderland, Netherlands
Death: March 18, 1912
3 years
younger brother
18391889
Birth: May 23, 1839 36 30 Hoog Soeren, Gelderland, Netherlands
Death: March 17, 1889
4 years
younger sister
18431875
Birth: February 26, 1843 40 34 Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Netherlands
Death: December 27, 1875
Family with Geertje Bronkhorst
himself
Johannes Peters
18291923
Birth: March 9, 1829 26 20 Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Netherlands
Death: February 28, 1923Twin Falls, Twin Falls Co, Idaho, USA
wife
Geertje Bronkhorst Peters
18331905
Birth: March 12, 1833 32 29 Uddel, Gelderland, Netherlands
Death: February 13, 1905Chester, Dodge Co, Wisconsin, USA
Marriage MarriageSeptember 2, 1853Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Netherlands
6 months
son
Lambert Peters
18541916
Birth: February 26, 1854 24 20 Hoog Soeren, Gelderland, Netherlands
Death: January 10, 1916Waupun, Dodge Co, Wisconsin, USA
3 years
son
1856
Birth: November 13, 1856 27 23 Hoog Soeren, Gelderland, Netherlands
Death: Netherlands
3 years
daughter
18591895
Birth: July 9, 1859 30 26 Het Loo, Gelderland, Netherlands
Death: December 27, 1895Trenton, Dodge Co, Wisconsin, USA
4 years
son
Gerrit Peters
18631945
Birth: July 25, 1863 34 30 Het Loo, Gelderland, Netherlands
Death: February 14, 1945Waupun, Dodge Co, Wisconsin, USA
9 months
son
18641950
Birth: April 27, 1864 35 31 Het Loo, Gelderland, Netherlands
Death: about 1950Brandon, Fond du Lac Co, Wisconsin, USA
22 months
son
John Peters
1866
Birth: February 27, 1866 36 32 Het Loo, Gelderland, Netherlands
23 months
son
Juliaan Peters
18681944
Birth: January 19, 1868 38 34 Het Loo, Gelderland, Netherlands
Death: June 7, 1944Flandreau, Moody Co, South Dakota, USA
3 years
son
Guy Peters
18701959
Birth: July 28, 1870 41 37 Het Loo, Gelderland, Netherlands
Death: February 6, 1959Grass Valley, Nevada Co, California, USA
3 years
son
Henry Peters
18731944
Birth: February 27, 1873 43 39 Het Loo, Gelderland, Netherlands
Death: December 27, 1944Twin Falls, Twin Falls Co, Idaho, USA
3 years
son
Cornelis Peters
18751960
Birth: December 6, 1875 46 42 Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Netherlands
Death: February 19, 1960Milwaukie, Clackamas Co, Oregon, USA
2 years
son
18781878
Birth: February 11, 1878 23 26 Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Netherlands
Death: June 9, 1878Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Netherlands
Birth

Hoogeveen is about 42 miles NE of Apeldoorn.
The birth was officially recorded in Apeldoorn which suggests they might have been traveling.

Birth certificate witnessed by Jan Gerretr Hulleman, supervisor of the hunt, 45 years old and
Herfel van Loar 30 years old and landsman.

Occupation

Johannes also worked in the stable and had the thumb of his left hand pulled off while hitching up a team of horses.
He was also a messenger and often carried money to the local bank.

Immigration

Johann Peters
Arrival Date 5 Aug 1881
Birth Date abt 1829
Age 52 3/12
Gender Male
Ethnicity/ Nationality Netherlander
Place of Origin Netherlands
Port of Departure Rotterdam, Netherlands
Destination United States of America
Port of Arrival New York, New York
Ship Name W A Scholten

Peters History

PETERS HISTORY

By Rob Peters

The Peters family lived around Apeldoorn in the Gelderland province of Netherlands, which is 60 miles (90 kilometers) east from Amsterdam. The small town of Het Loo (or 't Loo) is about 5 miles north of Apeldoorn. The region is known by the name of Veluwe. Het Loo is interesting in that it was also the summer place of the Dutch royal family.

The royal family connection is important because Johannes was the caretaker of the King's hunting equipment at the Elephant House. Stories say that Johannes lost the thumb from his right hand while hooking up horses to a Singletree.

King Willem III (Willem van Oranje-Nassau) was very fond of the Peters children. Johannes' son Lambert fell into a fire near the Elephant House and lost 3 fingers from his left hand. King Willem III witnessed the accident and offered to school Lambert at the Kings school.

Johannes' only daughter Jannetje played a role with the royal family as well. As documented in Jannetje's obituary, “Her childhood was spent in one of the King's houses on his estate at 't Loo and her early education was carefully looked after as one of the servant girls, her occupation being flower girl for King Willem III ."

Johannes and Geertje had 10 children (9 boys and 1 girl) all born in the Netherlands. When they immigrated to the United States (1881), seven came with them. Two children immigrated later; Lambert with his wife Hendrika arrived at Ellis Island on July 23, 1894 [ship Maasdam] and Jannetje andher husband Willem van Loenen in 1886.

One child (Jan a carpenter) remained in the Netherlands. According to the Gemeente Archief of Apeldoorn, on Feb 17, 1916, Jan moved to the town of Laren in the province of Noord-Holland. His 3 children departed for different locations.

  • Johannes Gerrit, a blacksmith, moved to Woerden on March 24, 1902.

  • Hendrik Willem, a paperer, moved to the town of Hengelo in the province of Overijssel.

  • The last child Jan Willem, a carpenter by trade, moved to Rotterdam on Jan 4, 1910.

According to Garret Lambert. Peters, the reason for immigation to the United States was that Geertje had relatives here and that they enjoyed a higher standard of living. So, in 1881 Johannes and Geertje and seven of their children came to the United States. Lambert and Jeentje followed several years later with their spouses and children. It appears that Johannes left the Netherlands from Rotterdam in August of 1881 and arrived at New York. They took a train to Waupun Wisconsin where a large Dutch community existed.

Around 1910, Guy, Cornelius and Garret L. Peters (son of Lambert) moved to the Twin Falls area. Shortly after 1910, the US government decided to build a dam on the Salmon river in Idaho. They advertised for Dutch families to move out to Idaho to farm and work. Several of the children of Lambert and Hendrika move to Amsterdam Idaho. Amsterdam was a small town that later went out of existence. Some of Johannes and Geertje's descendants are located in the Twin Falls Idaho area.

Some time before 1900 Henry J moved to Winona Minnesota. Henry J. left Winona after 1910 and moved to Twin Falls Idaho and opened a shoe shop. Henry's father John was living with him in Twin Falls. In the 1930 census Henry J was listed as working in a second hand store in Twin Falls.

In 1899, Andrew (Andries John) moved to Winona Minnesota with his wife Victoria and two children, to live near his bother Henry. In 1905, Andrew moved to Stillwater Minnesota, taking a job as a forman at the Connolly Shoe factory. In 1910, Andrew left his wife Victoria and moved to Sioux Falls South Dakota where he divorced her. He married Cora May Grant and they settled Madison South Dakota and then moved to Flandreau.

Cornelius John Peters lived in Twin Falls after 1910. He owned a shoe shop in the city. Between 1920 and 1930 he moved to Milwaukie Oregon near Portland. Cornelius' descendants live in the Portland area.

Guy and his wife Louise moved to California around 1925 and lived around Palo Alto CA.

The other sons of John and Geertje lived in the Waupun area of Wisconsin.

According to the obituary of Geertje (Mrs. John Peters) published in Feb 13, 1905, “she leaves to morn her loss her husband and nine sons; one in Winona Minnesota, one in Europe and the others here [Waupun].”

In 1945, Gerrit Peters died. In his obituary it stated that he was survived by 3 brothers; Allan of Brandon Wisconsin, Guy living in California and Cornelius living in Portland Oregon.

Research continues on their descendants......

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