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Marinus Griep
(1862-1929)
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New Jersey and elsewhere in the USA |
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 Marinus Griep was born on
friday, October 24, 1862 at
Yerseke
in the Netherlands. He was the oldest son of
skipper
Joos Griep and his wife Neeltje
Stroosnijder. Until
1901, Marinus also earned his living as a
skipper. This became apparently more and more
difficult to do, because in that year he
emigrated with his family to America. The fact
that his uncle and his brother-in-law went before
him, must have made this step more easy for him.
Just
like these relatives he settled in
New Jersey, in
Lodi, where he found work as a labourer.
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MARRIAGE WITH
ANNA ABRAHAMSE
On thursday April 24, 1884
Cornelis Griep married at Yerseke to Anna
Abrahamse, born in 1863 at the nearby village of
Wissenkerke.
Until 1901 the family lived at Yerseke, where
nine children were born: Neeltje Maria
(1886), Maria
Neeltje (1887), Joos Marinus
(1888), Marinus
Joos (1891),
Joos Marinus
(1892), Cornelis
Jan (1894), Jacob Hendrik (1895),
Hendrik Leendert
(1897) and Apolonia
Janna.
In Lodi, New Jersey they had four more children: Janna Pieternella (1902),
Pieternella
Janna (1903),
Hendrik Leendert (1905)
and Tannetje
Anna (1907).
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THE IMMIGRATION
 On April
11,
1901 Cornelis Griep and his family arrived in New
York, sailing from Rotterdam with the vessel Statendam
of the Holland America Line. In the
register of Ellis Ilsand is noted that they
payed the voyage by themselves and that they had
enough money with them to be admitted.
The address of destination is that of his wife's
brother who already lived at Lodi, New Jersey.
The family also found a home at
Lodi. Marinus died there in April 7, 1929.
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THE
DESCENDANTS OF
MARINUS GRIEP AND ANNA ABRAHAMSE
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Neeltje Maria
(1886-1979) Nellie was born
on January 1, 1886, in Yerseke in the
Netherlands. She was 15 years old when she
arrived with her parents in the USA.
She married a man named Adrian DeWilde, but was a
widow for a very long time. She lived in an
appartment upstairs in the house of her brother
Marinus Joos.
She died September 24, 1979 in Wyckoff, New
Jersey, under the name Nellie DeWilde.
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 Maria Neeltje
(1887-1968)
Maria was born
at Yerseke on April 3, 1887. At the age of 14 she
migrated together with her parents to New Jersey.
 She worked as a nurse for new mothers.
Maria married
Hubert DeGraff and they had five
children: Peter, George, Marinus, Anne and Henry (born in 1918;
married Elizabeth Sikkema and had four children).
In 1920 her husband Hubert DeGraff died of pneumonia.
Maria never remarried, and died
in April 1968 in Montville,
New Jersey.
These pictures were provided by Janice
Leach,
a granddaughter of Maria and Hubert.
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Joos
Marinus Griep (1888-1889)
Joos was born at
Yerseke on September 24, 1888. Only one year of
age, he died on November 1, 1889.
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Marinus
Joos Griep (1891-1985)  Marinus was born
on February 27, 1891 at Yerseke. At the age of
10 he migrated together with his parents to New
Jersey.
He was a carpenter. As a
member of the First Reformed Church, he was a
devout churchman all his life.
He
married Lena Daggelder ('Delegaar'), born in 1891 in the
Haarlemmermeer in the Netherlands. They lived at
07662 Rochelle Park, Bergen, New Jersey. Lena
died in July 1976 and Marinus in December 1985 in
Maywood, New Jersey.
 They had two sons:
Marinus Griep (Rinni),
born March 26, 1916. He married Catherine
Tilstra and lived in Ridgewood, New
Jersey. They had two children: Marilyn
and Clifford Griep.
He died on February 3, 1991.
Their son Elmer
Griep (picture
right) was born on April 16, 1922.
During World War II he served in the
US-Airforce, stationed in England as
bomb-loader. There he met his wife, Rita
L. Burrell, born
on November 25, 1926.
After the war they married and lived at
Saddle Brook, Bergen County, New Jersey.
They had two sons: David Elmer
and Roy T. Griep, and
two daughters: Linda Irene
and Margareth.
Elmer Griep was also a carpenter and he
and his wife were members of the First
Reformed Church at Saddle Brook. Rita
died on January 30, 2001, and Elmer two
weeks later on February 15, 2001.
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Elmer
and Rita with brother sister-in-law
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Elmer
and Rita attending their daughter Linda's second
wedding
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Joos
Marinus Griep (1892-1909)
Joos was born on
November 19, 1892, in Yerseke in the Netherlands.
He was 8 years old when he arrived in the USA.
Three years later, in april 1909, he died in
Lodi, New Jersey.
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Cornelis
Jacob Griep (1894-..)
Cornelis was
born on February 18, 1894, in Yerseke in the
Netherlands.He was 7 years old when he arrived in
the USA. In 1917, when he was naturalised, his occupation was
noted as carpenter. He died in Lodi, New Jersey.
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Jacob
Hendrik Griep (1895-1918)
Jacob was born
on December 2, 1895, in Yerseke in the
Netherlands. At 5 years of age he arrived with
his parents in Lodi, New Jersey.
When the US entered
the First World War I a national enlistment was
held. Jacob came to serve in the 114th
Infantry Regiment. This unit was part of the
29th Division, that started a big attack
on the German lines near Verdun on October 8,
1918. On October 12, 1918 the Bois d'Ormont
was conquered at the cost of 118 casualties.
Jacob Griep was one of them. He was buried on the
nearby American cemetary of Meuse-Argonne.
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November
1918: after the battle, American troops
bury their deaths in temporary graves in the
woods
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Hendrik
Leendert Griep (1897-1901)
Hendrik was born on December 15,
1897, in Yerseke in the Netherlands. He was 3
years old when he arrived in the USA and he died,
within two months after arrival, on May 31 1901.
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Apolonia
Janna (1900-1988)
Pauline was born
on July 6, 1900, in Yerseke in the Netherlands.
She was still a baby when she arrived with her
parents in the USA.
She married Gus DeYoung and lived with him and
their daughter in Paramus. She and her daughter
were great seamstresses.
She died November 26, 1988 in Lake Ariel,
Pennsylvania as Pauline DeYoung.
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Janna
Pieternella (1902-..)
Jenny was born
on July 6, 1902, in Lodi, New Jersey. She later
on named herself Jane and
married John Giese. She died in Michigan.
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Pieternella
Janna (1903-..)
Nella was born
on November 30, 1903 in Lodi, New Jersey.
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Hendrik Leendert
Griep (1905-1988) Henry
Griep was born on July 28, 1905 in Lodi,
New Jersey. He married Henrietta Piekema.
For health reasons, he moved south and settled in
Maryland, where he had a chicken-farm. He died on
August, 27, 1988, as Henry L. Griep in Preston,
Maryland.
Henry and Henrietta had two sons and a daughter: Judy.
His oldest son Alan Griep served
in the Air Force and lived in Germany for many
years. His youngest son Roger had
a son: John Griep.
This John Griep,
descendant of Hendrik Leendert Griep
and living in Maryland, USA, is researching this
branch of the Griep family.
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Tannetje
Anna (1907-1933)
Tannetje was
born on June 7, 1907, in Lodi, New Jersey. She
died in Paramus, New Jersey in September 1933 or
1935.
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MORE
INFORMATION ?
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 Most
of the information on this page was provided by
Linda Griep,
daughter of Elmer Griep, and her sister Margareth.
In April 2004 they visited the Netherlands, where
they spend some time at Yerseke, the village in
Zeeland where their ancestors came from. But
there was also time
to do the more usual Dutch
sight-seeing: the windmills at Kinderdijk.
Do you have more
information about these family, or are you one of
their descendants? Please
look on the page 'how
to participate'
how you can contribute to this project or send an
email to jan.griep@planet.nl.
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