Pedigree
Gerardus Timmermans
Jacobus J. Timmermans <
/
Barbara Peeters
Timmermans, Maria Margaretha
\
Gerardus Peeters
Petronella Peeters <
Aldegonda Thijssen
Born:
9 December 1862
Beesel, Province of Limburg, The Netherlands
Died: 5 June 1937
Butler, Minnesota
Buried: 7 July 1928
Holy Cross Cemetery, Butler, Minnesota
Father: Jacobus
James Timmermans
Mother: Petronella
Peeters
Siblings: Barbara
b. 1 May 1845 - d. unknown
Aldegonda
b. 29 December 1847 - d. unknown
Maria Gertrudis
b. 12 July 1850 - d. unknown
Gerardus
b. 6 November 1852 - d.
unknown
Hubertina
b. 21 June 1855 - d. unknown
Conradus
b. 21 December 1857 - d. unknown
Spouse: Johannes
Antonius Hubertus Hendrickx
Married: 12 November 1889
St. Lambertus Catholic Church, Reuver, Province of Limburg, The Netherlands
Children: Jacques Antoine
b. 11 June 1890
- d. 19 July 1955
Anna Petronella
b. 1 June 1891 - d. 18 February 1975
Maria
Antoinette
b. 7 November 1892 - d. 21 March 1972
Josephine Barbara
b. 5 March 1894 - d. 5 July 1974
Louis Joseph
b. 24 September 1895 - d. 17 August 1964
Emilia Brigitta
b. 8 April 1897 - d. 8 December
1973
Clara Maria
b. 15 August 1898 -
d. 26 June 1899
Matilde Aldegonda
b. 26 February 1900 - d. 21 January 1970
male
b. 18 September 1901 stillborn
Pierre Gerard
b. 18 September 1902 - d. 2 May
1969
Frans Coenraad
b. 1 April 1904 - d. 10 May 1913
Notes: Maria
Margaretha and Johannes Hendrickx were married in The Netherlands. All
of their children were born in Venlo.
In 1909, Johannes read articles in the paper written by a Father
Van den Heuvel
about a farming community that was to be formed in America
and would have land
available for as little as $20 an acre. The availability
of land in The Netherlands was
scarce and often was selling for as high as $1,000 an acre.
Johannes was intrigued both by the price of the land and that two
priests and a brother
from the Crosier Fathers would be accompanying the group of settlers
from The
Netherlands to their new home in Butler, Minnesota, with the intention
of establishing
a Catholic Monastery. After months of planning, the Hendrickx
family left Venlo on
22 February 1910.
The family was scheduled to travel as part of the group of 84 settlers
organized by the
Crosier Fathers on board the SS Lapland of the Red Star Line. When
they reached
the port of Antwerp, Belgium, however, they were met by Father
Van den Heuvel who
had realized he had not purchased enough tickets for
the Hendrickx family. At first
Johannes considered leaving his oldest two children to wait
for the next ship, but
decided it would be best if the family travel as a whole.
They stood on the dock as
the SS Lapland sailed without them.
After being left behind, the Hendrickx family needed to find another
vessel. They went
to the Red Star Line office only to find that all the ships
in the near future were fully
booked. The Red Star Line office cabeled the office of
the White Star Line and found
the family passage on one of their ships. Unfortunately,
the ship was sailing from
Liverpool, England, so the Hendrickxs needed to take a smaller
vessel from Antwerp
to Harwich, England. From there they took a train across
England to the port of
Liverpool. There they boarded the SS Megantic scheduled
to depart Liverpool on
15 March 1910 and land at Montreal, Canada on 23 March 1910.
In Montreal they
boarded a train to St. Paul, Minnesota. From there they
traveled on a Northern Pacific
train to New York Mills where they purchased a horse and wagon
to travel to Butler.
They finally arrived at their ultimate destination on 29 March
1910.
When Johannes and the other settlers looked over the land, they found
it not exactly as
they thought it would be. There would be a lot of work to
do before fields could be
planted. Johannes purchased 120 acres of wooded land in section
16 of Butler
Township for $20 an acre. Through hard work and perseverance,
he and his family
managed to make it into some good farmland.
In January of 1928, Johannes sold his farm and purchased another,
which has been
worked by 5 generations of Hendrickx. At present it
is the Hendrickx Brothers Dairy,
owned and operated by 3 of Maria and Johannes great-grandsons.
The original farm,
with the house and barn that Johannes built, is also back
in the family, now being owned
by another of Maria and Johannes great-grandsons.
Maria Margareth died suddenly at age 74. Official cause of
her death is listed as
hypertension, cerebral hemorrhage.
Photos:
Maria Margaretha and Johannes Hendrickx and children
- circa 1907.
The Hendrickx Family pictured in front of their farmhouse - circa
1912.
Johannes and Maria Margaretha Hendrickx - circa 1926.
Maria Margaretha collecting eggs - circa 1926.
Two pictures of the Hendrickx farm in Butler
Township, Minnesota.
Top picture circa 1910 - bottom picture circa
1925.
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