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Under Construction! The Schouten Family To the Schouten Gallery To the USS Liscome Bay Page Back to the Ancestors of William Ogle Page My grandmother, Johanna Wilhelmina "Minnie" Schouten Ogle's family came to the United States in the early part of the 1900s. The Schoutens were from Holland --most recently Amsterdam, and earlier from Putten. The earliest ancestor I have information for is Rijndert Schouten, born in 1825 in Putten. This information comes from the research of Louise Schouten Stavert, and I am grateful to her contribution, as it has made possible the contacts I have made on this line. In 1847, Rijndert Schouten married Sophia Lucretia Maria Porsius, the daughter of Mary Schmidt. We don't know Rijndert's parents names nor the name of Sophia's father. Sophia was born in 1824 in Dugerdam, Holland. Reindert and Sophia had 11 children, at least three of whom died in early childhood, namely Aalbert, born 1848, died sometime before 1858 (when a second Albert was born); Gerrit, born in 1866, died in 1867; and Reindert Marinus, born 1872, died 1873 . I have information for the marriages and lives of 4 of the remaining 8 children: Jan, born 1854, married Mietje Knyuver; Johanna Wilhelmina, born 1850, married Hendrickus von Dasselaar; Sofia Fredericka Wilhelmina, born 1853, married Johannes Essenburg; and Reindert, born 1856, married Aleida Scheepmaker. The eldest brother, Jan Schouten, emigrated to Ogden, Utah, sometime before 1881, when he and Mietje were married there. In 1889, he was baptized into the Church of Latter Day Saints, which may explain his migration to Utah. He was later joined by his younger brother Reindert Schouten and his wife Aleida and several of their grown children, none of whom, as far as my information indicates, were Mormons. The manifest of Aleida's ship, the SS Potsdam sailing from Rotterdam to New York in August of 1912, with her name and the names of the family members traveling with her can be viewed at the Ellis Island site (Go to http://www.ellisisland.org/search/ : create a free account if you don't have one, sign in, and search for Schouten). One of Reindert and Aleida's children was Reindert, born 1888, whom in 1814, in Ogden, married his sweetheart, Christiane Louise Augusta Hartsuiker, by proxy, since she was still back in Holland. Once Augusta, as she was called, joined him in America, the young couple lived first in Ogden for some years, and then settled in Las Vegas, Nevada, where Reindert ran a successful bakery. Another of Reindert and Aleida's children, Albert Jan Schouten, born 1897, married Nellie A. Varney, and settled in Oakland, California. Their sisters, Claziena Sophia Schouten, born 1901, and Aleida Schouten, born 1905 both settled in Seal Beach, California. Claziena married Harm Roelof (Herman) Drent and Aleida married Leonard Elmer Olsen. I have had the good fortune to make contact with the Drents, and also with a gentleman in Holland who is related to the Essenburgs, descended from Sofia Fredericka Wilhelmina Schouten and Johannes Essenburg, the sister and brother in law of Jan Schouten who was the first of the family to emigrate. Also, I have found information about that Jan, his wife Mietje, and their descendants, although I have so far been unable to make contact with that family. I will certainly continue the search. In Las Vegas, Reindert and Augusta had six children: Reindert Schouten, who died when he was about 19 or 20 years old from an infection developed after his teeth were pulled; Johanna Wilhelmina, my grandmother; Lida who married Dan Graybill and lives in Oregon; Louise, who provided much of the genealogy I have been able to work from, married Dan Stavert, and who now lives with her daughter, Carolyn, in White Rock, New Mexico; Arend, who served in WWII in the Pacific, and went down with his ship when it was torpedoed (please see the information on the USS Liscome Bay for more information); and Albert who lives in Las Vegas, Nevada with his wife Marilyn.
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