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Janna (Jane) Snoeyenbos

Born: 4/15/1814, Aalten, Netherlands

Parents: Harmen Jan Snoeyenbos and Elizabetta Winkelhorst

Siblings: Aleida, Johanna, Hendrika, Gazena, Graado, Christian

Marriage: #1 Jan (John) Duenk/Dunk 6/4/1836 Aalten Netherlands; #2 Harmen Drayers (unable to locate record of this marriage in Wisconsin)

Children with John Duenk: Alida (1837), Hendrika (1839), Arent Jan (1841), Harmina (1843), Johannes (1845);    Children with Harmen Drayers: Hendrik (1850), Gerritt (1853), Dina (1857)

Death: 12/17/1864 

Emmigration: came to the US 9/28/1847 with her children, parents and two sisters Gazina and Grado. She was widowed earlier that year; listed on passenger list as Snoejenbos, rather than married name of Duenk. She married husband #2 shortly after arriving here.

Husband Harmen Draayers is listed as an early settler of Holland township in 1847.

1860 US census, Wisconsin, Sheboygan Co, Holland township:
Herman J (?) Dreyer, age 37, farmer, born Holland
Janna Dreyer 37, born Holland
Lyda Dreyer, 21      “          ”
Hendrika Dreyer, 23          ”
John J. Dunk, 20                ”
Mina Dunk, 17                     ”
Hanna Dunk, 15                 ”
Hendrick Dreyer, 10 born WI
Gerritt Dreyer, 7           “       ”
Dina Dreyer, 3              “       “



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