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TREDUTCHCONNECTIOINN SOUTHCOOKCOUNTY
SINCE1847

This boak is a collection of genealogical and other incidental bits
of informationintended to show the connections of Duteh' peopke who emigrated
to what I call the Southem Calumet area. Itis a product of over thirteen
years of research. Ma.nypeople yet are not accounted for, thus, it is only
a primer for those' interestèd in theirDu tchroots.

By sqing the f3()\\thernqall1IJ1~tAr.ea,!mean ..those Holland Settlement

areas at DEHOOGPER.·A:riuÉo'(Rö'Bei'artdJ~:"'Mèst'Ros'eîind«:äeiü3VU:Wera, shington

Heights(Fernwood), Wildwood (theareaaround'127th Street and state Street),

Dutchman's Bosch (woods) (thearea north of the Calumet River in Riverdà.le),

-:-\ ltiverclale, Dolton, NewChicago (North Harvey), Harvey, Phoenix, DE LAAGEPl;lAIRIE

(South HOlland), West Hammond(Calumet City), Bernice (the vicini ty of I-Bo and

Torrence Avenue), Globe Station (the vicini ty of Torrencé Avenue and the Li ttle

Calumet'River west of Torrence) ,Oak' Glen(Lansing), Lensing,Overthe Creek

(Northwest LansJ.ng), Thornton, 'and taking iri the MUnster, Iridianà. area. ..

lV iclea was tocom~iIl.f!theinf01'm8.tiol1.f()\Uld,in ~ farfiung sources

into one book, thus helpilig'tJle'.'folk:?t1"Óm-;thà·~>f!rá(to···'say)tothis generation;
''Wewere here', these are oUr'nàtÛes;·'iéêtY'Óu.·".torSetit~: ..;',j'

Also, te providean opportuni ty'to. itEiqtheir. names one more time." It

is inalphabetical' order by the surname ofthehusbend and double indexed by

.t~ the spouse's surnamé.

1 Sources forft's content have, come.'byvar,Ï.ous means. '. Some.'b· ypersorial
.:,,+. .••_.; •••.. "''''v'''.; ••HIi

+: ~~,.:~...:.~,. r:.......•. ·"~.·;r~r.~•.~,~'it.. _" "' ..rr..-r •• -:;-.~;
·fO•• +'.1•<•._,_.....•...;_.."'.:'.~.~, .. ~,.;...,,,~.,,:.,..,,.;;,,.~. ~.,~ .i.'! ....;...;~.. ~ ••. ~.,··'!·<"'.',"[)..,:i .. ·:~ ...~•l·,".·'·;\
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Annivers~bpoksand m8lllbershlp,lists,S})4.p"lists, Census reèords,books on the

subjectWhich &re Jew,m#trips, toHC:;llli.l).d,MiChi~,Chic860PublicLibrary

(specfalCollections) 'and the ChiC889'Hii3toriç~ "Society. .

Someof· the most valuable books have l»ej:,n: "The Calumet Regionand It" s

Early .Settlers"by HarryÉenigenberg, theworks o:fA.T. Andreas on Cook'CoUnty:

. the ~e nónpareil volumes'byFerd1nand Schappercalled "Blue IslandaildSouth

Cook COUlltybefo,retheCivilWar" ,"Dutch~grantKemoirs end RêlatedWri~~"

b7 PrQfes"orHenryS.Lucas, "Dutch EmigrantShipListsbetween 1820and1880'~

,.; , byKentStateUniversi ty PrOfessorofHistory,.R.0bertSwierenga, the "Worthand
l
Thornton TownshipCensus Lists ot;"18gq/äii~>186óu,·êt al.' '. '.

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As youwill note, I have endeavoured to retain surname and, given nàiDe

spelliDgs as the immigrant spelled them. ',' Forinstance, inthe case,ófAgnes,

or A&atha, I usecl Aagje. Again, for de YoungIused de Jong. Idbn 't -apalogize

tor thisus8ge becau,!e I takeumbrage withthosewho conv1hced ourantecedents

tochange their names by dropping vowels etc. In' soma cases going to far as to

make them aàhämed of them. This,in JtJ7 opinion, bas been a.gx.eat disservice end

loss to .their pro~, you end me.

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Someexamples of the al terationäDutéh nameEincurred are as follows:

It "IJ" was part ot a name or pla.ce, i t was chazlged to "Y" or "I", ''V'' to "F",
"z" to "S", "D" to "T", "K" to "C", "DTe"to"D", "A" to "E", "SC"to "S", "E"
to "0" as in Werkman, "SCH"to "SH", "OW" to "OW", "T" to ItDIt, "EIJ" to "EU"