Version: 13 Jun 2014
The VONK Ancestral line of Dirk Arie Vonk (1910-1986)
By Richard L. Tolman, Ph. D.
First Generation
1. Pieter van der Vonk was born abt 1660 of Hazerswoude, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.[simple_tooltip content=’1. Marriage Records: Kerkelijke Registers, 1622-1817, Alphen aan den Rijn, Dopen 1622-1817, FHL INTL Film 117,221, #1 (1706) and Dutch Genealogy Records: www.dutchgenealogy.com DVD; South Holland families, District XII (1695-1715), p. 1756.’]1[/simple_tooltip]
2 i. SIJMON VAN DER VONK, was born abt 1685 in Hazerswoude, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.
Second Generation
2. Sijmon van der Vonk was born abt 1685 in Hazerswoude, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. He married 22 Aug 1706 at Oudshoorn, Zuid-Holland Maritje or Maartje Schenkeveldt[simple_tooltip content=’2. Marriage Records: Kerkelijke Registers, 1622-1817, Alphen aan den Rijn, Dopen 1622-1817, FHL INTL Film 117,221, #1 (1706,) and ‘Pedigree Resource File’ database FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/SGGT-MD6 : accessed 2013—02-20), submission MMS7-DB9, entry for Jacob Pieters/Schenkeveldt.’]2[/simple_tooltip] of Oudshoorn, Zuid-Holland daughter of Jacob Pieters Schenckeveldt (b.1655) and and Aegje (Cornelis) Schenkevelt (b. 1660). She was born 14 Aug 1691 of Oudshoorn.[simple_tooltip content=’3. Note: Hazerswoude, Zuid-Holland is about 5 miles east of Alphen aan den Rijn/Oudshoorn on a line between Amsterdam and Rotterdam.’]3[/simple_tooltip]
Sijmon and Maritje (Schenkeveldt) van der Vonk had seven children:[simple_tooltip content=’4. Dutch Genealogy Records: www.dutchgenealogy.com DVD; South Holland families, District XII (1695-1715 and 1716-1735), pp. 1756 and 2076.’]4[/simple_tooltip]
3 i. PIETER VAN DER VONK, born 14 Aug 1707 at Alphen aan den Rijn, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. He married 1 Aug 1732 at Koudekerk, Zuid-Holland Neeltje Capitein, daughter of Isaac. One child.[simple_tooltip content=’5. Family records: Klappers op de doop- en huwelijksregisters in Zuid-Holland van voor 1812, Index dopen Rijnland ten Noorden en Osten van Leiden 1736-1755, FHL INTL Film 1043,579, p. 382.’]5[/simple_tooltip],[simple_tooltip content=’6. Dutch Genealogy Records: www.dutchgenealogy.com DVD; South Holland families, District XII (1736-1755), p. 2501.’]6[/simple_tooltip]
4 ii. DERK VAN DER VONK, born 11 Aug 1709 at Alphen aan den Rijn, Zuid-Holland; died before 1717.
5 iii. AALTJE VAN DER VONK, born 11 Sep 1710 at Alphen aan den Rijn, Zuid-Holland.
6 iv. WEIJNTJE VAN DER VONK, born 15 Aug 1713 at Alphen aan den Rijn, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.
7 v. MARITJE VAN DER VONK, born 7 Jul 1715 at Alphen aan den Rijn, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.
+ 8 vi. DIRK VONK, born 10 Oct 1717 at Oudshoorn, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.
9 vii. JAN VONK, born 9 May 1723 at Alphen aan den Rijn, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. He married 26 Jul 1744 at Oudshoorn, Zuid-Holland Dirkje van Leeuwen. Five children.[simple_tooltip content=’7. Marriage Records: Kerkelijke Registers, 1622-1817, Alphen aan den Rijn, Dopen 1622-1817, FHL INTL Film 117,221, #1 (1744).’]7[/simple_tooltip],[simple_tooltip content=’8. Dutch Genealogy Records: www.dutchgenealogy.com DVD; South Holland families, District XII (1736-1755), p. 2501.’]8[/simple_tooltip]
Figure 1. Map of villages around Alphen, Zuid-Holland that were birthplaces of the Vonk family 1600-1900.[simple_tooltip content=’9. J. Kuyper, Gemente-Atlas van Nederland (Leeuwarden: Hugo Suringar, 1965).’]9[/simple_tooltip]
Third Generation
8. Dirk Vonk was born 10 Oct 1717 at Oudshoorn, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. He married[simple_tooltip content=’10. Marriage Records: Kerkelijke Registers, 1622-1817, Alphen aan den Rijn, Dopen 1622-1817, FHL INTL Film 117,221, #1 (1741).’]10[/simple_tooltip] 18 Jun 1741 at Koudekerk, Zuid-Holland Maartje Bogaard born at Koudekerk, Zuid-Holland daughter of Egbert Bogaard.[simple_tooltip content=’11. Note: Oudshoorn, Zuid-Holland was a village across the Oude Rijn river (a branch of the Rhine) from Alphen aan den Rijn which was merged into Alphen in 1918.’]11[/simple_tooltip]
Dirk and Maartje (Boogaard) Vonk had five children:[simple_tooltip content=’12. Family records: Klappers op de doop- en huwelijksregisters in Zuid-Holland van voor 1812, Index dopen Rijnland Zuid 1736-1755, FHL INTL Film 1043,579, p. 382.’]12[/simple_tooltip],[simple_tooltip content=’13. Dutch Genealogy Records: www.dutchgenealogy.com DVD; South Holland families, District XII (1736-1755), p. 2501.’]13[/simple_tooltip]
10 i. AALTJE VONK, born 29 Apr 1742 at Koudekerk, Zuid-Holland.
+ 11 ii. KLAAS VONK, born 10 May 1744 at Koudekerk, Zuid-Holland.
12 iii. PIETER VONK, born 14 Apr 1748 at Alphen aan den Rijn, Zuid-Holland.
13 iv. MARRIGJE VONK, born 10 Dec 1752 at Alphen aan den Rijn, Zuid-Holland.
14 v. SIJMON VONK, born 28 Sep 1755 at Alphen aan den Rijn, Zuid-Holland.
Fourth Generation
11. Klaas Vonk was born 10 May 1744 at Koudekerk, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. He married[simple_tooltip content=’14. Marriage record: Kerkelijke Registers, 1622-1817, Trouwen1622-1811 Begraven 1743-1811, FHL INTL Film 117,222, #1-5 (1780).’]14[/simple_tooltip] 14 May 1780 at Alphen aan den Rijn, Zuid-Holland Immetje van Dijk daughter of Ary and Arriaantje (de Jong) van Dijk. She was born 15 Jul 1753 at Bodegraven, Zuid-Holland.[simple_tooltip content=’15. Marriage and Baptismal records: Klappers op de doop- en huwelijksregisters in Zuid-Holland van voor 1812, Index dopen Rijnland Kuststreek 1776-1795, FHL INTL Film 1043,571, p. 397 and Family Register: Kerkelijke Registers, 1622-1817, Alphen aan den Rijn, Dopen 1622-1817, FHL INTL Film 117,221, #2-7, p. 45.’]15[/simple_tooltip]
Klaas and Immetje (van Dijk) Vonk had three children:[simple_tooltip content=’16. Baptismal records: Klappers op de doop- en huwelijksregisters in Zuid-Holland van voor 1812, Index dopen Rijnland Noordoost 1796-1812, FHL INTL Film 1190,114, p. 365; and original baptismal records: Kerkelijke Registers, 1622-1817, Alphen aan den Rijn, Dopen 1622-1817, FHL INTL Film 117,221, #2-7 (1781-1786).’]16[/simple_tooltip],[simple_tooltip content=’17. Dutch Genealogy Records: www.dutchgenealogy.com DVD; South Holland families, District XII (1776-1795), p. 3399.’]17[/simple_tooltip]
+ 15 i. DIRK VONK, christened 15 Apr 1781 at Alphen aan den Rijn, Zuid-Holland.
16 ii. ARIJ VONK, born 4 Dec 1782 at Alphen aan den Rijn, Zuid-Holland.
17 iii. JAN VONK, born 4 Feb 1786 at Alphen aan den Rijn, Zuid-Holland. He married Marytje van Zwieten; they had three children.[simple_tooltip content=’18. Family records: Klappers op de doop- en huwelijksregisters in Zuid-Holland van voor 1812, Index dopen Rijnland Noordoost 1796-1812, FHL INTL Film 1190,114, p. 365.’]18[/simple_tooltip]
Fifth Generation
15. Dirk Vonk was christened 15 Apr 1781 at Alphen aan den Rijn, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. He married 6 May 1804 at Oudshoorn, Zuid-Holland Marijtje Lelyveld born 11 Oct 1778 at Alphen aan den Rijn, Zuid-Holland daughter of Dirk and Lena (Kromwijk) Lelijveld.[simple_tooltip content=’19. Family records: Klappers op de doop- en huwelijksregisters in Zuid-Holland van voor 1812, Index dopen Rijnland Noordoost 1796-1812, FHL INTL Film 1190,114, p. 365; and and family and marriage records: Kerkelijke Registers, 1622-1817, Alphen aan den Rijn, Dopen 1622-1817, FHL INTL Film 117,221, #3, p. 210 and #1 (1805).’]19[/simple_tooltip]
Dirk and Marijtje (Lelyveld) Vonk had three children:[simple_tooltip content=’20. Baptismal records: Klappers op de doop- en huwelijksregisters in Zuid-Holland van voor 1812, Index dopen Rijnland Noordoost 1796-1812, FHL INTL Film 1190,114, p. 365 and Kerkelijke Registers 1661-1880, Klapper op dopen 1661-1880, FHL INTL Film 117,216, alphabetical by surname.’]20[/simple_tooltip],[simple_tooltip content=’21. Dutch Genealogy Records: www.dutchgenealogy.com DVD; South Holland families, District XII (1796-1812), p. 3814.’]21[/simple_tooltip]
+ 18 i. KLAAS VONK, born 22 May 1805 at Alphen aan den Rijn, Zuid-Holland.
19 ii. DIRK VONK, born 16 May 1807 (and christened 24 May 1807) at Oudshoorn, Zuid-Holland; died abt 1809.
20 iii. DIRK VONK, born 6 Apr 1810 (and christened 15 Apr 1810) at Oudshoorn, Zuid-Holland.
Sixth Generation
18. Klaas Vonk[simple_tooltip content=’22. Note: FamilySearch Family Tree (and New.FamilySearch) has Lena Bax married to a Klaas Jans Vonk (b. 1824 in Friesland), but there is no source and they don’t have a marriage record. On the face of it, this is very unlikely as Friesland is a great distance from Zuid-Holland. But Klaas and Lena’s marriage record is definitive proof that the Friesland Klaas Vonk is wrong: in the record of their marriage on 19 Sep 1849 in Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, it states Klaas was age 44 of Oudshoorn and Lena was age 29 from Wijk bij Heusen.’]22[/simple_tooltip] was born 22 May 1805 at Alphen aan den Rijn, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands; christened 26 May 1805 at Alphen aan den Rijn. He married[simple_tooltip content=’23. genlias database: zuid-holland marriages; www.wiewaswie.nl/personen-zoeken/zoeken/document/a2apersonid/80187248/srcid/20949288/oid/1; accessed 2013-2-20; groom’s age 44 from Oudshoorn, bride’s age 29 from Wijk bij Heusden.’]23[/simple_tooltip] 19 Sep 1849 at Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland Lijntje (Lena) Bax daughter of Arnoldus and Lijntje (van Dongelen) Bax.[simple_tooltip content=’24. Bakx family tree: for the family and ancestors of Lijntje Bax see ‘Bakx Tree’ (owner: Leo Bakx), online at trees.ancestry.com/tree/50641894 (accessed 20 Feb 2013).’]24[/simple_tooltip] She was born 5 Jan 1820 at Aalburg, Noord Brabant, Netherlands and died 21 May 1873 at IJsselmonde, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.
Klaas and Lena (Bax) Vonk had one child:
+ 21 i. DIRK ARIE VONK, born 20 Aug 1850 at Wijk en Aalburg, Noord Brabant; died 9 Dec 1907 at Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland.[simple_tooltip content=’25. Dirk Arie Vonk Birth Registration: Registers van de Burgerlijke Stand, 1811-1942, Geboorten, huwelijksaangiften, huwelijksafkondigingen, huwelijken, overlijden 1843-1848, 1850, FHL INTL Film 242643, no. 35; see Figure 2.’]25[/simple_tooltip]
Figure 2. Birth Registration of Dirk Arie Vonk: Occupation of father: ‘schipper’ (=bargeman, boatman, skipper); parents: Klaas Vonk/Lena Bax; certificate signed by father.
Seventh Generation
21. Dirk Arie Vonk was born 20 Aug 1850 at Wijk en Aalburg, Noord Brabant, Netherlands; died 9 Dec 1907 at Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland. He married 30 Nov 1881 at Kralingen, Zuid-Holland Plonia Jacoba den Boer born 31 Mar 1858 at Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, daughter of Arie and Maria (van den Velden) den Boer. She died 17 May 1937 at Schiedam, Zuid-Holland.[simple_tooltip content=’26. Personal knowledge and family records of Ruby Vonk Rasmussen of West Valley City, Utah.’]26[/simple_tooltip]
Dirk Arie and Plonia Jacoba (den Boer) Vonk had eleven children:[simple_tooltip content=’27. Ibid.’]27[/simple_tooltip]
22 i. LENA MARIA VONK, born 9 Sep 1882 at Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland; died 16 Feb 1948. She married 28 Dec 1910 at Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland Arie Kleijn. He was born 12 Jun 1875 at Vianen, Zuid-Holland and died 23 May 1917.
+ 23 ii. ARIE VONK, born 26 Oct 1883 at Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland; died 29 Jun 1970 at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
24 iii. KLAAS VONK, born 6 Jan 1885 at Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland; died 4 Apr 1965. He married 6 Sep 1911 at Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland Cornelia Johanna Harpers. She died 23 Aug 1959.
25 iv. MARIA VONK, born 5 Mar 1887 at Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland. She married 12 May 1909 Gerrit Bijleveld.
26 v. DIRK ARIE VONK, born 24 Feb 1889 at Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland; died 3 Jan 1890.
27 vi. PLONIA JACOBA VONK, born 16 Jan 1891 at Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland; died 10 Jan 1910.
28 vii. DIRK ARIE VONK, born 27 Jul 1892 at Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland; died 10 Aug 1930. He married 11 Jul 1917 Maria Antonia Oerlemans; she was born abt 1892.
29 viii. ADRIANA JOHANNA HELENA VONK, born 18 Oct 1894 at Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland; died 30 Sep 1895.
30 ix. PHILIPPUS ALBERT VONK, born 21 Sep 1896 at Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland; died 2 Jul 1980. He married 16 Nov 1921 Hendrina Ebelties.
31 x. JOHANNA JACOBA PHILIPPINA VONK, born 9 Oct 1900 at Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland; died 10 Feb 1919.
32 xi. CORNELIS JOHANNES VONK, born 14 Mar 1904 at Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland; died 17 Aug 1966.
Eighth Generation
23. Arie Vonk was born 26 Oct 1883 at Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands and died 29 Jun 1870 at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. He married 10 Jul 1907 at Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland Grietje Roggeveen, the daughter of Willem Johannes Roggeveen and Cornelia Clara Serrij. The family immigrated to the United States (Utah) in 1931. She was born 27 May 1887 in Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland and died 20 Dec 1970 at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. Both are buried at Taylorsville Memorial Park Cemetery, Taylorsville, Salt Lake County.[simple_tooltip content=’28. Ibid.’]28[/simple_tooltip]
Arie and Grietje (Roggeveen) Vonk had seven children:[simple_tooltip content=’29. Ibid.’]29[/simple_tooltip]
33 i. infant VONK, born 28 Jul 1907 at Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland and died 29 Jul 1907.
34 ii. CORNELIA CLARA VONK, born 23 Jul 1908 at Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland; died 17 Feb 2004 at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah and buried at Bennion, Salt Lake. She married 20 Jul 1936 at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Wilford Lorenzo Grotepas.
+ 35 iii. DIRK ARIE VONK, born 12 Feb 1910 at Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland; died 4 Nov 1986 at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
36 iv. WILLIAM JOHANNES VONK, born 4 Oct 1912 at Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland; died 23 Jul 1996 at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake and is buried at Redwood Memorial Cemetery, Taylorsville, Salt Lake.[simple_tooltip content=’30. Obit: The Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah) July 27, 1996; online at www.findagrave.com, search: ‘William Johannes “Bill” Vonk, Sr.’, accessed 20 Feb 2013.’]30[/simple_tooltip] He married 27 Mar 1935 at Salt Lake City Alice Venema; she was born 1911 and died 1993.
37 v. MARGARETHA VONK, born 18 Dec 1914 at Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland; died 6 Oct 1935 at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
38 vi. ARIE VONK, Jr. born 9 Jul 1916 at Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland; died 2 Jan 2008 at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake.
39 vii. CLASIENA VONK, born 1 May 1918 at Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland; died 21 Apr 1991 at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake and buried at Redwood Memorial Cemetery, Taylorsville, Salt Lake. She married 8 Sep 1941 Tom Freddy Monfrooy.
Ninth Generation
35. Dirk Arie Vonk was born 12 Feb 1910 at Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland and died 4 Nov 1986 at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah of heart failure. He married another Dutch immigrant on 11 Feb 1932 at Salt Lake City Josephina Augustina Henrietta Barten, the daughter of Cornelis Cristianus Barten and Dorothea Petronella Hubertina Lempens. She was born 15 Nov 1905 at Gulpen, Limburg, Netherlands , the eighth of sixteen children and died 22 Dec 1993 at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah and is buried at Redwood Memorial Cemetery, Taylorsville, Salt Lake. They raised four children.[simple_tooltip content=’31. Personal knowledge and family records of Ruby Vonk Rasmussen of West Valley City, Utah.’]31[/simple_tooltip]
NOTES
1. Marriage Records: Kerkelijke Registers, 1622-1817, Alphen aan den Rijn, Dopen 1622-1817, FHL INTL Film 117,221, #1 (1706) and Dutch Genealogy Records: www.dutchgenealogy.com DVD; South Holland families, District XII (1695-1715), p. 1756.
2. Marriage Records: Kerkelijke Registers, 1622-1817, Alphen aan den Rijn, Dopen 1622-1817, FHL INTL Film 117,221, #1 (1706,) and ‘Pedigree Resource File’ database FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/SGGT-MD6 : accessed 2013—02-20), submission MMS7-DB9, entry for Jacob Pieters/Schenkeveldt.
3. Note: Hazerswoude, Zuid-Holland is about 5 miles east of Alphen aan den Rijn/Oudshoorn on a line between Amsterdam and Rotterdam.
4. Dutch Genealogy Records: www.dutchgenealogy.com DVD; South Holland families, District XII (1695-1715 and 1716-1735), pp. 1756 and 2076.
5. Family records: Klappers op de doop- en huwelijksregisters in Zuid-Holland van voor 1812, Index dopen Rijnland ten Noorden en Osten van Leiden 1736-1755, FHL INTL Film 1043,579, p. 382.
6. Dutch Genealogy Records: www.dutchgenealogy.com DVD; South Holland families, District XII (1736-1755), p. 2501.
7. Marriage Records: Kerkelijke Registers, 1622-1817, Alphen aan den Rijn, Dopen 1622-1817, FHL INTL Film 117,221, #1 (1744).
8. Dutch Genealogy Records: www.dutchgenealogy.com DVD; South Holland families, District XII (1736-1755), p. 2501.
9. J. Kuyper, Gemente-Atlas van Nederland (Leeuwarden: Hugo Suringar, 1965).
10. Marriage Records: Kerkelijke Registers, 1622-1817, Alphen aan den Rijn, Dopen 1622-1817, FHL INTL Film 117,221, #1 (1741).
11. Note: Oudshoorn, Zuid-Holland was a village across the Oude Rijn river (a branch of the Rhine) from Alphen aan den Rijn which was merged into Alphen in 1918.
12. Family records: Klappers op de doop- en huwelijksregisters in Zuid-Holland van voor 1812, Index dopen Rijnland Zuid 1736-1755, FHL INTL Film 1043,579, p. 382.
13. Dutch Genealogy Records: www.dutchgenealogy.com DVD; South Holland families, District XII (1736-1755), p. 2501.
14. Marriage record: Kerkelijke Registers, 1622-1817, Trouwen1622-1811 Begraven 1743-1811, FHL INTL Film 117,222, #1-5 (1780).
15. Marriage and Baptismal records: Klappers op de doop- en huwelijksregisters in Zuid-Holland van voor 1812, Index dopen Rijnland Kuststreek 1776-1795, FHL INTL Film 1043,571, p. 397 and Family Register: Kerkelijke Registers, 1622-1817, Alphen aan den Rijn, Dopen 1622-1817, FHL INTL Film 117,221, #2-7, p. 45.
16. Baptismal records: Klappers op de doop- en huwelijksregisters in Zuid-Holland van voor 1812, Index dopen Rijnland Noordoost 1796-1812, FHL INTL Film 1190,114, p. 365; and original baptismal records: Kerkelijke Registers, 1622-1817, Alphen aan den Rijn, Dopen 1622-1817, FHL INTL Film 117,221, #2-7 (1781-1786).
17. Dutch Genealogy Records: www.dutchgenealogy.com DVD; South Holland families, District XII (1776-1795), p. 3399.
18. Family records: Klappers op de doop- en huwelijksregisters in Zuid-Holland van voor 1812, Index dopen Rijnland Noordoost 1796-1812, FHL INTL Film 1190,114, p. 365.
19. Family records: Klappers op de doop- en huwelijksregisters in Zuid-Holland van voor 1812, Index dopen Rijnland Noordoost 1796-1812, FHL INTL Film 1190,114, p. 365; and and family and marriage records: Kerkelijke Registers, 1622-1817, Alphen aan den Rijn, Dopen 1622-1817, FHL INTL Film 117,221, #3, p. 210 and #1 (1805).
20. Baptismal records: Klappers op de doop- en huwelijksregisters in Zuid-Holland van voor 1812, Index dopen Rijnland Noordoost 1796-1812, FHL INTL Film 1190,114, p. 365 and Kerkelijke Registers 1661-1880, Klapper op dopen 1661-1880, FHL INTL Film 117,216, alphabetical by surname.
21. Dutch Genealogy Records: www.dutchgenealogy.com DVD; South Holland families, District XII (1796-1812), p. 3814.
22. Note: FamilySearch Family Tree (and New.FamilySearch) has Lena Bax married to a Klaas Jans Vonk (b. 1824 in Friesland), but there is no source and they don’t have a marriage record. On the face of it, this is very unlikely as Friesland is a great distance from Zuid-Holland. But Klaas and Lena’s marriage record is definitive proof that the Friesland Klaas Vonk is wrong: in the record of their marriage on 19 Sep 1849 in Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, it states Klaas was age 44 of Oudshoorn and Lena was age 29 from Wijk bij Heusen.
23. genlias database: zuid-holland marriages; www.wiewaswie.nl/personen-zoeken/zoeken/document/a2apersonid/80187248/srcid/20949288/oid/1; accessed 2013-2-20; groom’s age 44 from Oudshoorn, bride’s age 29 from Wijk bij Heusden.
24. Bakx family tree: for the family and ancestors of Lijntje Bax see ‘Bakx Tree’ (owner: Leo Bakx), online at trees.ancestry.com/tree/50641894 (accessed 20 Feb 2013).
25. Dirk Arie Vonk Birth Registration: Registers van de Burgerlijke Stand, 1811-1942, Geboorten, huwelijksaangiften, huwelijksafkondigingen, huwelijken, overlijden 1843-1848, 1850, FHL INTL Film 242643, no. 35; see Figure 2.
26. Personal knowledge and family records of Ruby Vonk Rasmussen of West Valley City, Utah.
27. Ibid.
28. Ibid.
29. Ibid.
30. Obit: The Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah) July 27, 1996; online at www.findagrave.com, search: ‘William Johannes “Bill” Vonk, Sr.’, accessed 20 Feb 2013.
31. Personal knowledge and family records of Ruby Vonk Rasmussen of West Valley City, Utah.