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This person is probably the Jantje Bymers, b. 1 Apr 1891 in La Crosse Co., WI, who is to be found in the Wisconsin birth records.
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This person is probably the Flora M. Bymers, b. 13 Dec 1906 in La Crosse Co., WI, who is to be found in the Wisconsin birth records.
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This person is probably the Flora M. Bymers, b. 13 Dec 1906 in La Crosse Co., WI, who is to be found in the Wisconsin birth records.
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Probably died of complications following birth of son Gerrit, b. 12 Dec 1818.
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Gerrijt was the son of Gerd Palstring and Venne Beckmann of Burgsteinfurt, Germany. He was to become a third great grandfather of the children of Lynn Edward Miles & Hattie Bymers.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Baumer, Bohmer, Beuymers, Boimers, Beimers, Baimer, Beumer, Buimer, Bymers
Adapted from B. Beimers, The NetherlandsThe family name of Beimers has had its vicissitudes. The marriage register of Vrouwenparochie reads the given name as Gerrijt Gerrijts (Gerrit Gerrits), but the surname proved a problem to research.
The bridegroom may have given his family name as Bohmer (umlauted 'o') the vicar entering him then as Beuymers. More likely he presented himself as Baumer (umlauted 'a') but was entered with 'eu' because Dutch does not use the umlauted 'a'. We find his surname changed in the record; probably not until later did the vicar noticed his client was a German and changed the name into Bohmers (umlauted 'o') but retained the superfluous 'h', and leading to a family tradition that Beimers originated from Bohemia which is Bohmen (with umlauted 'o') in German). Another possibility is that the name of Baimers, even now common in Burgsteinfurt (see "The Beginnings", below), had some influence here.
On February 16, 1786 Gerrit is transferred from the Burgsteinfurt church register to that of the municipality (like a county in America or a parish in England) of Het Bildt, Province of Friesland, The Netherlands and entered as Bohmer. In the Register Civique, during the French Rule, Gerrit is still mentioned as Bohmers with the 'o' umlauted. At his death in 1818, however, the civil registration uses the name of 'Beimers' thus beginning the family name common today which became americanized as Bymers.
In the Gerrit, Paulus, Jan and Janke wedlocks the family name of Beimers is used. But his son Roelof called himself Boimers. He was married in Menaldum to Antje Annes van der Veen in 1820. They had eight children. The first child Sjoukje (1821-1824) was entered as Boimers; the second child, Gerrit born at Leek (Groningen) as Beumer; daughter Sjoukje (1826-1827) was given the surname of Baimer, and so was the next Sjoukje (1828-1873). The last four children, Jan, Antje, Janke and Tijtje were named Boimer without the final s.
Gerrit Beumer marries Antje Renzes Kampstra at Ternaard, Friesland, The Netherlands in 1850 and they have seven children, all of whom receive the family name of Buimer.
Around 1880 Jan Paulus Beimers departs with his family to America where within a short time Beimers changes to Bymers.The Beginnings
An Introduction to the Family Line of Beimers/BymersThe history of the Beimers family begins on April 24, 1711 in the German town of Burgsteinfurt with the birth of Gerd Palstring. Gerd became a farmer, and on June 7, 1733 he married Venne Baumer, adopting with this marriage the family name of his wife. Upon the death of Venne on June 4, 1753 Gerd (now Baumer) marries for a second time on November 18, 1753 to Venne Beckmann (also spelled Fenne Beckmanns). They have three children, all born at Burgsteinfurt: Gerd, born November 7, 1756; Wilhelm, born March 12, 1758, and Rudolf, born July 6, 1760. Gerd dies on August 16, 1762 and his second wife on July 29, 1804. The Beimers line now continues with their eldest son, also Gerd, whom we find in the marriage register of Vrouwenparochie, a parish town in the municipality of Het Bildt, Friesland, The Netherlands. It is here that Gerd Beimers assumes the given name Gerrijt Gerrijts, after his father, in his marriage to Antje Paulus on October 3, 1784.
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Gerrit and Akke emmigrated to America on 17 Feb 1883. This would make them both about 65 years old at the time. We find their son Klaas going to America on 9 Nov 1881 so it is not unlikely that his parents left Holland two years later to join their son.
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Klass emmigrated for America 9 Nov 1881. Nothing more is known of him.
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Hijke and Marten had seven children: Tjerke, Jantje, Jannigje, Hendrikje, Willem, Jan; all born in St. Jacobiparochie, Friesland, Netherlands, and Jeanette, born 1897 in Wisconsin. The family emmigrated to America either on 7 Dec 1893, according to one report, or 1894 according to Marjorie (Bymers) Wright.
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The year of Jannigje's death is ureadable in the record at hand.