I try to find a few hours every week to review individual data and edit the information in order to achieve a uniform presentation. When I first uploaded my original data from FamilyTreeMaker, a lot of source and note errors were generated due to incompatible event tags between that program and the TNG sitebuilding program I’m using for website presentation. Little by little, those errors are being corrected.
Today I made my way from the beginning of the Sweere(n) line on down, editing sources and notes along the way, and comparing what I had to what information is available in the Noord-Brabant Civil Archives. This will be an ongoing task, since information at that archive is continously updated as new records are transcribed.
Cornelis Adriaan Sweeren is the earliest individual in the Sweere ancestral line. Until now, I only had solid proof of one son, Adrianus (b. 1715), by him with Magaretha Maertens van Gils. Today I was thrilled to discover the birth record of a second son, Cornelius (b. 1717). This gives me a whole new line of at least ten generations to pursue!
I also completed the addition, with reference to the Civil Archives, the offspring of Adrianus Sweere, born 04 Jul 1829, Standaartbuiten, Noord Brabant, Netherlands, m. Johanna Jacoba van Baal. Those individuals are:
1. Gerardus Godefridus Sweere, b. 10 Apr 1855, Willemstad, Noord-Brabant
2. Cornelis Hubertus Sweere, b. 01 June 1856, Willemstad, Noord-Brabant
3. Jacobus Josephus Sweere, b. 1859, Willemstad, Noord-Brabant
4. Elisabeth Antonia Sweere, b. 15 Feb 1865, Willemstad, Noord-Brabant
5. Johannes Antonius Sweere, b. 05 Mar 1874, Willemstad, Noord-Brabant
6. Antonia Jacoba Sweere, b. 11 Jul 1875, Willemstad, Noord-Brabant
7. Godefridus Maria Sweere, b. 08 Jan 1877, Willemstad, Noord-Brabant
8. Maria Elisabeth Sweere, b. 06 Feb 1861, Willemstad, Noord-Brabant
Last but not least, I discovered the death record of my own great-grandfather’s son, Leonardus Johannes Josephus Sweere. Previously, all I knew from informal family information was that there was a son named Leo born in 1903 who did not immigrate to the US with the rest of family. I’m keeping my eyes peeled for Leo’s birth record. RIP, Leo.
ex animo ~J
As I research the 100th Year founding of Holy Cross Church in Butler, MN, i ran across a possible connection between the two priests (fraternal brothers). They may be cousins of our dads as they were Van den Heuvels who grew up in Holland and trained at St Paul seminary in St. Paul, MN. The Johnston Land Company paid them monthly salaries and travel expenses to ‘recruit’ dutch settlers to come to America (Butler, Onamia and North Dakota) where the land company owned 650,000 acres of land stripped of the white pine forests. With our three Sweere siblings marrying each other and a half dozen other siblings, it is very possible they we are related. My dad and I visited his Van den Heuvel cousins his age (80+) at Saint Anthony. Dad was your dad’s age. Maybe you can check the Dutch archives to see if these names appear as cousins to our generation and broader Van den Heuvel family network. The Crosiers historical writings report their names as Father August Van den Heuvel who was a priest at Loretto, MN (who told the Dykhoffs about Butler) as well as other Dutch and Belgium families who came to join our Dutch settlement. The one assigned to Onamia was the priest assigned to North Dakota was really a priest in Montana and was paid by either group to recruit. These two brothers also has siblings in Buffalo, MN (Joe) and Louis in Montana who were married. interesting enough a Father Gerard Van den Heuvel helped to start a Crosier settlement where you live in the Little Chute area in 1850. This Crosier mission failed and was handed over to the Domincans
I am very excited about the Holy Cross Centennial book I am editing. I am looking for interesting writers to tell their story, especially those of outstanding innovations, in industry, medicine and other exceptional careers. Any ideas would be helpful.