Genealogy Report: Ancestors of Adelia Okkerse
Ancestors of Adelia Okkerse
2.Hendrik Okkerse, born March 22, 1813 in Bruinisse, Zeeland; died March 14, 1884 in Sayville, NY.He was the son of 4. Jacob Okkerse and 5. Jacomijna Smits.He married 3. Lena de Koning April 30, 1837 in Bruinisse, Zeeland.
3.Lena de Koning, born February 03, 1818 in Bruinisse, Zeeland; died June 13, 1871 in West Sayville, NY.She was the daughter of 6. Pieter de Koning and 7. Adriaantje Borsje.
Notes for Hendrik Okkerse:
Details
Hendrik Okkerse
Bridgroom on Sunday, April 30, 1837 Bruinisse
Aktenummer (document number): 5
Aktedatum (date): 30-4-1837
Leeftijd (age): 24
Geboorteplaats (place of birth): Bruinisse
Beroep (occupation): Varensgezel (sailor)
Bruid (bride): Lena de Koning
Leeftijd (age): 19
Geboorteplaats: Bruinisse
Beroep: Particuliere (private)
Vader bruidegom: Jacob Okkerse
Beroep: Schipper (Skipper, boatman)
Moeder bruidegom: Jacomijna Smits
Vader bruid: Pieter de Koning
Beroep: Schipper (skipper, boatman)
Moeder bruid (mother of bride): Adriaantje Borsje
Source:
Huwelijksaken Bruinisse 1811-1922
Archive:
Burgerlijke Stand inventarisnummer (toegevoegd: 25 juni 2004)
Akten van der Bergerlijke Stand Zeeland vanaf 1796/1811
Hendrik Okkerse
Emigrant in 1852 Bruinisse
Hendrik Okkerse
Leeftijd (age): 40
Beroep (occupation): schipper (skipper)
Kerkgenootschap (religion): Nederlands-hervormd (Dutch Reformed)
Jaar vertrek (year of departure): 1852
Platts van vertrek (place of departure): Bruinisse
Vetrekt met zijn (departs with his) vrouw (wife)
Aantal kinderen (number of children): 4
Redenvan vertrek (reason of departure): Zucht tot verbetering van bestaan (Amelioration of existence)
Bestemming (destination): Noord-Amerika
Bron (source) Staten van landerverhuizingen (archief Provinciaal Bestuur Zeeland)
In: Genealogische Afschriften 810/2, pagina 28
Source:
Emigranten 1839-1900
Archive:
Emigranten Norrd-en Zuid-Amerika en Zuid-Afrika inventarisnummer (toegevoegd 3 april 2006)
Uit de Staten van Landverguizers en Bevolkingsrigisters
More About Hendrik Okkerse:
Emigration: 1852, Bruinisse, Zeeland to North America
Children of Hendrik Okkerse and Lena de Koning are:
| i. | Jacomijna Okkerse, born August 13, 1837 in Bruinisse, Zeeland; died February 11, 1838 in Bruinisse, Zeeland. | |||
| ii. | Adriaantje Okkerse, born September 22, 1838; died October 21, 1838 in Bruinisse, Zeeland. | |||
| iii. | Jakomina Okkerse, born January 20, 1840; married Leendert van den Ouden January 04, 1860 in St. John's Episcopal Church, Oakdale, NY; born Abt. 1830 in Bruinisse, Zeeland. |
| More About Leendert van den Ouden: Immigration: 1857, From Bruinisse, Zeeland Occupation: Labourer Religion: Dutch Reformed |
| iv. | Pieter Okkerse, born April 29, 1841 in Bruinisse, Zeeland; died February 15, 1862 in Sayville, NY. |
| More About Pieter Okkerse: Burial: Union Cemetary, Sayville, NY |
| v. | Adriaantje Okkerse, born June 14, 1843; died February 15, 1851 in Bruinisse, Zeeland. | |||
| vi. | Jacob Okkerse, born April 28, 1845; died July 29, 1851 in Bruinisse, Zeeland. | |||
| vii. | Jacob Okkerse, born January 23, 1847 in Bruinisse, Zeeland; died December 04, 1918 in Sayville, NY; married Louisa Antoinette Smith 1880 in Sayville, NY; born December 27, 1849; died November 07, 1939 in Sayville, NY. |
| Notes for Jacob Okkerse: Jacob Ockers Jacob Ockers was the celebrated "Oyster King" of Long Island. From the Obituary Page of the Suffolk County News dated December 6, 1918: Captain Jacob Ockers Prominent Citizen and a Good Man Called Suddenly KNOWN AS THE OYSTER KING For More than 30 years the most important man in the development of the Industry on Long Island Passed Away at Oakdale Wednesday. Captain Jacob Ockers, known for more than 30 years as the most important man in the development of the oyster industry on Long Island, died suddenly at his home in Oakdale about 3:30 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon. Captain Ockers' death was due to an affection of the heart from which he had suffered to some extent for years and which had kept him under the constant care of his physician and much of the time confined to the house for the past six months. Captain Ockers, who was frequently referred to as the Blue Point Oyster King, was born in Holland Jan. 22, 1847. When he was but four years of age his parents came to this country and his father, who had been an oyster planter in Holland, located at Oakdale, L.I. and continued in that industry. He began his active career culling oysters with his father and gained a thorough familiarity with the business, which was of great service to him in after years. Captain Ockers commenced business for himself when he began sailing an oyster schooner between New York and Virginia ports in 1876, an occupation in which he made some money, which he immediately invested in the oyster beds of the Great South Bay, later to yield him a fortune. He rapidly built up a profitable business in growing and shipping oysters and was the first man to export Blue Points to Europe, a branch of the industry which his firm developed prior to the great European War to a point where their foreign shipments amounted to 25,000 barrels a year. About 10 years ago, having disposed of his shore front property at Oakdale to Commodore F.G. Bourne, Captain Ockers moved the headquarters of his big plant to West Sayville, where the big modern plant which he founded, and which is now known as the Bluepoints Co., is located. Capt ain Ockers had extensive interests in Long Island Sound, whence his supply of seed was annually obtained, and had valuable holdings at Greenport, in Peconte Bay, on Cape Cod, and at Glenwood Landing, L.I., where he established only last year a plant from which he had been shipping extensively, the concern being known as the Jacob Ockers Oyster Co. He also had extensive holdings in Delaware Bay. Captain Ockers had few early advantages but he was an apt pupil in the school of hard knocks and he knew every detail of the oyster business from personal experience. He was powerfully built, possessed untiring energy and unbounded courage. Physical exertion which would have appalled most men had no terrors for him, and he possessed in a marked degree the willingness to take chances, to assume big risks, which is Jacob Ockers (continued) characteristic of most successful heads of great enterprises and is always a feature of the oyster business, notoriously a gamble. He was a keen judge of human nature and made many warm and loyal friends. Few employers of labor had enjoyed more loyal support or more continuously cordial relations with their men. Besides his extensive real estate holdings and oyster interests he was a director in the Oystermen's National Bank of Sayville, a director of the Live Fish Co. in Islip, a trustee of the Union Savings Bank in Patchogue, a member of Sayville Lodge, I.O.O.F., Connetquot Lodge, F and A.M, and Suwassett Chapter, Royal Arch Masons of Patchogue. In 1880 Captain Ockers married Miss Louisa Elizabeth Smith, daughter of William Smith, who was a descendant of Richard Smith the famous pioneer settler of the Town of Smithtown. She survives him together with a daughter, Louise E. The funeral services are to be held on Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the Methodist Episcopal church, the pastor the Rev. A.J. Pennell officiating, and the members of the Masonic fraternity will also perform their funeral rites. ---------------------------------------------------- In the book of Lawrence J. Taylor, "Dutchmen on the Bay", he wrote about the oyster cultures "on the Bay" among others: ". Those who restricted their risks to renting oyster plots may have done so because they lacked the necessary funds for further investment, not because they lacked the spirit. That spirit as we have noted, was deeply rooted in the Dutch and especially Dutch Calvinist culture and one cannot help wondering to what extent that view of the world gave the Hollanders an edge over their American neighbors in this period, when the risk still appeared to outweigh the assurances Certainly the most successful of these early entrepreneurs was a Dutchman, Jacob Ockers, whose fabulous career in the industry was to earn him the title "the Oyster King". Jacob, born in Bruinisse in 1847, arrived in Oakdale with his father, Hendrik in 1851. Attracted by news from Hage and DeWaal Hendrik followed the pioneers to Oakdale and wasted no time getting into shellfishery. Evidently aware that the future lay as much in transporting oysters as in catching them, he invested in a small sloop and began the marketing runs to New York City Jacob soon began to accompany his father on these voyages, and by 1865, at the age of eighteen, was renting oyster lots in the bay along with young Gabe DeWaal, to the extent of sixteen acres. At the age of twenty-five, Jacob purchased his own oyster schooner, a larger, safer vessel able to carry more oysters than a sloop, and over the ensuing fifteen years he managed to make substantial profits". |
| More About Jacob Okkerse: Burial: Union Cemetary, Sayville, NY |
| More About Louisa Antoinette Smith: Burial: Union Cemetary, Sayville, NY |
| viii. | Arij Ockkerse, born May 01, 1850 in Bruinisse, Zeeland; died February 28, 1922 in Sayville, NY; married Jannette Goldsworth November 18, 1871 in Sayville, NY; born March 18, 1855 in New York; died April 21, 1922 in Patchogue, NY. |
| More About Arij Ockkerse: Burial: Union Cemetary, Sayville, NY |
| ix. | Anna J. Okkerse, born July 05, 1852; died March 15, 1865 in Sayville, NY. |
| More About Anna J. Okkerse: Burial: Union Cemetary, Sayville, NY |
| x. | Adelia Okkerse, born July 13, 1854; died June 13, 1858 in Sayville, NY. |
| More About Adelia Okkerse: Burial: Union Cemetary, Sayville, NY |
| xi. | Frederick Okkerse, born May 17, 1858; died June 25, 1936 in Sayville, NY. |
| Notes for Frederick Okkerse: Frederick Ockers From the Suffolk County News, Friday, June 26, 1936 Captain Frederick Ockers, who had been seriously ill for more than a month past, died about one o'clock yesterday afternoon. On May 25th he was taken to Dr. King's Hospital in Bay Shore but after about ten days, believing that he was sufficiently recovered to do so, he insisted upon corning back to his home on Fourth Street, West Sayville, where he was cared for by two nurses, but grew progressively worse until the end. Capt. Ockers was born 78 years ago on South Main street, in Sayville, in a house which stood just to the eastward of the Congretational Church. He was a son of Henry and Eleanore Ockers. He attended the Sayville village school and from boyhood followed the water and was for a time engaged in the menhaden fisheries. He also saled verious craft to Fulton Market. He was associated for a long time with his elder brother, Capt. Jacob Ockers, as a buyer of oysters and clams and about 33 years ago established his own business as a planter and shipper of Blue Point oysters and clams, locating at first on the shore near the foot of Foster Avenue, this village, but a few years later re-established the business on the shore at West Sayville, just to the westward of Atlantic Avenue. Aty vaious times he has also been engaged in the coal business and in more recent years in selling gasoline for power boats. He had traveled extensively in this country and had made several trips to Europe and in more recent years the larger portion of his oyster business consisted of European and Canadian trade. Capt. Ockers had a wide acquaintance and many warm friends. He was a man of large frame, powerfully built, all his life an active man, and in his younger days an athlete. He was a pitcher for one of the earliest Sayville baseball teams and a charter member of the Sayville Hook and Ladder Co., the first organization of volunteer firemen in this part of Long Island, and continued his memberhip anbd his interest in the affairs of the department throughout his long life. Although a member of no church he was during most of his life fairly regular in church attendance and at one time taught a class in St. Ann's Sunday School. Despite the fact that he as a bachelor he was deeply interested in the cause of education and was a regular attendant at all school meetings. He possessed personality and an engaging smile, was an excellent salesman and widely known in the Blue Point oyster industry. Hwas the last of a family of four but is survived by eleven nephews and nleces. Funeral services are to be conducted by Dr. Frederick A. Peters of Holbrook at 2:30 o'clock on Sunday afternoon from the Raynor Memorial Chapel and the interment will be in the family plot in the Union Cemetery. |
| More About Frederick Okkerse: Burial: Union Cemetary, Sayville, NY |
| 1 | xii. | Adelia Okkerse, born June 21, 1860 in Sayville, NY; died November 27, 1916 in Sayville, NY; married Karl Henry Stein December 27, 1888 in Sayville, NY. |