I have been adding to the original Wierda genealogy that was printed in 1980/1982 by Margaret Wierda Marlink Vander Maat. Since that time her brother, Harvey Wierda, Zeeland, MI has continued to collect information on our families and some of this information has been added to the current family tree. I would very much appreciate hearing from our relatives so that I may continue to update the records as our children marry and have children of their own.
The name Wiarda, Wyerda, Wyarda, Wierda, means a handmade hill on which old farm yards, churches, schools, and cloisters were built in the middle ages. Such low hills are called wierden, or singular wierd. A very old word in Dutch with the same sense is terp. So wierd or terp meant a low hill, dug up by hand, as a refuge for high water floods. So, Wierda means a refuge in the landscape of low water. Before the dikes, these wierd or wyard, were surrounded by water in the middle ages. (From Jane Evink, Castricum, Netherlands)
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- Lewis & Lucille Wierda's 50th (210 KB)
From the Sioux Center News, Aug 3, 1983
- Brothers Lewis Jr. & Martin Wierda (250 KB)
From article in The Sioux Center News June 6, 1984. Real "bucket" starts basketball success.
- Wierda Reunion in Zeeland Michigan (100 KB)
Grandpa and Grandma Wierda (Martin and Rena) are seated in the front row on the right
- Grave Marker for Martin & Rena Wierda (202 KB)
Sioux Center Memory Gardens Cemetery
- Boatswain's Mate Thomas Wierda (108 KB)
Uncle Tom enlisted in the Navy in 1940 and served 5 years on the battleship USS Cleveland in WWII. He was one of 5 of the original crew to stay with the ship the entire war
- Margaret Ann Hughes Wierda (32 KB)
I think this is my mom's high school graduation pictures which would have been about 1948
- Faber Family Farm in the early 1900s (114 KB)
John Vande Berg, Mrs Hans Faber, Nellie, Rena, Has Faber Sr, Tjierd Faber, Fannie, In cart: Rev Dick Hollenbeek, Rein Faber
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