He was born in November 1860 as Cornelis Hillegonds "aan het kanaal" (on the canal, meant is the Noordhollandsch Kanaal, dug in 1819-1824, and then world's broadest and deepest canal) in the country municipality Zijpe, in the northwestern part of the Dutch western province Noord-Holland, son of the 38 years aged laborer Arie Hillegonds and Marytje Schagen.
The surname Hillegonds is a so-called metronymicum, originally meaning "child of mother Hillegond". In 1947 there were only still 7 persons in the Netherlands with the surname Hillegonds, 5 in Amsterdam and 2 in the province Noord-Holland, likely in its northwestern part. In 2007 there were less than 5 persons in the Netherlands with the surname Hillegonds, so they are dying out or have already died out in their home country, but are "surviving" in the USA.
Laborer Cornelis Hillegonds married on 24 June 1886 in the village of Koedijk (Cow Dyke), north of the city of Alkmaar on the eastern dyke of the Noordhollandsch Kanaal, at the age of 25 years to the two years older Yda Kooyman, also born in municipality Zijpe.
In September 1886 the 25 years aged laborer Cornelis Hillegonds and IJda Kooyman had the twins Arie and Dieuwertje Hillegonds in a house "aan den Kanaaldijk" (at the Canal Dyke; meant is the western dyke of the Noordhollandsch Kanaal) in the utter eastern part of the municipality Bergen, in the northwestern part of the Dutch western province Noord-Holland. The Kanaaldijk at Bergen, Noord-Holland, is still existing nowadays. See Google Maps. On 1 August 1888 they had in Koedijk, on the other, eastern side of the Noordhollandsch Kanaal, house number 153 son Jan and on 11 September 1889 in house number 150 son Willem Jacob. Cornelis was then still a laborer.
Cornelis' seven years older brother Jacob Hillegonds (born in 1853) emigrated in 1881 or 1882 with his wife and children to the USA. The family of Cornelis Hillegonds followed in 1890 on the SS P. Calland.
On 2 April 1896 Cornelis Hillegonds was residing at 345-109th Street in Chicago, when he was naturalized by the Circuit Court in Cook County, Illinois.
In 1910 Cornelia Hillegend [!] (49 y, born in Holland, immigrated in 1890, employed as a laborer in a foundry), his wife Ida (51, Holland, 1890), their children Harry (23, Holland, 1890, a carpenter for the Pullman Sleeping Car Company), Dora (23, Holland, 1890), Jan (21, Holland, 1890, a drill press operator at a foundry), William "Jake" Jacob (20, Holland, 1890, a drill press operator for a foundry), Christine "Tiena" (16, Illinois), Annie (13, Illinois) and Mary (18, Illinois, a servant for a private family) were living in a rented house at 227 W. 111th Street in Ward 33 of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.
According to the 1920 Census Cornelis Hillegonds (59, checker at Pullman Rail Sleeping Car manufacturer), wife Ida (61), son John (31, machinist at International Harvester West Pullman Works branch, a farm implement industry), William "Jake" (30, machinist at International Harvester's West Pullman Works), Mary (28, bench worker at West Pullman Works) and Christine "Tena" (25, bench worker at the same farm implement plant) were living on the second floor of a rented house at 11334 S. Yale Avenue in the Roseland community of ward 9 of Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois.
In April 1930 Cornelis Hillegonds (69, still listed as a car checker for the Pullman Sleeping Car Company) lived with his wife Ida (71) in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois at 12414 S. Harvard, Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois in the home of their son-in-law John Verberg (36, Holland, immigrated in 1913, laborer in the building industry) and their daughters Christine [Hillegonds] Verberg (36, Illinois) and Anna Hillegonds (32, Illinois).
In January 1939 Cornelius Hillegonds, a retired car checker at Pullman Company, a railroad sleeping car manufacturer, died at the age of 78 years in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. His widow Ida died there, too, in September 1942 at the age of 83 years.
Bio by Peter Hakze, Netherlands, February 2014.
The surname Hillegonds is a so-called metronymicum, originally meaning "child of mother Hillegond". In 1947 there were only still 7 persons in the Netherlands with the surname Hillegonds, 5 in Amsterdam and 2 in the province Noord-Holland, likely in its northwestern part. In 2007 there were less than 5 persons in the Netherlands with the surname Hillegonds, so they are dying out or have already died out in their home country, but are "surviving" in the USA.
Laborer Cornelis Hillegonds married on 24 June 1886 in the village of Koedijk (Cow Dyke), north of the city of Alkmaar on the eastern dyke of the Noordhollandsch Kanaal, at the age of 25 years to the two years older Yda Kooyman, also born in municipality Zijpe.
In September 1886 the 25 years aged laborer Cornelis Hillegonds and IJda Kooyman had the twins Arie and Dieuwertje Hillegonds in a house "aan den Kanaaldijk" (at the Canal Dyke; meant is the western dyke of the Noordhollandsch Kanaal) in the utter eastern part of the municipality Bergen, in the northwestern part of the Dutch western province Noord-Holland. The Kanaaldijk at Bergen, Noord-Holland, is still existing nowadays. See Google Maps. On 1 August 1888 they had in Koedijk, on the other, eastern side of the Noordhollandsch Kanaal, house number 153 son Jan and on 11 September 1889 in house number 150 son Willem Jacob. Cornelis was then still a laborer.
Cornelis' seven years older brother Jacob Hillegonds (born in 1853) emigrated in 1881 or 1882 with his wife and children to the USA. The family of Cornelis Hillegonds followed in 1890 on the SS P. Calland.
On 2 April 1896 Cornelis Hillegonds was residing at 345-109th Street in Chicago, when he was naturalized by the Circuit Court in Cook County, Illinois.
In 1910 Cornelia Hillegend [!] (49 y, born in Holland, immigrated in 1890, employed as a laborer in a foundry), his wife Ida (51, Holland, 1890), their children Harry (23, Holland, 1890, a carpenter for the Pullman Sleeping Car Company), Dora (23, Holland, 1890), Jan (21, Holland, 1890, a drill press operator at a foundry), William "Jake" Jacob (20, Holland, 1890, a drill press operator for a foundry), Christine "Tiena" (16, Illinois), Annie (13, Illinois) and Mary (18, Illinois, a servant for a private family) were living in a rented house at 227 W. 111th Street in Ward 33 of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.
According to the 1920 Census Cornelis Hillegonds (59, checker at Pullman Rail Sleeping Car manufacturer), wife Ida (61), son John (31, machinist at International Harvester West Pullman Works branch, a farm implement industry), William "Jake" (30, machinist at International Harvester's West Pullman Works), Mary (28, bench worker at West Pullman Works) and Christine "Tena" (25, bench worker at the same farm implement plant) were living on the second floor of a rented house at 11334 S. Yale Avenue in the Roseland community of ward 9 of Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois.
In April 1930 Cornelis Hillegonds (69, still listed as a car checker for the Pullman Sleeping Car Company) lived with his wife Ida (71) in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois at 12414 S. Harvard, Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois in the home of their son-in-law John Verberg (36, Holland, immigrated in 1913, laborer in the building industry) and their daughters Christine [Hillegonds] Verberg (36, Illinois) and Anna Hillegonds (32, Illinois).
In January 1939 Cornelius Hillegonds, a retired car checker at Pullman Company, a railroad sleeping car manufacturer, died at the age of 78 years in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. His widow Ida died there, too, in September 1942 at the age of 83 years.
Bio by Peter Hakze, Netherlands, February 2014.
He was born in November 1860 as Cornelis Hillegonds "aan het kanaal" (on the canal, meant is the Noordhollandsch Kanaal, dug in 1819-1824, and then world's broadest and deepest canal) in the country municipality Zijpe, in the northwestern part of the Dutch western province Noord-Holland, son of the 38 years aged laborer Arie Hillegonds and Marytje Schagen.
The surname Hillegonds is a so-called metronymicum, originally meaning "child of mother Hillegond". In 1947 there were only still 7 persons in the Netherlands with the surname Hillegonds, 5 in Amsterdam and 2 in the province Noord-Holland, likely in its northwestern part. In 2007 there were less than 5 persons in the Netherlands with the surname Hillegonds, so they are dying out or have already died out in their home country, but are "surviving" in the USA.
Laborer Cornelis Hillegonds married on 24 June 1886 in the village of Koedijk (Cow Dyke), north of the city of Alkmaar on the eastern dyke of the Noordhollandsch Kanaal, at the age of 25 years to the two years older Yda Kooyman, also born in municipality Zijpe.
In September 1886 the 25 years aged laborer Cornelis Hillegonds and IJda Kooyman had the twins Arie and Dieuwertje Hillegonds in a house "aan den Kanaaldijk" (at the Canal Dyke; meant is the western dyke of the Noordhollandsch Kanaal) in the utter eastern part of the municipality Bergen, in the northwestern part of the Dutch western province Noord-Holland. The Kanaaldijk at Bergen, Noord-Holland, is still existing nowadays. See Google Maps. On 1 August 1888 they had in Koedijk, on the other, eastern side of the Noordhollandsch Kanaal, house number 153 son Jan and on 11 September 1889 in house number 150 son Willem Jacob. Cornelis was then still a laborer.
Cornelis' seven years older brother Jacob Hillegonds (born in 1853) emigrated in 1881 or 1882 with his wife and children to the USA. The family of Cornelis Hillegonds followed in 1890 on the SS P. Calland.
On 2 April 1896 Cornelis Hillegonds was residing at 345-109th Street in Chicago, when he was naturalized by the Circuit Court in Cook County, Illinois.
In 1910 Cornelia Hillegend [!] (49 y, born in Holland, immigrated in 1890, employed as a laborer in a foundry), his wife Ida (51, Holland, 1890), their children Harry (23, Holland, 1890, a carpenter for the Pullman Sleeping Car Company), Dora (23, Holland, 1890), Jan (21, Holland, 1890, a drill press operator at a foundry), William "Jake" Jacob (20, Holland, 1890, a drill press operator for a foundry), Christine "Tiena" (16, Illinois), Annie (13, Illinois) and Mary (18, Illinois, a servant for a private family) were living in a rented house at 227 W. 111th Street in Ward 33 of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.
According to the 1920 Census Cornelis Hillegonds (59, checker at Pullman Rail Sleeping Car manufacturer), wife Ida (61), son John (31, machinist at International Harvester West Pullman Works branch, a farm implement industry), William "Jake" (30, machinist at International Harvester's West Pullman Works), Mary (28, bench worker at West Pullman Works) and Christine "Tena" (25, bench worker at the same farm implement plant) were living on the second floor of a rented house at 11334 S. Yale Avenue in the Roseland community of ward 9 of Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois.
In April 1930 Cornelis Hillegonds (69, still listed as a car checker for the Pullman Sleeping Car Company) lived with his wife Ida (71) in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois at 12414 S. Harvard, Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois in the home of their son-in-law John Verberg (36, Holland, immigrated in 1913, laborer in the building industry) and their daughters Christine [Hillegonds] Verberg (36, Illinois) and Anna Hillegonds (32, Illinois).
In January 1939 Cornelius Hillegonds, a retired car checker at Pullman Company, a railroad sleeping car manufacturer, died at the age of 78 years in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. His widow Ida died there, too, in September 1942 at the age of 83 years.
Bio by Peter Hakze, Netherlands, February 2014.
The surname Hillegonds is a so-called metronymicum, originally meaning "child of mother Hillegond". In 1947 there were only still 7 persons in the Netherlands with the surname Hillegonds, 5 in Amsterdam and 2 in the province Noord-Holland, likely in its northwestern part. In 2007 there were less than 5 persons in the Netherlands with the surname Hillegonds, so they are dying out or have already died out in their home country, but are "surviving" in the USA.
Laborer Cornelis Hillegonds married on 24 June 1886 in the village of Koedijk (Cow Dyke), north of the city of Alkmaar on the eastern dyke of the Noordhollandsch Kanaal, at the age of 25 years to the two years older Yda Kooyman, also born in municipality Zijpe.
In September 1886 the 25 years aged laborer Cornelis Hillegonds and IJda Kooyman had the twins Arie and Dieuwertje Hillegonds in a house "aan den Kanaaldijk" (at the Canal Dyke; meant is the western dyke of the Noordhollandsch Kanaal) in the utter eastern part of the municipality Bergen, in the northwestern part of the Dutch western province Noord-Holland. The Kanaaldijk at Bergen, Noord-Holland, is still existing nowadays. See Google Maps. On 1 August 1888 they had in Koedijk, on the other, eastern side of the Noordhollandsch Kanaal, house number 153 son Jan and on 11 September 1889 in house number 150 son Willem Jacob. Cornelis was then still a laborer.
Cornelis' seven years older brother Jacob Hillegonds (born in 1853) emigrated in 1881 or 1882 with his wife and children to the USA. The family of Cornelis Hillegonds followed in 1890 on the SS P. Calland.
On 2 April 1896 Cornelis Hillegonds was residing at 345-109th Street in Chicago, when he was naturalized by the Circuit Court in Cook County, Illinois.
In 1910 Cornelia Hillegend [!] (49 y, born in Holland, immigrated in 1890, employed as a laborer in a foundry), his wife Ida (51, Holland, 1890), their children Harry (23, Holland, 1890, a carpenter for the Pullman Sleeping Car Company), Dora (23, Holland, 1890), Jan (21, Holland, 1890, a drill press operator at a foundry), William "Jake" Jacob (20, Holland, 1890, a drill press operator for a foundry), Christine "Tiena" (16, Illinois), Annie (13, Illinois) and Mary (18, Illinois, a servant for a private family) were living in a rented house at 227 W. 111th Street in Ward 33 of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.
According to the 1920 Census Cornelis Hillegonds (59, checker at Pullman Rail Sleeping Car manufacturer), wife Ida (61), son John (31, machinist at International Harvester West Pullman Works branch, a farm implement industry), William "Jake" (30, machinist at International Harvester's West Pullman Works), Mary (28, bench worker at West Pullman Works) and Christine "Tena" (25, bench worker at the same farm implement plant) were living on the second floor of a rented house at 11334 S. Yale Avenue in the Roseland community of ward 9 of Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois.
In April 1930 Cornelis Hillegonds (69, still listed as a car checker for the Pullman Sleeping Car Company) lived with his wife Ida (71) in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois at 12414 S. Harvard, Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois in the home of their son-in-law John Verberg (36, Holland, immigrated in 1913, laborer in the building industry) and their daughters Christine [Hillegonds] Verberg (36, Illinois) and Anna Hillegonds (32, Illinois).
In January 1939 Cornelius Hillegonds, a retired car checker at Pullman Company, a railroad sleeping car manufacturer, died at the age of 78 years in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. His widow Ida died there, too, in September 1942 at the age of 83 years.
Bio by Peter Hakze, Netherlands, February 2014.
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