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Jantje “Jennie” <I>Karp</I> Ungersma

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Jantje “Jennie” Karp Ungersma

Birth
Uithuizermeeden, Eemsmond Municipality, Groningen, Netherlands
Death
9 Dec 1992 (aged 83)
Gallatin County, Montana, USA
Burial
Churchill, Gallatin County, Montana, USA Add to Map
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She is born as Jantje Karp, named for her paternal grandmother Jantje Zwart, in the dairy farmers village Uithuizermeeden in the utter northeast of the Netherlands, province Groningen, a few miles south of the sea called Waddenzee. Her parents are day-labourer Jan Karp and Trijntje Sikkenga.
Two months after her birth, on 5 April 1909, she arrived with her parents on the SS Noordam at New York. They will be going to her uncle Freerk Karp in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Jennie Karp married on 8 February 1927 at the age of 18 years in Manhattan, Gallatin County, in the southwestern part of Montana, to the one year older Henry Ungersma Jr, who has Dutch parents too.
She is born as Jantje Karp, named for her paternal grandmother Jantje Zwart, in the dairy farmers village Uithuizermeeden in the utter northeast of the Netherlands, province Groningen, a few miles south of the sea called Waddenzee. Her parents are day-labourer Jan Karp and Trijntje Sikkenga.
Two months after her birth, on 5 April 1909, she arrived with her parents on the SS Noordam at New York. They will be going to her uncle Freerk Karp in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Jennie Karp married on 8 February 1927 at the age of 18 years in Manhattan, Gallatin County, in the southwestern part of Montana, to the one year older Henry Ungersma Jr, who has Dutch parents too.


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