| Name |
Giesbers, Cornelius |
| Birth |
4 Sep 1824 |
Mill, , Noord-Brabant, Netherlands  |
| Gender |
Male |
 Birth - Civil Record |
8 Sep 1824 |
- Wilbert Gijsbers Father on Wednesday, September 8, 1824 MillPlaats: Mill, bron: BHIC, Burgerlijke Stand Geboorte, aktenummer: 41Geboren: Cornelis GijsbersGeboortedatum: 8-9-1824relatie: zoon vanVader: Wilbert GijsbersBeroep vader: landbouwerWoonplaats vader: MillMoeder: Antonet MaassenBeroep moeder: boerinWoonplaats moeder: Mill
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| Immigration |
8 May 1848 |
New York, New York, New York, USA |
| on the Maria Magdelena from Rotterdam Line 023 on 3/29/1848 |
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| 1850 Census |
1850 |
Kaukalin, Brown, Wisconsin, USA |
| page 146, line 14 |
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1850 Census Kaukalin Page 146
Brown County, Wisconsin |
| 1855 State Census |
1855 |
Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA |
| Page 08a |
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1855 Census Kaukauna page 08a
Outagamie County, Wisconsin |
| 1860 Census |
1860 |
Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA |
- 1860 Census Kaukauna
Cornelius Geisbert 33
Antoinette Geisbert 25
William Geisbert 5
Mary Geisbert 2
Jane Geisbert 6.12
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1860 Census Kaukauna page 09
Outagamie County, Wisconsin |
| 1870 Census |
1870 |
Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA |
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1870 Census Kaukauna page 29
Outagamie County, Wisconsin |
| 1880 Census |
1880 |
Wrightstown, Brown, Wisconsin, USA |
- Cornelus Therelins56
Antonette Therelins47
William Therelins25
Arnold Therelins17
Antonette Therelins15
John Therelins13
Jane Therelins10
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| Family History Researcher |
- From Helen Forbeck's files; THE FAMILY TREE January 1933
Wilbert Giesbers, husband of (Antoinette) Nettie Maas, died in Holland whi le still a young man leaving a very young family not even in their teen s. The widow operated a tavern in Holland to keep her family intact. The B urgermeister of Mill, Holland, suggested that the townspeople patronize t he widow's tavern as that was her only means of support. The struggling w as too difficult and we find her emigrating to America with her children:
Cornelius, Elizabeth Gerrits, John (Killed in Civil War) and Kate Vanden H euvel(John - Rank=Private, Co E, 6th Infantry, June 28, 1961…..enlisted in Appl eton, Wounded Sep 62, deserted 14 Sep 62 or 63)
(Kaukaulin Census 1950 - 685/733)
She sailed in 1848 on one of Father Vandenbroek's three sailing vessels. R ev. Vandenbroek was a missionary interested in the colonization of Holla nd Catholics in the Fox River Valley. It is believed he secured money eith er from the Foreign Mission Society at Washington or the Government at Was hington as well as from wealthy friends of his in Holland for the financi ng of this emigration from Europe. Migrating from Holland to Little Chu te was a trip which required three months. The passage fare was paid by so me although many were unable to pay at all.
The emigrating colonists, after landing in America, sailed up the Hudson R iver to Albany, New York, connecting there with the Erie Barge Canal, a ca nal which was dug from Albany, N.Y. to Buffalo and is still in existence t oday. The barges were horse drawn from a tow path on the canal bank -- a s low tedious journey taking a day between each stopping place. At each stop ping place a relief team of horses was hitched to the barge for another da y's travel, working in relays in this manner, until the canal trip was com pleted at Buffalo. Each stopping place was a day's journey. Although Fult on had invented the steamboat prior to this time, it is likely that saili ng vessels were used through the Great Lakes to Green Bay and from there t hey walked and used ox carts in going to Little Chute which was 25 miles s outhwest of Green Bay. The Fox River had no system of locks at that time m aking it unnavigable because of the rough rapids* and uncontrolled waters.
After settling, Mrs. Wilbert Giesbers married again to Mr.Van Niel and set tled along the riverbank. Mr. Van Niel had studied for the priesthood in A msterdam but did not attain his ambition because of an accident while trav eling which impaired his hearing. Because of his education, he was o ne of the leaders of Little Chute, and it was at his home that Rev. Vanden broek* made his headquarters while on his mission travels.
Cornelius married, lived on a farm west of Little Chute and later operat ed a tavern near the depot before moving to another farm in Wrightstown. C hildren were born as follows:
William 1854 in Green Bay 1854
Mary - Mrs. Albert Langenberg in Green Bay 1857
Hannah - Mrs. Anton Langenberg in Green Bay 1860
Arnold in Kaukauna l862
Nettie - Mrs. Henry Vandenheuvel in Kaukauna 1865
John in Kaukauna 1867
Jennie - Mrs. Herman Fink in Menasha 1870
1* Little Chute (Le Petit Chute) - the Little Rapids as the French earliercalled it when this area was part of French Canada before French & Indi an War 2* Vandenbroek Township - the area that surrounds the Village of Little C hute
Although the eldest boy was known as William, his real name was Wilber t. He spent many years of his boyhood with his grandmother, Mrs. Van Nie l, in Little Chute. As a young man he spent his winters in logging camps ( pinery) earning money financing his father's farm. With his experien ce in farming, he spent many years as the superintendent of the J. K. DeLa ney 160 acre farm which traded and sold horses. The Giesbers farm was so ld to a Mr. Redemacher and as of 1933 all the buildings remain intact. Wil liam's parents, Cornelius and Nettie, are buried in Green Bay.
Herman Finkenflugel along with his six (really five - one died earlier -hf f) children -- Henry, Barney, Gertrude, John, Johanna, and Mary, emigrat ed to East Boston, Mass, after the death of his wife in Holland. (Letter h ome to Holland from Hermanus and Henry's Civil War records state that s he died in Aug 14, 1849 in East Boston - hff.) He married Dora Kobussen w ho had a son, John (born in Little Chute) - (actually, John was born in Holland-hff). Dora died without bearing any children. (She had many children …..with Willem Cobissen in Holland - hff) Herman then moved to Appleton and worked in his nephew's cooper shop at Madison and Lincoln Streets in Appleton. He later moved to the "flats* and worked in Parker's stave factory. He married Marie (Mary) Lauterbach. The children were as follows: Kate-- Mrs. John Madigan born in Appleton, 18
Mary -- Mrs. William Giesbers born in Appleton, 1866
Herman born in Appleton
John born in Appleton
Anna -- Mrs. Ed Seager born in Appleton
Minnie -- Mrs. Joseph Merkel born in Appleton
Joseph born in Appleton
Their house was near the site of the present site of the car barns* not more than 100 feet from the small Memorial building where the first big commercial electric lighting plant began August 20, 1882. It is a matter of history that the Hoover Dam, Mussel Shoals, and other gigantic projects for creating electric power owe their existence to this Appleton unit so close to the Finkenflugel home.
When the family was still young, they purchased a farm in Dundas which was later sold when the family bought a farm in Wrightstown. The Wrightstown farm was across the fence from the Giesbers farm. Van Zeeland owns the farm but the original home and buildings are no longer standing. After the death of Herman Fink, his widow moved to Menasha.
LAUTERBACH
In 1847 the Lauterbach family came to America (possibly from Wiesbaden or Wehr, Germany) when their daughter Marie was just seven years old. It was reported that they had lived in the Alsase-Lorraine district. Matthew Lauterbach was a shoemaker by trade. After emigrating to America, they moved to a farm in Marytown, south of Chilton, Wisconsin, and east of Lake Winnebago. The children were as follows:
Kathryn -- Mrs. John Melcher Menasha Mary -- Mrs. Herman Finkenflugel 1840 Elizabeth -- Mrs. Fred Nabbenfeld 1841
Minnie -- Mrs. Henry Berrendes then
Mrs. Peter Hemmang Fond du Lac
Chris Green Bay Anna -- Sister Edesia, Milwaukee convent (Notre Dame Nuns)
From Marytown the family moved to Menasha. The father died, and his widow remarried a Mr. Schreiber and moved to Milwaukee. The children, especially the eldest, did not accompany them. Minnie became the housekeeper for Governor Doty and Marie (Mary) worked in Appleton and Menasha where she met Herman Fink1* "Flats" were the -- and still is the industrial heart of Appleton.2* Governor Dotv was the first Governor of Wisconsin after becoming a state.
Matthew Lauterbach is buried in Little Chute on the site of the present church and his wife is buried in Marytown.
LOOKING BACKWARDS, Solemn Event in Little Chute, 100 years ago
Quoted from the Appleton Crescent for July 15, 1871 Saturday, July 8th, and Sunday, July 9th, were days of great solemni ty at Little Chute.The Rt. Rev. Bishop of Green Bay gave confirmation to about 200 children, with a few grown persons, on Sunday afternoon, and blessed the new bell of the Catholic church in the afternoon. Accordingly, when the time came, the people of the place descended upon the railway station to welcome and receive the Bishop.When the cars arrived on Saturday, there was a crowd of more than 300 persons near the railroad. They formed into a line and escorted His Grace in grand procession, with banners floating in the breeze, to the pastoral mansion. Mr. J. C. Van Niel, leader on such occasions, appeared as Chief Marshall of the day in full uniform of a captain of the army of the Netherlands.His Grace seemed pleased with the reception, and so were the people.
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| Death |
29 Dec 1911 |
Bellevue, Brown, Wisconsin, USA |
| Obituary |
4 Jan 1912 |
| Kaukauna Sun |
- Came With Father Vanden Broek Cornelius Giesbers, John & Arnold Giesber s, Father Vanden Broek Kaukauna Sun 1/04/1912 1 Obituary/News
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| Obituary |
5 Jan 1912 |
| Kaukauna Times |
- Cornelius Giesbers, who came to the Fox River Valley in the party headed by Father Vandenbroek, the first Catholic priest to establish a church at Little Chute and who was one of the earliest pioneers of Little Chute and Outagamie County, died last Saturday at his home in Green Bay at the age of 87 years. Mr. Giesbers was born in Mell, Holland, in 1824. In 1848 he elected to join the party headed by Father Vandenbroek and sailed to America. After landing in New York, the party headed directly to Wisconsin and in a couple months after leaving his native home he arrived at the banks of the Fox River at the point where the thriving village of Little Chute is now located. He is survived by seven children.
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Giesbers, Cornelius
Obituary |
| Burial |
Allouez Catholic Cemetery, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA |
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Giesbers, Cornelius
Allouez Catholic Cemetery, Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA |
| Person ID |
I86129 |
1FamilyTree | CarlaDorow25298 |
| Last Modified |
28 Feb 2018 |
Family  |
Snyders, Antonette, b. 12 Jun 1833, Boekel, , Noord-Brabant, Netherlands d. 25 Jun 1910, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA (Age 77 years) |
| Marriage |
Bef 1854 |
, , Wisconsin, USA |
| Children |
| + | 1. Giesbers, William, b. 10 Sep 1854, Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA d. 28 Apr 1947 (Age 92 years) |
| + | 2. Giesbers, Anna Maria, b. 15 Oct 1857, Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA d. 5 Aug 1931, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA (Age 73 years) |
| + | 3. Giesbers, Johanna or Jane, b. 18 Feb 1860, Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA d. 8 Jun 1951, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA (Age 91 years) |
| | 4. Giesbers, Arnold, b. 11 Apr 1862, Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA d. 4 Dec 1935 (Age 73 years) |
| + | 5. Giesbers, Antionette, b. 21 Feb 1865, Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA d. 11 May 1947, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA (Age 82 years) |
| + | 6. Giesbers, John, b. 29 Apr 1867, Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA d. 4 Feb 1945 (Age 77 years) |
| + | 7. Giesbers, Jenny or Jacoba, b. 8 Feb 1870, Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA d. Abt 1918 (Age 47 years) |
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| Family ID |
F35734 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
1 May 2010 |
1824 - 1911 (87 years)
