The lumberyard where John Boomker worked was very likely at the wharves of the Chicago South Branch Canal Company, which stretched one mile along the north bank of the South Branch of the Chicago River from Halsted Street to Ashland Avenue. The family gave $1000 as the value of their real property, which indicates a rising economic status. Thomas is an unknown child, who likely died in the 1870s. The three children-John (10)-his actual age was just shy of 7 years since he was born in September 1863, Lizzie (9), and Thomas (6) were all in school. John, age 45, was a laborer in a lumberyard, and his wife Rica, age 46, was keeping house. Ward 8 ran from 12th street south to 16th Street and includes John Place. The 1870 Federal manuscript census of Chicago (taken in June) enumerated the John Boomker family living in the 8th Ward. Boomker's face was pocked, so this youngest son of John Wolters Boomker likely survived the smallpox that hit the family so hard. Granddaughter Muriel Boomker Vander Woude recalls that Johannes J. Poverty stalked the family, as often happened with newcomers, and soon the dreaded disease of smallpox carried off their second son Wolter at thirteen or fourteen years, and second daughter Nieske, who was six or seven (dates of death are unknown, but before June 1870 census enumeration). John Bunker was next listed in the 1869 City Directory, a laborer, living at 23 John Pl (likely the same building as 21 John Pl). This is a mile and a half south of the First Reformed Church on Foster Street between Polk and Harrison streets. In 1867, Jan (now called John) Boomker, according to the Chicago City Directory, in which his name is spelled John Bunker, was a laborer living at 21 (827 new numbering) John Place. The Boomker immigrants were part of a large exodus from the Netherlands in the immediate aftermath of the American Civil War, when the return of peace released the pent up desire to go to America, the land of rising expectations. Jan Boomker and his family immigrated to the area of Grand Haven/Spring Lake, Michigan in October 1865, but quickly relocated to Chicago’s Near West Side. This confirms the lowly economic status of the Jan Boomker family in Groningen. 81) states that his father Jan was a 41-year old day laborer. The birth certificate of Johannes Jacobs Boomker (‘t Zandt, 1863, No. He was named after the second son who died in infancy.
1863, married Sara Bor in 1888, and died 11 Oct. Anje/Lizzie, who was born, married John De Boer, and lived and died in Lincoln, NE.ģ. Einje/Annie, who was born, married Jan/John Toren in Roseland, IL, and died in Roseland on Feb. The three children reaching adulthood were:ġ. Thomas likely died before 1880, since he is not listed in the 1880 census. This birth about the year 1864 must yet be confirmed.
federal census as a son, age 6, born in the Netherlands. Another possible son, Thomas, is recorded in the 1870 U.S. 1859, who also died in Chicago as a teenager between 18. 1853, and died in Chicago as a teenager between 18 and Nieske, born 8 Nov. These were Wolter, named after the deceased firstborn son, born 11 Dec. Another two (and possibly three) children died in their teen years in Chicago, possibly of smallpox. Two children died in infancy: Wolter, born April 12, 1852, who died within a month, on May 4, 1852, and Johannes, born April 12, 1855, who died at 17 months, on September 30, 1856. Jan Boomker, the youngest son, married Grietje van der Molen (1828-?) of Loppersum (GR) on July 12, 1851, at ‘t Zandt (GR), and the couple had at least seven children, all born in 't Zandt, of whom four survived childhood. Hereafter Jan Wolters Boomker is called Jan/John Boomker. The oldest son, Wolter Rems Boomker-the first to take the name Boomker, and his wife Nijske (Nieske) Jans had five children: Tijtje (1802-1875), Rem (1812-1874), Grietje (1814-1874), Geertruid (1819-1855), and Jan Wolters (1822-73), who immigrated to the United States. The earliest known progenitors are Remt Wolters and Grietje Arends, who lived in the late eighteenth century in the village of Godlinze (Gr), where they raised three children: Wolter Rems (1774-1839), Jantje Rempts (1777-1848), and Arent Remts (1780-1831). The soil was well suited for grains, but every family cultivated potatoes and vegetables in their garden behind the house. The men worked the land as farm laborers for large “boeren” in this region of rich sea-clay soil. The Jan Wolters Boomker family lived in the northern Netherlands province of Groningen (GR) in and around the village of ‘t Zandt for many generations, before Jan Wolters Boomker immigrated with his wife and family to Chicago in 1865.
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