Herman Finkenflugel

Male 1804 - 1889  (85 years)


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  • Name Herman Finkenflugel 
    Born 10 Mar 1804  Dinxperlo, Gelderland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Immigration 31 Jan 1848  Amphin Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Died 04 Jun 1889  Wrightstown, Brown Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I67894  Little Chute Genealogy
    Last Modified 28 Mar 2018 

    Father Hermannus Vinkenvleugel,   b. 19 Jan 1758, Dinxperlo, Gelderland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Jan 1846, Dinxperlo, Gelderland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 88 years) 
    Mother Henrina Ostendorp,   b. 1759, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Oct 1834, Dinxperlo, Gelderland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 75 years) 
    Married 07 Feb 1787  Erp, Noord Brabant, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F31445  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Anna Henrina Wilhelmina tenHaken,   b. 17 Apr 1800, Dinxperlo, Gelderland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Aug 1849, East Boston, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 49 years) 
    Married 28 Jan 1832  Dinxperlo, Gelderland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Bernardus Vinkenvleugel,   b. 31 Mar 1828, Dinxperlo, Gelderland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Oct 1879, Boston, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 51 years)
     2. Janna Geertruid Vinkenvleugel,   b. 09 Oct 1830, Dinxperlo, Gelderland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Nov 1830, Dinxperlo, Gelderland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 0 years)
     3. Johanna Geertruid Vinkenvleugel,   b. 21 Dec 1831, Dinxperlo, Gelderland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 04 Jul 1833, Dinxperlo, Gelderland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 1 years)
     4. Johanna Vinkenvleugel,   b. 31 Jul 1834, Dinxperlo, Gelderland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 15 Aug 1907, Pasco, Franklin Co, Washington Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 73 years)
     5. Gertruida Vinkenvleugel,   b. 20 Nov 1836, Dinxperlo, Gelderland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location
     6. Hendrikus Vinkenvleugel,   b. 21 Jan 1839, Dinxperlo, Gelderland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Aug 1864, Civil War Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 25 years)
     7. Maria Magdalena Vinkenvleugel,   b. 06 Sep 1842, Dinxperlo, Gelderland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Feb 1900, Arkansas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 57 years)
    Last Modified 21 Jul 2022 
    Family ID F78787  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Theodora Beijer,   b. 10 Jun 1790, Etten, Gelderland, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Oct 1847  (Age 57 years) 
    Married 24 Sep 1850  Boston, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 21 Jul 2022 
    Family ID F30806  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 3 Mary Anna Lauterbach,   b. May 1840, Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 07 Sep 1912, Menasha, Winnebago Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 72 years) 
    Married 22 Oct 1864  St Mary Church, Appleton, Outagamie Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Catherine Theresa Fink,   b. 01 Jul 1865, Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 May 1943, Menasha, Winnebago Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years)
     2. Mary Fink,   b. 31 Aug 1866, Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Nov 1930, Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 64 years)
     3. Herman Fink,   b. 16 May 1869, Wrightstown, Brown Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Dec 1950, Fond du Lac, Fond du lac Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 81 years)
     4. John Bernard Fink,   b. 27 Jul 1872, Dundas, Calumet Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Sep 1952, Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years)
     5. Anna Elizabeth Fink,   b. Aug 1876, Town of Woodville, Calumet Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Jan 1919, Neenah, Winnebago Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 42 years)
     6. Wilhelmina Cecilia Fink,   b. 02 Aug 1879, Town of Woodville, Calumet Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 08 May 1955  (Age 75 years)
     7. Joseph Fink,   b. 26 Jun 1882, Wrightstown, Brown Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Dec 1902, Wrightstown, Brown Co, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 20 years)
    Last Modified 21 Jul 2022 
    Family ID F26415  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • On 16 March 1885, Hermanus Vinkenvleugel of Wrightstown, Wisconsin wrote a letter to his relatives back home.
      I have done my best to translate his letter. The letter was written in poor Dutch grammar but I believe I have captured quite well the essential content of the letter.

      I will do my best to obtain a good copy of the original letter.

      I received from Stef Hermsen a copy of all the family-pages of his family tree. After translation I will sent them to you.

      Best regards,

      Loek van der Heijden
      pstraat@worldonline.nl

      Wright Town, the 16th march 1885,



      Beloved family

      I can not forbear just to let you know, how it's going with me here in America, because I have already passed my 81 years on 10 March, and now I should like to know how it goes [t]here, whether my brothers and sister are still alive or not. There will probably be some people in the family, who will remember, that I and my wife and five children departed from Dinxperlo 35 years ago.

      I then arrived at Boston. There I was a "koeper" (cooper?) for 7 years. The[re] I earned 700 dollars and with that I travelled to the west and bought myself 80 acres of land and that I sold three years ago.

      I have my third wife and she has 7 children, from which one daughter has married last year. She was 18 years old. Furthermore I let you know, that I have a hundred acres of land, 5 cows, 6 head barren cattle, four horses, one 8 years old, one four years old, one two years old and one from one year old.

      I am old and the children are young, but I am doing the most with machines. I have a grass-mower and a seed-mower, a sowing-machine and a rake-machine. They cost a lot, almost 300 dollar, because the wages are also more expensive than in Holland. Here one can earn good money.

      If it should be, that in the family, there are people who want to come over to live with us, whether married or not married, they can work by me, and if they are married I will let her live on the sixty field (or acres?). The usage here to let build (or grow?) for the half, then the owner gives nothing more, but I will join the machines and also two horses and everything belonging to the use of horses like the horse harnass on the horse-wagon, plough, harrow, .......... etc. Firewood, don't you think about it, there is plenty.

      Now I will just request you, that you just let me know who cultivates the land on the "Brinkenveld". I do not know better than that it is still mine, because I have sold the house, but not the land.

      Furthermore I do not know much news to write, than that I personally am determined to once come over to you if the good Lord lets me keep my health.

      The land that I sold three years ago I had to miss, but where I am now it goes good without.

      Now I end with the pen but not with my heart and then just the greetings to all my friends and acquaintances, for I hope that you will receive this letter in good health.

      In expectation I remain your brother or uncle, who calls himself

      Hermanus Finkenvleugel

      Now I expect an answer soon please.

      The address is not Hermanes Finkenvleugel but just Herman Fink, Wrights Town, Brown [County Wisconsin.]

      Furthermore, O yes, I had almost forgotten my children from my first wife. The oldest son has been married in Boston, but he died and has left a wife and three children, Johanna is in Oregon, Gertruida is in New York, Hendrikus died in the war and therefore I receive a pension of 8 dollars each month. The youngest daughter is in Arkansas. Those who live are all married. The youngest daughter has 13 children, from which two are married. (LvdH: I assume he is speaking of Maria Magdalena?)

      Herman Finkenvleugel and Ana Maria Lauterbach from Kobelens. (LvdH: I think this must be Koblenz in Germany)