Gaele Bakker (= Baker) was born in July 1858 in the village of Koudum, located in the southwestern part of the Dutch northern province Friesland, the second of five children and the first of four sons of Jan Sipkes Bakker (37 years old, laborer) and Jacobje Gaeles Bajema. Source: scan of his birth certificate. Gaele was named after his maternal grandfather Gaele Ottes Bajema.
On May 17, 1884 baker's hand Gaele Bakker married in the country village of Witmarsum at the age of 25 years the five years younger Catharina Visser.
Witmarsum, located in the western part of Friesland, was about 1496 the birthplace of Menno Simons, the founder of the Mennonite Church.
They had in the former fishing village of Gaast, located in the extreme western part of the province Friesland, the following seven children:
* Jan (John), born February 2, 1885;
* Jouke (Joseph), November 6, 1886;
* Jenny (Jacobje) (Jenny), April 4, 1888;
* Riemer (Raymond), January 13, 1891;
* Magdalena, February 21, 1893;
* Dirk (Dick, Richard), June 20, 1895;
* Grietje (Katie), April 8, 1897.
Gaele Bakker was in 1885, 1888, 1891 and 1897 a baker, in 1886, 1893 and 1895 a baker's hand.
In 1899 Gaele and Catharina immigrated from the Netherlands to Whitinsville, Massachusetts, U.S.A., along with their seven children. Once there, Gaele found work in the Within Machine Works. The WMW became one of the largest textile machinery companies in the world. By 1948, the company was operating at peak capacity, employing 5,615 men and women. "The Shop" was the center of life in the village of Whitinsville for over 135 years, until 1976.
In May 1910 Gaile Baker (51 years old, born in Holland, laborer at a machine shop), his wife Katherine Baker (46, Holland), their children Raymond (19, Holland, farm laborer), Higadaline (17, Holland, house worker for private family), Richard (14), and Katherine (13, Holland) were living in a rented house at Costle Hill Road to Hambidge Line Fouglass Ave in Northbridge Town, Worcester County, Massachusetts. According to this concerning Census 1910 they all immigrated in 1902.
In April 1911 the family Baker moved with the Mast family and several other Dutch immigrants to the city of Edmonton, the capital of the Canadian province Alberta, where Gaele got a job working on construction of the High Level Bridge.
In February 1913 Gaele, his wife Catharina, their son Raymond and daughter Katie moved to the Dutch agrarian settlement of Neerlandia, located about 60 miles northwest of Edmonton, where they had bought in July 1912 two quarters (320 acres) of land. Gaele and Raymond kept cattle on their homesteads from the first year they were there.
On May 1, 1915 the membership of the Christian Reformed Church of Gaele, Catharina and three children was transferred from Edmonton to Neerlandia, where recently a new church of logs had been built. Gaele became one of the first three elders.
Gaele never lost his baking skills. His specialties were marzipan letters, shortbread [sprits], and, for special occasions, gebakjes. Gaele and Catharina enjoyed working in the garden. They raised many vegetables and kept also a strawberry path. Catharina canned most of the vegetables in jars.
About 1934 Gaele and Catharina retired and Raymond took over his quarter.
His wife Catharina died in February 1943 at the age of 76 years in Neerlandia. Widow Gaele Baker died there too, in May 1945, at the age of 86 years.
On May 17, 1884 baker's hand Gaele Bakker married in the country village of Witmarsum at the age of 25 years the five years younger Catharina Visser.
Witmarsum, located in the western part of Friesland, was about 1496 the birthplace of Menno Simons, the founder of the Mennonite Church.
They had in the former fishing village of Gaast, located in the extreme western part of the province Friesland, the following seven children:
* Jan (John), born February 2, 1885;
* Jouke (Joseph), November 6, 1886;
* Jenny (Jacobje) (Jenny), April 4, 1888;
* Riemer (Raymond), January 13, 1891;
* Magdalena, February 21, 1893;
* Dirk (Dick, Richard), June 20, 1895;
* Grietje (Katie), April 8, 1897.
Gaele Bakker was in 1885, 1888, 1891 and 1897 a baker, in 1886, 1893 and 1895 a baker's hand.
In 1899 Gaele and Catharina immigrated from the Netherlands to Whitinsville, Massachusetts, U.S.A., along with their seven children. Once there, Gaele found work in the Within Machine Works. The WMW became one of the largest textile machinery companies in the world. By 1948, the company was operating at peak capacity, employing 5,615 men and women. "The Shop" was the center of life in the village of Whitinsville for over 135 years, until 1976.
In May 1910 Gaile Baker (51 years old, born in Holland, laborer at a machine shop), his wife Katherine Baker (46, Holland), their children Raymond (19, Holland, farm laborer), Higadaline (17, Holland, house worker for private family), Richard (14), and Katherine (13, Holland) were living in a rented house at Costle Hill Road to Hambidge Line Fouglass Ave in Northbridge Town, Worcester County, Massachusetts. According to this concerning Census 1910 they all immigrated in 1902.
In April 1911 the family Baker moved with the Mast family and several other Dutch immigrants to the city of Edmonton, the capital of the Canadian province Alberta, where Gaele got a job working on construction of the High Level Bridge.
In February 1913 Gaele, his wife Catharina, their son Raymond and daughter Katie moved to the Dutch agrarian settlement of Neerlandia, located about 60 miles northwest of Edmonton, where they had bought in July 1912 two quarters (320 acres) of land. Gaele and Raymond kept cattle on their homesteads from the first year they were there.
On May 1, 1915 the membership of the Christian Reformed Church of Gaele, Catharina and three children was transferred from Edmonton to Neerlandia, where recently a new church of logs had been built. Gaele became one of the first three elders.
Gaele never lost his baking skills. His specialties were marzipan letters, shortbread [sprits], and, for special occasions, gebakjes. Gaele and Catharina enjoyed working in the garden. They raised many vegetables and kept also a strawberry path. Catharina canned most of the vegetables in jars.
About 1934 Gaele and Catharina retired and Raymond took over his quarter.
His wife Catharina died in February 1943 at the age of 76 years in Neerlandia. Widow Gaele Baker died there too, in May 1945, at the age of 86 years.
Gaele Bakker (= Baker) was born in July 1858 in the village of Koudum, located in the southwestern part of the Dutch northern province Friesland, the second of five children and the first of four sons of Jan Sipkes Bakker (37 years old, laborer) and Jacobje Gaeles Bajema. Source: scan of his birth certificate. Gaele was named after his maternal grandfather Gaele Ottes Bajema.
On May 17, 1884 baker's hand Gaele Bakker married in the country village of Witmarsum at the age of 25 years the five years younger Catharina Visser.
Witmarsum, located in the western part of Friesland, was about 1496 the birthplace of Menno Simons, the founder of the Mennonite Church.
They had in the former fishing village of Gaast, located in the extreme western part of the province Friesland, the following seven children:
* Jan (John), born February 2, 1885;
* Jouke (Joseph), November 6, 1886;
* Jenny (Jacobje) (Jenny), April 4, 1888;
* Riemer (Raymond), January 13, 1891;
* Magdalena, February 21, 1893;
* Dirk (Dick, Richard), June 20, 1895;
* Grietje (Katie), April 8, 1897.
Gaele Bakker was in 1885, 1888, 1891 and 1897 a baker, in 1886, 1893 and 1895 a baker's hand.
In 1899 Gaele and Catharina immigrated from the Netherlands to Whitinsville, Massachusetts, U.S.A., along with their seven children. Once there, Gaele found work in the Within Machine Works. The WMW became one of the largest textile machinery companies in the world. By 1948, the company was operating at peak capacity, employing 5,615 men and women. "The Shop" was the center of life in the village of Whitinsville for over 135 years, until 1976.
In May 1910 Gaile Baker (51 years old, born in Holland, laborer at a machine shop), his wife Katherine Baker (46, Holland), their children Raymond (19, Holland, farm laborer), Higadaline (17, Holland, house worker for private family), Richard (14), and Katherine (13, Holland) were living in a rented house at Costle Hill Road to Hambidge Line Fouglass Ave in Northbridge Town, Worcester County, Massachusetts. According to this concerning Census 1910 they all immigrated in 1902.
In April 1911 the family Baker moved with the Mast family and several other Dutch immigrants to the city of Edmonton, the capital of the Canadian province Alberta, where Gaele got a job working on construction of the High Level Bridge.
In February 1913 Gaele, his wife Catharina, their son Raymond and daughter Katie moved to the Dutch agrarian settlement of Neerlandia, located about 60 miles northwest of Edmonton, where they had bought in July 1912 two quarters (320 acres) of land. Gaele and Raymond kept cattle on their homesteads from the first year they were there.
On May 1, 1915 the membership of the Christian Reformed Church of Gaele, Catharina and three children was transferred from Edmonton to Neerlandia, where recently a new church of logs had been built. Gaele became one of the first three elders.
Gaele never lost his baking skills. His specialties were marzipan letters, shortbread [sprits], and, for special occasions, gebakjes. Gaele and Catharina enjoyed working in the garden. They raised many vegetables and kept also a strawberry path. Catharina canned most of the vegetables in jars.
About 1934 Gaele and Catharina retired and Raymond took over his quarter.
His wife Catharina died in February 1943 at the age of 76 years in Neerlandia. Widow Gaele Baker died there too, in May 1945, at the age of 86 years.
On May 17, 1884 baker's hand Gaele Bakker married in the country village of Witmarsum at the age of 25 years the five years younger Catharina Visser.
Witmarsum, located in the western part of Friesland, was about 1496 the birthplace of Menno Simons, the founder of the Mennonite Church.
They had in the former fishing village of Gaast, located in the extreme western part of the province Friesland, the following seven children:
* Jan (John), born February 2, 1885;
* Jouke (Joseph), November 6, 1886;
* Jenny (Jacobje) (Jenny), April 4, 1888;
* Riemer (Raymond), January 13, 1891;
* Magdalena, February 21, 1893;
* Dirk (Dick, Richard), June 20, 1895;
* Grietje (Katie), April 8, 1897.
Gaele Bakker was in 1885, 1888, 1891 and 1897 a baker, in 1886, 1893 and 1895 a baker's hand.
In 1899 Gaele and Catharina immigrated from the Netherlands to Whitinsville, Massachusetts, U.S.A., along with their seven children. Once there, Gaele found work in the Within Machine Works. The WMW became one of the largest textile machinery companies in the world. By 1948, the company was operating at peak capacity, employing 5,615 men and women. "The Shop" was the center of life in the village of Whitinsville for over 135 years, until 1976.
In May 1910 Gaile Baker (51 years old, born in Holland, laborer at a machine shop), his wife Katherine Baker (46, Holland), their children Raymond (19, Holland, farm laborer), Higadaline (17, Holland, house worker for private family), Richard (14), and Katherine (13, Holland) were living in a rented house at Costle Hill Road to Hambidge Line Fouglass Ave in Northbridge Town, Worcester County, Massachusetts. According to this concerning Census 1910 they all immigrated in 1902.
In April 1911 the family Baker moved with the Mast family and several other Dutch immigrants to the city of Edmonton, the capital of the Canadian province Alberta, where Gaele got a job working on construction of the High Level Bridge.
In February 1913 Gaele, his wife Catharina, their son Raymond and daughter Katie moved to the Dutch agrarian settlement of Neerlandia, located about 60 miles northwest of Edmonton, where they had bought in July 1912 two quarters (320 acres) of land. Gaele and Raymond kept cattle on their homesteads from the first year they were there.
On May 1, 1915 the membership of the Christian Reformed Church of Gaele, Catharina and three children was transferred from Edmonton to Neerlandia, where recently a new church of logs had been built. Gaele became one of the first three elders.
Gaele never lost his baking skills. His specialties were marzipan letters, shortbread [sprits], and, for special occasions, gebakjes. Gaele and Catharina enjoyed working in the garden. They raised many vegetables and kept also a strawberry path. Catharina canned most of the vegetables in jars.
About 1934 Gaele and Catharina retired and Raymond took over his quarter.
His wife Catharina died in February 1943 at the age of 76 years in Neerlandia. Widow Gaele Baker died there too, in May 1945, at the age of 86 years.
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