There are only 11 people in my tree with the surname Dyer, the name of my great grandmother. So I decided on another infographic:

I would love to find out more about this intriguing family from this little island. Are you descended from a Dyer relative? Please drop me a line!

Meaning

According to the Dutch database of Familynames, the surname Schinkel is a toponym¹. So I have been googling and searching myself silly to find places containing the name Schinkel.
I found 1 river, 1 polder, 1 lake², 1 lock, 4 dikes, by Reeuwijk, Callantsoog, Aalsmeer and Loosdrecht, 1 small dwelling and a busstop.³. None of which are even remotely close to where my earliest Schinkel relative came from, the village of Jaarsveld.
The website further states that the surname can also derive from the Dutch word schinkel or schenkel, meaning thigh¹. Romantic.

Geographical Location

occurences of the name 'Schinkel' in each provence in 1947

occurences of the name 'Schinkel' in each municipality in 2007

In 1947 there were 888 people with the surname Schinkel living in the Netherlands; the provinces Utrecht, Overijssel, Noord-Holland and Zuid-Holland topping the list.
By 2007 that number had risen to 1.364. Statistics show that by then Lopik (Jaarsveld being part of that municipality since 1943⁴) and Kampen had the highest percentage of people with that name.¹

(E)migration

The Schinkels moved around the place a lot more than say my Nap ancestors. Well my direct ancestors didn’t, but several cousins moved to Rotterdam and Amsterdam, and some even crossed oceans:
On March 28^th 1910 Willem Schinkel and Cornelia Wouterse arrived in New York with their daughter Jacoba. They were on their way to Iowa to begin a new life as farmers.
On May 28^th 1920 Wilhelmina Maria Schinkel married a Richard Henry Mansfield in Bristol, England and left for Baltimore, Maryland on June 22^nd 1921. I would love to find out more!
On June 3^rd 1930 Elisabeth ‘Lucy’ Schinkel arrived in New York on her way to Utah. She was only 21 and had been converted to the LDS church on August 10^th 1929.
In the 1950′s three brothers, Gerard, in 1951, Willem, in 1952, and Teunis, in 1953, immigrated to Ontario, Canada.⁵

Related Surnames

Schenkel, van der Schinkel, Schenk.

In fact the name Schinkel and Schenkel are often used at the same time: my 2nd great grandfather Carel signed his name as Schenkel, but in most certificates the clerk wrote his name down as Schinkel.⁶

In My Tree

To date I have collected 486 Schinkels, 251 men and 232 women. The earliest person with the surname Schinkel is Bastiaan Jansz Schinkel, born in about 1647 in Jaarsveld.
Most of the Schinkel men were labourers, bricklayers and carpenters. One family brought on several generations of tailors. And the prize for the most exotic occupation goes to Johanna Maria Schinkel, an artist’s model. I wonder…

My Goals

Finding that link between both groups of Schinkels, if there is any… Not really.
No, since the Schinkels were amongst the first ancestors I researched I made many a rookie mistake… you would never have guessed it but I have unsourced facts, persons even in my database!
I have printed out a report of a wapping 90 pages and am scrutinizing it for missing facts and sources, documenting them and entering the new (sourced) information into my database. And then, after that, I can maybe look for those missing Schinkels.

Sources

1. 1. “Nederlandse Familienamenbank.” http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/nfb (accessed May 9, 2012). ↩
2. 2. Schellingwoude Bestemmingsplan – Bijlagen Bij Toelichting. Rep. no. NL.IMRO.0363.N0805BPSTD.VGO01. Vol. 1. Amsterdam: Stadsdeel Noord, 2012. Schillingwoude Bestemmingsplan. Gemeente Amsterdam, Stadsdeel Noord, 6 May 2012. Web. 9 May 2012. (http://bit.ly/ITB8DM). ↩
3. 3. van der Aa, A. J.. “S.” Aardrijkskundig Woordenboek der Nederlanden. Breda, 1837. 233. Re-published on CD by CBG. ↩
4. 4. “Streekarchief Rijnstreek – Beknopte geschiedenis van Lopik.” Streekarchief Rijnstreek. http://bit.ly/II2yYm (accessed May 9, 2012). ↩
5. 5. Sheeres, Janet, and Richard H. Harms. “Dutch Emigrants to North America, 1946-1963.” Calvin College – Heritage Hall. http://www.calvin.edu/hh/family_history_resources/Dutch_Emigrants.htm (accessed November 5, 2012) ↩
6. 6. deathcertificates Nieuwkoop 1873-1882 civil registration, Fiche no 2 certificate no 51 ↩

Today is Liberation Day in Holland.

Film: The Canadians Liberate Holland

Jan Korver

August 1944

Jan Korver (34) visits his brother Piet’s farm leaving him with an illegal newspaper.¹

On or around the 14^th of August 1944

Dirk ‘van Straten’², Jan’s brother-in-law mentions the possession of said paper to his Landwacht ³ groupleader Van Gastel. ¹

August 19^th 1944

The house of Jan and Trijntje Korver is raided by the Landwacht and some illegal papers are confiscated. Jan is arrested and brought to the Edam policeoffice. ¹

August 20^th 1944

Jan and Willem van Zuijlen, a fellow prisoner, are brought to the offices of the Sicherheitsdienst in Amsterdam where they are interrogated.

September 4^th 1944

The mayor of Edam goes to the offices of the Sicherheitsdienst in Amsterdam in an attempt to get both men out of prison. He only manages to get Willem van Zuijlen out. ¹

September 11^th 1944

Jan is moved to ‘Kamp Amersfoort. During which time he manages to send two letters to his wife Trijntje and daughter Maartje. ¹

October 11^th-11^th 1944

Transport to Neuengamme Concentrationcamp ¹

October 16^th 1944

Jan is moved to Kamp Spaldingstrasse in Hamburg.

November 22^nd 1944

At two o’clock in the afternoon Jan dies of enteritis in St. Georgsburg, 158 Spaldingstrasse, Hamburg. ^{1 4 5}]

November 27^th 1944

Burial at Ohlsdorf Cemetery in Hamburg. ¹

September 24^th 1945

Jan’s wife Trijntje receives news from the Red Cross about the death of her husband. ¹

May 1948

Jan’s brother-in-law Dirk ‘van Straten’ ² is sentenced to six years in prison, after initially being sentenced to ten years on July 10th 1947 for his part in the betrayal. ¹

November 23^rd 1951

Reburial of Jan Korver at the cemetery in Edam. ¹

Sources

1. 1. Besseling, Erik. Een Feit Van Niets, over De Oorlog in Edam. Edam: Uitgeverij De Stad, 2008. Print. ↩
2. 2. As per the wishes of the family, a pseudonym is used. ↩
3. 3. The Landwacht was a Dutch paramilitary organisation founded by the Germans november 1943. It must not be confused with the military volunteercorps ‘Landwacht Nederland’ founded in March 1943 and renamed Landstorm Nederland in October 1943. ↩
4. 4. “Erelijst Van Gevallenen 1940 – 1945.” Erelijst Van Gevallenen 1940-1945. Nederlands Instituut Voor Oorlogsdocumentatie. Web. 03 May 2012. (http://www.erelijst.nl). ↩
5. 5. Het Grafstenen project Noord-Holland, Edam, Algemene Begraafplaats 0318 ↩