The Nabers of Holland (Michigan)

Johannes & Anna

So today is the first time I helped someone at work (10 years!) who shared the same name as my mother's side of the family, Naber.  So I am going to share what I know or learned about the Naber's who immigrated to the USA.

It starts with two brothers (sorry - only 2 of them), Pieter & Johannes Naber.  They were the youngest two children of Jan Naber & Korneliske Vander Scheer who lived in Groningen.  On May 17, 1848 the two brothers and their families exited the Katherine Jackson in New York.

Pieter had 2 children with his first wife Trientje, who died in 1839.  Pieter married Katerijna and they had two more children before immigrating to America and additional 5 more children in Michigan.  The eldest child Korneliske and her younger siblings Johann, Jacobina, Pieter, and Meiske all had families of their own.  Jan and two unnamed siblings died in infancy.

Johannes & Anna (my ancestor's) are a little more complicated.  They actually were first cousins, which does seem strange but probably wasn't that uncommon at the time.  I THINK they might have lost a child on the voyage over and possible another child while still living in the Netherlands.  Five more children were born in Michigan.  The oldest one, Klaaske, I haven't been able to located a death date but she disappears young off the census records.  Cornelia died at age 11.  Alberdina died sometime around age 7.  Another Alberdina died at age 3.  They only had 1 child to survive to adult hood, Johannes who had six children before he died at the age of 49.