GED4WEB versie 4.44 Vercammen Desideria Francisca [Vrouwelijk] g. 15 Apr 1826 Rupelmonde, , , - o. 26 Aug 1859 Rupelmonde, , ,
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DATE 26 JUL 2020
TIME 01:01:14
ken naar Norway (USA, Dickinson County, in the Upper Peninsula of the state of Michigan.
Bron: E-mail-bijlage dd. 06.01.2010 van Dominique Van Rentergem:
Norway is situated in Dickinson County in the Upper Peninsula of the state of Michigan and was originated in 1877 as an iron ore mining town and incorporated as a city in 1891. It attracted many immigrants from Scandinavian countries, Belgium, England, France, and Italy. Most of the immigrants worked in the mines. However men were also needed to work in the woods, cutting timber for the mines, and also for the railroads, so that iron ore could be transported. Many of the Belgium people were store and saloon owners. One of them was an Isidoor Joossens (in the USA spelled as Jossens) born June 12, 1857 in Beveren (Vrasene) in the province East-Flanders. He migrated two years later than the family DeRoeck and opened a saloon in Norway, and
was a good friend of Josephine's parents. In 1892 Isidoor was the president of the Flemish Brotherhood of Norway and the nearby Vulcan. This club was formed so that the Belgian could get together and fraternize, and they also had a bicycle and a pigeon racing club: the Belgian Pigeon Club. They also came together to play music and to sing their Flemish songs.
Three hundred and one people lived in Norway in 1900 who were born in Belgium, and ten years later almost twice as many: 573. As most of them built their houses in the same part of Norway it resulted in a Belgian quarter and even a street was called Belgium Town Road. The majority of them had their origin in the Belgian province of East-Flanders. Today nearly all of their descendants left Norway and settled all over America. At present Norway has a population of about 3000 and around 160 of them are still of Belgian ancestry.
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DATE 26 JUL 2020
TIME 01:03:48
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DATE 26 JUL 2020
TIME 01:01:14
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