Mulder, Jannetje “Jane” (Mrs. Jacob), 1839-1889

MULDER, BRONKHORST, KAMPER

Posted By: Lydia Lucas - Volunteer (email)
Date: 6/13/2021 at 20:33:34

From the Sioux County Herald, April 11, 1889:

Mrs. Jonke Mulder of West Branch, died a few days since of eresypelas [erysipelas, a bacterial skin infection]. Her husband and daughter are both dangerously ill with the same disease.

[A note on her death in De Volksvriend, April 11, 1889, gives basically the same information, giving her death day as the previous Wednesday (April 3) and her husband’s name as Jacob.]

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RESEARCH NOTES

Her FindaGrave.com page has her as Jannetje Bronkhorst Mulder, born 13 Dec 1839 in Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Netherlands; died April 1889 at Sioux Center, Iowa; buried in Memory Gardens Sioux Center Cemetery. It gives her husband as Jacob Mulder, 1838-1922 (married 1867) and lists four children: Della Mulder Kuhl (1868-1909), Dirkje Mulder (1868-1909), Henry Mulder (1875-1956), and Alice Mulder Mastbergen (1877-1937). (Della “Dirkje” Mulder Kuhl and Dirkje Mulder appear to be the same person.)

WieWas Wie.nl has a birth index entry for Jannetje Brinkhorst, born 17 November 1839 in Apeldoorn, parents Jan Berends Brinkhorst and Aaltje Gerrits Kampen. It also has a marriage index entry for groom Jacob Mulder, a farmhand, age 29, parents Jan Mulder, a day-laborer, and Dirkje Kamphuis; bride Jannetje Bronkhorst, age 27, parents Jan Berends Bronkhorst and Aaltje Gerrets Kamper; married 26 October 1867 in Apeldoorn, Gelderland.

Birth and marriage index records for her children all give her maiden name as Bronkhorst.

The 1880 U.S. census shows the Mulder family living in Alto, Wisconsin: Jacob, age 42, a farm laborer, born in Holland; wife Jane (41), born in Holland; daughter Della (12), born in Holland; son John (8), born in Michigan; and Henry (4), Aaltjen (3), and Jacob Jr. (1), all born in Wisconsin.