PARENTS: Jan Arie and Maria (Verrijp) Steenbergen, married 16 Apr 1835 in Maasdam, Binnenmaas, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.
SIBLINGS: Arie (1836, Strijen, NL-1922, Cook Co., IL), Jan/John L (1837, Strijen, NL-1923, Chicago, IL), Neeltje/Nellie (1839, Strijen, NL-bef. 1867, Cook Co., IL), Pieter/Peter (1847, Strijen, NL-1922, Chicago, IL). Additional siblings were born and died in the Netherlands before the family emigrated.
IMMIGRATION: Jan & Maria with their children Jan, Bastian and Peter came to New York from Rotterdam on the "Mississippi of Demerara." They arrived on July 5, 1855. Jan was a farmer who considered himself 'well-to-do' and was seeking economic improvement & religious freedom. Their daughter Nellie immigrated with her husband Jan Lagestee on the same ship. Jan & Maria's son Arie, accompanied by his cousin Cornelius, son of Adriaanus Steenbergen & Anna Dolk, arrived in 1854 on the ship 'Progress'. Cornelius died enroute.
OCCUPATION: Jan bought 231 1/2 acres in the bend of the Calumet River and south of it (present southern boundary of Chicago) on Aug 11, 1855. Upon Jan's death the property was left to his widow, Maria, his 4 sons and 2 grandsons. (Grandsons are listed as Jacob & Arie Lagerstein--the name should be Lagestee.) This property was sold to the Pullman Railroad Car Company and became the Pullman Dairy Farm. The land has changed ownership several times since then & part of it is now forest preserve. It is said that Jan and Maria Steenbergen were buried on this land.
SIBLINGS: Arie (1836, Strijen, NL-1922, Cook Co., IL), Jan/John L (1837, Strijen, NL-1923, Chicago, IL), Neeltje/Nellie (1839, Strijen, NL-bef. 1867, Cook Co., IL), Pieter/Peter (1847, Strijen, NL-1922, Chicago, IL). Additional siblings were born and died in the Netherlands before the family emigrated.
IMMIGRATION: Jan & Maria with their children Jan, Bastian and Peter came to New York from Rotterdam on the "Mississippi of Demerara." They arrived on July 5, 1855. Jan was a farmer who considered himself 'well-to-do' and was seeking economic improvement & religious freedom. Their daughter Nellie immigrated with her husband Jan Lagestee on the same ship. Jan & Maria's son Arie, accompanied by his cousin Cornelius, son of Adriaanus Steenbergen & Anna Dolk, arrived in 1854 on the ship 'Progress'. Cornelius died enroute.
OCCUPATION: Jan bought 231 1/2 acres in the bend of the Calumet River and south of it (present southern boundary of Chicago) on Aug 11, 1855. Upon Jan's death the property was left to his widow, Maria, his 4 sons and 2 grandsons. (Grandsons are listed as Jacob & Arie Lagerstein--the name should be Lagestee.) This property was sold to the Pullman Railroad Car Company and became the Pullman Dairy Farm. The land has changed ownership several times since then & part of it is now forest preserve. It is said that Jan and Maria Steenbergen were buried on this land.
PARENTS: Jan Arie and Maria (Verrijp) Steenbergen, married 16 Apr 1835 in Maasdam, Binnenmaas, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.
SIBLINGS: Arie (1836, Strijen, NL-1922, Cook Co., IL), Jan/John L (1837, Strijen, NL-1923, Chicago, IL), Neeltje/Nellie (1839, Strijen, NL-bef. 1867, Cook Co., IL), Pieter/Peter (1847, Strijen, NL-1922, Chicago, IL). Additional siblings were born and died in the Netherlands before the family emigrated.
IMMIGRATION: Jan & Maria with their children Jan, Bastian and Peter came to New York from Rotterdam on the "Mississippi of Demerara." They arrived on July 5, 1855. Jan was a farmer who considered himself 'well-to-do' and was seeking economic improvement & religious freedom. Their daughter Nellie immigrated with her husband Jan Lagestee on the same ship. Jan & Maria's son Arie, accompanied by his cousin Cornelius, son of Adriaanus Steenbergen & Anna Dolk, arrived in 1854 on the ship 'Progress'. Cornelius died enroute.
OCCUPATION: Jan bought 231 1/2 acres in the bend of the Calumet River and south of it (present southern boundary of Chicago) on Aug 11, 1855. Upon Jan's death the property was left to his widow, Maria, his 4 sons and 2 grandsons. (Grandsons are listed as Jacob & Arie Lagerstein--the name should be Lagestee.) This property was sold to the Pullman Railroad Car Company and became the Pullman Dairy Farm. The land has changed ownership several times since then & part of it is now forest preserve. It is said that Jan and Maria Steenbergen were buried on this land.
SIBLINGS: Arie (1836, Strijen, NL-1922, Cook Co., IL), Jan/John L (1837, Strijen, NL-1923, Chicago, IL), Neeltje/Nellie (1839, Strijen, NL-bef. 1867, Cook Co., IL), Pieter/Peter (1847, Strijen, NL-1922, Chicago, IL). Additional siblings were born and died in the Netherlands before the family emigrated.
IMMIGRATION: Jan & Maria with their children Jan, Bastian and Peter came to New York from Rotterdam on the "Mississippi of Demerara." They arrived on July 5, 1855. Jan was a farmer who considered himself 'well-to-do' and was seeking economic improvement & religious freedom. Their daughter Nellie immigrated with her husband Jan Lagestee on the same ship. Jan & Maria's son Arie, accompanied by his cousin Cornelius, son of Adriaanus Steenbergen & Anna Dolk, arrived in 1854 on the ship 'Progress'. Cornelius died enroute.
OCCUPATION: Jan bought 231 1/2 acres in the bend of the Calumet River and south of it (present southern boundary of Chicago) on Aug 11, 1855. Upon Jan's death the property was left to his widow, Maria, his 4 sons and 2 grandsons. (Grandsons are listed as Jacob & Arie Lagerstein--the name should be Lagestee.) This property was sold to the Pullman Railroad Car Company and became the Pullman Dairy Farm. The land has changed ownership several times since then & part of it is now forest preserve. It is said that Jan and Maria Steenbergen were buried on this land.
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