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- From Records of St. Oedenrode. (Dec, 2002) Jacobus left St. Oedenrode on August 8, 1891 for Boxtel, a nearby city. His professions are mentioned as journeyman baker.
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Bay City Directory.
1893-4 Reintjes, Jacob, baker, F. J. Ackermann, bds 920 N. Water
1894 Reintjes, Jacques, baker, res 622 Jefferson
1899-1900 Reintjes, Jacques, painter, M. Lamont, res 504 14th
1901-2 Reintjes, Jacques, painter, res 1614 3rd
1907 Reintjes, Jacob H., painter, res 1734 McKinley
1908 Reintjes, Jacob H., painter, res 1734 McKinley
1909 Koch & Reintjes (Henry G. Koch, Jacob H. Reintjes), Exterior and Interior Decorators and Hardwood Finishers, Painting, Sign Writing, Papering, Enameling and Frescoing, 704 Adams, Mich Tel 906J, (see left bottom lines).
1913 Reintjes, Jacob H. (Koch & Reintjes), rms YMCA
1914 Koch, Henry G, Interior Decorator adn Fresco Painter, 704 Adams, Mich Tel 906-J, res 913 Pendleton, Mich Tel 1085-J
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Bay County Clerk records, 1902, File number 3370.
Elizabeth Reintjes, plaintiff, filed for divorce from Jacques H. Reintjes, defendant, but there was no final order for divorce. It was dropped.
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Bay County Clerk records, July 19, 1912, Number 5262.
Jacques Reintjes, plaintiff, was granted a divorce from Elizabeth Reintjes, defendant. The court agreed that she had been guilty of several acts of cruelty. The child was placed in the care of Elizabeth, and Joseph had to pay $10.00 per month in child support plus provide suitable clothing.
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Application for Citizenship:
Jacob, "Jacques Henry Rientjes," declared his intention on June 20, 1912. He said he was 34 years old, but he was born in September of 1875, according to his birth certificate in Holland. Thus he was almost 37. He was described as dark complexion, 140 pounds, black hair, blue eyes. He ahd a scar on his forehead above the right eye. He said he was born in St Oedenrode, Norht Brabant, Netherlands on September 22, 1876. He was living at 704 Adams Street, Bay City. He emigrated from Rotterdam on the ship "Zaamdam". He last resided in S'Hertogenbosch. He arrived in New York City on October, 15, 1893.
Declaration number 331, Bay County, MI.
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Information from Jean Mepham, December, 2000
Jacobus Hendrikus Reintjes was my late husband's grandfather. He arrived in Michigan, Bay City, to be exact, when he was just 16.
(JLBW - If he was born in 1874, he arrived in Bay City in 1890.) I believe that his sister Mary was with him, but have no proof. We were told that he left Holland because of the transcription of young men to fight in the Boer War. Also, that he never was in touch with his mother again. So that leaves me to believe, of course that she was still alive when they left St. Oedenrode. Interesting, isn't it.
He married young, had two children, a girl and a son, ( who unfortunately drowned at around 7 years of age), and was divorced quite early in the marriage.
He then moved to Highland Park, Michigan, where he had a small "decorating" business. He had already re-married, by the way.
The daughter, Edna, was my husband's mother.
Jean Mepham
10041 Balfour
Allen Park, MI 48101-1225
JMEPHAM@aol.com
In email on 10Jan2001 Jean said:
His daughter Edna married when she was 16 and moved California with her husband. At the time of her marriage, her parents were aleady divorced. Jacob marred a woman amed Margaret Wilson, who had a 7 year old daughter named Katherine. Jean thought they married in Bay City. After that he moved ot Highland Park.
Jean also said that he lived in Highland Park from the early 1900's until his death in 1970.
He was known as Jacob or "Jake".
In email on 10Jan2001 Jean said:
Jacob and Kate just showed up at the door one day after we had been married about five years (thus about 1951), and actually had to introduce themselves. They'd looked up our names and came and found us. They became frequent visitors, but Tom never knew, nor did we ask why there was such a "distance" between Jacob adn his daughter, Edna, and the other children of the Mepham family. Although I surmised there was a lot of raw feelings between them and it wasn't a good subject.
In email on 18 April 2001 Jean said that "Jacob was buried from the Catholic Church, although whether that was his religion or his second wife's, I don't know. He was buried in the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery on March 25, 1970, and reinterred on May 5, 1970. His daughter, Edna, was of the Protestant faith." She said that Jacob and his sister, Mary, came to visit their father in Bay City, and they were teenagers then.
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December, 2002.
Jean Mepham in email told me that Kate Wilson, the daughter of his second wife, Margaret Wilson, was Jacob's third wife. She was living when he died in 1970. She said they married for "legal economic concerns."
December, 2003.
Jean said Jake and Kate were glad to be in touch. When they came to their door the first time, Margaret stayed in the back seat of the car. She was ill, and died shortly afterwards. Kate was a nurse, and worked in a hospital in Highland Park. She was seven years old when her mother married Jacob. Jean said Jacob married Kate so when he died she would inherit, not his daughter, Edna.
Jean said that Jacob, Kate and Margaret would go to Florida every year. They drove and it took about two weeks. They stayed in a tent and bought food from farmers along the way. Kate went to school in Florida. Jake lost his Florida property in Florida during the Depression.
Jean said that Jacob was very funny and liked to tease. He told them that in Holland he lived upstairs, in a house with animals below. He had no accent.
About his first marriage, Jean said Lizzie applied for the marriage license.
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Social Security Application No. 261-30-6290
Jacob Henry Reintjes (name given present employer)
Jacobus Henrecus Reintjes (name given at birth)
95 S.W. 30th Ave, Miami FL
64 age last birthday
22 Sept 1878 (date of birth) Holland North Brabant
Martin William Reintjes (father) Antonetta der Kinderen (mother)
A. Petri 9305 N E 9th Ave., Miami FL
10-6-42 (date signed)
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Death Certificate, Michigan Department of Public Health # 4309
Died at Crittenton Hospital, Detroit.
Occupation- Retired Decorator, Painting and decorating business
Wife, Katherine Wilson
Mailing address, 47 Church St. Highland Pk., MI 48203
Died of pnuemonia, with athersclesic cerbrovascular and cardiovascular disease and with diabetes
Cemetery records say he was buried on May 5, 1970.
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His birth certificate from Holland lists his birth date as September 18, 1875.
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1900 Census. Bay Co., MI, Bay City, Ward 2, page 274 - 276. Roll number 701
1614 Hampton St.
DOB age where born
Reintjes, Jacob Sept 1874 25 Holland citizenship al
Lizzie w Apr 1877 23 Mich
Edna M. d Mar 1896 4 Mich
Jacob H. s Sept 1897 2 Mich
This record says he emmigrated in 1893. They had been married five years. Her father was born in Ireland, her mother in Michigan.
He had emigrated in 1893, an was a housepainter, renting his house. He listed his date of birth as September 1874.
1910 Census. Bay Co., MI Bay City ED 40, family 384, page 16A (Ancesry Bay County, Other Townships, Ed 40 image 31 of 47)
District 405, Ward 3, Precinct 2. Between center of Sixth adn Eleventh Streest and east of Farragut.
1734 Mc Kinley Ave.
Reintjes, Jacob head m w 34 m1 15 Contractor Printing self
&Decorating employed
Lizzie wife f w 31 m1 15
Edna M. dau f w 14 s
He was listed as self and parents borh in "Gen German," He immigrated in 1891 and was naturalized He owned his house, and it was mortgaged. She had two children, one living. Her self and mother were born in Michigan, but her father was Canadian English.
1930 Census.
Highland Park, Wayne Co., MI April 10, 1930. Sheet 9, Enumeration 82-1002. Twenty-first district.
47 Church St.
Reintjes, Jacques H head 50
Margarite A. wife 50
Wilson, Kathern M. step-dau 19
They owned their house, with a value of $8,000. They did not have a radio. Margarite and her parents were born in English Canada. Kathern and her father were born in Michigan. Margarite was first married when she was 16, and Jacques when he was 20. He was a decorator in the interior, home industry.
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