1Robert E. Strong, Jr., Our Bowers and Anderson Ancestors, http://azstrong.tripod.com/jd_letha/. Sources need verification (2008)
1 Family Records of Richard Lawrence Fuller (http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/u/l/Richard-L-Fuller/index.html). Richard descends through Samuel Fuller, the son of John Fuller (III) and his second wife, Sarah Gott.
2 Kay Fuller Mitchell, Early Southern Fullers (The Southern Historical Press, Inc., Greenville, SC, 2nd Ed., 2003), Page 55. Kay's book provides rich detail, including sources, about this Fuller family, both in Maryland and in North Carolina. For anyone interested in learning more about this Fuller family, this is a must-have book. Note that Kay credits Rich and Pat Fuller of Baltimore for providing many of the sources for the information about the Fullers while in Baltimore County, Maryland. The primary sources in that regard are Baltimore County Families, 1659-1759 by Robert W. Barnes and St. John's and St. George's Parish Registers, 1696-1851 by Henry C. Peden, Jr.2findagrave.com. "Hendrick Enloes
BIRTH 1632
Netherlands
DEATH May 1708 (aged 75–76)
Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
BURIAL Burial Details Unknown
MEMORIAL ID 195298252 · View Source
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PHOTOS 0
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This memorial has been created to present the correct origins for Hendrick Enloes (or Enloos) and to assist in debunking the long-standing rumor circulating on the internet that his parents were Joris Kindlosson and Fijtgen Hendricks (var. spellings).
For more accurate information concerning the Enloos (Enloes) family see the blog by Jana Shea: https://axehandles.wordpress.com/2016/11/17/myth-buster-a-close-examination-of-the-enloes-family
Hendrick was born about 1632 in Duisburg, Hertogdom Kleef, Verenigde Provinciën, the son of
Father: Antonij Enloos, born about 1590 in Velbert, Vereinigte Herzogtümer Jülich-Kleve-Berg, Heiliges Römischen Reiches. Died before 1656 in Amsterdam, Holland, Verenigde Provinciën.
Mother: Gritie Livens, born circa 1600, likely in Vereinigte Herzogtümer Jülich-Kleve-Berg, Heiliges Römischen Reiches (now Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany), though her exact origins are unknown. Died before 1656 in Amsterdam, Holland, Verenigde Provinciën
Although many trees on ancestry.com show his wife as Christian "Wright", there is no reliable documentation to support this fact. Christian Wright was his granddaughter named in his will and child of Hendrick's daughter Hester who married 1st John Fuller; married 2nd John Peters; and married 3rd William Wright. This may be the source of the mistake that appears in "US/International Marriage Records". Since much of the info in this database is user-submitted, the source contains many errors. A separate US/Intl Marriage Record shows her name only as "Kristen".
Hendrick most likely married Christian about 1658 in Nieuw Amstel, in what is now New Castle, Delaware. In 1658 that area was under control of the Dutch provinces and was not a part of the British colonies.
Hendrick was the father of
1. Henry Enloes (preceded him in death, without issue) 1666-1703
2. John Enloes (preceded him in death, with issue) 1668-1703
3. Hester Enloes (married 1.Fuller, 2. Peters, 3.Wright) 1670-1720
4. Margaret Enloes (married Galloway) 1672-1720
5. Abraham Enloes Sr. 1678-1709
Various spellings of his name appear in a myriad of documents. The name shown most often in North American was Enloes or Inloes. For example:
1692 and 1695 Tax Lists for South Side Gunpowder Hundred show his name as HENRICK INLOES.
Transcriptions of his naturalization application show: Henry Inloeas; Henry Enloes; and Henry Inloes.
"Baltimore County Families 1659-1759" by Robert Barnes, shows Hendrick Enloes.
His name is spelled 3 different ways in a 1679 document conveying property to John Boaring.
His children/grandchildren last name has appeared as Enlowes.
Family Members
Spouse
Christiana Enloes
1640–1710."3Ancestry Library Edition, AncestryLibrary.com, AncestryLibrary.com. Must be at a library to access.
https://search-ancestrylibrary-com.access-proxy.sno-isle.org/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=60901&h=812138039&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true#?_phcmd=u('https://www-ancestrylibrary-com.access-proxy.sno-isle.org/search/?name%3DSam_Erickson%26death%3D1994_british%2Bcolumbia-canada_5002%26successSource%3DSearch%26queryId%3D4f9256d6e3deb2c2984b016aea528b8a','successSource'). "Hendrick Enloes
in the Maryland, U.S., Calendar of Wills, 1635-1743
Maryland, U.S., Calendar of Wills, 1635-1743No Image
Text-only collection
Name: Hendrick Enloes
[Hendrick Enlous]
Will Date: 10 Dec 1707
Will Place: Baltimore, Maryland, British America
Probate Date: 18 May 1708
Death Year: Abt 1708
Text: Enloes (Enlous). Hendrick,Balto. Co.,10th Dec., 1707; 18th May, 1708. To son Abraham and hrs., 100 A., “The Treangell,” 100 A., “Dutch Neck” and 30 A., “Enloe's Meadow.” To hrs. of son John, to daus. Hester and Margarett, 1 shilling each. To Henry Galma and Christian Wright, personalty. To wife Christian, dower rights. Son Abraham, ex. and residuary legatee of estate at decease of wife. Test: Charles Smith, Patrick Wheland, Dorothy Giford, Francis Dallahide. 12. 312.
Original Source Name: Land Office
Original Source Location: Annapolis, Maryland, USA
Original Source Series: Will books
Original Source Book: 12
Original Source Page: 312
Source Citation
Volume: III, Wills from 1703 to 1713
Source Information
Ancestry.com. Maryland, U.S., Calendar of Wills, 1635-1743 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1998.
Original data: Cotton, Jane Baldwin. Maryland Calendar of Wills. Vol. I-VIII. Baltimore, MD, USA: Kohn & Pollock, Inc., 1904-1928.
Description
Wills of Maryland residents from 1635-1743. Search this database if your ancestors were among the many who settled in Maryland. Learn more...
Suggested Records
Global, Find a Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current
Hendricks Kindloson Enloe
U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
Hendricks Enloes."
1Robert E. Strong, Jr., Our Bowers and Anderson Ancestors, http://azstrong.tripod.com/jd_letha/. Sources need verification (2008)
1 Family Records of Richard Lawrence Fuller (http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/u/l/Richard-L-Fuller/index.html). Richard descends through Samuel Fuller, the son of John Fuller (III) and his second wife, Sarah Gott.
2 Kay Fuller Mitchell, Early Southern Fullers (The Southern Historical Press, Inc., Greenville, SC, 2nd Ed., 2003), Page 55. Kay's book provides rich detail, including sources, about this Fuller family, both in Maryland and in North Carolina. For anyone interested in learning more about this Fuller family, this is a must-have book. Note that Kay credits Rich and Pat Fuller of Baltimore for providing many of the sources for the information about the Fullers while in Baltimore County, Maryland. The primary sources in that regard are Baltimore County Families, 1659-1759 by Robert W. Barnes and St. John's and St. George's Parish Registers, 1696-1851 by Henry C. Peden, Jr. "Christiana 1 2
Spouses/Children:
Hendrick ENLOES
• Marriage: Hendrick ENLOES • Hester ENLOES+ Research Notes:
Although Christiana's maiden name is identified as Wright by Kay Fuller Mitchell in her book, there seems to be no evidence to that effect. While it is true that a Christiana Wright is named in the will of her husband, Hendrick Enloes, this was their daughter Hester's child by her third husband. 3
Christiana married Hendrick ENLOES. (Hendrick ENLOES was born in 1632 in Amsterdam, Norde Holland, Netherlands 1 2 and died in 1708 in Baltimore County, Maryland 1 2.)
Sources
1 Family Records of Richard Lawrence Fuller (http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/u/l/Richard- L-Fuller/index.html). Richard descends through Samuel Fuller, the son of John Fuller (III) and his second wife, Sarah Gott.
2 Kay Fuller Mitchell, Early Southern Fullers (The Southern Historical Press, Inc., Greenville, SC, 2nd Ed., 2003), Page 54. Kay's book provides rich detail, including sources, about this Fuller family, both in Maryland and in North Carolina. For anyone interested in learning more about this Fuller family, this is a must-have book. Note that Kay credits Rich and Pat Fuller of Baltimore for providing many of the sources for the information about the Fullers while in Baltimore County, Maryland. The primary sources in that regard are Baltimore County Families, 1659-1759 by Robert W. Barnes and St. John's and St. George's Parish Registers, 1696-1851 by Henry C. Peden, Jr.
3 Ronald A. Cofiell, "Hester Enloes of Baltimore County, Maryland, Daughter of Hendrick (Henry) and Christiana Enloes; and The Identity of Her Three Husbands" (Unpublished memorandum, 5 May 2006, San Francisco, CA).
http://azstrong.tripod.com/jd_letha/legacy/2038.htm."2findagrave.com. "Christiana Enloes
BIRTH 1640
Netherlands
DEATH 1710 (aged 69–70)
Maryland, Liberia
BURIAL Burial Details Unknown
MEMORIAL ID 195309630 · View Source
MEMORIAL
PHOTOS 0
FLOWERS 0
Born about 1640 in The Netherlands [uncertain]
Died about 1710 in Gunpowder Hundred, Baltimore County, Province of Maryland
Wife of Hendrick (Enloos) Enloes — married about 1658 in Nieuw Amstel, Delaware, Verenigde Provinciën [uncertain]
Mother of Hester Enloes Wright, Margaret Enloes Galloway, Henry Enloes, Abraham Enloe Sr. and John Enloes.
The above info was taken from:
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Unknown-341240
Sons Henry and John preceded her in death.
Family Members
Spouse
Hendrick Enloes
1632–1708."3Robert E. Strong, Jr., Our Bowers and Anderson Ancestors.
1Hoye, Charles E., The Hoyes of Maryland.
1Hoye, Charles E., The Hoyes of Maryland.
1Hoye, Charles E., The Hoyes of Maryland.
1Robert E. Strong, Jr., Our Bowers and Anderson Ancestors, http://azstrong.tripod.com/jd_letha/. Sources need verification (2008)
1 Family Records of Richard Lawrence Fuller (http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/u/l/Richard-L-Fuller/index.html). Richard descends through Samuel Fuller, the son of John Fuller (III) and his second wife, Sarah Gott.
2 Kay Fuller Mitchell, Early Southern Fullers (The Southern Historical Press, Inc., Greenville, SC, 2nd Ed., 2003), Page 55. Kay's book provides rich detail, including sources, about this Fuller family, both in Maryland and in North Carolina. For anyone interested in learning more about this Fuller family, this is a must-have book. Note that Kay credits Rich and Pat Fuller of Baltimore for providing many of the sources for the information about the Fullers while in Baltimore County, Maryland. The primary sources in that regard are Baltimore County Families, 1659-1759 by Robert W. Barnes and St. John's and St. George's Parish Registers, 1696-1851 by Henry C. Peden, Jr. "John FULLER (I) 1 2
Spouses/Children:
Hester ENLOES
• Born: 1650 1 2 • Marriage: Hester ENLOES in 1680 in Baltimore County, Maryland 1 2 3
• John FULLER (II)+ • Died: Bef 6 Mar 1700/01, Baltimore County, Maryland 1 2 3 4
• Henry FULLER General Notes:
Although for convenience I've identified the line of John Fullers in America as I -IV, it's possible that John I was really John II. The issue is whether the John Fuller, who on 11 Jan 1655 surveyed 100 acres in Baltimore County, Maryland, which became known as Fuller's Outlet, and the John Fuller, who with his wife Hester in 1688 sold 100 acres in Fuller's Outlet, are one and the same person or father and son. See below.
From Baltimore County Families, 1659 -1759, by Robert W. Barnes:
"FULLER, JOHN (1), possibly the progenitor, was in Balto. Co. by 11 Jan. 1655 when he surv. 100a. known as Fuller's Outlet; may be identical to or may be the father of: JOHN (see below) [see book for sources]."
"FULLER, JOHN (2), poss. s. of John (1) above, or else identical to hom, was in Balto. Co. by 1682 when Hendrick Enlows conv. to him 100 a. Swallow Fork; in Feb. 1687 surv. 148 a. Buck Range (later held by John Anderson); in 1687 he and his w. conv. 100 a. Swallow Fork back to Henry Enlows; in 1688 purch 16
a. The Falls from Michael Judd and wife; in 1688 Fuller and w. conv. 100 a. Fuller's Outlet to Robert Benger; by 1692 was a taxable in n. side Gunpowder; purch. 70 a. Hap Hazard from John Bevan and w. in 1693 and purch. 200 a. Windley's Rest from John Taylor in 1695; d. by 6 March 1700 when his est. was inv. by Francis Dallahide and William Wright and was val. at L 25.10.0; in March 1700 wid. Hester Fuller conv. cattle and furniture to her sons John and Henry; she m. as her 2nd husb., by Oct. 1701, John Peters, who made his wife Hester and his son-in-law [stepson] John Fuller his atty.; in Oct. 1701 John and Hester Peters and John Fuller and w. Sarah conv. Waterton's Neglect to William Peckett; had iss.: JOHN; and HENRY [see book for sources]." For another version of the various events and transactions involving John Fuller, the reader should consult Ronald A. Cofiell's memorandum reproduced in the Research Note for Hester Enloes. 2 4
Research Notes:
Both Richard Fuller and Ronald Cofiell raise the possibility of a third son: Thomas Fuller, 1686-1725, per Richard; and Stephen Fuller, born about 1685, per Ronald. They may talking about the same person. Pending further investigation, I have decided not to list any other children. 1 3
Death Notes:
The inventory of his estate was per Robert Barnes filed on 6 Mar 1700, which, being a date falling between 1 Jan and 24 Mar and being a date prior to the calendar changes of 1752, is by genealogical convention double dated as 6 Mar 1700/01. Thus, under the Old Style dating sytem he had died by 6 Mar 1700, or near the end of the year, which was 24 Mar 1700. Under the New Style dating system he would be considered to have died by 6 Mar 1701, since the new year began 1 Jan rather than 25 Mar. Note, however, that Ronald Cofiell cites a source for the date of the inventory as 6 Mar 1699, which if it was recorded in the Old Style format would make the double date 6 Mar 1699/00. But, that would mean Robert Barnes provided the date in the New Style format. Query.
John married Hester ENLOES, daughter of Hendrick ENLOES and Christiana, in 1680 in Baltimore County, Maryland.1 2 3 (Hester ENLOES died by 5 Sep 1714 in Baltimore County, Maryland 5.)
Marriage Notes:
There is no record of the exact date of their marriage. Ronald Cofiell notes that they were no doubt married by 1682, for that is the estimated year of the birth of John Fuller (II) and also the year that Hendrick Enloes conveyed "The Swallow Fork" to John Fuller (I). 3
Sources
1 Family Records of Richard Lawrence Fuller (http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/u/l/Richard-L-Fuller/index.html). Richard descends through Samuel Fuller, the son of John Fuller (III) and his second wife, Sarah Gott.
2 Kay Fuller Mitchell, Early Southern Fullers (The Southern Historical Press, Inc., Greenville, SC, 2nd Ed., 2003), Page 54. Kay's book provides rich detail, including sources, about this Fuller family, both in Maryland and in North Carolina. For anyone interested in learning more about this Fuller family, this is a must-have book. Note that Kay credits Rich and Pat Fuller of Baltimore for providing many of the sources for the information about the Fullers while in Baltimore County, Maryland. The primary sources in that regard are Baltimore County Families, 1659-1759 by Robert W. Barnes and St. John's and St. George's Parish Registers, 1696-1851 by Henry C. Peden, Jr.
3 Ronald A. Cofiell, "Hester Enloes of Baltimore County, Maryland, Daughter of Hendrick (Henry) and Christiana Enloes; and The Identity of Her Three Husbands" (Unpublished memorandum, 5 May 2006, San Francisco, CA).
4 Robert W. Barnes, Baltimore County Families, 1659-1759, (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1989), FHL Call No. 975.271 D2b, Page 233.
5 Ronald A. Cofiell, "Hester Enloes of Baltimore County, Maryland, Daughter of Hendrick (Henry) and Christiana Enloes; and The Identity of Her Three Husbands" (Unpublished memorandum, 5 May 2006, San Francisco, CA). This is the date her third husband, William Wright, married Juliana Benbow.
http://azstrong.tripod.com/jd_letha/legacy/2035.htm."2Robert E. Strong, Jr., Our Bowers and Anderson Ancestors.
1Robert E. Strong, Jr., Our Bowers and Anderson Ancestors, http://azstrong.tripod.com/jd_letha/. Sources need verification (2008)
1 Family Records of Richard Lawrence Fuller (http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/u/l/Richard-L-Fuller/index.html). Richard descends through Samuel Fuller, the son of John Fuller (III) and his second wife, Sarah Gott.
2 Kay Fuller Mitchell, Early Southern Fullers (The Southern Historical Press, Inc., Greenville, SC, 2nd Ed., 2003), Page 55. Kay's book provides rich detail, including sources, about this Fuller family, both in Maryland and in North Carolina. For anyone interested in learning more about this Fuller family, this is a must-have book. Note that Kay credits Rich and Pat Fuller of Baltimore for providing many of the sources for the information about the Fullers while in Baltimore County, Maryland. The primary sources in that regard are Baltimore County Families, 1659-1759 by Robert W. Barnes and St. John's and St. George's Parish Registers, 1696-1851 by Henry C. Peden, Jr. "Hester ENLOES 1 2 3
Spouses/Children:
John FULLER (I)
• Marriage: John FULLER (I) in 1680 in Baltimore County, Maryland 1 2 3 • Died: by 5 Sep 1714, Baltimore County, Maryland 4
• John FULLER (II)+ HenryFULLER Research Notes:
[Reproduced below with the permission of Ronald A. Cofiell is his unpublished memorandum detailing all the various events and transactions involving Hester Enloes and her three husbands: (1) John Fuller (I); (2) John Peters; and (3) William Wright. While not an Enloe descendant himself, Ron nonetheless became interested in the Enloes as part of his effort to ascertain the maiden name of Elizabeth, widow of Hester's brother, Abraham Enloes. Ron is descended from Elizabeth's second husband, John Ensor, and John Ensor's first wife, Jane, widow of John Maynard. This in-depth memorandum is a testament to his interest in the many connections between the early families of Baltimore Co.]
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Hester Enloes of Baltimore County, Maryland, Daughter of Hendrick (Henry) and Christiana Enloes; and The Identity of Her Three Husbands
By: Ronald A. Cofiell (cofiellra@aol.com) 934 Quintara Street San Francisco, California 94116-1265
Revised 5 May 2006
Hester Enloes of Baltimore County, Maryland, daughter of Hendrick and Christiana, probably was born by 1665-1667, based on the birth of her son John Fuller, Jr. about 1682-1683 and her marriage about 1681- 1683. Hester apparently married three times as described below.
This writer believes that Hester married (1) John Fuller by 28 August 1682, when Hendrick Inloes [her father] of Middle River conveyed "The Swallow Fork" to him ("Baltimore County Land Records of 1682," by Louis Dow Scisco, Maryland Historical Magazine, Vol. 31, 1936, as reprinted in 1995). That date corresponds to the estimated year of birth of Hester's first child (John Fuller, Jr.). On 19 July 1687 John Fuller of Middle River conveyed "The Swallow Forke" to Henry Enloes, Jr. [her brother]; the bond of the same date obligating John Fuller, innholder, for tobacco as security was witnessed by Hendricke Enloes [her father] (Baltimore County Land Records 1665-1687, p. 93, reprinted from MHM). In August Court 1687 John's wife "Easter" [Esther according to another source] consented (ibid.). (Both instruments were witnessed by Andrew Andersone, who purchased land from Lewis Barton in 1709. Hester's sister-in-law Elizabeth, widow of Abraham Enloes, and Elizabeth's husband John Ensor signed the inventory of Barton's estate as the approvers in November 1716.)
On 20 May 1688 Fuller and wife Easter conveyed "Fuller's Outlet" to Robert Benger ("Baltimore County Land Records 1687-1699," abstracted by Richard B. Miller, Ph.D., Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin, Vol. 28, no. 4, Fall 1987, p. 373). That was less than a year after Fuller had patented that tract (Land Office: Patent Record, Book IB &IL#C, pp. 304, 305, Maryland State Archives). (In November 1691 Benger and wife conveyed it to William Wright, Hester's future husband. Fuller and wife Hester guaranteed the sale.) In November 1688 John Fuller, planter of Gunpowder River, assigned to his son John Fuller one heifer; the conveyance was a deed of gift (Baltimore County Land Records 1665-1687, p. 93). (The year of that deed was not in error; there were four papers dated after 1687 that "were interpolated in the sequence at later dates.") On 1 March 1692 [1692/93?] John Fuller and wife Hester conveyed two tracts of land to Thomas Heath (Baltimore County, Maryland Deed Abstracts, by Robert Barnes, Westminster, Maryland: Family Line Publications, 1996, p. 217). On 6 March 1693/94 Fuller and wife Hester conveyed land to Edward Jones (Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin, Fall 1987, p. 382). On 8 November 1695 Fuller's wife Hester conveyed land to Thomas Heath, being the same land ... which was conveyed on 5 June 1695 by John Taylor to Fuller (ibid., pp. 385, 386).
Some researchers have stated that John Fuller died in 1699, which might be true. John Fuller, Senr. and John Fuller, Junr. were in the 1699 tax list for the North Side of Gunpowder Hundred of Baltimore County, but the specific date that list was compiled is unknown. In the Baltimore County Allowances of November 1699, "John Fuller" was allowed 200 pounds of tobacco for "one Wovles [sic] Head English [as opposed to Indian] Killing" (Baltimore County Tax List 1699-1706, by William N. Wilkins, Baltimore, 1950, p. 11; booklet available at Maryland Historical Society under call # MF137.B2W6). It may have been John Fuller, Jr. who was granted the allowance, with the appellation of "Jr." not needed if the father was then dead. (That possibility is somewhat reinforced by the son, as "John Fuller," being granted another allowance for one wolfe's head 2 years later.) In the original book, the pages listing the allowances immediately follow the pages listing the taxables. In any event, John Fuller [Sr.] died by 6 March 1700 [1699/1700], when the inventory of his estate was filed (PREROGATIVE COURT (Inventories and Accounts) Book 11B, pp. 15- 17, Maryland State Archives citation). The appraisers were named as Francis Dallalude [Dallahide] and William "Right" (Abstracts of the Inventories and Accounts of the Prerogative Court of Maryland 1685- 1701, by V.L. Skinner, Jr., Family Line Publications, 1992, p. 75, showing the date of 6 March 1699 recorded as Old Style format as explained on p. iv). Moreover, on 24 March 1700 [probably 1699/1700] Hester Fuller, widow, conveyed personal property to her son John, and live stock to her son Henry "who is not yet 18" ("Baltimore County Land Records 1700-1713," abstracted by Dr. Miller in his continuing series, Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin, Vol. 29, no. 2, Spring 1988, p. 154). (That document implies that John was the elder son and was then at least age 18; moreover, it discounts as another son Stephen Fuller, who was born about 1685 and who was first shown as a taxable in 1701, in the North Side of Patapsco Hundred.) The 1700 tax list for the North Side of Gunpowder Hundred showed: "At ye Widdow Ffullers" John Fuller and John Peters [names listed immediately below hers, followed by three other names at the end of the tax list] (Baltimore County, Maryland, Tax List, 1699-1706, by Raymond B. Clark, Jr. and Sara Seth Clark, Washington, D.C., 1964, p. 9). (An examination of the 1700 tax list transcribed by Wilkins in 1950 might verify that Fuller and Peters were living at the Widow Fuller's residence. In lists for other years, Wilkins consistently indented to indicate the taxables living in the same household or on the same property.) At the October Court, 1700, Jno. Fuller's estate was appraised by Francis Delahyde and Wm. Right. The name Hester Fuller appears in the inventory of John Wright, planter, who died by December 1701.
Hester (Enloes) Fuller married (2) John Peters probably after the 1700 tax list was compiled, and by the date of the 1701 list (same hundred) when her name was not listed but those of John Fuller [her son] and Peters were (names not next to each other). She married Peters by 20 October 1701 when they and John Fuller [her son] and his wife Sarah [daughter of Thomas Heath?] conveyed land to Wm. Peckett. (Pickett died in June or July 1710, at which time he was owed 678 pounds of tobacco by John Ensor, then husband of the widow of Hester's brother Abraham.) Also in October 1701, John Peters gave power of attorney to his wife Hester Peters and his son-in-law [i.e., stepson] John Fuller (Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin, Spring 1988,
p. 158). In the 1702 tax list (same hundred), Peters' name appears above that of Fuller [his stepson]. (Also in 1702, John Fuller was allowed 200 pounds of tobacco for one wolf's head.) Peters died by the 1703 tax list, which continued to list the name of John Fuller [Jr.] in the same hundred. Meanwhile, Wm. Wright was residing in South Side of Gunpowder Hundred, where John Fuller [Jr.] was residing by the 1704 tax list. Fuller may have moved there with his mother upon her remarriage; in those days widows soon remarried, and Hester and Wright most likely married by 1704 (or as early as 1703). Hester's children by Fuller [Sr.] were: John who was born about 1682 (if he was at least age 18 on 24 March 1699/1700) or 1683 (in 1699 tax list, North Side of Gunpowder, upon attainment of age 16); and Henry who was born about 1688 (in 1704 tax list, same hundred). John may have attained age 16 in 1698; however, the tax list for that year is not extant.
On 17 February 1704 [1704/5?] "Wright's Forrest" was surveyed for Wm. Wright on the south side of the Great Falls of Gunpowder River. (In 1724 William bequeathed that tract to his son Jacob, born about 1701 prior to William's marriage to Hester. William, Jr. was the eldest son and presumably was also a child by a prior wife.) Hester's child by Wright probably was Christian(a), who was born by 10 December 1707 when bequeathed "one cow calfe after shee com to the Eage of Fourteen years" in the will of Hendrick Enloes, Christiana's grandfather. (Although Hendrick named his daughter Hester "Enloes" rather than Hester Wright, he also named his other daughter Margtt "Enloes" rather than Margaret Durham who had by then married James Durham as her second husband. Hendrick bequeathed one yearling cow to Henry "Galluaa" who was Margaret's son by her first husband, William Galloway.) On 31 August 1709 Wm. Wright and Wm. Farfarr [who also had a daughter named Christiana] were sureties on bond of Elizabeth Enloes, extrx. of Abraham Enloes (Wright's brother-in-law). In September 1709 Wm. Wright signed the inventory of Abraham Enloes' estate.
Hester Wright was still alive in 1711 when she made oath in the will of Wm. Hawkins, Sr. (chart compiled c. 1976 by Bradleigh V./Mrs. John S. Slattery, citing Maryland Calendar of Wills 3:195). According to Baltimore County Families 1659-1759, page 313, he died by 18 July 1711 when administration bond was posted; one of the citations is Jane Baldwin Cotton's will abstracts, Volume III, page 195. According to Index to Baltimore County, Maryland, Wills by Raymond B. Clark, Jr., the will of William Hawkins, Sr. was a nuncupative one found in Baltimore County Wills, Liber 13, folio 215, and proven in 1711. According to
O.L. Hough's 1981 research, the nuncupative will was made on 25 March 1711 and proven on 22 June 1711. According to Harry A. Diehl, Hester died after 25 January 1711 (letter to this writer dated 16 December 1995). It appears that the will was made on 25 January 1710/11 or 25 March 1711; a review of both wills (Maryland Calendar of Wills 3:195; Baltimore County Wills 13:215) may be necessary in order to verify which date is correct. In any event, Hester Wright was one of three legatees in Hawkins' will, according to the administration account dated 1 August 1712 (Abstracts of the Inventories and Accounts of the Prerogative Court of Maryland 1711-1713, Family Line Publications, 1994, p. 37, citing Liber 33B, folio 8). The other legatees were Mary Athis [widow of John Athos who died by May 1692?] and Stephen White [his stepson]. Hester may have been alive on 7 May 1713 when Wm. Wright and James Durham [second husband of Hester's sister Margaret] were sureties on the bond of John Fuller [Jr.], administrator of Nicholas Herbert. Hester had died by 5 September 1714 when William Wright married Juliana Benbow. In June 1714 Hester's nephew, Henry Enloes, son of her late brother John, was bound to William Wright ("Children in Baltimore County, Maryland, Court Records, 1682-1721," by Robert W. Barnes, National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. 69, no. 4, December 1981, citing Baltimore County Court Proceedings, Vol. IS#B, p. 505). (On the same date, Henry's brother Abraham was bound at age 13 to Charles and Hannah Simmonds, whose first child George was born the following month. George's second wife was Elizabeth Fuller.) Wright appears to have been a neighbor of Henry's father in the 1699, 1700 and 1701 tax lists for the Middle River/South Side of Gunpowder Hundred. Henry presumably had inherited "Swallow Fork" from his father about 1702. It is interesting to note that Henry sold "Swallow Fork" a few months after William Wright died; at one time, that tract had been in the possession Hester's first husband.
Hester's daughter, Christiana Wright, married Jas. Ditto by 9 March 1723/24 when named as Christiana Ditto in her father's will. (However, some abstracts of that will show her name as Christiana Wright.) In the opinion of this writer, she was not the mother of James Ditto's son William (born c. 1712-1713 according to descendants), but she was the mother of James' son Abraham. (Note that Abraham was a prominent name in the Enloes family; Abraham Ensor who was born about 1728 may have been named after Hester's nephew, Abraham Enloes.) The latter son was baptized on 14 September 1718; St. John's Parish register shows "Abraham Ditto, son of Jeames Ditto" without identifying the mother. That may have been an oversight on the part of the parish scribe. If Abraham had been born (probably in 1718) prior to James' marriage to Hester, he most likely would have been given the surname of Wright and identified only as the son of Christiana Wright. (Although Abraham's Gunpowder Manor lease showed his age as 50 as of March 1767, many of those leases misstated ages by a year or more. Also, his wife Mary's age of 45 should have been shown as 44, based on this writer's belief that she was born on 21 January 1722/23, in St. John's Parish, the daughter of John Boyce and Elizabeth Jephs.)
James Ditto was born by 1684 (1700 tax list North Side of Gunpowder Hundred), and it is plausible that he had an earlier marriage by about 1712 when he was at least age 28. Christiana might have been born as early as 1703 based on two considerations: 1. Hester, her mother, might have been widowed by John Peters as early as 1702, after that year's tax list had been compiled. (Peters may have been gravely ill in October 1701 when he had given Hester and his stepson power of attorney.) 2. Hester could have married William Wright in 1703, after that year's tax list had been compiled. Christiana's marriage to James Ditto in late 1717 or early 1718, at about age 14 or 15, is plausible considering the mores and customs of that time.
"Christian Ditter" married (2) Thomas Gadd on 22 January 1732/33 and bore Margaret Gadd on 28 March 1734, possibly at age 29-30. (Origin of the Ditto Families in Maryland and Kentucky, by W. Lester Richards, 1980, page 7, gives Christian's surname as Dittor, and the marriage date as 21 Jan. 1733, citing page 66 of St. John's Parish register.) Thomas died on 13 December 1738. Administration bond was posted on 19 February 1738/39 by Christiana Gadd with William Gadd [the deceased's brother?] and William Ditto [Christiana's stepson?]. Thereafter, on 25 March 1743, Christiana Gadd conveyed livestock, two feather beds and furniture to "my loving son Abraham Ditto" (ibid., p. 8, citing Baltimore County Land Records, Liber TB#C, folios 195, 196). There is no record of any conveyance or bequest by her to William Ditto. That is an indication that William (James Ditto's older son) was not Christiana's son, but rather her stepson.
Hester probably was the stepmother of Mary Wright who married Samuel Watkins by 1715. The inventory of his estate [dated July 1743?] was signed by Abraham Enlow [probably son of Hester's brother Abraham] as one of the "relations" (letter to this writer from Allender Sybert, 29 May 1984, citing Inventories 28:421). In August 1743 administration bond was posted by Samuel Watkins [Jr., son of Samuel and Mary] with Abraham Ditto and William Demmitt. Abraham Ditto's relationship is somewhat convoluted; this writer has tentatively identified him as the son of Christiana (Wright) Ditto, half-sister of the deceased's wife.
In summary, Hester Enloes married (1) John Fuller about 1681-1683 and had two children by him; she married (2) John Peters about 1701 and had no known children by him; and she married (3) William Wright about 1703 and had by him at least one child, Christiana, who may have been born about 1703-1704. Hester
(born by 1665-1667) died after January or March 1711 (new style) and before September 1714. 3
Hester married John FULLER (I) in 1680 in Baltimore County, Maryland.1 2 3 (John FULLER (I) was born in 1650 1 2 and died before 6 Mar 1700/01 in Baltimore County, Maryland 1 2 3 5.)
Marriage otes:
There is no record of the exact date of their marriage. Ronald Cofiell notes that they were no doubt married by 1682, for that is the estimated year of the birth of John Fuller (II) and also the year that Hendrick Enloes conveyed "The Swallow Fork" to John Fuller (I). 3
Sources
1 Family Records of Richard Lawrence Fuller (http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/u/l/Richard-L-Fuller/index.html). Richard descends through Samuel Fuller, the son of John Fuller (III) and his second wife, Sarah Gott.
2 Kay Fuller Mitchell, Early Southern Fullers (The Southern Historical Press, Inc., Greenville, SC, 2nd Ed., 2003), Page 54. Kay's book provides rich detail, including sources, about this Fuller family, both in Maryland and in North Carolina. For anyone interested in learning more about this Fuller family, this is a must-have book. Note that Kay credits Rich and Pat Fuller of Baltimore for providing many of the sources for the information about the Fullers while in Baltimore County, Maryland. The primary sources in that regard are Baltimore County Families, 1659-1759 by Robert W. Barnes and St. John's and St. George's Parish Registers, 1696-1851 by Henry C. Peden, Jr.
3 Ronald A. Cofiell, "Hester Enloes of Baltimore County, Maryland, Daughter of Hendrick (Henry) and Christiana Enloes; and The Identity of Her Three Husbands" (Unpublished memorandum, 5 May 2006, San Francisco, CA).
4 Ibid. This is the date her third husband, William Wright, married Juliana Benbow.
5 Robert W. Barnes, Baltimore County Families, 1659-1759, (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1989), FHL Call No. 975.271 D2b, Page 233.
http://azstrong.tripod.com/jd_letha/legacy/2036.htm."2Robert E. Strong, Jr., Our Bowers and Anderson Ancestors.
3Robert E. Strong, Jr., Our Bowers and Anderson Ancestors. "John FULLER (I) 1 2
Spouses/Children:
Hester ENLOES
• Born: 1650 1 2 • Marriage: Hester ENLOES in 1680 in Baltimore County, Maryland 1 2 3
• John FULLER (II)+ • Died: Bef 6 Mar 1700/01, Baltimore County, Maryland 1 2 3 4
• Henry FULLER General Notes:
Although for convenience I've identified the line of John Fullers in America as I -IV, it's possible that John I was really John II. The issue is whether the John Fuller, who on 11 Jan 1655 surveyed 100 acres in Baltimore County, Maryland, which became known as Fuller's Outlet, and the John Fuller, who with his wife Hester in 1688 sold 100 acres in Fuller's Outlet, are one and the same person or father and son. See below.
From Baltimore County Families, 1659 -1759, by Robert W. Barnes:
"FULLER, JOHN (1), possibly the progenitor, was in Balto. Co. by 11 Jan. 1655 when he surv. 100a. known as Fuller's Outlet; may be identical to or may be the father of: JOHN (see below) [see book for sources]."
"FULLER, JOHN (2), poss. s. of John (1) above, or else identical to hom, was in Balto. Co. by 1682 when Hendrick Enlows conv. to him 100 a. Swallow Fork; in Feb. 1687 surv. 148 a. Buck Range (later held by John Anderson); in 1687 he and his w. conv. 100 a. Swallow Fork back to Henry Enlows; in 1688 purch 16
a. The Falls from Michael Judd and wife; in 1688 Fuller and w. conv. 100 a. Fuller's Outlet to Robert Benger; by 1692 was a taxable in n. side Gunpowder; purch. 70 a. Hap Hazard from John Bevan and w. in 1693 and purch. 200 a. Windley's Rest from John Taylor in 1695; d. by 6 March 1700 when his est. was inv. by Francis Dallahide and William Wright and was val. at L 25.10.0; in March 1700 wid. Hester Fuller conv. cattle and furniture to her sons John and Henry; she m. as her 2nd husb., by Oct. 1701, John Peters, who made his wife Hester and his son-in-law [stepson] John Fuller his atty.; in Oct. 1701 John and Hester Peters and John Fuller and w. Sarah conv. Waterton's Neglect to William Peckett; had iss.: JOHN; and HENRY [see book for sources]." For another version of the various events and transactions involving John Fuller, the reader should consult Ronald A. Cofiell's memorandum reproduced in the Research Note for Hester Enloes. 2 4
Research Notes:
Both Richard Fuller and Ronald Cofiell raise the possibility of a third son: Thomas Fuller, 1686-1725, per Richard; and Stephen Fuller, born about 1685, per Ronald. They may talking about the same person. Pending further investigation, I have decided not to list any other children. 1 3
Death Notes:
The inventory of his estate was per Robert Barnes filed on 6 Mar 1700, which, being a date falling between 1 Jan and 24 Mar and being a date prior to the calendar changes of 1752, is by genealogical convention double dated as 6 Mar 1700/01. Thus, under the Old Style dating sytem he had died by 6 Mar 1700, or near the end of the year, which was 24 Mar 1700. Under the New Style dating system he would be considered to have died by 6 Mar 1701, since the new year began 1 Jan rather than 25 Mar. Note, however, that Ronald Cofiell cites a source for the date of the inventory as 6 Mar 1699, which if it was recorded in the Old Style format would make the double date 6 Mar 1699/00. But, that would mean Robert Barnes provided the date in the New Style format. Query.
John married Hester ENLOES, daughter of Hendrick ENLOES and Christiana, in 1680 in Baltimore County, Maryland.1 2 3 (Hester ENLOES died by 5 Sep 1714 in Baltimore County, Maryland 5.)
Marriage Notes:
There is no record of the exact date of their marriage. Ronald Cofiell notes that they were no doubt married by 1682, for that is the estimated year of the birth of John Fuller (II) and also the year that Hendrick Enloes conveyed "The Swallow Fork" to John Fuller (I). 3
Sources
1 Family Records of Richard Lawrence Fuller (http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/u/l/Richard-L-Fuller/index.html). Richard descends through Samuel Fuller, the son of John Fuller (III) and his second wife, Sarah Gott.
2 Kay Fuller Mitchell, Early Southern Fullers (The Southern Historical Press, Inc., Greenville, SC, 2nd Ed., 2003), Page 54. Kay's book provides rich detail, including sources, about this Fuller family, both in Maryland and in North Carolina. For anyone interested in learning more about this Fuller family, this is a must-have book. Note that Kay credits Rich and Pat Fuller of Baltimore for providing many of the sources for the information about the Fullers while in Baltimore County, Maryland. The primary sources in that regard are Baltimore County Families, 1659-1759 by Robert W. Barnes and St. John's and St. George's Parish Registers, 1696-1851 by Henry C. Peden, Jr.
3 Ronald A. Cofiell, "Hester Enloes of Baltimore County, Maryland, Daughter of Hendrick (Henry) and Christiana Enloes; and The Identity of Her Three Husbands" (Unpublished memorandum, 5 May 2006, San Francisco, CA).
4 Robert W. Barnes, Baltimore County Families, 1659-1759, (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1989), FHL Call No. 975.271 D2b, Page 233.
5 Ronald A. Cofiell, "Hester Enloes of Baltimore County, Maryland, Daughter of Hendrick (Henry) and Christiana Enloes; and The Identity of Her Three Husbands" (Unpublished memorandum, 5 May 2006, San Francisco, CA). This is the date her third husband, William Wright, married Juliana Benbow.
http://azstrong.tripod.com/jd_letha/legacy/2035.htm."
1Robert E. Strong, Jr., Our Bowers and Anderson Ancestors, http://azstrong.tripod.com/jd_letha/. Sources need verification (2008)
1 Family Records of Richard Lawrence Fuller (http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/u/l/Richard-L-Fuller/index.html). Richard descends through Samuel Fuller, the son of John Fuller (III) and his second wife, Sarah Gott.
2 Kay Fuller Mitchell, Early Southern Fullers (The Southern Historical Press, Inc., Greenville, SC, 2nd Ed., 2003), Page 55. Kay's book provides rich detail, including sources, about this Fuller family, both in Maryland and in North Carolina. For anyone interested in learning more about this Fuller family, this is a must-have book. Note that Kay credits Rich and Pat Fuller of Baltimore for providing many of the sources for the information about the Fullers while in Baltimore County, Maryland. The primary sources in that regard are Baltimore County Families, 1659-1759 by Robert W. Barnes and St. John's and St. George's Parish Registers, 1696-1851 by Henry C. Peden, Jr. " Although Thomas is not identified as Sarah's father by either Richard Fuller or Kay Mitchell Fuller, it appears from the information found in Baltimore County Families, 1659-1759, by Robert W. Barnes, that he was her father:
"HEATH, THOMAS, was in Balto Co. by 1692 as a taxable in n. side of Gunpowder; on 3 Aug. 1697 Thomas and w. Sarah conv. 50 a. Hughes Island, 50 a. Blocksedge, and 115 a. Heath's Addition to Henry Matthews; d. leaving a will, 13 May 1698 -8 Jun 1698, naming dau. Sarah as extx. and s. Titus, with Edm. Hensley, William Hortina, Catherine Lomax, Susanna Richardson, and Ann Richardson as witnesses; admin. bond was posted 10 Jul 1698 by Sarah Heath, with Francis Dallahide; est. was inv. on 18 June 1698 by said
Sources
1 Robert W. Barnes, Baltimore County Families, 1659-1759, (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1989), FHL Call No. 975.271 D2b, Page 316.
http://azstrong.tripod.com/jd_letha/legacy/2103.htm."2Robert E. Strong, Jr., Our Bowers and Anderson Ancestors.
1Robert E. Strong, Jr., Our Bowers and Anderson Ancestors, http://azstrong.tripod.com/jd_letha/. Sources need verification (2008)
1 Family Records of Richard Lawrence Fuller (http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/u/l/Richard-L-Fuller/index.html). Richard descends through Samuel Fuller, the son of John Fuller (III) and his second wife, Sarah Gott.
2 Kay Fuller Mitchell, Early Southern Fullers (The Southern Historical Press, Inc., Greenville, SC, 2nd Ed., 2003), Page 55. Kay's book provides rich detail, including sources, about this Fuller family, both in Maryland and in North Carolina. For anyone interested in learning more about this Fuller family, this is a must-have book. Note that Kay credits Rich and Pat Fuller of Baltimore for providing many of the sources for the information about the Fullers while in Baltimore County, Maryland. The primary sources in that regard are Baltimore County Families, 1659-1759 by Robert W. Barnes and St. John's and St. George's Parish Registers, 1696-1851 by Henry C. Peden, Jr.
1GenLIAS web site for Dutch records., http://www.genlias.nl.
2GenLIAS web site for Dutch records. "Source Civil register - Death
Archive location Historisch Centrum Overijssel
General Number of finding aid: 123
Item number: 18704
Municipality: Oldemarkt
Type of record: overlijdensakte
Record number: 26
Registration date: 16-11-1959
Deceased Albert Flokstra
Gender: M
Date of death: 12-11-1959
Age: 64
Place of death: Oldemarkt
Father Jacob Flokstra
Mother Antje Bruggen
Partner Jantje Maria Lok
Relationship: echtgenoot
Additional information geboren te Oldemarkt."3GenLIAS web site for Dutch records. "Source Civil register - Marriage Archive location Historisch Centrum Overijssel General Number of finding aid: 123 Item number: 09543 Municipality: Oldemarkt Type of record: Huwelijksakte Record number: 20 Registration date: 21-05-1920 Groom Albert Flokstra Age: 24 Place of birth: Oldemarkt Bride Jantje Maria Lok Age: 24 Place of birth: Oldemarkt Father groom Jacob Flokstra Mother groom Antje Bruggen Father bride Albert Lok Mother bride Antje Schulting Additional information beroep Bg.: brievenbesteller; beroep vader Bd.: veehouder."
1GenLIAS web site for Dutch records., http://www.genlias.nl.
2GenLIAS web site for Dutch records. "Source Civil register - Marriage Archive location Historisch Centrum Overijssel General Number of finding aid: 123 Item number: 09543 Municipality: Oldemarkt Type of record: Huwelijksakte Record number: 20 Registration date: 21-05-1920 Groom Albert Flokstra Age: 24 Place of birth: Oldemarkt Bride Jantje Maria Lok Age: 24 Place of birth: Oldemarkt Father groom Jacob Flokstra Mother groom Antje Bruggen Father bride Albert Lok Mother bride Antje Schulting Additional information beroep Bg.: brievenbesteller; beroep vader Bd.: veehouder."
1findagrave.com. " Farines Martines “Frank” Flokstra
Birth 19 May 1944
Netherlands
Death 14 May 2014 (aged 69)
British Columbia, Canada
Burial
Hazelwood Cemetery
Abbotsford, Fraser Valley Regional District, British Columbia, Canada
Plot 311-03
Memorial ID 147027851 · View Source
Memorial
Photos 3
Flowers 1
After a short battle with cancer, the Lord in his kindness and wisdom, took home his child and servant, Frank Flokstra on Wednesday, May 14, 2014 just days before his 70th birthday. He is lovingly remembered by his wife of 46 years: Henny (nee Linde).....
Frank was born in the Netherlands on May 19, 1944 and celebrated his 6th birthday during the sailing to Canada when his family immigrated in 1950. His family moved from Alberta, to B.C. and then Ontario where Frank met the love his life. He and Henny were married on December 8th, 1967 and made their home in BC where they eventually took over his father's farm. There Frank established and operated a broiler farm and became very involved with the BC chicken industry in leadership roles. Over the years he was an active leader in the church and in Christian schools. His family and especially his grandchildren will miss his humour and love. Friends will miss times he shared with them over a cup of coffee.
Printed by Dignity Memorial."2GoDutch web site, http://www.godutch.com.
1findagrave.com. " John Kurt Flokstra
Birth 17 Sep 1940
Ruinerwold, De Wolden Municipality, Drenthe, Netherlands
Death 25 Jan 2016 (aged 75)
Burial
Hazelwood Cemetery
Abbotsford, Fraser Valley Regional District, British Columbia, Canada
Memorial ID 209880392 · View Source
Memorial
Photos 2
Flowers 0
---Obituary---
On Monday, January 25th, the Lord called into eternal rest his child, John Flokstra, aged 75.
He was predeceased by his wife Rita in September 2014, and by his brother Frank and brothers-in-law Bill van Egmond and Klaas Prins. He is lovingly remembered by his children: Elaine (Marcel) Jacobi, Harold (Shannon) Flokstra, Andrew (Teresa) Flokstra, Sharon (Raymond) Vandeburgt, Quentin (Jessica) Flokstra, Carla (Dave) VanLaar. He will be dearly missed by his grandchildren: Kelsey, Jasmine, Kent, Danica, Ashlee, Cole, Regan, Aaron, Landen, Kierra, Malachi, Nikko, Alexis, Benjamin, Micaiah, Naomi, Adelle, Beth, Ezra, Judah. He will also be dearly missed by his siblings Cor (Emma) Flokstra, Tina (Ken) Linde, Bernie Flokstra, (Henny) Flokstra, Margaret VanEgmond, Cynthia (Casey) Admiraal and siblings in-law (An) Prins, Fake (Henny) Prins, Harry (Klazien) Prins, Roel (Bertha) Prins and many nieces and nephews. John was born in Ruinerwold, the Netherlands on September 17, 1940 to Klaas and Jantje Flokstra. In 1950, he immigrated with his family to Canada. He moved with his family from Alberta, to BC, to Ontario and then finally back to BC where they settled in Abbotsford. Here he helped on the family farm. He began a new career as an electrician, opening his own company in 1970 known as Flokstra Electric Contracting Ltd. On November 1, 1972 he married his loving wife Rita Prins from the Netherlands and they made their home in Abbotsford, BC.
In those years John enjoyed family life with his wife and 6 children, running a successful electrical business in both the residential & agriculture industry. He was passionate about his business and always had a pen handy in case any customer or supplier called him. Generator sales also became a big part of the business in the later years.
His devotion to the Lord was evident and he was an active leader in his church and school community. John enjoyed travelling with Rita and had many good memories of trips throughout Canada and Europe. He loved the role of grandfather to his 20 grandchildren. He also enjoyed giving sound financial advice to all who were willing to listen.
Although life was a health struggle in the last 5 years due to a stroke in April 2011 and then a diagnosis of kidney cancer in September 2015, by God’s grace he continued to press on and lead people with encouragement from the Bible. He testified “My hope is in God all day long.” John will be missed for his encouraging words to all who visited him.
"I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith." 2 Timothy 4:7."