This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/YEG.2ACIB/127.151.161 Message Board Post: Hi Brinker from Holland. This is a Brinker from Canada. My g.g.grandfather is Johannes Bernardus Brinker b. 1812, Thuine, Germany. m.Maria Anna Berendsen. I have it that he was the son of Jan Berend Brinker b. abt. 1790 in Thuine also. I don't have anything further back, but would like to hear from you.