This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hesselink, Rademaker, ter Haar, Bruggink Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SRB.2ACE/8616.2.1 Message Board Post: I do not have much information about this Hesselink family. Gerrit Willem Hesselink (b.1807) was a son of Gerrit Hendrik Hesselink who was born 27 July 1781 in Aalten, Gelderland, and Janna Rademaker. Gerrit Hendrik was a son of Gerrit Willem Hesselink and Aleida ter Haar. Adolph Hesselink, born about 1812 in Aalten, was a brother of the younger Gerrit Willem. Adolph married with Johanna Maria Bruggink, who was born about 1821 in Wisch, Netherlands. I think they were the parents of Wesselina, born about 1845, and Johanna, born about 1849, both in Clymer while Adolph was serving as a pastor to the newly arrived immigrants from the Netherlands. Around 1850 Adolph and his family left Clymer and moved to Muscatine, Iowa. Not long after that he died of cholera aboard a steamship on the Mississippi River.