'The Kloppenburg clan' from Huissen - A short summary!
" I speculate, or rather fantasize, that a direct family member took the Folkweg heading west.. and got stuck in Brummen or Nijmegen! " Wilm Jans van Kloppenburgh was a professional soldier stationed in the crucial strategic city of Nijmegen during the formation of the Dutch state. His marriage to Maria Berndts in February 1603 marks the moment that an outsider -the soldier- became part of the local Nijmegen community. *** My story about our ancestors has been quite general so far, without individually identified persons, I eventually arrive at the direct ancestors in Huissen. After nearly 50 years of genealogical research, the 17th-century Joannes Kloppenborgh (b. 1679) is genuinely identified as the documented and verifiable progenitor of all Kloppenburgers/descendants from Huissen and the surrounding area! After much research, I can now also conclude with some satisfaction that almost all Kloppenburg families from Huissen have been placed in verifiable genealogical ...