Dutch and German Immigrants The Prins Family - Pier 21

complications. She was Rineke Knorren’s grandmother from her dad’sside. I knew Aunt Anna {drapery store in Ijmuiden}, Aunt Jannie {nursein Friesland}, Aunt Sien and Uncle Gerrit, who inherited the butchershop in Mydrecht.The Boon FamilyThe Boon family, living in De Hoorn, actually should have been namedKrynen. The Boon name likely originated because the patriarch JanAryenz Krynen married a women Jacobs Boon in 1693, a daughter ofJacob Willemz Boon living in Oosterend. Their son, according to oldTexel tradition was named after his grandfather of his mother’s sideJacob Boon. However, he died at a young age.A son born out of the second marriage of Jan Aryenz Krynen was namedafter his late half-brother Jacob Janz Boon. After him, the fourthgeneration brought Pieter Jacobz Boon, married Gysje Klaas Kind.In the 1800’s one of these families moved to Den Helder to make a livingas a harbour pilot. Pieter Jacobz Boon, being a grocer, came back toTexel to the town of Den Burg, the island of his forefathers. This musthave happened in the last half of 1800; Oma was born upon the island in1878. The family moved to the new growing town of Ijmuiden with manyother folks from Vlaardingen, Katwijk, Egmond and many other places,probably in the late 1800s or 1900s.Our of the marriage of Pieter Jacobz Boon and Gysje Klaas Kind wereborn eleven children, four daughters and seven sons. As a young boy Ihave seen my great-grandmother, then beside my grandmother of course.I have also met Uncle Klaas, who was known as Uncle Nick when he livedin the United States.Then Uncle Jan Boon, who ran the grocery store in the Oranjestraat andafter the war a store in the Kennemerlaan, as the other store and most ofthe Oranjestraat was torn down during the latter part of the war. After anumber of years he retired and the grocery store was closed.Memories of Jennie and Annie SohlWhen Pieter Boon moved with his family from the island of Texel toIjmuiden, it was only a small town. He started a grocery store in one, atthat time, of the main streets, named after the man who named thetown, the Visseringstraat. It was a narrow and, for that day and age, abig store. Pretty soon, because of the fish storage warehouses there werea lot of rats around. These pests spread out to other storage spaces, theone from Boon included. There was only one solution to this problem