Exactly 246 years ago, on January 17th, 1778 my third Great Grandmother
was baptized in the evangelical church in Götterswickerhamm, Germany.
Her parents were Jan Albert Heiken and Anna Gertrud Peters.
Jenneken had four siblings, only two of them lived to adulthood.
On 14 January, 1805 she married Jan Derck Spelken, my third Great
Grandfather. Together they had seven children. One of them is
Maria Anna Spelken, my second Great Grandmother.
Jenneken died 12 October 1845 in Holthausen, which is now a part of
the city of Voerde.
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