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Church. Since 1873 marriage and birth records were written by the local government and not anymore by the churches. Even till 1873 every new born child had to be registered in the official church and every couple had to see the reformed minister of their municipality in order to get a marriage ce ...
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church’s parishioners had gone to North America by the 1880s. This loss crippled the church to such an extent that it could no longer support a pastor… Neermoor’s first pastor, Nicholas M. Steffens, left East Friesland in 1872 and became an important leader in the RCA, while the ministers, Klaas ...
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The ORC ministers as Pillars of the CRC Between 1847 and 1900 about 66 ministers of the Christelijke Afgescheidene Kerk and the Doleerende Kerken went to the US. Half of them became Christian Reformed, the other half became Reformed (RCA). At least ten of the 66 had been ministers in the County o ...
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The school at Dubuque was in a different situation. The Eastfriesian churches had come to grow in Minnesota since the 1880s. A long time they thought about how to work under the Germans in their surrounding. But also Dubuque could not really grow anymore after the War. The German heart was broken ...
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iBeuker, 1988,288 Beuker 1988,248 iii Beuker 1988,427-431 (Printed publikations of the government against the ORC, 1838 – 1867.) iv Beuker 1988,259 v They were chosen at the house of Steven Lucas at Vorwald on May 20, 1845 and at the house of Geert Zaalmink in Tinholt the 22. vi See my Abg ...