J. Dee Ellis

Jan Van der Poel and his wife (name unknown) lived near Leiden, Holland, in Zoeterwoude. They had four children who were probably born between 1660-1680. This traces some of the descendants of their second child, Dirk Jansz, who married Marijtje Reyersd Van Moerkerken (d. 1727). An eighth generation grandson, Joannes Everadus Vander Poel, came to America (Kalamazoo, Mich.) in 1912. His son, John, married O'Niece Gertrude O'Toole, daughter of Walter...