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On this page we present a few remarkable discoveries we made in U.S. archive sources.
In a scanned version of the journal the Adam's Sentinel from Gettysburg we can read in the edition of december 20th 1858 that in St.-Louis on december 8th of that year dr. Elward Van Der Roocke was killed by Henry Linhof ...
In a list of surviving soldiers, sailors, marines and widows in Oconto County from 1890, we found the name of Prosper Vanderock, private in the 18th Wisconsin infantery.
He enlisted on october 14 1864 and was discharged on june 5 1865, the reason was chronic dysentery.
On the website of the Immigrant Transscribers Guild we can find the transscription Phil Buckley made of the passenger list drawn by John Webster, captain of the SS Erin, which sailed from Liverpool, England via Queenstown, Ireland to New York, and arrived there on may 11 1868.
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This list begins with the official declaration by John K. Webster that this list was drawn accurately and truthfully :
I, John K. Webster, Master of the S.S. Erin, do solemnly, sincerely, and truly declare that the following List or Manifest, subscribed by me, and now delivered by me to the Collector of the Customs of the Collection District of New York, is a full and perfect List of all the Passengers taken on board the said S.S. Erin at L'pool and Q'town, from which Ports the said S.S. Erin has now arrived; and that on said List is truly designated the age, the sex, and the occupation of each of said passengers, the part of the vessel occupied by each during the passage, the country to which each belongs, and also the country of which it is intended by each to become an inhabitant; and that said List or Manifest truly sets forth the number of said Passengers who have died on said Voyage and the names and ages of those who died.
So help me God.
(signed) John K. Webster.
The passengers with numbers 530, 531 and 532 on board of the SS Erin were J. van den Roocke, a 26 year old man, Wilhelmina van den Roocke, a 20 year old woman and Jacobina van den Roocke, a male (?!) infant, all three originated from Germany.
They had the intention of becoming U.S. citizens.
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We notice this list contains a few remarkable features.
John K. Webster registered all passengers, as well men, women and children as laborers...
Like the van den Roocke family, the de Visser, Hellema, Wiggers, de Smid, de Boer, Koops, Haasman and Schoumaker families, whith obvious Dutch names, were all registered as originated from Germany...
Phill Buckley confined us his experience in transscribing passenger lists has tought him the captains often did not pay too much attention to the details in these lists, such as profession or place of origin odf the passengers.
Since the van de Roocke family name in Belgium has changed into Verroken at the end of the 17th century, this van den Roocke family probably belonged to the branch which emigrated to Holland at the end of the 16th century.
At the moment, we haven't found the exact connection yet.
In the 1880 US federal census we found that Francis Vanderock, born around 1851, and his wife Victoria were living in Richland, Montcalm, Michigan, with their 1 year old son Freddy Vanderock.
In the lists of the 1888 Chicago voter registration, we can find the name of Henry Vanderoke.
In the year 1900 in the city of Troy, New York, a census was organized.
At number 258 in 8th street lived Charles Vanderook (?), 54 year old head of the family, boxmaker, his 33 year old wife Marie and their children 16 year old Charles Vanderook (?), 11 year old Bertha Vanderook (?) and 6 year old Lewis Vanderook (?).
All of them were born in the state of New York, as were their parents...
The question mark behind their names is not exactly a good omen.
In the 1910 Pennsylvania Miracode index, 15 year old Louis Vanderook was registered in Beaver, Beaver Falls.
In the 1910 US federal census we found a George Borderook or Vanderook in Ramsey.
George was born around 1876.
In the 1920 US federal census we found that August, born around 1862, Lizzie, born around 1875 and Albert Vanderoke were living in Sauk, Wisconsin.
The last name of August, Lizzie and Albert is difficult to read, as a possible alternative the composer of this internet list proposes the name Vonderahe.
In the 1920 US federal census we found that Elisabeth Vanderook, born approximately in 1850, and Susan Vanderook, born around 1880 were living in Sangamon, Illinois.
Susan was married in 1920.
In 1935, Neil Vanderook was a pupil at the Chinook Washington State College in Pullman, Whitman County, Washington USA.
In 1959, Gayle Vanderook was a pupil at the East Marshall Community School District in Le Grand, Iowa, USA.
In 1999, Jared Vanderook played in the high school football team at St.-Francis High School.
In the US Phone and Address Directories from 1993 untill 2002, we found the name of Kirk Vanderook, living in California.
In 2005 20 year old Matt Vanderook was registered as history major at the San Francisco State University.
We weren't able to make contact with Matt yet.
In 2007 Jacky Vanderock lived in Mc Kellar, Ontario.
On a people search website we found approximately 10 persons who are called Vanderook and live in the USA in 2008.
On a people search website we found 3 persons who are called Vanderock and live in the USA in 2008.
They live in the states of Michigan, Illinois and Florida.
In the US public records index, supplied by Ancestry.com, we found that June Vanderoke is living in Madison, Nebraska.
So far we have not been able to contact June.