Ugh. Family history, the Dutch. I can only do a little of this at a time.
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OK, parents of MARTIN BRINK (my great-grandfather), father of CENA (my grandma, married George Plantenga)…. I am now going back into the Dutch records, and I can see them IN DUTCH, which is really interesting.
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Martin Brink’s parents were: Marten Martens Engbrenghof (father) and Feikje Dirks Koopma (mother).
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The last name Engbrenghof became “BRINK” in America (when Martin “Brink” –son of Marten & Feikje — arrived). Martin and his wife TRIJNTJE (later Trena) had 5 girls, the youngest being grandma Cena.
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The name Feikje— Martin and “Trena” name their first daughter Feikje, which becomes “Fannie” in America. I remember Great Aunt Fannie very well (oldest sister of my grandma Cena). I remember a kind, old Dutch woman with bowed legs, white hair always pulled back into a bun, and black dresses, with black stockings.
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me
my mother Martha Marion Plantenga
her mother, Cena Brink (who married my grandfather George Plantenga)
Martin Brink and Trena, Cena’s parents
Marten Martens Engbrenghof and Feikje Dirks Koopma (Martin’s parents)
Martin immigrated from Holland in 1882.
Doctor Grandma 
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