The
Cramwinckel Family "Home" Page
Welcome to the research in the Cramwinckel family
Goal and
Purpose
No researcher into family roots is ever likely
to call his work exclusively his own. I therefore, started rather
hesitantly to design this page, knowing that many before me have
been busy collecting data, well before the time I became interested in
our roots. This page is dedicated to honour all those whose investigations
made this possible and to those who carry on investigating .and some still
do.
My contribution was to collect all available
data and to put it in a manageable form together , first on the computer
(programmes such PAF, and The Master Genealogist are
being used) and now here in this web page. Moreover through several years
of research, I was lucky to discover two earlier generations than known
so far..
The results of genealogical research - in all
its forms - is most of the time being stashed away in a shoe box,
loose leaf bunch of notes or at best in a computer file. The
real risk is that eventually it gets thrown out because there is - momentarily-
no interest in it. Such a shame, when there is always someone in a given
generation that will take an interest to it, but would not know where the
data is.
The aim of this site is therefore to record the
advances in the the family/roots research so far, to exchange information
with other interested parties and perhaps, to provoke reactions such as
additions, corrections, stories and al other constructive support
• This web site is mainly centring on the descendants
of the Arnoldus Cramwinckel branch,
whose origins are in the Wesel a/Rhein (Germany) area (late
17th century). Another branch, Kraamwin(c)kel originating
also from the Wesel area, settled through the Netherlands via Utrecht,
around mid 17th century. The descendants of this Frederick Petersen
Craemwinckel are most likely family, but proof has not been
found for this hypothesis.
Another similar sounding clan. the Kraewinckels
family, lives around the Maasland (river) area, Excellent contacts
now exists with this family, but no sibling connection have been established
as of this date.
( for links, back to
home page)
Copyright © 1997 Pieter Cramwinckel.