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The Dunselman Family
The Dunselman family origins can be traced to the hamlet Dönsel near Diepholtz (Germany) around the year 1580. There were three farmsteads where three brothers "zu Dönsel" alias "Dönselmann" lived. One of these farmsteads is still occupied by a Dönselmann. In the beginnng of the 17th century a member of that family, returning to the catholic faith, sought refuge at Weyhe under the catholic Twisteringen. The farmstead where this Dunselman settled is still owned by the family. (This information was given by German members of the family in 1974. If you can update this, please drop us a note!).
The Dunselman family tree starts with Joannes Dunselman, born ca. 1680 in Abbenhausen. The Dutch non-catholic family Dunselman originates from the parochy Jacobi Drebber, which also includes Dönsel.
For reasons of privacy, the public section of the Dunselman family tree contains detailed data only until 1900. Access to the full family tree (including date of birth, place of birth, etc.) is exclusively available to Dunselman family members who register for access ...so the information "stays" in the family.
The Creators of this siteMy name is Jacques Dunselman. Since 1999 I've had the Dunselman.com domain. I was surprised by the number of Dunselman family members who contacted me through the site just out of curiosity (while searching the Internet for "Dunselman"). Though we didn't know eachother, we could trace that we share the same ancestors. To solve the riddle of our relation, I have often consulted the orange booklet "Dunselman-Abbenhausen" from 1974 that was written by my aunt Agnes Dunselman-Borgers, together with her husband Jos Dunselman. When I approached my aunt Agnes in the spring of 2001 with the proposal to make the family tree available online, she enthousiastically started to (manually!) convert all data from the little orange booklet... |
Agnes Dunselman-Borgers (left) and Jacques Dunselman (right) |
At the same time I started to design this web site. After two years, balancing time between working on the new house and spending time with my family, the result is finally here!
We hope you enjoy the site!
Jacques Dunselman and Agnes Dunselman-Borgers
June 2003
