De Hunger, also known as Lammertink.


Stokkum - de Hunger - Lammertink

In Stokkum, Markelo, 7 miles NE of Neede, there are three farms where Hungerink's lived for a long time, two of them are called "de Hunger". The oldest one is presently inhabited by the "Lammertink" family. The farm was mentioned as "Hungering" in 1475 as being owned by Willem Splinter, and in 1682 as owned by the Lord of Coeverden van de Haer. In 1746 the inhabitant Hendrik Hungerink bought 1/4 of the farm and around 1800 the remaining 3/4. In the census of 1748 de Hunger was mentioned as "Hungerinck".

According to records from the 12th century the Noble Nunnery of Ueberwasser, Münster, possessed the "Hof te Neede", the Garden of Neede. It comprised three farmyards in Neede and one in Stokkum. This very old relationship between the two villages give rise to speculations the two Hunger's were somehow connected. The farm in Stokkum could have been founded by a Hungerink from Noordijk, and the families would then be related. Since this relation would go back to before 1475 it is unlikely any proof could be found.

The family relations in the 18th century at this farm are extremely complicated. The family tree can be found here. An early inhabitant was Egbert Hungerink who married Hendrickjen Mensing around 1673. They got a son Jan and a daughter Hermken. After Egbert's early death in 1676 Hendrickjen remained on "de Hunger" marrying in 1678 with Hendrick Leusman (from then on called Hungerinck). They had six children, all called Hungerinck or Hungering(s), while neither parent originally carried that name!

Things get complicated when at the birth of her sixth child mother Hendrickjen died. Daughter Hermken of the first marriage at the age of sixteen then married her stepfather Hendrick Leusman (alias Hungerinck) in 1689 to continue the "dynasty" on "de Hunger". Their 2 children were called Hungerings. When Hendrick died, Hermken remarried in 1696 to Egbert Megelinck (then called Hungerink), getting 5 more children, the oldest being Henrick Hungerings, born in 1697.

In the mean time Jan Hungering, Hermkens older brother, had married Marie Loincks and they had moved to the Brincks farm. Their daughter was called Hendrickjen Brincks of Hungering. The family tree really turned into a Gordian knot when in 1724 she decided to marry with Henrick Hungering, the son of Jan's sister Hermken! Henrick died and in 1750 Hendrickjen married Harmen Nieumeyer who also became a Hungerink.

There were three children from Hendrickjen's first marriage with Henrick of which Jan Hungering, born in 1735, remained on "de Hunger". He married in 1767 with Theune Nieuwemeyer from "de Meier". Their son Jan went to "de Weerd" with his wife Geertruid, and son Hendrik was meant to be the successor on "de Hunger". However he remained a batchelor. So the son of Jan and Geertruid, Jan Hendrik Hungerink born in 1808, came over from "de Weerd" with his wife Jenneken Peusschers to run "de Hunger". A stone over the entrance, to the left in the picture above, has their initials JHH-JP-1845.

The oldest daughter of Jan Hendrik and Jenneken, Johanna Hendrika Hungerink, married in 1856 to Jan Lammertink and they took over the farm in 1860. Jan Hendrik being a widower by then had left with his son Hendrik Jan and daughter Geertruid to found a new farm - also called "de Hunger" - at the Stokkumerbroekweg.

So "de Hunger" had now gone to the Lammertink's, surnames could no longer be changed since Napoleon's law of 1811. In succession from father to son it was inhabited by the Lammertink's Jan (born 1825), Jan Hendrik (born 1871), Arend Jan (born 1910) and Hendrik Jan (born 1945). Since his early death in 1986 his widow Dini Potman and their two sons run the farm.
The address of the old "Hunger" is Kerkweg 6, Markelo.

See the Stokkum Hungerink Tree here.
Source: Jan Stoelhorst.
The stone over the gate: JHH-JP-1845.




Stokkum - de Hunger - Hesselink


The history of the new "Hunger", founded around 1860 by Jan Hendrik Hungerink after leaving the old "Hunger" to his daughter and son in law, is as eventfull as the family relations were on the old "Hunger". The farm had only just been build when part of the land had to be given up for a new railroad. Jan Hendrik's son Hendrik Jan, born in 1838, was to be his successor but died young in 1868. His daughter Geertruid who had come along too, died only three years later.

Being alone now Jan Hendrik assigned Hermannus Lammertink (the family of his son in law on the old "Hunger") as his successor. Hermannus had one son, Hendrik Jan Lammertink, who married in 1909 to Johanna Hermina Hesselink. Their only daughter Mina Berendina Lammertink then married Berend Hesselink. That same year, 1932, the farm had to be taken down to make way for a canal.

Reerected on the other side of the railtrack in 1935, it was destroyed during the second world war. A resistance group had blown up the railtrack nearby. The farmers got five minutes to tell who were responsible. Not knowing the answer, the Germans then executed their treat and set fire to two farms, "de Meier" and "de Hunger". After the war "de Hunger" was rebuild in 1947 and went to son Hendrik Jan Hesselink, born in 1934. He married in 1961 with Dini Nijkamp. In 2000 they moved to a newly built house, while the old farm remained empty. The photo below was taken in 1985, like the photos of Lammertink and Hoestink. The address is Stokkumerbroekweg 15.

Source: Jan Stoelhorst.
De Hunger, also known as Hesselink.




Stokkum - Hoestink

There is a third farm in Stokkum where the Hungerink's lived for a long time. It was named "Huysstede" in 1475 when it was concluded it no longer existed... However in 1601 it popped back into existence under the name of "Husstedde". Around 1730 called "Hoestink", it was run by Jan Hoestink, and it went to his son Hermen who as tenant bought it 1762. From his son Jan Hoestink's marriage with Berendina Letink a daughter Grietje Hoestink was born. She was to become in 1817 the first wife of Gerrit Jan Hungerink, father of the American founder. In 1823 Jan Hungerink was born and Grietje died shortly after his birth. He was adopted by Grietje's mother at Hoestink in Stokkum. Eventually Jan Hungerink inherited the farm in 1867.

During the marriage of Jan and Gerritdina Odink in 1850 the farm burnt down. Gerritdina had rescued the precious china ware carrying it in her skirt, but in a moment of confusion she lost hold of one of the tips... I am not certain about this story from Jo Bos because it is a fact the farm burnt down in 1888. Anyway whether it burnt down once or twice, it was rebuilt each time, and went later to son Jan Garrit Hungerink and wife Harmina Leunk. Their two sons Hendrik Jan and Jan Hendrink then took over and ran the farm until 1981. They had remained a batchelor, the neighbour's wife Groot Roessink Stegeman used to cook their meals. She thought well of them though in the village many a story went round about their peculiar behaviour. Called "Hoestinkhof" now it was turned into a Hotel and Teahouse, the address being Ensinkgoorsdijk 2, or alternatively Stationsweg 22a. The present owner is Bokkinga.

Source: Jo Bos, Jan Stoelhorst.
Hoestink in 1985, now a Hotel and Teahouse owned by Bokkinga.





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