Westerhuis Family

The Westerhuis family is from the eastern part of the Netherlands but moved around a lot between the provinces of Overijssel, Drenthe, and Groningen.  This was probably because there were a number of pastors in the family and they moved around to different congregations.  The Jurgens family, on the other hand, is from the far northwestern corner of Germany (the modern state of Lower Saxony/Niedersachsen) in the region known as East Friesland or East Frisia (Ostfriesland in German).