My mother is a Tromp. Her father came from Holland about 1870 & settled near Lincoln, Neb. His name was Aga Luekkes ( luke ) Tromp. He married Jane ( Janna ) Vermaas & they had 7 children. I think they were married about 1878 in Nebraska. I have great genealogy on this Tromp line back to about the early 1600s in Holland . My cousin is a LSD member & has provided us all with good info.I am at my public library now so do not have the exact data with me. I can look at it at home & e mail what ever info a person wants about this Tromp line. I do not have a computer at home. Tromp is a prestigous name in Holland due to the father & son admirals . From what I understand my Tromp line is not a direct line from the admirals but from a sibling of theirs. You can read about their seafaring exploits in any good encyclopedia. Holland has even issued lovely postage stamps in their honor & place in history. I have visited on the new large nuclear ship that came into the local Navy Base several years ago in the harbor here at Newport, RI. It was named after Martin Harpetzoon (sp) . I think it is part of the North Atlantic NATO fleet.
As far as I know no other Tromp of my grandfather's line ever immigrated to America. My grandfather was the census taker for his district in in the 1900 U.S. census in I believe Norton County , town of Almena, Kansas. His name is at the top of the census page & I recognised his signature when I had looked up the 1900 census in Kansas a while back. His family is on that page.They moved from Nebraska to Kansas before 1894 ( the year my mother was born in Almena.) About maybe 1905 or 1906 they moved to Lynden, Wash. which is a very Dutch town even now .Both my Tromp grandparents lived the rest of their lives there or in Bellingham ,Wash. about 15 miles away. Both are buried in Lynden. I hope thi helps a bit for whomever is looking up info on the Tromp name.