The Origins Of Every Van Der Linde Gang Member

each vanderlin gang member has a very interesting story of their life before the gang I will cover the origin story of each member and how they join the gang specifically 95% of my viewers are unsubscribed so if you like to see more content like this please subscribe Simon Pearson Pearson was a son of a family of Whale hunters and wanted to become one himself before the industry dried up by the time he became an adult instead he became a Navy sailor to satisfy his dreams of sailing the high seas and it seems like he really loved the time he was as a sailor often Reminiscing on the times there telling Arthur and a lot of other people in the gang just anytime he can about the time he was in like the Philippines or just some time he was in the Navy because you know it seems like he really really loved the time of sailing and after leaving the Navy he got into a lot of financial trouble likely after spending all of his money in some stupid way likely gambling or something else like that but lone sharks eventually came after him and during this time he met Dutch and the Gang and they saved him resulting in in him becoming the co and butcher for the gang just overall a really really outstanding member of the gang in General Charles Smith Charles was born to a black father and a Native American mother and Charles and his father lived with his mother's tribe before the US Army drove them away from their Homeland and his mother was eventually captured by US Army soldiers and then never seen Again by Charles which you know really sucks for him but after this his father fell into a deep depression leading him down the road of alcoholism which led to Charles eventually leaving his father and wandering the Wild West by himself after joining many different gangs and just surviving on his own for a while Charles finally joined the vanderlin gang as he felt that Dutch and the Gang were some of the only people that would treat him right due to like his Heritage of being like a mixed person and also being yeah a black and Native American person which is a pretty like uncommon thing during this time Mary Beth not much is known about Mary Beth's early life but when she was young Mary Beth became an Advanced thief and would steal watches and wallets from wealthy men in local towns and it seemed like that's kind of how she got by likely she was like an orphan before or kind of like left her family but it's not really known about those details but eventually these men realized that Mary Beth was sealing their stuff and try to get their stuff back but during this time I guess there's some kind of scuffle and somehow the vanderin gang ended up protecting Mary Beth and helping her get away from all these men they're trying to chase after her and then she joined the gang like that uncle uncle was born in Ohio at some point but he actually had an uncle himself named Jeb who uncle says touched on him and did some weird things and definitely was that classic like Uncle guy who's you know touching on you in some weird way and uncle was eventually 9 years old when he became an orphan and was forced to move to a new city and live on his wits from there on out and it says he was also married a couple times before 1899 so maybe he was red harlo this whole time but before the gang Uncle claims have been to Africa where he supposedly worshiped as a God in the Congo after selling camping supplies to them he's also known as the one- shot kid and supposedly was an insane Gunslinger in his youth but all these stories could just be uncle boasting or lying just kind of his classic just making up [ __ ] but Uncle eventually joined the gang in 1894 and basically just leeched off of their resources making me think that the way he got into the gang was either saving someone's life or doing something really important because it seems like a lot of the members that don't really do much did something really important and that's why they're still in the gang to this day Tilly Jackson when Tilly was just 12 years old she became an outlaw running with the foreman brother's gang after they kidnapped her from her mother but she eventually killed Anthony Foreman's cousin after he tried to make some moves on her and then wouldn't respond to her saying no so then he kind of forced herself himself on her and then she you know self-defense him and you know slid him up and then ran away from the gang eventually she tried to find her mother but her mother had passed away during her absence of running with the Foreman's Brothers gang and Tilly eventually joined the vanderlin gang after Dutch found her when she was in trouble with the law and took her into the gang and raised her just like he did with JN and Arthur till he eventually viewed Dutch as a father figure similar to how Arthur and John viewed him because you know she kind of had the same way where she was kind of raised by Dutch in the sense and this is likely why she kind of stayed so long with the gang while all of her friends had left like Karen and Mary Beth and everyone else had laughed until he was still sticking with Dutch basically the entire time throughout the entire game Reverend Swanson before joining the gang Swanson was also a reverend but instead of being like a man of Faith he was doing some very sinful things like becoming an alcoholic and just cheating on his wife with a bunch of different married women and he actually lost his faith during these moments and then eventually left his wife for another married woman named Margaret the law eventually followed them after they tried to marry each other while also being married and not getting a divorce from their spouses and Margaret eventually left Swanson to go on a ship to Shanghai Swanson joined the vanderland gang after saving Dutch's life somehow which resulted in Dutch being in his debt and providing for Swanson even when he kind of continued to indulge in all of Earth's Pleasures with like the Opium and just being a total like addict for a while until he eventually cleaned his act up during the end of the game Josiah trani trani was born in England but eventually moved to the United States where he became a con and during this time he joined the vanderlin gang either by being on the run from the law or being part of some robbery that like kind of got him into the gang and then eventually you know full on joining but I think it was a little bit of like Dutch's protective side where this is a guy who wasn't going to really work outside of the gang I mean he can do stuff outside of the gang but like he's always going to get in trouble in his own way so he said oh come join the gang and we'll kind of help you out a little bit but during the time of joining the gang he did have a family in sandin that he hid from the gang and would often leave both the gang and his family for long periods of time and just kind of tried to hide each of them away from the other one and I'm assuming that trani likely joined the gang 1895 or before because it seems like they know him well enough to at least have been partners for multiple years and know that he's going to be gone for long periods of time so at least I think they have known him for like four or five years by the time of the actual game Karen Jones Karen Jones joined the gang after being a scam artist her own right and it seems like she kind of did the same thing as Mary Beth where she would you know steal men's wallets and watches and kind of take them and pwn them off that way and it seems like she was also an orphan in the same right but she just loved the outlaw lifestyle and was drawn to conning people and there's no actual like proof of the way she joined but I'm assuming it's pretty similar to Mary Beth where she either got in trouble with the law or got in trouble with some like powerful people and Dutch was like ah we can help you and you can provide at least a little bit for us so you got to join the gang Susan Grimshaw Grimshaw started the gang in a way being the first member of the gang besides Hosea and Dutch after Dutch fell in love with her and kind of invited her to join the gang but she wasn't like really a member she was more of just like Dutch's lover but she eventually like became a full member of the gang they eventually fell in love while Dutch would play poker and then Grimshaw would just sit in his lap and even after Dutch became romantically involved with Annabelle Grimshaw stayed in the gang because she liked the lifestyle that they could provide and she didn't really want to leave the people that she had formed close bonds with like Arthur John and Hosea and kind of wanted to like provide and like always stay with them because they were kind of part of her family in a way so she didn't want to leave them even after like her and Dutch had kind of fallen out of love John Marston Jon's father was a Scottish immigrant who died when JN was just 8 years old after getting blinded in a bar fight it's not necessarily clear if he died in the actual bar fight or if he died after the bar fight but he did die around this period no matter what this left Jon an orphan as his mother had died during Jon's birth and Jon moved from orphanage to orphanage until he was 12 years old when he was caught stealing by some farmers in Illinois who wanted to hang him before Dutch stepped in and saved him John eventually would become a member of the vanderlin gang with Dutch and Hosea becoming his surrogate fathers and Arthur kind of becoming his surrogate brother and Dutch and Hosea taught John to read fight and hunt and taught him many different things like Evelyn Miller's teachings which led to John and Arthur you know having this dependence on Dutch as their father figure and not as much on Hosea because Dutch really instilled in this philosophy that you know both Arthur and John followed but you know Jose was also a father figure to both them as well Abigail maren Abigail was also an orphan just like John was and became a member of the vanderlin gang after Uncle introduced her to the gang just after she turned 18 the gang quickly took a liking to her and many gang members slept with her before she finally fell in love with John marsten resulting in her pregnancy with their child Jack maren Jack marsten joined the gang right out of the womb as Abigail birthed him in 1895 and he became kind of a member of the gang instantly I mean he wasn't doing anything for the gang but everyone was providing for him and you know he's just taking the free handouts cuz he was like a baby but despite many of the gang members having relationships with Abigail during their time there she claimed Jack to be Jon's child resulting in Jon actually leaving the gang for a year but the gang immediately became family to Jack as they would take care of him when Abigail was occupied they would try and shield him from all the horrible actions that would the gang would commit during their travels and just try to keep him like as sheltered of a child as someone that's like a member of a very large and very famous gang could be molio Sha molio Sha was born to a rich family from Dublin Ireland and came to America searching for a change of pace from the very simple life of Living as a rich woman in Ireland eventually she met Dutch and fell in love with him and they became lovers and Molly joined the gang as his living girlfriend kind of like Annabelle and Grimshaw had already done once before in the gang Lenny Summers Lenny grew up as the son of an escaped slave mother and a father who would then take care of him after his mother's death Lenny's father taught him how to read and write right and gave him a pocket watch which Lenny eventually lost in the confusion at the Blackwater Massacre but Lenny's father was eventually beaten to death by drunken men in a bar fight and Lenny eventually killed them as an act of Revenge and went on the Run eventually joining the vanderland gang after meeting them in the Grizzlies in 1898 and just keeping up that cycle of Dutch saving these people that are supposedly in trouble from the law or in trouble from these powerful people coming after them Dutch just has such a saor complex sad Adler when STI was young she learned to hunt animals and ride horses which allowed her to live away from a major town when she eventually got married to Jake Adler in 1896 and they would share the work evenly between the two of them and sometimes would work with the protagonist from Red Dead online in 1899 s's house was taken over by the odris boys with Jake being shot and passing away during the confrontation C eventually HD away in the cellar to not die as well until Dutch Arthur and Micah fought the o'driscolls and found Sadi hiding away her confrontation with Micah and she led to her house being burned down and she joined the gang after that because again there's kind of a similar savior complex from Dutch where you can't leave anyone who's in a struggling position he can't turn them away so he you know lets her join the gang and it was the best place for her because her husband had just died she needed someone to kind of provide for her while she grieved for her husband's death Dutch vanderlin since his youth Dutch had read The Works of Evelyn Miller and wanted wanted to live a life with no constraints from The Real World Dutch quickly became an anarchist and resorted to a life of crime in 1875 Dutch met Hosea Matthews a con artist who tried to Rob him for realizing that Dutch had kind of already stolen from him realizing that they held similar views and skills they started their own gang the vanderlin gang and on one of their first missions together they tricked locals into buying $300 worth of shares of fake shipping company and they're quickly arrested but found a way out of the jail and robbed the sheriff on the way out Javier esquella Javier grew up on land owned by Colonel ende's ancestors the antagonist of Red Dead Redemption 1 and had a father that was a drunkard and his uncle and his friends eventually demanded a fair wage from the owners of the land from ende's ancestors and were eventually fed to the pigs right in front of Javier as a result because of this moment Javier kind of just became disillusioned with like society as a whole and became a bounty hunter with ideals similar to Dutch using violence to kind of try and break apart the system that he lived under and eventually he unived a very powerful man in Mexico after they fought over a woman and fled to America thinking his family may suffer if he stayed he eventually did starve though because he didn't speak any English so he tried to steal some chickens and found Dutch Dutch eventually fed Javier and offered him a spot in the gang because of their similar ideals and Javier eventually became to idolize Dutch because of those ideals and again that's kind of why he picked Dutch as decide in the end of the game Bill Williamson bill was first born Maran Williamson in 1866 and embarrassed by this kind of girl's first name which was supposedly a family name he took Bill from his last name Williamson and like Bill is short for will or William so he took Bill from there and Bill's father was an alcoholic who kind of just lost his mind because he drank so much and would just mix a bunch of different alcohols together and just would be drunk all the time so you know Bill eventually didn't want to become an alcoholic himself so he kind of was doing a lot of other things and he became kind of like an out not not like an outlaw but he's doing some weird stuff in his like early life and was like a delinquent so he got thrown into reform school and he continued to do like criminal stuff throughout his like entire early life so he joined the army instead and fought against Native Americans but was eventually discharged for devien C which is like sleeping with another man and attempted murder I don't know what the attempted murder was maybe he tried to murder the guy that he was sleeping with or the person who found them or whatever or someone resisted his charm or whatever I don't know but he became an outlaw after this and robbed people on the roads and in 1893 he tried to Rob Dutch but Dutch laughed at him because you know it's Bill trying to rob you and Dutch is like this crazy cool guy and Bill kind of got mad at this but Dutch was like ah he kind of Charmed his way out of it and he eventually offered Bill a spot in the vanderlin gang Micah Bell Micah was born to an outlaw father also named named Micah Bell and quickly followed in his Father's Footsteps running with both his father and his brother Amos at one point in their own Outlaw gang in 1898 Dutch met Micah in a town called khaw Hills in the grizzly this town isn't included in the gang but would likely be North or west of amberino in gang which a lot of people you know theorize that's where the north Grizzlies would be but Dutch was trying to sell the gang's gold before the deal went down and in the commotion Micah saved Dutch somehow a lot of people speculate that Micah had always been looking for a gang or way into the vanderland gang because they were a pretty famous gang at this point and kind of thought this was the easiest way he could get in because Dutch was known for like saving people in commotion or rewarding people that did save his own life and since he did save Dutch's life Mel was let into the gang but he wasn't really liked by any of the other members except for Dutch who respected him for his ideas and skills in combat while everyone else hated him for being like very hotheaded and just like a pain in the ass to be around Shan Maguire Shawn spent his early days in his native Ireland before moving to America with his Outlaw father his father was eventually hunted down and killed and Shawn became an orphan Shawn eventually became an outlaw of his own and met Hosea and Dutch in North Elizabeth at a bar he tried to steal a pocket watch from Dutch and threatened them at gunpoint before they laughed at him daring him to shoot at them they'd already seen Shawn beforehand and realizing that he was trying to steal from them they' taken the bullets out of his gun and then asked him to join the gang because they really liked his attitude but it's pretty similar to Bill's story where you know he tried to Rob them and Dutch led him into the gang because he kind of liked who bill was and also hosea's story which just really interesting how similar like three of these stories are I don't know if that's just Rockstar getting lazy on us or it's just like this would be a common occurrence in this time but I don't know it's kind of an interesting detail nonetheless Kieran Duffy kieran's parents died when he was very young and Kieran quickly started working as a stable boy before being thrown out I don't really know what the reason is for that but he eventually tried to join the Army before quickly being thrown out of there as well he then became an outlaw but the gang he joined would eventually all be killed in front of him and eventually he met the o'driscolls and they forced him to become a stable boy for them and they said join the gang or you're going to die so you know he kind of had to join the gang but after working for them for just a couple of months after the vanderland gang on the O'Driscoll base Kieran was caught by Arthur and forced to be a hostage of the Gang event saving Arthur's life and becoming a full-fledged member of the gang Leopold Strauss when Strauss was a young boy he got involved with the criminal Lifestyle by helping his older brother who would beat up night Watchmen for food strauss's dad eventually sold his daughter into bonded labor which kind of disillusioned Strauss with his family resulting him in being shipped away to the United States by his father to live with his uncle his uncle eventually soon died after after there was like a riot in New York and he just could not see New York in like a weird way it was like a war torn New York so he just died of a heart attack that way but that resulted in Strauss eventually being left in America to fend for himself but stuss became a con man after this because he had nothing really else in his brain and like he didn't really know what else to do and eventually he found Dutch in a way I don't know exactly what happened but maybe he was trying to scam Dutch or you know maybe he scammed someone else that Dutch knew and Dutch eventually allowed Strauss into the gang where he became an accountant for the Gang and he eventually picked up lone sharking as well as he saw it as a really easy way to make money and he didn't really have to do anything and it was probably one of the most profitable methods for the entire gang and they didn't have to do anything that illegal so it was a pretty solid like profitable Venture for them but it eventually did result in the downfall of the entire gang so maybe it wasn't the greatest idea Hosea Matthews Hosea was raised in the mountains likely somewhere like amberino during his early childhood his father was supposedly a very sinful man who Hosea had only met three times in his life yet he still had a lot of respect for his father Hosea tried to become a stage actor and comedian but eventually left that life after he had little success and he went full-time as an outlaw inste kind of a crazy career path switch from like oh I'm trying to be a comedian or an actor and instead you become an outlaw but while stealing and robbing Hosea was caught trying to take a chicken and a sheriff tried to hang him before a riot broke out at the hanging resulting in Hosea being saved by the mob and the sheriff was eventually then hanged after they believed that he was trying to give Hosea an unfair punishment and eventually he did meet Dutch when they tried to Rob each other a couple years down the line and then they joined and started their own vanderland gang Arthur Morgan when Arthur was young his mother passed away and his father died after being arrested and hanged in front of his son and it's implied that Arthur's father did some at least weird things like beating him and like maybe some other forms of abuse and just wasn't a good father in his own way but Arthur does still have some fond memories of ly Morgan his father keeping his hat in a photo but likely this is just like a way to connect back to his family and his life before the gang but in 1877 Arthur was found by Dutch and Hosea on the streets and since he was an orphan they kind of Welcome him into their gang and he immediately grew close to them as they acted like his father figures and Arthur began to embrace Dutch's ideals of world without rules and it seems like that was a common yeah theme with Dutch where he took people that are really on the downtrod and he told them about this crazy world where there would be no rules and he kind of tricked them in that way and like indoctrinated him into the vanderlin gang cult and that's how he kind of got them all to follow this ideal of like freedom and anarchism thanks for making it to the end of the video if you do want to see some more Red Dead 2 content there should be some popping up right now click on it

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Published: Tue Apr 23 2024