Huguenots and Walloons

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Comment by Sue de Groot, PLCGS on March 14, 2011 at 5:13pm

My Van der Keur family is from Leiden, Netherlands. 300 years after the marriage of Arij van der Keur to Tanneke Pieters de Groet their descendants still live in Leiden and believe that Arij van der Keur was a Huguenot. It is suspected that Arij was born circa 1686-1690 in The Hague. No proof has been located, and again is suspect, that his father was Maerten Claesz van der Keur, a young man from Ghent and his mother was Annetje Pieterse van Raephorst (widow of Pieter Pietersz Courturier. Maerten Claesz van der Keur and Annetje Pieterse van Raephorst were married in The Hague 14 Dec 1687. I am looking for documentation to prove this family connection.

 

Comment by Nancy Bonham Wojcik on December 7, 2010 at 9:01pm

I'm sending you an email. Elizabeth's father Jean - owned property at Harlem on Manhattan Island.

Comment by Willard Saunders on December 7, 2010 at 8:56pm

"Revised History of Harlem (City of New York): Its Origin and Early Annals: Prefaced by Home Scenes in the Fatherlands; Or Notices of Its Founders Before ... the Recovered History of the Land-Titles ... "[Paperback] (available at amazon.com) has between 5 and 10 Baignoux surname listings. The given names are Jeaen, Jean, and John (example"Jeaen Baignoux,worthy French refugee" (probably 1668) p. 247. I'm worried about running out of space here ...willardsaunders@gmail.com

Comment by Nancy Bonham Wojcik on December 7, 2010 at 7:47pm

To Ed Bilky, thank you - you have given me a renewed spark to look for more info re: my ancestor Elizabeth Baignoux/Benue Freeman. The cemetery had a note for her that she was a French Huguenot but I just kept hitting walls. I saw in your post mention of Middlesex, NJ - She died in Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ in 1760 and is buried in the Woodbridge Presbyterian Church. I guess I'd better keep looking. I'm so glad that I signed up for this forum. Thanks!

Comment by Kathleen Forshey-Burns on June 30, 2010 at 11:00am

My Fourche and DeVoix families were from France and came to America in 1670's. Would like to know more about these families in France. My maiden name was Forshey which came from Fourche

Comment by Dorothy Hollings on May 9, 2010 at 11:45pm

Is this site solely for Huguenots to U.S.A?

Comment by Liz Loveland on May 9, 2010 at 8:44am

Thanks, Willard, I hadn't known about the special issue and I just ordered it.

Comment by Willard Saunders on May 2, 2010 at 11:41pm

The name Coursey appears in Colonial DE.

Comment by Willard Saunders on May 2, 2010 at 11:21pm

I'm just beginning to study the Dutch on the west bank of the Hudson, but I can recommend an article in 'New York History' entitled 'where ye walloens dwell': Rethinking the Ethnic Identity of the Huguenots of New Paltz and Ulster County, New York, Available to the New Netherland Institute's Online Store
http://www.nnp.org/shop1/books/new-york-history-fall-2008/prod_94.html

Comment by Liz Loveland on May 2, 2010 at 10:30am

As I've continued researching my New York Dutch, I've come across several more usages of "walloon" to mean anyone from France or Flanders who fled to the Netherlands around the 17th century, particularly in books and manuscripts from the 1800s and early 1900s. They seem to have used the term Huguenot much more specifically than walloon in that time period. I wanted to mention it here in case other people encounter the same thing and get confused as I initially did.

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