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Who are your Dutch ancestors?
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Permalink Reply by Cecilia Eppink on
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Great Great Grandfather, Christopher Nyland (Nijland) from Eibergen, Gelderlands
His wife, Tryntje Alberts Kleveringa, from Roden, Drenthe, Netherlands
Great Great Grandmother, Engelena Gerharda TeGrotenhuis, from Grote Benbroke (?) near Dinxperlo, Gelderlands, moved to Bocholt, Prussia where she married Arnold Johann Epping before migrating to USA in 1854.
I have found thousands of Dutch ancestors on Genlias.
Brickwall: Finding parents of Engelena Gerharda TeGrotenhuis, my Great Great Grandmother... -
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The brickwall fell down.. We found Engelena's parents! Big time bonus... We found her grandparents as well. The 16 year search ended very happy.
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Permalink Reply by Henk van Kampen on
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Congrats! Where did you find them?
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My cousin, Mary, wrote directly to the Archives in the Netherlands to get a copy of Engelena's birth certificate. One she had the name of her parents she was able to go back another two generations.
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Permalink Reply by Annemarie on
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I have been able to trace my parental ancestors back t0 1570 Vlaardingen The Netherlands, my maternal side goes back to early 1800 Germany with the name Spoeltman
Grand father mothers side , De Koning from Middelburg
Other grand mother from fathers side van der Vos from IJsselmonde near Rotterdam
Other names, van Haren, Mulder, Spittel and van Aedrichem -
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Permalink Reply by Pamela Ann Drake on
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Hi!
My Dutch surnames,early in America, in New York & New Jersey were: BANTA,DEBAUN,DENYCE,DIERCKS,DRABBE,HELLING,HENDRICKS,JANS,MEET,TERHUENE,VANDERSTRAATEN & VAN NUYS. Hopefully, I haven't forgotten any of the names.
Pam Drake in Indiana
P.S. The BANTA's were from Friesland. -
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Permalink Reply by Madehlinne on
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Hi, Pamela!!
Or should I say 'Cousin?' My name is Mary Hunter Linneman and I'm related to the Epke Jacobse Banta family too! Even though I'm related to the Banta's by marriage--my cousin married a Banta descendant--I'm still excited about learning more about this family and its allied lines.
If you're from Indiana, which Banta are you related to there? Are you by chance related to the Abraham T. Banta family? :D
Please contact me. I'm sure we have lots of family in common!!
Madehlinne -
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Greetings!
I have just discovered that I am related to the BANTA family who came from Friesland, Netherlands, to Nieuw Amsterdam in 1659. While I'm only related to the Banta family by marriage, I'm STILL excited about finding more information of this new [to me!] family line.
My emigrant ancestor was EPKE JACOBSE (BANTA), born about 1619, in Friesland, Netherlands, and died 23 Oct. 1686, Bergen Co., NJ. Epke {an unusual name, I've learned} married Sistke Dircksdr (spelling?) about 1650, and had 5 sons: Cornelius, Seba, Hendrick, Dirck and Wiert, before they left Holland. The family left on the ship De Trouw and landed in Nieuw Amsterdam on 12 Feb. 1659.
They settled first in New Haarlem, NY, and then not long afterward re-located to Flushing, on Long Island, NY, where Epke was an innkeeper for several years. In 1669, Epke was appointed as an appraiser for an estate in the company of John Lawrence, who would eventually become the Mayor of New York. In 1671, Epke purchased a mill in Jamaica [Yemecah], NY, and became a miller for a short time before he and the family moved to Bergen Co., NJ. about 1675. Apparently, Sitske Dircksdr died before she could make the trip to New Jersey or that fact may have impelled them to move away.
The Banta's are also related by marriage to many of the first Dutch settlers in Bergen and Hudson Cos., NJ: Meyer, Van Sickler, Van Horn, de Groot, Peeck/Peek, Terhune, Buskirk or Van Buskirk, Westervelt, Brinckerhoff, Demarest (Des Marets), Sip, Hendricks and Van Winkle.
This portrait is of Epke Jacobse (Banta) was painted about 1650, shortly before or after his marriage.
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Permalink Reply by Virginia Lombard on
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My ancesterrs I am researching are Sutphen, Voorhees,Van Duyn,Woertman in which all had migrated to America.,NY then NJ. I started searching for, and ,researching this past year ,not kmowing anything ,about my fathers side of my family . This has opened up a whole new world for me.I am looking forward to learning much ,much more!
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I also have other Dutch surnames I am still working on as well-Hendricks,v\Van Nuys,Van Pelt,DenyseNyssen,Boerum,Van Neste,Cortelyou.
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Got as far as finding my 11x great grandfather in Vlaardingen Zuid Holland, The Netherlands and got stuck in 1560 as they did not have the surname yet at that time. Very hard to find Lucas Willemszoons and things like that s and find the correct ones :) But I am happt enough with the 2100 people I was able to find.
Maybe a bit unfair because I am Dutch but I am not living in the Netherlands
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Permalink Reply by Denis Savard on
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I am looking for the family of Jan ESSELING van Hasseling, VoC soldier (1754-1760) & tailor (1761-1790) in Cape of Good Hope. Born (we believe) in Hesselingen (today, in Meppel,Drenthe,NDL), he joined VoC in Zeeland in 1753, arrived on the Visvliet in 1754, became a freeman in 1760. Outside the Tailor citation in his burgher papers request in the Precises of the Archives, all the above information is from company records in The Hague. None giving his patronym, parents or Cape dependants.
I now believe it is his family (seeking SAF mariage & births) that head for New Brunswick Canada after Cape Town is occupied from 1795 - date which corresponds to their showing up on our shores circa 1795-1797. Later records call them Dutch, some almost forgotten family lore mentionned South Africa. Few records are kept where they settle until the late 1810s, so their ducomented origins are very scant.The surname is not understood by the French priests early on, and many variants appeared: Eslinger, Elsliger, Esligar, Sligar, Sleigher, Sleguer...
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