Jantien was baptized on 6 Feb 1799 in the A-Kerk in Groningen, daughter and fifth child of Berent Hindriks (dutch link) and Antje Albers. She is my third great-grandaunt. All children were baptized without last names; only after the start of civil registration in 1811 do they regularly use the surname …
John Seidler was born on 5 Dec 1907 in Newark, NJ, second son of four of Alexander Seidler and Isabella Riker. He is my son-in-law’s grandfather. Alexander was of German descent, his father came to the US around 1850; Isabella had deep New Netherlands (from Ryck Hendricksen, c. 1655) as …
Maria Martens was baptized 4 Feb 1689 in Amsterdam, daughter of Jacob Martens and Jannetje Hendriks. She is the first wife of Pieter Portilje (dutch link), my husband’s 1st cousin 8x removed. She married Pieter in 1705, and they have five children before her death in 1714. At her death …
Willem Cramer was baptized 3 Feb 1760 in Amsterdam, third child of Willem Cramer (dutch link) and Jannetje van der Schilde. He is my husband’s 4th great-grand-uncle. The sponsors at his Dutch Reformed baptism were Andries Campman and Antje van der Schilde. Antje is the sister of his mother, and is …
Mariam McKee was born 2 Feb 1794 in Pennsylvania, daughter of James McKee and Sarah Guess. She was the fourth child of nine, and my son-in-law’s 5th great-grandmother. Her father had supposedly come from County Tyrone, her mother from Wales, but the exact dates of their immigration are not known. …
One of the sadder stories I have come across while going through the Bergen County newspapers, is that of Mrs. Ellen Van …
