Fenneke (or Femmetje) Troost was baptized 9 Apr 1762 in Almelo, 6th child and 4th daughter of Jan Troost and Geertruid ten Bruggencate (dutch link). She is my 3rd cousin 5x removed (as closest relationship). Jan and Geertruid have 9 children, 6 daughters and 3 sons, but the first two sons …
Pieter Moriau (Meriau, Moreau) (dutch link) was baptized 8 Apr 1620 in the Walloon Church in Amsterdam. He was the son of IJsbrandt Moriau and Jeanne du Pire, and my husband’s 9th great-grandfather. IJsbrandt and Jeanne were Walloons; when they married in Amsterdam in 1617, he was from Valenciennes, she …
Mary Ashley was born 6 Apr 1644 in in Springfield, MA, third child of Robert Ashley and his wife Mary. She was my son-in-law’s 8th great-grandmother. Her parents had both come from England, and they had married in Springfield in 1641. This was Mary’s second marriage, she had first married …
Johann Fredrich Seidler was born 5 Apr 1744 in Germany. The papers I inherited do not mention a place, but they do state that he was a pastor at Elben in Kurshessen (now prob. Elbenberg near Naumburg). I wrote about his wife Wilhelmina before. He is my son-in-law’s fourth great-grandfather. The sources I …
Jacob Cleve was baptised on 3 Apr 1711 in Westerlee, Groningen, second son and 4th child of Jan Jacobs (Cleve) (dutch link) and Antje Roelfs. He is my 6th great-granduncle, on my mother’s side. He probably did not live long; his father names later, with his third wife, two more sons …
Martha Mayer (dutch link) was born 2 Apr 1882 in Schifferstadt in the Pfalz, 8th child of Leopold Mayer and Henriette Julia Wolff. …
Today being Easter Sunday, I thought I would try to see whether any one in my database was actually born (or baptized) …
Christopher Tiffany was baptized 31 Mar 1639 in St. John Hackney in London, as son of Henry Tiffany and Elizabeth.(1) He is …
Pieter ten Bruggencate (dutch link) was born 29 Mar 1902 in Broek op Langedijk, North Holland, 5th child of Albertus ten Bruggencate and …
Hendrik de Haan (dutch link) was born 28 Mar 1890 in Nieuwe Pekela in Groningen. He was the eldest son of Ulpen de …
