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TWELFTH GENERATION

2212. Hendrick Herman Rosenkrans

2213. Annaitje unknown

REF: http://www.familysearch.org/Search/af/ancestral_file_frame.asp?recid=6928355

"The church in Bergen burned down in 1674, which destroyed all of the pertinent birth records prior to that date. So we have no direct method for linking (1106) Harmon Hendrick Rosenkrans with an ancestor in Norway who had come there from Holland."
-- http://www.rosedalesoftware.com/genealogy/genealogy.htm

"There is a possibility that (1106) Herman was related to (4424) Henrik Rosenkrans who between 1617 and 1629 obtained permission to the fisherey of herring and whales at the coast of Greenland and Norway. This Henrik was likely an immigrated Hollander, not, however, of the nobility."

-- http://www.altlaw.com/edball/html/d0047/i12241.htm

2214. Dirck Noorman (/de Norman) Volkersten (/Volkertszen)

REF: http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/o/w/e/Cindy-L-Owens/GENE2-0016.html

2215. Christina Vigne

REF: http://wavecom.net/~fulker/1-1stgen.html; http://www.tulsa.oklahoma.net/~kingfish/tree/html/d0009/g0000068.html#I00624; http://www.my-ged.com/db/page/prell/1766

Volkersten -- The history of this ancient Austria family traces its ancestry as a family of Slav and Magyar origin before the year 1100

      
In 1625, the Dutch West India Company imported builders to put up houses in the New Netherlands. (2214) Dirk Volkertsen was a builder, and may have been among them. After marrying 2215. Christina Vigne, Dirk and his family settled down around Boswyck. One historian states that "Dirk naturally contributed in the layout of the village, and in the construction of the buildings, the docks at the waterways, the roads and highly important palisade." He also notes "his lore in Indian warfare" and "the stimulation of his belligerent personality in creating courage and initiative in those fellow settlers who had but recently arrived from European countries..."

The (4430) Vignes were among the first 30 French Walloon families the Dutch West India Company imported to establish the New Netherlands colony in 1624. Peter Minuit, the colony's Director, was also a Walloon.

In 1657 (2214) Dirck was charged with stabbing a cooper over a game of dice. They moved to Bushwyck about 1643 but Indian attacks sent them back to the city. They returned to Buskwyck about 1660. In 1663 they were fighting with a neighbor who charged that (2215) Christina called him an awful name... In spite of his irrascability, he seems to have been a citizen of some note in Bushwyck.
 

   

THIRTEENTH GENERATION

4424. Herman Rosenkrantz, "the Fisherman"

4425. Rachel Jans

REF: http://www.familysearch.org/Search/af/ancestral_file_frame.asp?recid=6928355

4428. Volkert (Veile?)

4429. unknown

4430. Guillaume (/Guelyn /Geleyn) Vigne

4431. (Adrianna/) Adrienne Cuveille (/Cuvellier)

REF: http://home.att.net/~neil40/wga27.html#I3183; http://www.conovergenealogy.com/Internet/d0001/f0000007.html#I36436

      
In Amsterdam, in 1613 or earlier, a and (4430) Gulian Vigne was an Officer at the site of New Amsterdam in 1613. He and his wife, (4431) Adrienne Cuveille, were probably members of the crew of the Dutch trading ship "Tiger," which caught fire, in 1613, off Manhattan Island and was beached. The ship's crew wintered in huts on the southern shoulder (at about 39 Broadway) of Manhattan, and thus established the first settlement in what is now New York. It is evident that "some Hollanders," probably including the Vignes, stayed continuously in New Netherland from 1613 on, in trade with the natives. (4431iv) Jan was born at a trading post on Long Island; he is historically renowned for being the first white male born in Nieu Nederlandt. SRC: c/o William L. DeCoursey decoursey@earthlink.net
  		   

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