The Family of Dyna Van Leeuwen 5 January 2016 The objective of this project was to finish clean-up on the ancestry of Dyna Van Leeuwen. You requested that we clean up the few remaining families on Family Tree in her line, prove or disprove what is on Family Tree but not on Ancestral Quest, and correct Family Tree as needed and bring these lines to a final conclusion. Previous research on Dyna Van Leeuwen verified her ancestry by four generations and extended her pedigree to the early 1600s. Recommendations at the close of that project were to • Confirm the father of Catherine De Brul as shown on Family Tree. • Confirm the parents of Jan Cornelius Van Cleave as shown on Family Tree. • Verify whether the seven additional children for Laurens Pieterson de Norman and Anetie Pieters on Family Tree belong to the family. • Confirm the parents of Laurens Pieterson de Norman as shown on Family Tree. The Father of Catherine De Brul Catherine De Brul (96NK-2ZY) was born about 1634 and married Jans Janse De Jonge on 1 November 1659 in New Amsterdam (New York). Family Tree listed Catherine’s father as Matthys DeBruhl (LV4L-XG4), who was born in 1612 in the Netherlands. No spouse was listed for Matthias DeBruhl, neither were any other children listed for him besides 2 Catherine. And no sources were listed to confirm this parent-child relationship. It would be difficult (if not impossible) to confirm this relationship without further information about Matthys DeBruhl. Where in the Netherlands was he from? Did he immigrate to America (New Amsterdam)? Was Catherine born to him in the Netherlands or New Amsterdam? It was decided to contact the Family Tree user who originally added the information on Matthys DeBruhl to see where the information came from and evaluate its reliability. Matthys DeBruhl’s Family Tree record was originally created on 11 January 2015 by user MadiSparks08. The following message was sent to this user: On 11 January 2015, you added Matthys DeBruhl as the father of Catherine De Brul. I am wondering how you learned Catherine's father's name and if you have any sources to support this relationship. If you do, would you please attach them to the records? I am in the process of verifying and sourcing my tree and would like to make sure this relationship is correct and properly sourced. Thanks very much for your help. Meanwhile, an Internet search was made for further information about Matthys DeBruhl. Five public member trees at Ancestry.com were discovered, which list Matthys DeBruhl as the father of Catherine De Brul. Three of these trees have no useful sources, but two cite a passenger list for Matthys DeBreuil. He immigrated to New York, New York, in 1662 at age 50.1 So a Matthys DeBreuil definitely came to America, settled in New York, and was born about 1612. The passenger list does not prove he was related to Catherine De Brul, but he was the right age to be her father and he lived in New York as she did. It is likely that a previous researcher was searching for candidates to be Catherine’s father, found the passenger list, noted that Matthys was a viable candidate, and added him as Catherine’s father. The relationship was then perpetuated to other family trees. If Matthys was in fact Catherine’s father, then he immigrated to New York after she did—in fact, he arrived three years after her marriage. This would be unusual, but it is possible. While Matthys may be Catherine’s father, the records simply don’t say for sure. This line is probably a dead end. Since Matthys DeBreuil is a viable candidate to be Catherine’s father, he was not unlinked from Catherine in Family Tree. Instead, a note was added explaining the tentative relationship, the passenger list was added as a source, and Matthys DeBreuil was added to your Watch List. A note indicating that Matthys DeBreuil is probably a dead-end ancestor was also added to Family Tree. 1 “U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s,” Matthys DeBreuil (1662), Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com: accessed 5 January 2016). 3 The Parents of Jan Cornelius Van Cleave Jan Cornelius Van Cleave (L7TG-R9M) was born about 1628 in the Netherlands. He immigrated to America about 1653 and settled in New York. Published sources have sought to extend his line in the Netherlands without success. However, Family Tree listed his parents as Cornelius Van Cleave and Marieken Van De Venter, albeit with no sources. The goal of current research was to prove whether these parents are correct. Cornelius Van Cleave was supposedly born in Kleve, Krummendiek, Steinburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Prussia, Germany, in 1606. Given the length of the place name, it was wondered if this location was correct or if it had been corrupted from something else. A study of German place names suggests it is a real location. The region of Steinburg in Germany has existed since the 1300s, but the district of Steinburg wasn’t created until 1867 when Schleswig-Holstein became a province of Prussia.2 Kleve and Krummendiek are municipalities within the ämter (a country subdivision with a similar function as a county in the United States) of Itzahoe-Land, in the Steinburg district. Currently they appear to be the same level of municipality. Kleve is a village/town within the parish of Krummendiek.3 The Family History Library only has birth records for Krummendiek dating back to 1671, so we were unable to verify the birth date (1606) given for Cornelius. Krummendiek’s marriage and death records begin in 1737.4 Marieken Van De Venter was supposedly born in Bunnik, Utrecht, Netherlands, in 1606. Family Tree indicated that Cornelius and Marieken were married 19 years later (1625) in the same location. Bunnik birth records began in 1626, marriages in 1627, and death records in 1730, so we were unable to search for Marieken’s birth record. We searched for the couple’s marriage from 1627 to 1630 just in case the marriage was off by a few years, but found no positive results.5 We also searched the births/baptisms from 1626 to 1632 in hopes of finding other children born to Cornelius Van Cleave and Marieken Van De Venter. This would add more relatives to your tree and verify that the parents were an actual couple. This also returned no results. Mothers’ names were not usually recorded at this time but there was no mention of a Cornelius Van Cleave.6 2 “Steinburg,” Wikipedia.org (http://www.wikipedia.org: accessed 9 December 2015). 3 “Schleswig-Holstein Place Names J-K,” search for Kleve, FamilySearch.org (http://www.familysearch.org: accessed 7 December 2015). 4 Evangelische Kirche Krummendiek (Kr. Steinburg), Kirkenbuch, 1671-1873, search for Cornelius Van Cleave (Leipzig: Zentralstelle für Genealogie, 1983). 5 Nederlands Hervormde Kerk. Bunnik (Utrecht), Kerkelijke Registers, 1626-1872 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1950, 1986), FHL Film 121446 item 5. Searched for Marieken Van De Venter. 6 Nederlands Hervormde Kerk. Bunnik (Utrecht), Kerkelijke Registers, 1626-1872 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1950, 1986), FHL Film 121446 item 1. Searched for possible children of Cornelius Van Cleave and Marieken Van De Venter. 4 Cornelius supposedly died in 1686 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. Marieken supposedly died in 1668, but no death place was listed on Family Tree. Amsterdam death records were searched in the year 1686 for Cornelius with no results.7 Only the records from the Dutch Reformed Church were searched, since that was the most common religion at the time. There are many other denominations that recorded deaths in the 1680s, and these records could be searched in the future. But they were not pursued during this session since absolutely none of the data on these parents could be verified. Where all of the data on these proposed parents of Jan Cornelius Van Cleave came from is a mystery. No viable sources are listed for them on Family Tree, and none of the data could be verified with genealogical records. These parents appear to be incorrect. Jan Cornelius Van Cleave was marked as a dead-end ancestor on Family Tree and unlinked from the parents that had been attached to him. The Children of Laurens Pieterszen de Noorman and Annetje Pieters The next goal of this research project was to verify the remaining children of Laurens Pieterszen de Noorman (LCMK-2D6) and Annetje Pieters (LCMK-2SX). In the previous project, two children were verified: Sytie (b. 1 June 1642) and Engel (b. 15 July 1646). But Family Tree listed seven other children for this couple. Each of the proposed children of Laurens Pieterszen de Noorman and Annetje Pieters were sought in birth records of New Amsterdam, New York, between 1635 and 1665, as this is where Laurens was supposedly living at the time. A birth/baptism record was found for each of the children listed on Family Tree but one.8 • Sÿtie – b. 1 June 1642 o Parents: Laurens Pieterszen Noorman o Witnesses: Hans Hanszen Noorman, Gÿsbert Corneliszen, Cornelis Willemszen, Christina Vÿnen (p. 13) • Engel – b. 15 July 1646 o Parents: Laurens Pieterszen 7 Nederlands Hervormde Kerk. Amsterdam (Noord-Holland), Kerkelijke Registers, 1553-1870 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1950), digitized by FamilySearch.org (http://www.familysearch.org: accessed 16 December 2015). Searched for death/burial record of Cornelius. 8 Thomas Grier Evans and Reformed Dutch Church (New York City), Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and New York: Baptisms from 25 December, 1639, to 27 December, 1730 (New York, New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1901), digitized by FamilySearch.org (http://www.familysearch.org: accessed 21 December 2015).