Matias Beck (abt. 1615 - 1668)

Husband of Leonora Grevenraet — married about 1650 in Curaçao, Brazil

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Biography

Matias Beck is Notable.

Matias Beck was a Dutch soldier and colonial administrator who served the Dutch West India Company in the seventeenth century.

In about 1630, Mathias Beck, Vice-Director of Curacao, married Leonora Grevenraet, probably daughter of Guilliam Greverraet and Aldegonde Bonaerts. ^[1]

In William J. Hoffman's series "An Armory of American Families of Dutch Descent", in NYGBR 72 (1941) no. 4, p. 309, under the family Grevenraet, he mentions one Leonora Grevenraet, wife of Matthias Beck, the Dutch director at Curacao, who succeeded Lucas Rodenburg in 1655. Hoffman says she was "in all probability a daughter of Guillaume Grevenraet and Aldegonda Bonaerts." If so, this Leonora was born in 1623 and was eligible to marry in the mid-1640's.

Matthias Beck, during his time living in Brazil, had a wife, Anna Hack (b.1620), with whom he had several children between 1638 and 1647.

Sources

• Dutch-Colonies-L Archives: Subject: Re: D-Col Merchant trader Grevenraets Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005

• "Its About Time", Volume IV, compiled by William L. DeCoursey

• Dutch-Colonies-L Archives: Subject: Re: DUTCH-COLONIES Grevenraet question -- Hoffman source Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012

1. ↑ See DeCoursey, cited above.