Christina (Petersson) Walraven (1668 - 1725)

Born 1668 in New Castle, Delaware

Ancestors

Wife of Gisbert Walraven Sr. — married about 1684 in New Castle, Delaware [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 20 Dec 1725 at about age 57 in New Castle, Delaware

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Biography

Christina Peterson, born c. 1667, married in the late 1680s Gisbert (Jesper) Walraven (son of Walraven Jansen DeVos and Christina Ollesdotter). She was buried 20 December 1725. Gisbert Walraven, also known as Jesper Walraven, was born about 1660. They lived at Middle Borough, Christiana Hundred, where he divided his father's plantation with his younger brother Jonas Walraven, 19 April 1708. His will of the same date, proved 4 June 1708, named five children.^[1]

Vitals

Christiana Kerstin Petersson Walraven
BIRTH: 1668 New Castle County, Delaware, USA
DEATH: 20 Dec 1725 (aged 56–57) New Castle County, Delaware, USA
BURIAL: Old Swedes Churchyard, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, USA
MEMORIAL ID: 27660951

Family Members:
Spouse:

• Gisbert Jesper Walraven 1659–1708 (m. 1686)

Children:

• Britta Walraven London unknown–1721
• Jonas Jesperson Walraven unknown–1727
• Catharina Walraven Justis 1691–1754

Gravesite Details: Wife of Jesper^[2]

Marriage

Name: Martin Martinsson
Spouse's Name: Kerstin Walraven
Event Date: 08 May 1718
Event Place: Holy Trinity Or Old Swedes Church, Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Page 5 http://www.ettc.net/tah/Reading%20Assignments/Delaware%20Swedish%20Colonial%20Society.pdf
2. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #27660951
3. ↑ "Delaware Marriages, 1713-1919," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7RS-7M4 : 6 December 2014), Martin Martinsson and Kerstin Walraven, 08 May 1718; citing Holy Trinity Or Old Swedes Church,Wilmington,New Castle,Delaware; FHL microfilm 0908217 IT 1.

• WikiTree profile Petersson-300 created through the import of McDonald Family Tree_Wiki_2011-05-28.ged on May 29, 2011 by HB McDonald.
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