Neeltje Gerrits (van Couwenhoven) Schenck (1641 - abt. 1672)

Born 21 Sep 1641 in New Amsterdam, New Netherland

Ancestors

Descendants

Died about 1672 at about age 30 in Flatlands, Brooklyn, Kings County, Long Island, Province of New York

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Biography

Neeltje Garretse van Couwenhoven was born before 20 Sep 1641 when she was baptized in Manhattan RDC on 20 Sep 1641 with father listed as Gerrit Wolphersen. Neeltje was the child of Gerritt Cowenhoven and Altje Kool who were living at Flatlands, Kings County, New York at the time. She married Roelof Schenk in 1660 in Flatlands, Kings County. She was living in there 1661 and died there in 1672 or 1674.^[1].

Names

Neeltje

Garretse (meaning child of Garret)

van Couwenhoven - Couwenhoven was a farm or estate about 4 miles north-west from Amersfoort, in the province of Utrecht (Holland). ^{[2] [3]} van Kouwenhoven, Covenhoven, Couenhouen, and other variations, with and without "van".

Christening

20 SEP 1641. New Amsterdam, New New Netherlands ^[4]

Manhattan DRC on 20 Sep 1641 with father Gerrit Wolphersen and sponsors were her grandfather Gerret Wolphertsen and two others, one being a surname Simons.^[5]

Marriage

Wife of Roelof Martense Schenck — married 1660, New Netherlands^{[6] [4] [7]}

Children

1. Marten Roelofse Schenck, b. Jan 22, 1661, Flatlands (Kings) NY, d. May 02, 1727, Flatlands (Kings) NY.
2. Annetje Roelfse Schenck, b. abt. 1663, d. Mar 25, 1688.
3. Jannetje Roelfse Schenck, b. abt. 1664, d. 1684.
4. Marike Roelofse Schenck, b. Feb 14, 1667, Flatlands (Kings) NY, d. Nov 25, 1736.
5. Jan Roelofse Schenck, b. Feb 10, 1670, Flatlands (Kings) NY785, d. Jan 30, 1753, Pleasant Valley (Monmouth) NJ

Death

1672, Flatlands, Long Island, New York

Sources

1. ↑ William Howard Hauser Genealogy
2. ↑ Stokes, I. N. Phelps The iconography of Manhattan Island 1498-1909 (v. 2) (New York : Robert H. Dodd, 1915-1928.) Page 201. Digitized by Columbia University Libraries Digital Collections http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/cul/texts/ldpd_5800727_002/pages/ldpd_5800727_002_00000472.html?toggle=image&menu=maximize&top=&left=
3. ↑ See the discussion that led to the decision to use "van Couwenhoven" as the final WikiTree ID https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/67650/vankouwenhoven-couwenhoven-van-couwenhoven-covenhoven G2G
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Heritage Consulting, Millennium File (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2003;) NOTE: The Millennium File . . AKA #S165.
5. ↑ https://www.ancestry.ca/interactive/6961/43103_356289-00166?pid=2567582.
6. ↑ Source: #S42 Source number: 1751.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: PHZ
7. ↑ Source: #S300

See also:

• Allen, Marguerite H.. A record of the ancestry and descendants of Henry & Sarah (Thompson) Hendricks of Monmouth Co., New Jersey : Henry Hendricks genealogy (1730-) : with notes on related families including Dorris, Frost, Parsell, Hinton, Schenck, Couwenhoven, Van Pelt and Wyckoff, page 545. Hendricks Family Organization, 1963; Woodruff Printing & Litho, Salt Lake City, UT. https://archive.org/details/recordofancestry00alle/page/n6/mode/1up
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Ancestral File Number: 8VPR-NT ; Ancestral File Number: 10RQ-KX5.
• FamilySearch
• Elmer Leonard Hauser Genealogy in Wikitree profile Hauser-303
• William Howard Hauser Genealogy in Wikitree profile Hauser-284
• Elias W. van Voorhis, A Genealogy of the Van Voorhees Family in America, or, The Descendants of Stephen Coerte van Voorhees of Holland and Flatlands, L. I: Publication: Name: G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, New York, 1888;: Note: Source Medium: Book
• Page: p. 160: Author: Teunis G. Bergen: Title: The Bergen Family; Or, The Descendants of Hans Hansen Bergen: Note: : Source Medium: Book
• Page: p. 146: Author: Benjamin Robinson Schenck, M.D. (from Records compiled by Adrian Adelbert Schenck): Title: The Ancestors and Descendants of Rulef Schenck : A Genealogy of the Onondaga County, New York, Branch of the Schenck Family: Publication: Name: Detroit, Michigan: 1911; Note: Source Medium: Book
• Page: p. 61: Text: In 1660, he married Neeltje Geretsen van Couwenhoven, daughter of Garret Wolphertson van Couwenhoven. She was born in Flatlands and baptized September 20, 1641.: Author: Benjamin Robinson Schenck, M.D. (from Records compiled by Adrian Adelbert Schenck): Title: The Ancestors and Descendants of Rulef Schenck : A Genealogy of the Onondaga County, New York, Branch of the Schenck Family: Publication: Name: Detroit, Michigan: 1911; Note: Source Medium: Book.
• Page: p. 30: Text: Roelof lived for a few years in Breuklyn and in 1660 married Neeltje Geretsen van Couwenhoven, a niece of Jacob van Couwenhoven. He then settled at Amersfoort (later Flatlands), Long Island, where he resided until his death in 1704, and where he is buried.: Author: Frank Rosebrook Symmes: Title: History of the Old Tennent Church: Publication: Name: 1904; Note: Source Medium: Book
• Page: p. 442: Author: Francis Bazley Lee: Title: Genealogical and Personal Memorial of Mercer County, New Jersey: Publication: Name: Lewis Publishing; Note: : Source Medium: Book
• Page: p. 489: Author: Frank Rosebrook Symmes: Title: History of the Old Tennent Church: Publication: Name: 1904; Note: : Source Medium: Book
• Page: p. 442: Text: he md. 1st at Flatlands L. I. in 1660 Neeltje Geretsen van CouwenhovenGENERAL COUWENHOVEN SOURCE # - "Wolfert Gerritsen Van Couwenhoven and the Founding of New York," Journal of Long Island History 15:5–22, by Morton Wagman, 1979.
• Rhinebeck Lutheran Church Records, Rhinebeck, NJ and Tombstone Records of Cazenovia Cemetery, NY
• "Hollanders who helped build America". Bernard Hubertus Maria Vlekke, Henry Beets. American Biographical Company, 1942. p. 196
• Ancestry.com, Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015 (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;) NOTEGenealogieOnline
• Edmund West, comp., Family Data Collection - Individual Records (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2000;) Repository: #R3

Acknowledgments

• The WikiTree profile VanCouwenhoven-1 was created through the import of Sheppard_Duncan_Bickham_Stroud.ged on 01 February 2011.
• The WikiTree profile Van couwenhoven-10 was created through the import of grant2.ged on 07 February 2011 by William Hauser.
• The WikiTree profile Van Couwenhoven-17 was created by Erik Rasmussen on May 8, 2011.
• The WikiTree profile Couwenhoven-55 was created by Wilfred Vasile on July 23, 2012.
• The WikiTree profile Cowenhoven-15 was created by Wilfred Vasile on July 29, 2012.
• Van Kouwenhoven-21 was created by Robert Tomasko through the import of Tomasko Family Tree.ged on Jun 1, 2014.