Helena (de Nijs) Dennis (bef. 1700 - 1784)

Helena (de Nijs) Dennis was a New Netherland Descendant 1674-1776. Join: New Netherland Project Discuss: new_netherland

Biography

Helena is said to have been born on 5 March 1700^[1] and baptized on 18 April 1700.^[2] It is likely that she was born in 1700, but no record has been identified to substantiate these specific dates. No baptism records for New Utrecht, Long Island, New York, are believed to survive from that time period.

She was the daughter of Nijs Teunissen and Helena Cortelyou.

Helena married Frederick van Lewe (a.k.a. van Liew, van Lieuwen) on 9 March 1717.^[3][4] They moved from Long Island to New Jersey, where Frederick had been given considerable acreage by his father. The births of their children were recorded in a Van Liew family bible as:^[5]

1. August 16, 1718, daughter Dyna Van Lewe
2. October 15, 1721, daughter Helena Van Lewe
3. March 19, 1724, daughter Marja Van Lewe
4. February 5, 1727, son Frederick Van Lewe
5. March 25, 1729, son Nise
6. January 7, 1734, son Cornelius Van Lewe
7. April 16, 1736, son John Van Lewe

Birth

• 18 APR 1700 New Utrecht (now neighborhood in Brooklyn, Kings County, NY)
  • Note: month and day from handwritten note added to book^[6][7]

Death

• 6 MAR 1784 ^[8]

Residence

• Middlebush, Somerset, New Jersey, United States ^[9]

Church Records

• Marriage

• 1717 Mar 09 The 9 March, the marriage banns were registered of Freeck van Leeuwen, young man, born and residing in Jamaica, and Helena de Nijs, young lady, born and residing in N. Utrecht. Married, the (blank) by me, V. Antonides. ^[10]

• Children's baptisms

1. 1729 Mar 26 Dennis; parents: Frederick Van Liew & Lanah Dennis. Wit.: Jacob Probasco, Maria Van Liew. ^[11]

Sources

1. ↑ Van Liew, Genealogy and Annals of the Van Liew Family, unpaginated
2. ↑ Handwritten date of April 18 appears as an insertion in the text of the Ancestry.com image of Cortelyou, John Van Zandt. The Cortelyou Genealogy. Lincoln, Nebraska: Brown Printing Service, 1942.
3. ↑ Our Ancestors
4. ↑ Somerset County Historical Quarterly Page: Volume VIII--1919, "Descendants of Cornelius Van Liew of Three-Mile Run", p. 41, 93
5. ↑ van Liew, E. R. Van Liew Family Bible Records. New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. Vol. 87 (1956), Issue 4. Pages 229-230, with correction at Vol. 89 (1958), page 243.
6. ↑ Bergen, Teunis G. Register in Alphabetical Order, of the Early Settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N.Y., from Its First Settlement by Europeans to 1700: With Contributions to Their Biographies and Genealogies, Compiled from Various Sources. (New York: S. W. Green's Son, 1881.)
7. ↑ The Cortelyou Genealogy
8. ↑ Bergen, Teunis G. Register in Alphabetical Order, of the Early Settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N.Y., from Its First Settlement by Europeans to 1700: With Contributions to Their Biographies and Genealogies, Compiled from Various Sources. (New York: S. W. Green's Son, 1881.)
9. ↑ Somerset County Historical Quarterly Page: Volume VIII--1919, "Descendants of Cornelius Van Liew of Three-Mile Run", p. 41, 93
10. ↑ David William Voorhees, editor, Records of The Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Flatbush, Kings County, New York, Vol.1, 1677-1720 (New York: Holland Society of New York, 1998). via Chris Chester, "The Brouwer Genealogy Database".
11. ↑ William Jones Skillman, "Earliest Baptismal Records of the Church of Harlingen (Reformed Dutch) of New Jersey, 1727-1734", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vol.40, pp.281-291 (Oct. 1909). via Chris Chester, "The Brouwer Genealogy Database".

• Chester, Chris. "The Brouwer Genealogy Database." freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brouwergenealogydata. Accessed May 23, 2016. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brouwergenealogydata/index.htm Helena de Nijs

• Cortelyou, John Van Zandt. The Cortelyou Genealogy. Lincoln, Nebraska: Brown Printing Service, 1942

• Flatbush Dutch Church Marriages & Baptisms, 1677-1757. Arthur C.M Kelly, editor. Publication: Rhinebeck, NY, 1997

• Records of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Flatbush, Kings, NY. Holland Society of NY: 1998. Volume 1, 1677-1720.

• Bergen, Teunis G. Register in Alphabetical Order, of the Early Settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N.Y., from Its First Settlement by Europeans to 1700: With Contributions to Their Biographies and Genealogies, Compiled from Various Sources. (New York: S. W. Green's Son, 1881.)

• Bangs, Charlotte R. Woglom. Our Ancestors. Brooklyn: Press of Kings County Journal, 1896

• Somerset County Historical Quarterly

• Van Liew, Thomas L. Genealogy and Annals of the Van Liew Family. Publication: N.p.: n.p., 1910.

• See also:

• Ancestry Family Trees. Page: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/9639887/person/394465345/facts [Note: Private tree. This page is supposed to be about Helena Denyse, born 1699 in Brooklyn, Windham, Connecticut, United States.]
• The Ancestors of Maria Vanderveer (personally maintained website)

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Denyse-30 created through the import of DeNise.ged on Sep 24, 2011 by Sara Tanke.
• This person was created through the import of rsturley20100927.ged on 16 November 2010.
• This person was created through the import of Newman Family Tree.ged on 12 March 2011.