Gerretje (Jansen) Huyck (bef. 1731 - 1762)

Born before 12 Sep 1731 in Kinderhook, Albany County, New York

Ancestors

Wife of Johannes Huyck — married 22 Sep 1753 in Albany, New York

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Biography

Gerretje (also known as Gertrude) was baptized September 12, 1731 in the Reformed Dutch Church of Kinderhook, New York, recorded as the child of Roelof Janze and Elizabeth Janze.^[1]

She married Johannes Huyck on 22 September 1753. ^[2]

Two children are known to have been born from this marriage. She died in 1762, and Johannes Huyck remarried.^[3]

Church Records

Baptism

• 1731. den 12 7tember. Roelof Janze, Elizabeth Janze. Gerretje. Witnesses: Jacob Schermerhoorn, Engeltje Schermerhoorn. ^[1]

Marriage

• 1753. Sep. 22. L[icense]. Johannes Huyck, y.m., and Gerritje Jansen, y.d., both of Schot. ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Holland Society of New York; New York, New York; Kinderhook, Book 21. Accessed on Ancestry.com in database U.S., Dutch Reformed Church Records in Selected States, 1639-1989, at https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6961/images/42037_647350_0290-00030.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Records of the Reformed Dutch Church of Albany, New York, 1683–1809, Excerpted from Year Books of the Holland Society of New York. Part 4, page 5. Note: "Schot." is not defined, but it is likely to be Schodack. Several marriage records in the 1772–1779 book identify "Schotak" as the home of one or both partners.
3. ↑ Houck Genealogy

• Houck Genealogy at harvey.binghamton.edu/~chouck/genealogy.html (no longer online and not at archive.org), which cited Huyck, Howk, Houck, In America 1660s-1982, by Sylvia E. Wilson, Box 11, Medina, Washington 98039. ISBN: 0-932334-54-7 Heart of the Lakes Publishing, Interlaken, NY 14847.