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Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Name 1.2 Birth 1.3 Alias 1.4 Residence 1.5 Event 1.6 Note 1.7 Marriage 2 Sources 2.1 Notes

Biography

This biography is a rough draft. It was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import and needs to be edited.

Name

Name: Zacharias /Sickles/

Note: #N14927^[1][2][3]

Birth

Birth:

Date: ABT 1636

Place: Vienna, Wien, Wien, Austria^[4]

Alias

Alias: Zacharias Van Weenen^[5]

Residence

Residence:

Date: 1719

Place: Jersey City, Bergen County, NJ^[6]

Event

Event:

Type: Moved

Date: 1666

Place: Fort Orange, Albany, New York

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Event: Admitted as a freeman.

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Type: Civil

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Date: 1698

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Place: New York City

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Event: Indenture of apprenticeship of Lambrecht Sickels, son of Zacharias, to Meyndert Fredericksen to learn the smith's trade.

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Type: Indenture

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Date: 1679

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Place: Albany, Albany, New York

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Note: #N14928

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Event:

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Type: Migration

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Date: 1655

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Place: New Amsterdam, New Netherland^[7][8]

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Event:

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Type: Moved

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Date: 1693

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Place: New York City

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Note

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Note: #N14926

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Marriage

Husband: Zacharias Sickles

Wife: Anna Lambertse Van Valkenburg

Child: Anne Sickles

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Relationship to Father: Natural

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Relationship to Mother: Natural

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Child: Robert Sickels

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Relationship to Father: Natural

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Relationship to Mother: Natural

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Child: Lembrecht VanSickles

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Relationship to Father: Natural

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Relationship to Mother: Natural

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Child: Lysbet Sickles

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Relationship to Father: Natural

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Relationship to Mother: Natural

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Child: Zacharias Sickels

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Relationship to Father: Natural

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Relationship to Mother: Natural

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Child: Thomas Sickels

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Relationship to Father: Natural

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Relationship to Mother: Natural

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Child: Hendrick Sickels

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Relationship to Father: Natural

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Relationship to Mother: Natural

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Child: Grietjie Sickles

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Relationship to Father: Natural

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Relationship to Mother: Natural

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Child: Lea Sickles

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Relationship to Father: Natural

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Relationship to Mother: Natural

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Marriage:

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Date: ABT 1660

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Place: Albany, Albany, New York^[9]

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Sources

• WikiTree profile Sickles-24 created through the import of WORCESTER_2012-07-31.ged on Jul 31, 2012 by Bob Worcester. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Bob and others.
• Source: S900 Author: Jackson, Ronald V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp. Title: New Jersey Census, 1643-1890 Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 1999; Repository: #R3
• Repository: R3 Name: www.ancestry.com Address: E-Mail Address: Phone Number:
• Source: S948 Author: Gale Research Title: Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010; Repository: #R3 NOTEFilby, P. William, ed, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2010

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• Source: S958 Author: Genealogical Research Library, comp. Title: New York City Marriages, 1600s-1800s Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2005; Repository: #R3

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• Source: S965 Author: Valkenburg, Paul I. Title: Van Valkenburg Family in America Publication: Name: The National Association of the Van Valkenburg Family; Location: Baltimore; Date: 1976; Repository: #R10

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• Repository: R10 Name: Allen County Library Address: E-Mail Address: Phone Number:

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Notes

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Note N14926Zacharias Sickels, the common American ancestor of the family, was a native of the City of Vienna, Austria. Though he may not have been born there, court records clearly show that he had resided in the City. Soon after reaching manhood he drifted to Amsterdam, Holland, where he entered the military service under the Dutch West India Company and was sent to Fort Amsterdam on the island of Curacoa, where he remained until 1655. In the service he attained the rank of Adelborst or Cadet. In 1655 Governor Stuyvesant paid a visit to the island where Sickels was on duty. The latter accompanied the Governor to New Amsterdam and soon after attached himself to the garrison at Fort Orange (Albany). A record of a ship's passenger list written in German was found at the Family History Library. The name of the ship was not given. Translated from German the record reads: Sickels, Zacharias, out of Vienna, Soldier on Curocoa, 1655 in New Netherland, carpenter and proprietor, according to t? 1702. Some of the letters were hard to read so one word is left out.

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- Revised history of Harlem (city of New York): prefaced by home scenes in the fatherlands, or, notices of its founders before emigration: also, sketches of numerous families and the recovered history of the land-titles. 1904. p. 297.

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In the book "Fort Orange Records 1656-1678," pages 11-12, Zacharias Sickels gives power of attorney for money due from the WIC (Dutch West India Company): There appeared before me, Johannes La Montagne, in the service of the Chartered West India Company, commissary and vice director at Fort Orange and the village of Beverwijck, Sacharias Sickels, van Weenen [of Vienna], dwelling at Fort Orange, who, in the presence of the witnesses named below, has appointed and empowered, as he hereby appoints and empowers, Adriaen Sijmonsen in the appointer's name and for his benefit, to demand of the hon. lords directors of the General Chartered West India Company at the chamber of Amsterdam who woe him the payment of such moneys for services rendered at the island of Curacao as appears by settlement given to him, signed at the aforesaid island by Rodenbor[gh] and Verelle in 1655.* And upon its receipt to give a proper quittance, with power, in case necessity requires it, to substitute one or more persons in his place to demand payment. Promising to accept all that the aforementioned attorney shall do in this matter (provided that the aforesaid attorney or his substitute shall be obligated to render an accounting of the money received to the principal or his substitute). Upon pledge of his person and estate, immovable and movable, present and future, submitting the same to all court all laws and judges. Done in Fort Orange, the 4th of November 1656 in the presence of Johannes Provoost and Jan Lambetsen.

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Sachaeryst Seckels

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This is the mark X of Jan Lambertsen Johannes Provoost witness La Montagne, commissary at Fort Orange

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* Lucas Rodenburgh was vice director of Curacao until replaced by Matthias Beck in 1655; Arnould Verellen was his secretary.

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In 1658 he became a tapster (bartender) at New Amsterdam, and upon the surrender by the Dutch to the British in 1664 he married Anna and went to work to gain a livelihood as a carpenter. In 1670-2, and 1681-3 he was elected "town herder," which office he held for a salary of 18 guilders a head for the season. In accepting the 'cowherdship', Zacharias agreed, upon the rising of the sun, to blow 3X with a horn, then, with a "proper youngster:, go out where they can best feed the cattle. They had to have the cattle at the Church 15 min. before sunset. He was responsible if he caused any cattle to be killed or injured. If he was found sitting and drinking in any tavern, he was to be fined 10 guilders each time. In 1685 he was appointed rattle-watch (town watchman or night patrol), so called from the rattle used to give notice of their presence and calling the hour in making his nightly rounds. The pay for rattle watch was 100 guilders seawan and 100 guilders beaver for the year. He was also for some time, Town Crier, to call the people together on needed occasions, and porter or keeper of the city gates, to close them at night and open them in the morning.

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There are also documents dated August 28, 1659 (for service on Curacao) and October 10, 1659 at Fort Orange wherein Zacharias Sickels buys 36 gl. and 10 stuivers (in 'fatherland') and 48 guilders worth of goods against his salary as an Adelburst (Dutch Cpl). His signature is rendered Sacharyas Syckelse.

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In 1669 Zacharias purchased land in Bergen, NJ, on which his eldest son, Robert, settled and became a prominent resident, leaving a large family. "The town and corporation of Bergen," as appears by Carteret's charter, had an area of 11,500 acres. Up to the end of 1669 scarce one-third of this area had been patented to settlers. The balance, more than 8,000 acres, was used in common by the patentees, their heirs, devisees, and grantees, for nearly a century before it was finally divided and set off to those entitled to it.

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In the division made by the commissioners the common lands were apportioned among the patentees, hereinbefore named, and their descendants, as well as among the following named persons:

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Michael de Mott, George de Mott, Gerebrand Claesen, Joseph Waldron, Dirk Van Vechten, James Collerd, Thomas Brown, Andries Seagaerd, Dirk Cadmus, Zackariah Sickels, Job Smith, Daniel Smith, Joseph Hawkins, John Halmeghs, Philip French, Ide Cornelius Sip, Herman Beeder, Nicholas Preyer, Sir Peter Warren, Anthony White, Michael Abraham Van Tuyl, Walter Clendenny, John Cummings, David Latourette, John Van Dolsen.

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Sickles - Stuyvesant - Curaçao connection

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Peter Stuyvesant (ca. 1610-1672), Dutch director general of the New Netherland colony in America, was compelled to surrender his colony to England.

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The last and most efficient of Dutch proconsuls in the European struggle for control of North America, Peter Stuyvesant is remembered as the stubborn, somewhat choleric governor of the Dutch West India Company's base on the mainland. A zealous Calvinist, he brought a relatively effective government to the colony, absorbed the nearby rival Swedish settlements, and attempted to remold New Netherland in his own and the company's image. His efforts at reform were cut short with the seizure of New Amsterdam (later, New York) by a British force in 1664.

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Born at Scherpenzeel, Friesland, Stuyvesant was the son of a Calvinist Dutch Reformed minister. He attended school in Friesland, where he heard much about New Netherland and about Holland's war with Spain. He became a student at the University of Franeker but was apparently expelled, for reasons unknown, about 1629.

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Patriotic, and desiring adventure, Stuyvesant entered the service of the Dutch West India Company--first as a clerk and then, in 1635, as a supercargo to Brazil. By 1638 he had become chief commercial officer for Curaçao; in 1643 he returned there as governor. The following year he led an unsuccessful attack against the Portuguese colony of St. Martin in the Leeward Islands. During the siege he was wounded in the right leg, and the crude amputation required resulted in a lengthy convalescence and a trip to Holland to obtain an artificial limb. (Because of its adornments, he was thereafter often nicknamed "Silver Leg.") In Breda he married Judith Bayard, the sister of his brother-in-law.

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On Oct. 5, 1645, Stuyvesant came before the chamber of the nearly bankrupt West India Company and volunteered his services for New Netherland. The next July he was appointed director general of that colony. On Christmas Day he sailed for America with four vessels carrying soldiers, servants, traders, and a new set of officials. Also on board were his widowed sister and her children, together with his wife. The ships, proceeding by way of Curaçao, arrived at New Amsterdam on May 11, 1647, to be greeted by cheering settlers.

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The inhabitants soon learned, however, that their new governor was not so liberal as themselves. Stuyvesant's first domestic order restricted sale of intoxicants and compelled observance of the Sabbath. He became a church warden of the Reformed congregation and commenced rebuilding its edifice. Clerics and councilmen easily persuaded him (in a move aimed at Lutherans and Quakers) to forbid meetings not conforming to the Synod of Dort. Though Amsterdam reproved him on this point and counseled tolerance, under the narrowly religious Stuyvesant dissent was always frowned upon.

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Though harsh and dictatorial, Stuyvesant introduced a number of needed reforms, particularly directed toward improving New Amsterdam's living conditions. He appointed fire wardens and ordered chimney inspections, instituted a weekly market and annual cattle fair, required bakers to use standard weights, somewhat controlled traffic and sanitation, repaired the fort, and licensed taverns. Stuyvesant concerned himself about all aspects of town life. He organized a night watch, had streets paved, encouraged local bakeries and breweries, and promoted the colony's commerce whenever possible.

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Stuyvesant expected the people to obey his will and opposed the New Amsterdam citizen's desire for a separate municipal government for the city, but he early established the Board of Nine Men to advise him in promoting the public welfare. Citizens found onerous his diligent attempts to enforce Dutch trading restrictions and to collect taxes and tolls--though when their "Remonstrance" to Holland finally procured a distinct government for New Amsterdam (1653), they continued their delinquency about such obligations.

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One of Stuyvesant's first official acts was to organize a naval expedition against the Spaniards operating within the limits of the West India Company's charter. A force sent against Ft. Christina in 1655 conquered Sweden's province on the Delaware River and absorbed the settlements into New Netherland. Peace was made with marauding Native Americans, and captive Dutch colonists were ransomed. Stuyvesant promoted trading relations with New England and succeeded in achieving a modus vivendi respecting the troublesome boundary with Connecticut. In 1657 he granted a system of "burgher rights," providing (at a price) eligibility for trading and office holding; at first limited to New Amsterdam, this came to apply throughout the province.

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The governor's salary plus allowances (approximately ,600, all told) enabled Stuyvesant to purchase a bouwerie, or farm, of 300 acres north of the city wall and a town lot for a house with gardens beside the fort. He lived comfortably in these, and his two sons were both born in New Amsterdam.

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In 1664, while England and Holland were still at peace, Charles II decided to seize New Netherland for his brother James, Duke of York. When four British warships under Col. Richard Nicolls reached New Amsterdam, the colony was completely unprepared. Stuyvesant wanted to resist this aggression, but word of Nicolls's lenient terms eroded his already scanty support, and after lengthy negotiations he capitulated on September 7. He obtained provisional trading rights for the West India Company in the province and, to defend his official conduct, went to Amsterdam in 1665--though his evidence as to the company's neglect of colonial defense did not endear him to its directors. Returning to New York in 1668, Stuyvesant retired to his farm until his death in February 1672.

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- Encyclopedia of World Biography. www.bookrags.com/biography/peter-stuyvesant/

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Note N14927The name, Sickels, has been traced to Austria and appears in various of early New York, such as Sickles, Van Sickelen, Zikkels, Zichelson, Ziggles, etc. Zacharias was known as Zacharias Sickels and as Zacharias Sickels Van Weinen, meaning from Vienna, Austria. There is confusion whether Zacharias spelled his last name "Sickels" or "Sickels." It appears the majority of researchers choose "Sickles."

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Note N14928Indenture of apprenticeship of Lambrecht Sickels to Meyndert Fredericksen to learn the smith's trade.

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On this 9th day of February 16__? (unreadable) appeared before me, Adriaen van Ilpendam, notary public (residing in New Albany) and before the hereinafter named witnesses, Meyndert Fredericsz of the one part and Sacharias Sickels of the other part, who hereby acknowledge that they have agreed and contracted in manner following, to wit: Sacharias Sickels acknowledges that he has hired out his son named Lambrecht Sickels (now about 14 years of age) to said Meyndert Fredericsz for the term of six consecutive years commencing on the 1st of December 1679 and ending on the 1st of December 1685. And said master promises to provide said boy during the aforesaid term with proper food and linen and woolen clothing, etc. ; also to teach him the smith's trade as well as he shall be able and to send him to the evening school for three winters, namely, two months each winter, and pay the school tuition ; and at the end of said term said master promises to give him a suitable Sunday and workaday suit of clothing, six shirts, a pair of new shoes, a new hat, a pair of new stockings and a chest, but the aforesaid father promises to have said boy's washing done, provided he, Meyndert Fredericsz, shall now furnish a cask of soap to wash with during the six years. And said father promises that the said boy during the said term shall (with God's help) serve said master with all diligence and obedience and faithfulness, as well in the smith's trade as in all other proper work, and the aforesaid youngster promises to do the same (as aforesaid).Said contracting parties hereto bind their persons and estates, nothing excepted, subject to all lords, courts, tribunals and judges.

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In witness of which they have (in presence of Stoffel Jansz Abeel and Hans Dreeper, called as witnesses hereto) subscribed this with their own hands in New Albany, the date above written.

ZACHARIAS SECKELSZ

This is the mark jj of MEYNDERT FREDERICSZ, made by himself

As witnesses:

Stoffel Jansz Abeel

Hans Dreeper

- Early Records of the City and County of Albany: And Colony of Rensselaerswyck

By Albany County, New York. 1918. p. 107.

1. ↑ Source: #S900 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Zacharias Sickels
2. ↑ Source: #S958 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Zacharias Sickels
3. ↑ Source: #S948 Page: Database online. Place: New Netherland; Year: 1655; Page Number: . Data: Text: Record for Zacharias Sickels
4. ↑ Source: #S965
5. ↑ Source: #S965 Page: p. 15-20
6. ↑ Source: #S900 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Zacharias Sickels
7. ↑ Source: #S948 Page: Database online. Place: New Netherland; Year: 1655; Page Number: . Data: Text: Record for Zacharias Sickels
8. ↑ Source: #S965 Page: p. 15-20
9. ↑ Source: #S965

First Name + Zacharias

Middle Name

Last Name at Birth + Sickles

Current Last Name + Sickles

Other Last Name(s)

Preferred Name + Zacharias

Gender + Male

Birth Date + 1636-00-00

Birth Location + Vienna, Wien, Wien, Austria

Death Date + 1729-10-07

Death Location + Albany, Albany, New York

Father () + Zacharias VanWeenen (VanWeenen-1)

Marriage Location (Anna Lambertse Van Valkenburg, Van Valkenburg-205) + Albany, Albany, New York

Marriage Date (Anna Lambertse Van Valkenburg, Van Valkenburg-205) + 1660-00-00

Status Indicator on Marriage Date + guess

Marriage End Date (Anna Lambertse Van Valkenburg, Van Valkenburg-205) + 0000-00-00

Status Indicator on Birth Date + guess