Van Benschoten Name Study

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Name Variants

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Van Benschoten

Van Benscotter

Van Ben Scoter

Van Bunschoten

Van Bunschooten

Van Buntschooten

Van Scoter^[1]

History

Bunschoten is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht. It lies about 7 km north of Amersfoort. Its territory comprises the original municipality of Bunschoten (created in 1204 by the bishop of Utrecht) and the former municipality of Duyst, De Haar and Zevenhuizen, which was a part of Hoogland from 1854 until 1971.

Bunschoten was first named in 1294. It was located on the border between Utrecht and Guelders, and it suffered a number of times from invasions from Guelders. In 1383, the bishop of Utrecht gave Bunschoten city rights, which allowed the citizens to build an earthen wall around the town. The fortifications and a part of the town were destroyed at Christmas 1427 in a war between two rival bishops, and were never rebuilt.^[2]

Other

Van Bunschoten Cemetery, Poughkeepsie, New York

Find A Grave: Van Benschoten Cemetery, Delaware, New York, USA

Concerning the Van Bunschoten or Van Benschoten family in America: a genealogy and brief history by William Henry Van Benschoten

Van Wee Bin Jie d´r Één: De Bunschoter Families Van ca. 1600-1912, by J.H.M. Putnam, H.A. Burgman-Feenstra (De Bunschoter B.V., Bunschoten-Spakenburg, 1983)

Sources

1. ↑ Add your surname here (or even better, add it alphabetically.
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunschoten

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