Trijntje Thijssen (abt. 1605 - bef. 1654)

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Biography

Tryntje Thijssen was born in about 1605 on the island of Nordstrand, located off the coast of Schleswig-Holstein, then part of Denmark. She may have been the daughter of Thys Cornelisz and Volcken Laurens. She married Pieter Carstensen, another native of Nordstrand, in Amsterdam, Holland, in 1623. Their intentions to marry were dated February 18, 1623.^{[1] [2]} They had ten children before her death, which occurred some time after the birth of the last child, in March 1647. After her death, Pieter married Geesje Jans (daughter of Jan Doets) as his second wife in Amsterdam in 1654.^[3] They had two children, Tryntje Pieters, born 1654, and Pieter Pietersen (later Ostrander), born 1657.^[4]

Record of Marriage Intentions

inschrijvingsdatum:18-02-1623
naam bruidegom: Pieter Carstensen
naam bruid:Trijn Thijsen assisted by her mother Volcken (?) Lourens(?)^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Brooks, Christopher A. "Parentage of Pieter Pietersen Ostrander and his Sister Tryntje Pieters." New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 130, issue 3 (July 1999), pages 163-173. Article text without source citations published online at Geocities (archived at the Internet Archive)
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} bronverwijzing: DTB 427, p.423 opmerkingen: Huwelijksintekeningen van de KERK. Archief van de Burgerlijke Stand: doop-, trouw- en begraafboeken van Amsterdam (retroacta van de Burgerlijke Stand) Ondertrouwregister: NL-SAA-26328393 Marriage 18-02-1623 - Carstensen, Pieter - Thijsen, Trijn right page, third entry - DTB 427, p.423 - Huwelijksintekeningen van de KERK. - OTR00021000217
3. ↑ DeGeer, pp. 5-7
4. ↑ DeGeer, pp. 8-9

• DeGeer, Kent. "The Verified Account of the First Two Generations of the Ostrander Family." Ostrander Family Association, November 6, 2008. Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20171209095849/http://ostrander.org/OFAgen1and2V2nov6.pdf