Lambert (van Valckenburg) van Valckenburch (bef. 1614 - bef. 1697)

Born before 16 Apr 1614 in Millen, Limburg, Palts-Neuburg

Ancestors

Husband of Annetje Jacobs — married 4 Jan 1642 in Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

Descendants

Died before 1697 at about age 82 in Albany, Province of New York

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Biography

Lambert van Valkenburgh was an early settler in New Netherland. He was baptized at Millen, Limburg, Belgium, on 16 April 1614, recorded as Lambert van Valckenburch. Millen is a village between Maastricht and Tongeren in the Province of Limburg in modern Belgium.^[1]

There is a tradition of genealogists identifying Lambert as a son of a man named Jochem, and therefore giving Lambert a patronymic name of Jochemse, based on the supposition that his son Jochem was his first son and was named for his paternal grandfather. There is, however, no record of Lambert being called Jochemse, and no evidence that his father was named Jochem. Records from the Netherlands document his birth and ancestry.

New York genealogist Henry B. Hoff reported in 1981 that the January-February 1980 issue of De Nederlandsche Leeuw contained an article on the Dutch ancestry of Lambert van Valckenburch of Albany. As described by Hoff, the article identified Lambert as the son of Lamberg Dryeskens van Valckenburch of Millen. Lambert was baptized in Millen on 16 April 1614, with sponsors Michiel Scepers and Elisabeth Baesten. His father's patronymic name of Dryeskens is equivalent to the Dutch name Andriessen, and his paternal grandfather was Andries van Valckenburch, born about 1540, a tailor of Millen. Both Andries and his wife died before 27 October 1609.^[1]

According to their bann registration on 4 January 1642 Lambert was from Millen, Belgium and his wife was from Tonningen (apparently Tönning in modern Schleswig Holstein). His age was 26 and hers 20. ^[2] Transcription of the banns:

"Lambert van Valckenburgh van Millen oud 26 jaar, geen ouders hebbend, woon xxx. Boomstraat & Annetie Jacobs van Tonningen, woonend als voorn(oemd?), xxx ouders hebben, oud 20 jaar."

translation of the text: "Lambert van Valckenburgh age 26 years, no parents alive, living xxxx Boomstraat & Annetie Jacobs from Tonningen, living as aforementioned, xxxx parents alive, age 20 years"

His age at marriage of 26 suggests birth in 1615, so it is approximately consistent with the baptism date of 16 April 1614.

They emigrated to New Amsterdam (New York) after January 1642 (marriage date in Amsterdam) and before July 1644 (bought land). Ships arriving during those years are listed on the OliveTreeGenealogy website, but there are few lists of their passengers. ^[3]

He owned land on the southern tip of Manhattan Island. He had about 50 acres. About 1660 he sold his land and moved his family to Fort Orange (Albany NY) where he owned a home at the corner of Green and Bever Streets. In 1660 he was one of over 50 men of Beverwijck, not regarded as major fur traders, who petitioned for "the Dutch [to] be allowed to go into the woods" to trade with the natives for furs.^[4]

It is recorded that Lambert bought a house and 25 morgens (50 acres) of land on July 29, 1644, from Cornelis Jacobsen Van Vreelandt on the west side of the Bowery from Canal to Broome Streets. Later, on February 16, 1647 he received a grant from the Dutch West India Company to a lot south of the fort, next to Jan Evertsen. This is shown on the Tyler map of New York City and is recorded in the Dutch records in the City Clerk’s office in New York City. Family legend indicates that Lambert was a minor official at the fort.

On May 15, 1649, Peter Stuyvesant granted Lambert 50 acres of land embracing nine city blocks on the west side of Lexington Avenue from 29th to 35th Streets extending west across Park and Madison Avenues beyond 5th Avenue from 31st to 33rd Streets including the site of the Empire State Building. Soon Lambert would be moving to Beverwyck (Albany), NY so he sold this property to Claes Martensen Van Rosenvelt, ancestor of both Teddy and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

"Lambert van Valckenburch; reference to him is found in the court proceedings of Rensselaerswyck under date of March 7, 1652, when Claes Jansz, from Bockhoven, is prosecuted for having his helper do some hauling for Lambert van Valkenburch, contrary to the ordinances of Oct. 16, 1648, Nov. 23, 1651 and Dec. 18, 1651. Lambert van Valkenburch was at New Amsterdam as early as Jan. 1644 and received a patent for land there, March 16, 1647. In 1652 he was probably an inhabitant of Fort Orange and not a colonist of Rensselaerswyck." ^[5]

Marriage

January 4, 1642 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands ^[2]

Family

Note: ^[6] Lambert and Annetie had the following children:^[7]

1. F Anna Lambertse Van Valkenburg
2. M Jochem Lambertse Van Valkenburg
3. F Catrym Lambertse Van Valkenburg
4. M Lambert Lambertse Van Valkenburg was born in New Amsterdam, New Netherlands. He was christened on 21 Jul 1652 in New York DRC, New York City, New York, NY. [Notes]
5. F Rachel Lambertse Van Valkenburg
6. F Maritje Lambertse or Maria Van Valkenburg ? was born in New Amsterdam, New Netherlands. [Notes]

Immigration

Arrival 1652^[8]

Residence

Rensselaerswyck, New York^[8]

Death

He died, presumably in Albany, New York, some time between 1683, when his name appears in Albany church records, and 1697, when he was not listed in an Albany census.^[9]

Church Records

Children's baptisms^[10]

1. 1646 04 Nov Jochem, Lambert Van Valckenburg. Wit.: Marten Cregier, Jan Hartman, Lyntie Jochems.
2. 1652 21 Jul Lambert, Lambert Van Valckenburg. Wit.: Jochem Beeckman, Tryntie Van Campen.

Research Notes

LNAB

Van Valckenburg is the surname that first appears in records for Lambert. Capitalization of the preposition "van" is incorrect and has been corrected per project naming conventions. Quackenbush-118 06:56, 18 January 2017 (EST)

Taken from National Association of Van Valkenburg Families

Page; https://navvf.org/VVgene/pafn03.htm#5721

BIRTH & BAPTISM: Lambert Van Valckenburch bap 15 Apr (1614) Millen; sponsors: Michiel Scepers and Elizabeth Baesten

MARRIAGE: Lambert Van Valkenburg of Valkenburg on the Guele River, seven miles east of Maaestrict, Limburg Province of the Netherlands, obtained a marriage licence in 1642 and married Annetje Jacobs. This Licence, as furnished and translated by the "Centraul Bureau voor Genealogie" of The Hague, The Netherlands, reads as follows:

"Appeared (before the marriage council of Amsterdam) as before (on the 4th of Jan 1642) Lambert Van Valckenburgh, from Millen, 26 yrs old, having no parents (anymore) living on the Boomstraat, and Annetie Jacobs, from Tonningen (Schleswig Holstein?) living as before, having no parents, 20 yrs old, requesting to have their three Sundays' banns proclaimed, in order to have their marriage soleminized and celebrated, insofar no legal impediments occur. And after their having declared to be free persons and (not) related to each other in blood, which would prevent a Christian marriage, their banns have been granted.

NOTE: Lambert bought a house and 25 morgens (50 acres) of land on 29 Jul 1644, from Cornelis Jacobsen Van Vreelandt on the west side of the Bowery from Canal to Broome Streets. Later, on 16 Feb 1647 he received a grant from the Dutch West India Company to a lot south of the fort, next to Jan Evertsen.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Hoff, Henry B. "Van Valckenburg Ancestry in the Netherlands." The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 112, issue 2 (April 1981), page 79. New York, New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} ondertrouwregister 1642 Ondertrouwregister, archiefnummer 5001, inventarisnummer 457, blad p.146, Gemeente: Amsterdam, Periode: 1641-1642
3. ↑ ship list
4. ↑ Fur Traders - 1660, citing Court Minutes of Beverwyck 2:255-56. People of Colonial Albany online exhibition, New York State Museum website.
5. ↑ Kiliaen Van Rensselaer and A. J. F. Van Laer. Van Rensselaer Bowier Manuscripts: Being the Letters of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, 1630-1643, and Other Documents Relating to the Colony of Rensselaerswyck. Albany, N.Y.: University of the State of New York, 1908. 845.
6. ↑ {geni:about_me}
7. ↑ Source: http://www.navvf.org/
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1} Van Laer, Van Rensselaer Bowier Manuscripts, page 845.
9. ↑ Bielinski, Stefan. Lambert Van Valkenburgh. Revised August 6, 2010, and Albany Heads of Families* - June 1697, citing "Colonial Manuscripts," 42:34, NYS Archives. The People of Colonial Albany online exhibition, New York State Museum, Albany.
10. ↑ Evans, Thomas Grier. "Baptisms from 1639 to 1730 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York." In Collections of the New-York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Vol. II. New York: Printed for the Society, 1890.

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• Bielinski, Stefan. Van Valkenburgh (family). The People of Colonial Albany, New York State Museum. Accessed July 09, 2015.
• Gehring, Charles T. Fort Orange Court Minutes, 1652-1660. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1990.
• Schulze, Lorine McGinnis. "Van Valkenburg (was Peter Minuit and Jan Huygen)." archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com. Accessed 31 Jul 2016. http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/Dutch-Colonies/1999-08/0934531010 Nov 2000, Dutch-Colonies List, from "Lorine McGinnis Schulze", citing Hoff, Henry, “Van Valckenburg Ancestry in the Netherlands” in New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol.112, No. 2 (April 1981), page 79.
• Valkenburg, Paul I. The Van Valkenburg Family in America: Genealogy of the Known Descendants of Lambert and Annatje Van Valckenburgh Who Migrated to New Amsterdam (New York) in 1642-44. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1976.
• Van Valkenburg Family Association books
• GENEALOGY OF THE VAN VALKENBURG FAMILY IN AMERICA Volume I The First Two Generations of the Van Valkenburg Family in America, formerly at www.navvf.org/ebooks/vvfa-v1.pdf, archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20150629230910/https://navvf.org/ebooks/vvfa-v1.pdf on 29 June 2015.
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• Wardell, Patricia A. Early Bergen County Families, accessed 06 Jul 2016. File: BCFam-VanValkenburg.pdf

See also:

• Ancestry Family Trees. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R) (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998).

Acknowledgments

• WikiTree profile Van Valkenburg-26 created through the import of bhamilt.ged on July 10, 2011 by Bruce Hamilton.
• WikiTree profile Van VALCKENBURCH-2 created through the import of EED1.ged on Sep 15, 2011 by Richard Draper.
• WikiTree profile Van Valkenburg-80 created through the import of Danford MacKay Family(2).ged on Feb 4, 2012 by Graeme MacKay.
• WikiTree profile VanValkenburg-6 created through the import of davisfamilytree-1.ged on Sep 1, 2012 by Rich Davis.
• Thank you to Christina Penney for creating WikiTree profile Van Valkenburgh-41 through the import of 6cv2af_196909l5c3d899i0b5f232.ged on Oct 12, 2013.
• Thanks to Tayler Mccormick for starting this profile.
• This person was created through the import of family.ged on 21 September 2010.
• Lambert Van Valkenburg ... Entered by Tayler Mccormick, May 10, 2013 Thanks to Tayler Mccormick for this profile.
• Van Valkenburg-302 was created by Catherine Deiley through the import of Deiley Family Tree.ged on Sep 30, 2014.
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