Database of Notable New York Families
1. | Metje Van Kortrijk was born in Bef. 1655 in Schoonrewoerd, Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands (daughter of Michiel Sebastiansen Van Kortrijk). Other Events and Attributes:
Family/Spouse: Hendrick Kriesen. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] |
2. | Michiel Sebastiansen Van Kortrijk was born in Abt. 1620 in Leerdam, Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands (son of Sebastian Van Kortrijk and Marritje Lucase). Other Events and Attributes:
Notes: Of Oblinus' companions on board the de Bonte Koe (Spotted Cow), Demarest went to Staten Island, Journee and Bogert to Brooklyn, and the Bastiaensen brothers to Stuyvesant's Bouwery, though they all soon after came to Harlem. The Bastiaensens, it may be observed, were the ancestors of the entire Kortright or Courtright family, in the States of New York and New Jersey, and also, through other branches, of the families of Ryer and Michiel (now Mekeel and McKeel, -- a Dutch metamorphosed into a Hibernian name!) of Westchester and other counties of our State, and that of Low, in Somerset County, New Jersey but distinct from the Lows of Ulster county, named in a preceding note.
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4. | Sebastian Van Kortrijk was born in Abt. 1586 in Kortrijk, Breukelen, Utrecht, Netherlands; died in Abt. 1663 in Leerdam, Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. Other Events and Attributes:
Notes: Bastiaen Van Kortryk, a native of the city of Kortryk, West Flanders, Belgium, emigrated to Holland about 1615, settling in the town of Leerdam, as has been shown. He had sons Jan and Michiel. Sebastian married Marritje Lucase in Abt. 1 Nov 1617 in Leerdam, Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. Marritje was born in Abt. 1586 in Netherlands. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] |
5. | Marritje Lucase was born in Abt. 1586 in Netherlands.
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