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At the end of the period of turmoil associated with the Protestant Reformation in England, the English people became free to turn their attention to other matters and to seek new opportunities outside their tiny island. Internal stability under Elizabeth I (1558-1603) and an expanding economy combined with a bold intellectual ferment to produce a soaring self-confidence.Ireland experienced the first impact: by the beginning of the 17th century it had been wholly subjugated by the English....
From Find a Grave:She was a daughter of Martin (of Meppel) Van Alstyne and she was possibly born at, or near, Houten, Utrecht, Holland, the Netherlands about 1618. She married Cornelis Maasen Van Buren and they had five children. The children of Catalyntje and Cornelis are Marten Cornelissz Van Buren, born 1638 - 1640, who had two wives (first wife who was ancestor Maria-Maritje P. Quackenbush and second wife Jannecke-Jane Adams) and Christina-Styntje Cornelise Van Buren, born May 19, 1644,...
Marten Van Alstyne was born circa 1591. He was of Meppel, Drenthe, Netherlands and married circa 1617 to an unknown woman. They had at least three children, one of whom was Jan Martense Van Alstyne. VAN ALSTYNE FAMILY First Generation Marten VAN ALSTYNE was born circa 1591. He was of Meppel, Drenthe, Netherlands and married circa 1617 to an unknown woman. Second Generation The children of Marten Van Alstyne included: (1) Catalyntje Martense VAN ALSTYNE born about 1618 and died 1648. She...
Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: Van Alstyne From: http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/families/hmgfm/vanalstyne-1.html [This information is from Vol. I, pp. 46-50 of Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs, edited by Cuyler Reynolds (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1911). It is in the Reference collection of the Schenectady County Public Library at R 929.1 R45. Some of the formatting of the original, especially in lists of descendants, may have been altered...
Jean I de Croÿ, Seigneur de Croÿ et d'Araines, Baron de Renty et de Seneghem (around 1365 - Agincourt on October 25, 1415) was the founder of the House of Croÿ . His parents were Guillaume, seigneur de Croÿ (+1384) and Isabeau de Renty. Jean I de Croÿ was responsible for the ascendancy of his family to a position of supreme power in medieval Burgundy. He served Philip the Bold and his son John the Fearless in the capacity of councillor and chamberlain. In 1384 he married a wealthy heiress,...
Steffan Klinger's name first appears in the records of Evangelische Church in Rielingshausen, Wurttemberg ...when he married Anna Eberlin.In 1589 he is identified as a teacher.In 1611 he is identified as mayor of Rielingshausen.Source of Information: 71 Years of Marriage: The Ancestors, Descendents and Relations of George and Alice Knorr of Reading, PA
Direct Descendants of Conrad Cuntz Heist 1 Conrad Cuntz HEIST b: Abt. 1620 in Pfaffenbeerfurth, Odenwald, Germany ... +Margaretha ? b: Abt. 1620 in Pfaffenbeerfurth, Odenwald, Germany . 2 Hans Johannes HEIST b: 1644 in Pfaffenbeerfurth, Odenwald, Palatinate, Germany d: November 14, 1709 in Reichelsheim, Odenwald, Germany ....... +Kunigunda GROH b: June 15, 1646 in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany d: April 26, 1702 in...
Johann Philip Klinger, son of Johannes and Agatha (Heist) Klinger, was born in Pfaffen-Beerfurth, Hesse-Darmstadt in the Odenwald on July 11, 1723.On October 22, 1744, Philip Klinger married Anna Elizabeth Heist, in the nearby village of Reichelsheim, Hesse, in the Odenwald.Philip and Anna emigrated to America on the ship Neptune with the intention of joining Philip's brother Alexander who had settled in a German community at Reading, PA. Alexander had come to America aboard the ship Albany,...