Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Garret Wolfertse van Couwenhoven
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Name Garret Wolfertse van Couwenhoven Birth Abt 1610 Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands [1, 2, 3]
Gender Male Death Abt 1645 Flatlands, Long Island, New York [1, 2, 3, 4]
Person ID I21166 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of TWK Last Modified 4 Sep 2021
Father Wolfert Gerretse van Couwenhoven, b. Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands d. Between 2 Mar 1662 and 24 Jun 1662, New Netherland
Mother Neeltje Family ID F13060 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Aeltje Cornelis Cool d. Bef 21 Jul 1683 Marriage Abt 1635 Flatlands, Long Island, New York [3]
Children + 1. Willem Gerretse van Couwenhoven, b. 1636, Flatlands, Long Island, New Netherland d. Abt 1728, Monmouth County, New Jersey
(Age 92 years)
+ 2. Jan Gerretse van Couwenhoven, b. 1639, Flatlands, Long Island, New York d. Abt 1724 (Age 85 years)
+ 3. Neeltje Gerretse van Couwenhoven, c. 20 Sep 1641 d. Abt 1672 (Age ~ 30 years) + 4. Marretje Van Couwenhoven, b. Bef 10 Apr 1644 d. Bef 1709 (Age < 64 years) Family ID F10504 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 9 Feb 2019
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Notes - He was a member of the Council of Eight in 1643.
Although most of the American descendants of the Kouwenhoven/Couwenhoven family eventually changed their surname to Conover, there were descendants of Garret Wolfertse van Kouwenhoven in Brooklyn calling themselves Kouwenhoven as late as 1939, and possibly more recently.
- He was a member of the Council of Eight in 1643.
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Sources - [S1571] Register in Alphabetical Order, of the Early Settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N. Y. by Teunis G. Bergen. New York: S. W. Green's Son, 1881.
- [S1765] The Conover Family by Charles Hopkins Conover. Frankford, Philadelphia: Martin & Allardyce, 1912.
- [S3097] Lincoln C. Cocheu, "The Van Kouwenhoven-Conover Family." New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 70:230, 70:353, 1939; 71:69, 71:157, 71:273, 71:365, 1940; 81:123, 81:172, 81:225, 1950; 82:34, 82:89, 82:175, 82:211, 1951.
- [S5934] John Reynolds Totten, "Editorial Iconoclastiana." New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 65:12, Jan 1934; 65:122, Apr 1934., year only.
- [S1571] Register in Alphabetical Order, of the Early Settlers of Kings County, Long Island, N. Y. by Teunis G. Bergen. New York: S. W. Green's Son, 1881.