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Garret Wolfertse van Couwenhoven

Male Abt 1610 - Abt 1645  (~ 35 years)


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  • Name Garret Wolfertse van Couwenhoven 
    Birth Abt 1610  Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4
    Gender Male 
    Death Abt 1645  Flatlands, Long Island, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 5
    Person ID I21166  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JTS
    Last Modified 15 Sep 2024 

    Father Wolfert Gerretse van Couwenhoven,   b. Abt 1584   d. Between 2 Mar 1662 and 24 Jun 1662, New Netherland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 78 years) 
    Mother Neeltje Jacobsdochter 
    Family ID F13060  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Aeltje Cornelis Cool   d. Bef 21 Jul 1683 
    Marriage Abt 1635  Flatlands, Long Island, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Children 
    +1. Willem Gerretse van Couwenhoven,   b. 1636, Flatlands, Long Island, New Netherland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1728, Monmouth County, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 92 years)
    +2. Jan Gerretse van Couwenhoven,   b. 1639, Flatlands, Long Island, New York Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 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 

  • 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.

  • Sources 
    1. [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.

    2. [S1765] The Conover Family by Charles Hopkins Conover. Frankford, Philadelphia: Martin & Allardyce, 1912.

    3. [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.

    4. [S7814] W. F. van Kouwenhoven, "Wolfert Gerritse in the Netherlands: Part II: A Search in the Dutch Archives." New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 129:109, Apr 1998.

    5. [S5934] John Reynolds Totten, "Editorial Iconoclastiana." New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 65:12, Jan 1934; 65:122, Apr 1934., year only.