Aechtje Jans

Aechtje Jans was not a known daughter of Abram Jans van Norden & Aechtje Lambertszyn

Biography

Aechtje Jans had been in Curacao (the Swol's southern home port) with her father, Jan Albertszen, who had been contracted from Emden, East Frisia (17 miles south of Norden), as a master blacksmith, since 1642. When his contract with the West Indies Company was up, they left Curacao for Holland on the captured prize ship Tamerende, sailing first to New Amsterdam. Either in Curacao, or aboard the Tamerende, Aechtje met Abraham Willemszen, the 18 year old seaman and gunner then part of the ship's skeleton crew. The Tamerende left Curacao in March 1647 and arrived at New Amsterdam in April. Aechtje married Abraham in New Amsterdam the same month. Then on August 16, 1647 Jan Albertszen continued his journey alone to Holland, without his daughter; only to meet disaster when his transport the Princess Amelia sank September 27,1647 at the Bristol Channel.

Either in Curacao, or aboard the Tamerende, Aechtje met Abraham Willemszen, the 18 year old seaman and gunner then part of the ship's skeleton crew. The Tamerende left Curacao in March 1647 and arrived at New Amsterdam in April. Aechtje married Abraham in New Amsterdam the same month. Then on August 16, 1647 Jan Albertszen continued his journey alone to Holland, without his daughter; only to meet disaster when his transport the Princess Amelia sank September 27,1647 at the Bristol Channel. Aechtje and Abraham had a son, Willem, in August 1648. On November 12, 1649 Aechtje's husband Abraham was killed in a duel. Aechtje, who was pregnant with her second child at the time, was left without family, except for her uncle, Lambert Albertszen in Naarden. The next thing we know, Pieter Casparszen (from Naarden) is with Aechtje when she baptized her second child in April 1650.

Notes

Residence: 1686 SW corner Broad Street and Marketfield, New Amsterdam, New Netherlands. (now New York)

Residence: Between 1653 and 1697 Corner of Broad and Marchvelt Streets, New Amsterdam.

Residence: Dec 1695 SW corner Broad Street and Marketfield, New Amsterdam

Note: Assessment: Eaght Janse - 3 £; Peroo [John Peroa] - 20£; Ditto for ye house - 30£

Residence: 21 AUG 1697 SW corner Broad Street and Marketfield, New Amsterdam.

Note: Assesment: Egh [Eaght] Janse - 0£; Preroo [John Peroa] - 20£; Ditto for ye house - 30£

References

1. http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/o/w/Linda-L-Bowman-OH/...
2. Massachusetts Society of Genealogists, Inc. http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr03/rr03_411.html
3. The VAN NORDEN FAMILY Three Hundred Years In America 1 6 2 3 - 1 9 2 3 by Theodore Langdon Van Norden published 1923
4. wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com... ; (dead link)
5. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Jans-24