Claes Corneliszen van Schouwen

THERE SEEM TO BE TWO CLAES CORNELISSENs

Parents unknown. Not the same as Capt. Claes Cornelissen van Schouwen, av Sverige who married Margariet van der Goes.

Claes Cornelissen Van Schouwen died circa 1674 at New York.

He was also known as Claes Van Schouw.

~• others have him as being born in 1605, WHICH IS THE DATE USED HERE.

Claes Cornelissen VAN SCHOUEN

CLAES CORNELISSEN van SCHOUWEN b abt 1605, d abt 1674 prob near Flatbush, Long Island, New Amsterdam/New York; married Metje HARPERTS in 1632 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Metje died 1652 in Bergen Co NJ. CLAES CORNELISSEN van SCHOUWEN is possibly the originator of the "Wyckoff" surname in America?? [No, he’s not. He was not the father of Pieter Claesen Wyckoff].

CLAES' nickname was "Mutelaer" (Grumbler), and an island near Long Island was named after him, although it is now known as Bergen Island.

He was a witness to a baptism in the NYDRC on 07 September, 1642 along with Joris Rappalje.

Biography

From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Corneliss-2

Claes Corneliss was born about 1607 in Brouwershaven, Schouwen, Zeeland, Netherlands (now called Schouwen Duiveland). His parents are not known.

Claes married Metje Herperts on March 21, 1632 in Sloterdijck (near Amsterdam) Noord Holland, Netherlands. At the time of the marriage he was 25 and living at the Brouwersgracht, and Metje was 20, born in Amsterdam, the daughter of Pietertje Jacobs and Herpert Jansz. [1]

marriage Claes Corneliss and Metje Harperts 31 January, 1632 Amsterdam

"Netherlands, Noord-Holland Province, Church Records, 1523-1948," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1961-31158-17926-32?cc=203... : accessed 26 May 2016), Nederlands Hervormde > Amsterdam > Huwelijksaangiften, Trouwen 1630-1632 > image 406 of 602; Nederlands Rijksarchiefdienst, Den Haag (Netherlands National Archives, The Hague).

They had at least two children baptized in Amsterdam:

• On June 12, 1633 daughter Trijntje . [2]

Baptism Trijntje Claes

Netherlands, Noord-Hollan...Church Records, 1523-1948 Nederlands Hervormde Amsterdam Dopen 1628-1646 Image 131 of 492 images BaptizeTrijntje1633-FamilySearch

• on 14 August, 1635, son Herpert [3]

Baptism, Herpert Claesz

Netherlands, Noord-Hollan...Church Records, 1523-1948 Nederlands Hervormde Amsterdam Dopen 1628-1646 Image 201 of 492 images BaptizeHerpert1635-FamilySearch

They emigrated to the New Netherland and had more children: [4]

• Geertje (Grietje ?) Claes, she married Hendrick Volckertszen.
• Child Pieter(t)je ( probably named Pietertje , after maternal grandmother) Claes was baptised October 28, 1640 in the Manhattan Dutch Reformed Church., she married Symon Jansz (Van Arsdalen)

Notes and children

Retrieved from “The Brouwer Genealogy Database” < link > on 3 May 2023 and then edited.

Claes Corneliszen

• Claes Corneliszen was born in 1605.2
• Also known as Claes Cornelissen.3
• Also known as Claes Neutelaer.4
• Also known as Claes Cornelissen van Schouwen.2
• Also known as Claes Cornelissen Meutelaer (Meutelaer is a nickname meaning grumbler).5
• He witnessed the baptism of Hendrick Redderhas , son of Abel Reidenhasen and Geertje Nannincks, on 7 September 1642 at Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam, (sponsors Claes Corneliszen, Joris Rapalje, Pieter Pedro Alberto, Maria Rappalje).6

Children:

1. Tryntie Claes bap. 12 June 1633, Amsterdam. Married Joris Jacobsen.
2. Herpert Claes, bap. 14 August, 1635, Amsterdam. Married Lysbeth de Lieuw.
3. Geertien Claess b. b 1639, New Amsterdam. Married Hendrick Volckerszen. (Born before records kept there).
4. Pieterje Claese bap., 28 Oct 1640, DRC, New Amsterdam. Married Simon Jansz van Arsdalen.
5. Cornelis Claeszen, bap. 4 Oct 1643, DRC, New Amsterdam.
6. Floris Claeszen bap., 20 Jan 1647, DRC, New Amsterdam. (1647 Jan 20; Claes Corneliszen; Floris ; Hendrick Pieterszen, Jan Theuniszen Schay, Joris Jacobszen, Marritje Lievens, Sara Cornelis)
7. Gerbrants Claesen, bap. 4 Apr 1649, DRC, New Amsterdam, d. before 19 Jun 1703 Pequannock, Bergen County, Province of New Jersey. Married Marritje Claes.
8. Arien Claessen, bap. 5 Nov 1651, DRC, New Amsterdam. buried on 5 April 1703 at Bergen, New Jersey; "y.m. (unmarried) brother of Gerbrandt Claesz.”

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References

1. Netherlands, Noord-Holland Province, Church Records, 1523-1948," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1961-31158-17926-32?cc=203... : accessed 26 May 2016), Nederlands Hervormde > Amsterdam > Huwelijksaangiften, Trouwen 1630-1632 > image 406 of 602; Nederlands Rijksarchiefdienst, Den Haag (Netherlands National Archives, The Hague).
2. Netherlands, Noord-Hollan...Church Records, 1523-1948 Nederlands Hervormde Amsterdam Dopen 1628-1646 Image 131 of 492 images BaptizeTrijntje1633-FamilySearch
3. Netherlands, Noord-Hollan...Church Records, 1523-1948 Nederlands Hervormde Amsterdam Dopen 1628-1646 Image 201 of 492 images BaptizeHerpert1635-FamilySearch
4. Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vols.5- (1874-): 5:29.
5. William J. Hoffman, "Claes Cornelissen Van Schouw(en), Meutelaer and the Wyckoff Ancestry", The American Genealogist Vol. 22, page 65 (1945): 22:68. < AmericanAncestors >; (document attached)

• * Ibid., 5:34.
  • Ibid., 5:88.
  • Ibid., 5:92.
  • Ibid., 5:97.

1. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Corneliss-2
2. https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/van-schouw/about
3. https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~brouwergenealogydata/genealogy/p264...
4. According to http://bakerfamilytree.blogspot.com/2007/01/our-scandinavian-ancest... Claes Cornelissen van Schouwen … was born on April 3, 1597 on the Island of Oland located four miles off the southeast coast of Sweden, son of Cornelius Petersson (1560-1599) m. Johanna van der Goes ( ?-1592). Married 1) Margaret van der Goes, on November 9, 1623 2) - [That was a different Claes]
5. http://awt.ancestrylibrary.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ddevries&i... (dead link)
6. possibly [did not marry] 1st) Margaret VAN DER GOES (there is some controversy about this 1st wife who died 1631 in the Netherlands)
7. arrived in New Netherlands in 1636 from Holland (NL), settled in Breukelen, born 1597.
8. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bettysboneyard/Dutchancest... (dead link)
9. https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~brookefamily/genealogy/vanschouwenc... lists father as Cornelis Jans. Cites
   1. New York Historical Manuscript Dutch Vol 1 1974, page 278 < PDF >
   2. “Van Arsdallen site online” < link >
   3. (8) Calendar of Historical Manuscripts in the Office of the Secretary of State ...
   4. (9) New York Historical Manuscript Dutch Vol 1 1974, page 188
   5. (14) The Vanguard Vol 2 no 1 According to Peterson (p. 36), "the last record of Claes Cornelissen Van Schouw is believed to be a listing in 1671 in the venue book of Adriaen Hegeman, sheriff of Flatlands, which the historian Teunis Vergen claims to have seen about 1881. Claes is believed to have died about 1674."
   6. Frick notes (p. 7) that Claes was living on Bergen's Island near Flatlands in 1671 --- On March 13, 1675, Claes made a donation to the church. This was the last record of him." CRV notes that, in "Kings Co. Wills (NYGBR, vol XLVII, p. 165), the will of "Swaentie Janse, widow of Cornelius Depotter" written March 31, 1676 includes, as a witness, a "Claes Cornelinssen". If this is Claes Cornelissen van Schouw, this may be the last known record of Claes, then about 71 years old. Claes does not appear on the Roll of Allegiance taken in 1687.
   7. Another man with same name married to Catalyntie Jans
   8. Claes Cornelis Swits killed by the Indians in 1641