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Source: The Von Nieuwkirk, Nieukirk, Newkirk Family by Adamson Benytley Newkirk, from Special Number of Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania (March 1934) 1- 105; Additions by William J Hoffman: Vol XIII 1-2 (Oct 1938) 122-126
[Dr Newkirk's alignment of families had been adhered to throughout this compilation; his spellings of proper names usually so. Families not herein carried forward will, in many instances, be found mord fully treated of in the Collections which bear his name in the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania.]
Some descendants of Gerret Cornelisse and Mattheus Cornelisse Van Nieuwkirk
from the Manuscript of the Late Adamson Bentley Newkirk, MD or Los Angeles, Ca
In the collection of The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania
The name Newkirk is not common in the United States; yet aside from the members of the family to be traced in the following pages, there are others found throughout the country.
The list of Palantines remaining in New York in 1710 contained the entry "Johan Henrick Newkirk, 36; Anna Maria 33; Johannes 11; John Henrick, deed." The descendants of this family mainly reside in Orange and Ulster Counties, New York; but are to be found in many parts of the United States and Canada. Johannes, or John, son of John Henry or Johan Henrick, had eleven children, became fairly wealthy for his time and died, according to the probate of his will, at WAllkill in 1777.
In 1738 a German named Hendrick Nikerick [Hendrick Nikerick, aged 32 in ship Nancy, William Wallace, master, qualified September 20, 1738 - Pennsylvania Archives, Second Services, Vol xvii, 164] arrived at Philadelphia and settled in Berks County, Pennsylvania. His descendants are numerous. Those remaining about Reading, Pennsylvania, assumed the name Newkirk, while those in Washington County, Maryland took that of Niekirk. Descendants of the latter are to be found at Republic, Ohio or as having migrated therefrom.
There have been Newkirk arrivals from Holland in recent years, with the prefix van; others without it. Also a number of Germans named Newkerchen, who have adopted the form Newkirk.
this brief explanation will suffice to show that all Newkirks found in the United States are not tracable to t he same progenitor.
Cornelisse Van Niuewkirk, some time resident of Slichtenhorst in Gelderland, Holland was the father of two sons who sailed on the Dutch ship Moseman for New Netherland, 25 April 1659. A diligent search for further information concerning him has not yet been productive.
[Slichtenhorst, a small district south of the city of Nijkerk, where many of the estates, or farms, belonged originally to the Adelijk Juffronwen-Stift (convent for ladies of noble birth), at Hoch-Elten, Germany, near the Dutch frontier.
As articles in the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, for January 1934, by Richard Schermerhorn, Jr entitled REPRESENTATIVE PIONEER SETTLERS OF NEW NETHERLAND AND THEIR ORIGINAL HOME PLACES, gives five settlers as from Nykerck, Gelderland; one from Nieuenkerk, Zeeland, and one from Niewkerk, Rhine Province. Among the best known settlers from Nykerck (Nijkerk) was Brant Aertz van Schlichtenhorst whose name derived from the district about five miles to the southward - Cf. an Armory of Amerian Familes of Dutch Descent, by William J Hoffman, ME, in the foregoing publication, July 1933 pp 22 et seq
Another article in the same publication for April 193, NOTES ON OLD DUTCH-AMERICAN FAMILIES, by William J Hoffman, ME, draws attention to the inestimable value of the Dutch patronymic to students of Dutch Genealogy, and calls for careful reading -0 Ed
Mattheus Cornelisse Van Nieuwkerk
Sex: M
Birth: ABT 1600 in Holland
Father: Aerdt "KIl Herman" Gerrits b: ABT 1575 in Arokemehen
Mother: Elbertgen Woltersand
Marriage 1 Bijtie Gerrits b: in Putten, Holland, Netherland
Married: 9 NOV 1630 in Putten, Gerlderland, Holland
Children
Gerret Cornelisse Van Nieuwkerk b: 1631 in Putten, Gerldeldand, Holland
Matteus" Cornelis Hermans" Van Nieuwkerk b: ABT 1642 in Putten, Gelderland, HollandThree Rivers Hudson~Mohawk~Schoharie History From America's Most Famous Valleys THE WINDECKERS AND RELATED FAMILIES A Family History donated by: Harry Windecker NEWKIRK
Cornelisse Van Nieuwkerck, born about 1600, was the father of two sons whom he sent to the New World. Conflict occurs here as his name is reported as Mattheuse Cornelius Van Nieukirk, born Slichtenhorst, Gelderland, about 1595 and his name is also reported as Cornelis Van Nieukirk, baptized February 6, 1603 in Putten, Holland. His wife was Bitjtie Gerrits. The latter name and birth date is from information compiled by Stanley C. Newkirk, a researcher of the Newkirk family, and author of "The Descendants of Kil Hermans". This information provides one more Newkirk ancestor, Kil Hermans, born in the late 1500s, and father of Cornelis Van Nieukirk. Garret Cornelisse (our ancestor) and Matheus Cornelisse (age 12) sailed for New Amsterdam on April 25, 1659 on the Dutch ship "Moesman" (meaning Market Garden) Amongst ship's records is the name "Gerret Corn. Van Nieuw-kirk, planter, and wife and boy and suckling child". The wife was Chieltje Cornelissen Slecht, also of Holland; the boy, Matheus (also spelled Mattheus), was Gerret's brother; and the suckling child, name unknown, died on the voyage, or shortly after landing. His death was reported in April 1659 and he was buried in Flatbush (Brooklyn). A street corner, Flatbush and Newkirk is the only indication that Newkirks once lived in Brooklyn.
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Cornelisse Mattheuse Killen Van Nieuwkirk's Timeline
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1600
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Nijkerk, Slichtenhorst, Gelderland, The Netherlands
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July 24, 1631
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Slichtenhorst, Nijkerk, Gelderland, Netherlands
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December 4, 1642
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Slichtenhorst, Nijkerk, Gelderland, Netherlands
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1642
Age 42
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Slichtenhorst, Gelderland, The Netherlands
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1683
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Werkhoven
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