IJtie Jans

Marriage 1

• 1638 28 Aug; Lourens Duijsen; IJtje Jans Amsterdam Stadsarchief Ondertrouwregisters 1565-1811 DTB 449, p.304

Here is the English translation of the marriage intentions that were proclaimed in Amsterdam on 28 August 1638: Laurens DYIJS from Noortstrant, a laborer living at the Brouwersgracht, aged 26 years, with YTGIE JANS from Amsterdam, aged 18 years.

Noortstrant was most probably the present-day Nordstrand, an island off shore from Husum in Schleswig Holstein. It is well south of the Flensburg-Tonder line, which is the traditional demarcation between Danish and German speakers. More to the point, however is that both of these places are actually Frisian. We tend to forget about Nord-Friesland. So Laurens may well have been a Danish subject, but would probably have considered himself Frisian.

Ytie Jans was born at Oldenburg, Holstein, Denmark. Ytie Jans married Laurens Duyts on 28 August 1638 at Hervormede Kerk, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.1

Ytie is in all likelihood the sister of Gerrit Jansen who was a sponser for Ytie’s first child. If it is true that Ytie is Gerrit’s sister, then she is originally from Oldenburg, Holstein, Denmark.

Ytie was involved in an incident in 1658 which caused her husband to receive the harshest verdict rendered by Stuyvesant, for allegedly selling his wife to Jan Parcell. Ytie, herself was also found guilty of living in adultery as was Jan Parcell. Whatever the situation, inspite of the court’s renderings, Ytie and Jan did marry, raise the children of their previous marriages, and had at least two children of their own. Ytie’s first husband also remarried. The records do not show if the verdict was carried out for any of the three, but apparently Ytie and her husband did leave New Amsterdam as Ytie appears on the rate list of Newtown in 1683.

She was widowed in 1677, when Jan died.Ytie appears in the records a couple more times as a widow and in a dispute over land in 1684. This is the last that anything is known of her.

Ytie married 2nd Jan Parcell on 16 July 1659. Jan was first married with two sons: Thomas & Jan.

Children of Ytie Jans (?) and Laurens Duyts

• Margariet Duyts b. 23 Dec 1639
• Jan Laurensze Duyts b. 23 Mar 1642
• Hans Laurensze Duyts+ b. b 18 Sep 1644

Children of Ytie Jans (?) and Jan Parcell

• William Parcell b. c 1660
• Catherine Parcell b. c 1662

Citations

• 1.[S544] Kerkelijke Registers 1553-1870.

http://mccurdyfamilylineage.com/ancestry/p301.htm#i34829

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Utje Jansen Birth 1610 Oldenburg Province, Denmark Gender Female Died 1705

Married 28 Aug 1638 Amsterdam, Netherlands Laurens Duyts, b. 1610, Fredrickstadt, Holstein Province, Denmark

Children

• Richard ( Duyts) Dey
• Cornelius Laurens Duyts
• Margrette Duyts, b. 23 Dec 1639, NYC
• Jannette Duytszen, b. Abt 23 Mar 1640/41
• Jan Laurens Duyts, b. 23 Mar 1641/42, New Amsterdam Province (NY)
• 6. Hans (Jan\John) Laurens Duyts, b. 23 Sep 1644, New York (nee New Amsterdam) , NY

Married John Thomas Parcell (no information listed )

No parentage is listed nor is there documentation listed.

http://ancestors.pitard.net/getperson.php?personID=I9324&tree=Pitard

◦John O. Evjen, Scandinavian Immigrants in New York; 1630-1674 (K. C. Holter Publishing Co. Minneapolis, MN. 1916), which tells the story of his banishment from New Amsterdam. According to Evjen (described by Butler):

"The Court Minutes of Harlem relate that Laurens Duyts of Holstein received sentancing from Stuyvesant on November 25, 1658, for selling his wife, Ytie Jansen, and forcing her to live in adultery with another man, and for living himself in adultery, he was to have a rope tied around his neck, and then to be severly flogged and have his right ear cut off, and to be banished for fifty years. He went across the Hudson River to Bergen (now Jersey City where he died and was buried on January 16, 1668.

"Ytie Jansen's parents are not known. Ytie died after 1658 in New York. She was living at date of lawsuit. [Calender of Historical Manuscripts. Vol. 1, pg. 203. ] Her name has also been proposed as Lysbeth Hendricks. She lived some time after the divorce, opening a tavern eventually. If her name was Lysbeth Hendricks, she re-married in NY 19 July 1659 Jan Gervon van Beaumont; as Lysbeth Hendricks, widow of Laurens Jansen from Denmark." -----------------