Jaepie Janse Hardenberg

• Baptised New Amsterdam, New Netherlands at the Dutch Reformed Church
• 1647 Jan 06; Jan Janszen Schepmoes; Jobje; Willem Kay, Tryntje Roelofs

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GEDCOM Note

Jaepie Schepmoes, the wife of Gerrit Jansz Hardenberg, the American settler, belonged to a family which lived originally in Delft, Netherlands. As is the case with many Dutch surnames, the origin of the name Schepmoes may be traced to the name of the house in which the family lived at one time. The house "in (the sign of) 't Schepmoes (also written as Schepmes) was situated next to the New Church at Delft (bezijden de nieuwe kerck). The meaning of the name is not quite clear. It is made up of two words, schep from scheppen which in this instance may be translated by the verb to ladle, and moes which means either sauce or stew (the Dutch for applesauce is appelmoes) Or may mean vegetable or fruit as is the case in the Dutch composite word moestuin meaning kitchen garden (gemuese means vegetable in German). Schepmoes may have been an old time name for a dish made of a sauce or stew to which one could help himself by means of a ladle. But whatever the original meaning of the name may have been the family living in the house so called derived its surname from it.