Roeloff Lucassen Seubering

Roeloff Lucassen Seuberinge was the son of possibly Lucas Seuberinge.

Roeloff Lucassen Seuberinge was born in 1595 at Beijle, Drenthe, Netherlands. 

He died after 1636 at Probably, Beule, Drenthe, Netherlands.

He was also known as Roelof Seuberinge.

He was also known as Roeloff Lucassen Sebring.
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ROELOF LUCASSEN SEBRING, born about 1595 in the village of Beyle/Beilen, Drenthe, Netherlands was the progenitor of the following Sebrings. Presumably he died in the Netherlands. Little is known of this Sebring.

http://www.angelfire.com/ny/chickened/sebringfamily.html

http://www.sebringohiohistoricalsociety.org/Familytree.html

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The Sebring Family in the Netherlands [excerpted from the Sebring Collection, p. 2-4 ]: As noted elsewhere in these Sebring Collections, the earliest Sebring to whom we can claim direct relationship was Roelof Lukassen Sebring, born about 1595 or earlier in Beyle or Beilen, Province of Drenthe, the Netherlands. Although there is no evidence that he came to New Netherland, at least three of his sons and two daughters did so. According to the Dutch system of patronymics, his father's name was probably Lukas Sebring. Beyond this we have been unable to trace definitive family connections.

The names of five of his children are known but since their birthdates span over 18 years it is probable that there were others who chose to remain in Holland. The name of his wife is not known.

In an attempt to gather further Sebring data, Lewis Beck Sebring, Jr., a member of the Holland Society, made pilgrimages to Drenthe in 1932, 1936, and 1938; but he learned little of direct-line ancestry, according to his report, though he did locate a present-day Seubring family (as they spell the name) in Balkbrug, with a granddaughter in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

While your editor was in Holland, Michigan, he was advised by Fred R. Gebben of that city to correspond with Prof. Dr. H. J. Prakke at Meppel, Zweeloo, Drenthe, Netherlands. Prof. Prakke was able to find only one reference to the early Sebrings--this to a Jan Suebring in a study of Steven Coerte in the "Nieuwe Drentsche Volks-Almanak" 1943, by T. Poortman of Meppel. Prof. Prakke referred the query to other researchers, and a report was received from Mr. F. Keverling Buisman, Substitute State Archivist of Drenthe in Assen. He explained the absence of early vital statistics as follows: "...the archives of the church of Beilen were burned in 1820 and we are possessing only a book of baptisms and marriages, beginning in 1718." He did, however, find one reference in the archives of the "schulte" (a local judicial officer) to a Jacob Roelofs Seubring, when he sold some goods in 1650. This is not the son of Roelof Lukassen unless that Jacob was born earlier than supposed. This may be a cousin of the emigrant Jacob.

In 1912, when the late James Leroy Sebring of Kalamazoo, Michigan, was preparing his 1913 edition of the history of one branch of the Sebring family, he employed the late Louis P. de Boer to carry on research for him. Mr. de Boer was then evidently working in the New York City area with early Dutch records; but he was also in possession of notes hand-copied from various sources in the Drenthe area. Before his death, Mr. de Boer donated his genealogical notes concerning numerous Dutch families with descendants in the United States, to the Genealogical Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, where they have been placed in large brown envelopes, catalogued by families, and stored in the manuscript file.

In de Boer's notes on the Sebring family your editor found several interesting items, among which were ten small sheets of penciled notes, mainly in the Old Dutch dialect of the Province of Drenthe, but interspersed with a few remarks in English. Since the de Boer notes contain no births, deaths, or marriages, it is impossible to derive a line of descent from them. However, they do show, by numerous transactions and court cases that the Sebrings (with various earlier spellings of the name) resided for many years in their ancient home of Suedebringh or Zuedebringhe "in the area of Rune/Ruinen in the neighborhood of Ancen". For example, in the Tract or Plat Book (Blok #718 A D 1383) appears the following entry: "Siberinge...with all that belonged to him which was situated in the land of Drenthe in the township (or village) of Anlo went into the neighborhood of Van Anderen." The farmers of Zuedebringhe sold crops to the Abbott of the convent Dikeningen as rent for their lands of Zuedebringhe. The earliest entry in the de Boer notes is "Sebertinge. /page/ 163. (A D 1284)".

This evidence that the Sebrings were in Drenthe as early as the thirteenth century appears to disprove the persistent family tradition that they were French Huguenots named Sebrent, who escaped just ahead of the Massacre of Saint Bartholomew's Day, August 24, 1572.

In order to provide background for the life of the early Sebrings in the Netherlands, Mr. Jalving reviewed a recent book in Dutch, D. Drentse Dorpen, which tells of the "Honderug" or "Hound's Back", a ridge of high ground running north and south through Drenthe. This ridge was, in earlier times, surrounded by swamps and heather ground. The cities were laid out in circular form with strips of farm land outside the circle. Almost all of the swamps have now been reclaimed for farms or forests. The oldest records of the digging of turf or peat date from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Later turf colonies were established with people imported to dig turf, which was exported by canal. These people were not assimilated by the local residents and social problems resulted in the seventeenth century. As soon as the turf was removed, the land was used for agriculture.

ROELOF LUKASSEN SEBRING born about 1595 or before in the village of Beyle or Province of Drenthe, The Netherlands, was the progenitor of the Sebrings who came to America during the middle of the 17th century and settled in the Dutch colony of New Netherland. The name of his wife has not been learned, nor has the date of his death.

The name has been spelled in many ways: Cebring, Seaborn, Sebering, Sebrant, Sebrige, Sebrink, Sebryng, Seubering, Seuberingh, Snebring, Soubanich, Subring, Suebering, Sybrink, all the result of phonetic spelling and translation from the Dutch language.

Little is known of this first Sebring. "No account of him, except his name and that of his children, and have seen no positive evidence that he ever lived in this country" (Bergen).

If the Dutch system of patronymics was followed in his case, then he was the son of Lukas Sebring. Following this line of thought, his daughter Willemptje named her first born son for her grandfather. No other proof of this has been found, except that his son Jan Roelofse named a son "Lucas".

Roelof Lukassen was the father of five children born in Beyle, Drenthe, whose names are known to us. As the birth years of these children are spaced over a period of eighteen years, it is very possible that there were other children who remained in Holland. There is no direct evidence that Roelof ever came to the New World.

Efforts have been made to trace Roelof's ancestry, and Sebrings have been found in the same area of Holland today, but no one has been able to trace the family lineage beyond this early ancestor.

From general research done in the 1930s, the Sebrings were in the province of Drenthe as early as the thirteenth century (which seems to disprove a "persistent family tradition that they were French Hugenots named Sebrent who escaped just ahead of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day, 8/24/1572").

Numerous real estate transactions and court cases from the Drenthe province show that the Sebrings lived for many years in Suedebringh or Zuedebringhe "in the area of Rune/Ruinen in the neighborhood of Ancen." The farmers of Zuedebringhe sold crops to the Abbott of the convent of Dikeningen as rent for use of their lands. The earliest entry lists the name as Sebertinge (1284 AD).

A Dutch source, D. Drentse Dorpen, tells of the "Honderug" ( "Hound's Back"), a ridge of high ground running through Drenthe from north to south. This ridge, in early times was surrounded by swamps and heather ground. The cities were laid out in circular forms with strips of farm land outside the circle. Almost all of the swamps have now been reclaimed for farms or forests. The oldest records of digging of turf or peat date from the 12th and 13th centuries. Later turf colonies were established with people imported to dig turf, which was exported by canal. These people were not assimilated by the local residents, causing problems that came to a head in the 17th century. Once the turf was all removed, the land was used for agriculture [Sebring Collections, p. 2].

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1.Roelof Lukassen1 Seubering was born Abt. 1595 in Village of Beyle or Beilen, Drenthe, The Netherlands, and died Unknown in Prob Beyle, Province Drenthe, Netherlands.He married ??? Unknown in Prob Beyle, Province Drenthe, Netherlands.

Notes for Roelof Lukassen Seubering: All five children were born in Beyle, Drente, The Netherlands.  As the birth years of these children are spaced over a period of eighteen years, it is very possible that there were other children who remained in Holland.  Little is known about Roelof Lukassen Seubering.He is a possible son of Lukas Seubering, but not proven. 

      Children of Roelof Seubering and ??? are: 

+ 2 i. Willemptje2 Sebring, born 1619 in Hees, Drente, Netherlands; died 1690 in Flatbush, Long Island, NY.
+ 3 ii. Lambertje Sebring, born 1621 in Beyle, Province of Drenthe, the Netherlands; died Bef. April 30, 1679 in Flatbush, Long Island.
+ 4 iii. Jan Roelofse Sebring, born 1631 in Beyle, Province of Drenthe, The Netherlands; died 1703 in Near Bergen, New Jersey.
5 iv. Jacob Roelofse Sebring, born 1634 in Province of Drenthe, the Netherlands.He married Maria Van Neste.
Notes for Jacob Roelofse Sebring: Lived in the Raritan Valley of New Jersey as early as 1685

6 v.   Daniel Roelofse Sebring, born 1636 in Beyle, Province of Drenthe, the Netherlands.He married Elisbet ???. 

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