Roelof Jansz1

#18021, (circa 1602 - circa 1637)

Family

Anneke Jans b. s 1604, d. c 1663
Children 1.Lÿntgen Roelofs9 (c 1624 - b 1634)
 2.Sara Roelofs+10 (c 1627 - )
 3.Trÿntje Roelofs+10 (c 1629 - )
 4.Sytie Roelofs+10 (c 1630 - c 1659)
 5.Jan Roelofs10 (c 1632 - )
 6.Annitjen Roelofs11 (c 1635 - b 1663)
There are many sources for the facts of the lives of Roelofs Jansz and Anneke Jans. They have been used here as cited. The work of George Olin Zabriskie in his "Anneje Jans in Fact and Fiction" (New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 104, Jan. and Apr. 1973) has provided a detailed accounting of many of the original sources to be used, and they have been liberally examined for this genealogy.2 
Birth*circa 1602He was born circa 1602 at Marstrand, Sweden (then Norway).1,3 
Marr Intentions*1 April 1623He and Anneke Jans entered marriage intentions on 1 April 1623 at Hervormde Kerk, Amsterdam, Netherlands.4,5
Marriage*18 April 1623He married Anneke Jans, daughter of Jan _____ and Tryntie Jonas, on 18 April 1623 at Hervormde Nieuwekerk, Amsterdam, Netherlands.1,4,5
1630He and Anneke Jans migrated from Amsterdam, on de Eendracht, to New NetherlandG in 1630.6,7 
Death*circa 1637He died circa 1637 at New NetherlandG.8 

Citations

  1. [S672] A. J. F. van Laer, editor, Van Rensselaer Bowier Manuscripts (Albany: University of the State of New York, 1908), p. 806. "Roelof Jansz, from Masterland [Marstrand, on the coast of Sweden]."
  2. [S520] VWH.
  3. [S1646] George Olin Zabriskie, "Anneke Jans in Fact and Fiction", The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 104 (Apr. and Jul. 1973), p. 67, adding that Marstrand was a Dutch commercial outpost in what was then a part of Norway ceded to Sweden in 1658; marriage record of April 1823, age 21.
  4. [S1646] George Olin Zabriskie, "Anneke Jans in Fact and Fiction", p. 67, citing Registers of the Dutch Reformed Churches in Amsterdam, microfilm 113190, Nederlands Hervormde Kerk. Amsterdam (Noord-Holland) for intentions; 113558, Nederlands Hervormde Kerk. Nieuwekerk (Amsterdam, Noord-Holland) for marriage.
    Intentions, Oude Kerk (Amsterdam, Noord-Holland). From the translation: Marriage intentions. 1 Apr 1623. Roelof Janssoon, b. Maesterland, a seaman, age 21, no parents, assisted by Jan Gerritsz, his nephew; and Anna Jans, b. Vleckere, Norway, age 18, assisted by her mother Trïjn Roeloffs; both res. St. Tunis gate.
    Marriage, 18 Apr 1623, Roefof Janszen and Anna Jans, 18 Apr 1623.
  5. [S1321] Netherlands, Noord-Holland Province, Church Records, 1523-1948, images, online FamilySearch.org, Nederlands Hervormde > Amsterdam > Huwelijksaangiften, Trouwen 1620-1623, img. 541/545. Vol. 427 1622-1623, sh. 239. Film 113190. See Gabriskie citation for translation.
  6. [S1336] E. B. O'Callaghan, History of New Netherland or New York Under the Dutch (New York: Bartlett and Welford, 1848), I:433. "Names of Settlers in Rensselaerswyck from 1630 to 1646 compiled from the Books of Monthly Wages and otlier MSS." Entry for the year 1630: "Roeloff Jansen van Maesterlandt, wife and family; came out as farmer to the Patroon, at $72 a year."
  7. [S672] A. J. F. van Laer, Van Rensselaer Bowier Manuscripts, p. 308. "Account of the jurisdictions, management and condition of the territories named Rensselaerswyck," dated 20 Jul 1634. A list of the first settlers, in 1630, of the new farm "de Laets Burg" at Rensselaerswyck, under the overseer Wolfert Gerrittsen:
    Rutger Hendricksen, van Soest [near Amersfoort in Netherlands]
    Brent Peelen, vander Nieckarck [Nijkerk or Nykerck, in Gelderland, Netherlands]
    Beerent Jansen, van esen[en?] [van Laer's note: place name not identified]
    Roeloff Jansen, van Masterlant [Marstrand, Norway (now Sweden)]
    Annetgen Jans, his wife
    Sara and Trintgen Roeloffs, "his daughters with another child born before in that country"
    Claes Claesen, van Vlecker [Flekkerøy, Norway (birth place of Annetgen Jans)]
    Jacob Goyuerttsen, van [ditto] [Flekkerøy, Norway]
    Zeeger Jansen, vander Nieckarck [Nijkerk or Nykerck]
    On p. 805, these are all named as sailing on the ship de Eendracht from Texel on 21 Mar 1630, arriving at New Amsterdam 24 May 1630.
  8. [S1158] William S. Pelletrau, compiler, Abstracts of Wills on File in the Surrogate’s Office, City of New York (New York: New York Historical Society, 1893-1913), NYHS Vol. XXVII, Abstracts IV:487–490, will of Anneke Jans Bogardus. Editor's note.
  9. [S1646] George Olin Zabriskie, "Anneke Jans in Fact and Fiction", p. 67, with the name Lijnte, citing Registers of the Lutheran Churches in Amsterdam, FHL Film 113415. The actual record image with "Lÿntgen" can be found on FamilySearch.org, "Netherlands, Noord-Holland Province, Church Records, 1523-1948," Evangelisch Luthers > Amsterdam > Dopen 1590-1641 > image 223 of 654.
  10. [S1158] William S. Pelletrau, Abstracts of Wills on File in NYC 1665-1801, NYHS Vol. XXVII, Abstracts IV:487–490, will of Anneke Jans Bogardus. Names "her children, Sarah Roeloffson, wife of Hans Kierstede; Catrina Roeloffsen, wife of Johanes Van Brugh; also Jannettije and Rachel Hartgers, the children of her deceased daughter, Fytje Roeloffsen, during her life the wife of Peter Hartgers, representing together their mother's place; also her son Jan Roeloffsen, and finally, William, Cornelius, Jonas, and Peter Bogardus."
  11. [S1172] Arnold J. F. van Laer, translator and annotator, New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1974), II:42–43, document 20b, "Settlement of Annetje Jans upon her minor children by Roeloff Jansen, her first husband," dated 21 Jun 1642 at Fort Amsterdam. Restatement of an apparently lost agreement with her children's guardians prior to her marriage to Everardus Bogardus. Promises each their share of their father's estate, and gives the names and ages of the children: Sara Rouloffs, aged about sixteen years; Trijntjen Rouloffs, aged thirteen years; Sijtjen Rouloffs, aged eleven years; Jan Rouloffsen, nine years old; and Annitjen Rouloffsen, aged six years. The last, Annitjen, is not mentioned in her mother's will of 1663. Presumably she died childless during the interval.