Ancestors

Luur Jacobsz van Kuykendaal

b. 1650 · New York City NY
Born 1650, New York City, New York
Father: Jacob Luursen
Mother: Stijntje Douwes
Children include Cornelis

Luur Jacobsz was baptized on 29 May 1650 in the Reformed Dutch church of New Amsterdam, the Dutch town on Manhattan that became New York City. His father, Jacob Luursen, had come from Wageningen in Gelderland and was working for the West India Company. His mother was Stijntje Douwes of Enkhuizen, and his parents had married in Amsterdam in 1638. The witnesses were Tobias Teuniszen and Janneken Claes. His name was his grandfather's, and Jacobsz means son of Jacob. His father moved to Fort Orange, where Albany now stands, and was dead by 1657, when Luur was about seven. His mother married again. Compiled family accounts name her second husband as Claes Teunissen, called Uylenspiegel, and say he took the family down to the Esopus, the country around Kingston.

As a man he lived at Kingston, on the west bank of the Hudson in Ulster County, and in the country around it. The Dutch called Kingston Wiltwyck until the English renamed it in 1669. He married Grietje Tack. Their marriage entry has not been found, but she is named with him as mother at the baptisms of their children in the Kingston Dutch church.

Ten children were baptized there: Styntie on 2 April 1682, Jacob on 12 August 1683, Johannes on 20 April 1685, Cornelis on 30 May 1686, a second Johannes on 30 September 1688, Arie on 8 June 1694, Pieter on 1 May 1698, Annetje on 19 May 1700, Sara on 14 June 1702 and Seytie on 27 October 1706. The first daughter was named for Luur's mother, who stood sponsor with her second husband, "Styntie Douwes. Claas Teunisse." A son Mattheus, born about 1690, has no baptism.

The family moved west into the Minisink, the frontier valley of the upper Delaware where New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania meet. Several of the grandchildren married at Kingston are described as "born in Menissing."

On 27 October 1706 Luur and his son Cornelis each brought a child to be baptized at Kingston on the same day. Cornelis's son was baptized Leur, for his grandfather. Luur's own youngest child, Seytie, followed in the next entry. In that entry the clerk wrote the father's name as "Leur Jacobse van Kuykendaal." It is the earliest known record of the family's surname. His date of death is not known.

Parents

Jacob Luursen b. 1616Stijntje Douwes b. 1617

Children

Cornelis van Kuykendaal b. 1686

Sources

Baptisms from 1639 to 1730 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York, Collections of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society vol. 2 (1901), p. 27 (register p. 276).
R. R. Hoes, Baptismal and Marriage Registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston, Ulster County, New York (1891), p. 26.
R. R. Hoes, Baptismal and Marriage Registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston (1891), baptisms nos. 1598-1599.
Roswell Randall Hoes, Baptismal and Marriage Registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston (1891), baptisms no. 258, p. 16.
Roswell Randall Hoes, Baptismal and Marriage Registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston (1891), baptisms nos. 417, 425, p. 24.
A. J. F. van Laer, Minutes of the Court of Fort Orange and Beverwyck, vol. 2 (1923), p. 11.
A. J. F. van Laer, Minutes of the Court of Fort Orange and Beverwyck, vol. 2 (1923), p. 16.
NYGBS Collections vol. 2 (1901), p. 27; Roswell Randall Hoes, Baptismal and Marriage Registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston (1891), baptisms nos. 258, 470, 1598, 1599 and others; George Benson Kuykendall, History of the Kuykendall Family (1919), p. 51; Stadsarchief Amsterdam, archive 5001 inv. 449 p. 309.

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