The Van Deventer Family


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Jan (John) Pietersz van Deventer (1627-ca. 1692) married Maria Hoogeboom in 1652, and 1661 the family immigrated from The Netherlands to New Amsterdam, New York and settled in Brooklyn, New York. Descendants and relatives lived in New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Arkansas, Kansas, Illinois, Oklahoma, California, Texas, Missouri, Colorado, Wisconsin and elsewhere. Includes some ancestry and genealogical data in The Netherlands.




Van Deventer Family


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Van Deventer Family




The Van Deventer Family, 1550-1977


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Jan/John Pietersz van Deventer (1627-ca. 1692) married Marie/Marieken Hoogeboom at Houten, Netherlands, in 1652. In 1662, they immigrated to New Netherlands and settled on Long Island. Willis Van Devanter (1859-1941) became Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States under President Taft. Descendants scattered throughout the country.










The Mary Coberly and William Van Deventer Family of Pendleton and Randolph Counties, West Virginia


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Collection of additions to the descendants of William and Mary Coberty Van Deventer and included in this index of The Van Deventer Family, 1550-1977 which combined information from the 1943 Van Deventer family by Cristobelle Van Deventer with additional, updated material.







Genealogies Cataloged by the Library of Congress Since 1986


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The bibliographic holdings of family histories at the Library of Congress. Entries are arranged alphabetically of the works of those involved in Genealogy and also items available through the Library of Congress.




The Mathews (Mathes) Family in America


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The descendants of Sir Mathew ap Evan, knighted in 1386 by Richard II, took the surname Mathews, dropping the Welsh "ap", or "son of." George Mathews is the first of the line to come to America; he emigrated in 1720 from somewhere in Northern Ireland, probably near Ballynure between Belfast and Ballymena, to Pennsylvania, afterwards removing to Augusta County, Virginia. Four of George's sons -- Alexander, George, Jeremiah, and Allen -- who spelled the family name as Mathes, moved to Washington County, Tennessee.




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