Re: mislaid - great grandfather

In message <4863ce71$0$30923$dbd4b001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Richard van Schaik <f.m.a.vanschaikREMOVE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Graeme Wall wrote:

Beekman, or Beeckman, are variants that Richard has probably come across
in New Amsterdam.

Those even do occur in The Netherlands. A similar one is e.g. that my
sixth GGmother Johanna van Straten after her husband Johannes van Schaik
died remarried to one using alternating Bosch and Boschman as surname.

Richard


The Beekmans were, and probably still are, a prominent New York (State)
family.

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Graeme Wall

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