Pieter Loockermans

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• Reference Number: 8887

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From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Loockermans-13
Note on identity
Pieter Loockermans lived in Beverwyck (Albany, New York) in the same years as his nephew and fellow immigrant Pieter Janse Loockermans, and researchers have had found it challenging to determine the family relationships and distinguish the life events of the two men. When both were living in the same area, this Pieter Loockermans was sometimes described as "Pieter the Elder" and his nephew as "Pieter the Younger" (Pieter de Jonge). The epithets "Elder" and "Younger" do not appear in records from years after 1670, which some researchers have interpreted as indicating that Pieter the Elder had died around that time. However, Pieter the Younger was too young to have been the father of the daughters attributed to the Pieter who survived, indicating that it was Pieter the Younger who died around 1670, and Pieter the Elder who lived on.[1]

Biography
Pieter (formally Petrus) Loockermans was born in 1614 in Turnhout, Flanders, the son of Jacob Loockermans and his wife Maria (Maeyken).[2].

In 1637 he married Ursula Vissers in Turnhout.[2] A son, Jacobus, was born in 1638 and baptized in Turhout.[2]. There is no later record of Ursula or Jacobus, and it is surmised that they both died around 1641, the year that Pieter emigrated to New Netherland. [2].

After arriving in New Netherland, Pieter appears to have settled first in New Amsterdam (modern New York City), where in January 1642 he witnessed the baptism of the child of another Flemish immigrant.[2] In 1648 he witnessed the baptism, in New Amsterdam, of his nephew Johannes van Cortlandt, the son of his sister Anneke.[2].

His name appears on several records from Rensselaerswyck and Beverwyck/Albany on dates between April 15, 1649 and April 7, 1685. He received a land patent in Beverwyck in 1653 and bought a house there in 1656. His occupation was listed at various times as carpenter), gunstock maker, and innkeeper, and in 1660 he signed a petition in Beverwyck as a small fur trader.[2].

Pieter married Maria as his second wife around 1650. Maria is often identified as Maria Duncanson/Donchesen/Donckesen,[3] but her identity has been the subject of some debate.[2]. In preparation for his second marriage, in 1664, to Maria Varleth, Willem Teller made provision for his children by his first wife and appointed as their guardians "Sander Leendertse Glen and Pieter Loockermans, uncles of said children." This is interpreted as indicating that Pieter Loockermans' wife Maria was the sister of either Willem Teller or his deceased wife " Margariet Donckesen" (Duncanson).[4] Because Margaret Duncanson had a sister Maria born about the same time as Pieter Loockermans, others Duncanson sisters lived in New Netherland, and there is no record of Willem Teller having any sisters in New Netherland,[5][4] it is most likely that Pieter's second wife was Maria Duncanson. [6] Pieter and Maria are recorded as the parents of four daughters, Maria, Annetje, Hilletje, and Catharina (Catelyntje).[7]

Sources
↑ Frijhoff, pp. 13-14
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Frijhoff, p36
↑ See, for example, Bielinski.
↑ 4.0 4.1 Remington, Gordon L. "The Duncanson Wives of Four New Netherland Settlers: Glen, Teller, Powell, and Loockermans," NYGBR, Jan. 1997, pgs. 1-10.
↑ Bower-McBurney Genealogy
↑ In view of her age, the marriage to Pieter is likely to have been Maria's second marriage. A possible record of her first marriage exists in the form of banns posted in January 1640 for the marriage in Amsterdam, Holland, of a 25-year-old Maria Donckes and a James Macfasse, both from Scotland (cited by Bower-McBurney Genealogy).
↑ Frijhoff, pp. 37-38
Bielinski, Stefan. Maria Donchesen Loockermans, The People of Colonial Albany, New York State Museum, October 30, 2005.
Bower-McBurney Genealogy [1]
Burke, Adrian Benjamin, "The Livingston Ancestry of the Duncanson Sisters of New Netherland: Pt I of III: Identifying their mother Helen Livingston," The Genealogist 27 (Spring 2013): 28-50, at 49.
Frijhoff, Willem. Govert Loockermans (1617?-1671?) and His Relatives: How an Adolescent from Turnhout Worked His Way up in the New World. Translation of article "Govert Loockermans (1617?-1671?) en zijn verwanten: Hoe een Turnhoutenaar zich wist op te werken in de Nieuwe Wereld," published in Taxandria, Jaarboek van de Geschied- en Oudheidkundige Kring van de Antwerpse Kempen, LXXXII (2011), 5-68. Published at [2] (Internet archive version) by New Netherland Institute; retrieved 29 November 2014. 52 pages. Revised version, dated 7 January 2016, was accessed on the New Netherland website on 3 May 2016.
Pearson, Jonathan. Contributions for the Genealogies of the First Settlers of the Ancient County of Albany from 1630 to 1800. (Albany: J. Munsell, 1872)
Remington, Gordon L. "The Duncanson Wives of Four New Netherland Settlers: Glen, Teller, Powell, and Loockermans," NYGBR, Jan. 1997, pgs. 1-10.

Family/Spouse: Maria Duncanson. Maria (daughter of James Duncanson, M.A. and Helen Livingston) was born about 1614 in Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Caatje Loockermans was born after 1630.
2. Maria Loockermans was born in 1641; died in 1714.
3. Pieter Loockermans was born in 1646; died in 1684.
4. Anna Loockermans was born in 1657; died in 1742.
5. Hilletje Loockermans was born in 1658; died in 1742.

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• Reference Number: 9194

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From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Loockermans-5
Jacob (Jacobus) Lokermans (Loockermans) was born in 1583 in Turnhout, Flanders, Belgium.[1] (Boyer states that he was born about 1590 in Turnhout, Antwerp Province, Belgium.[2])

He married Maeyken (Maria) Nicasius (Casus, Caes) on January 22, 1606, in Turnhout.[3] They had at least eight children, born between 1610 and 1622: Petrus (died young), Jan, Godefridus, Petrus (Pieter), Godefridus (Govert), Anna (Anneken), Mathias and Paulus (probably died young).[4]

On April 26, 1613, Jacob received permission to go to France to ‘torff te maecken’ (cut peat) and ‘de spraecke aldaer te leeren’ (learn the language there). As of February 8, 1617 he was back in Turnhout.[5] His son Govert apparently was born during the years when the family was in France.[6]

Jacob died in 1636,[7] probably in Turnhout. His widow died in 1640. Her estate was liquidated in 1640, at which time it was "laden with debt."[8]

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↑ Frijhoff, p.33
↑ Ancestral Lines by Carl Boyer, 1998, pg 378
↑ Frijhoff, p.33
↑ Frijhoff, pp. 33-48
↑ Frijhoff, pp. 33-34
↑ Frijhoff, p. 9
↑ Frijhoff, p. 33
↑ Frijhoff, p. 34
Frijhoff, Willem. Govert Loockermans (1617?-1671?) and His Relatives: How an Adolescent from Turnhout Worked His Way up in the New World. Translation of article "Govert Loockermans (1617?-1671?) en zijn verwanten: Hoe een Turnhoutenaar zich wist op te werken in de Nieuwe Wereld," published in Taxandria, Jaarboek van de Geschied- en Oudheidkundige Kring van de Antwerpse Kempen, LXXXII (2011), 5-68. Published at [1] by New Netherland Institute; retrieved 29 November 2014. 52 pages. Revised version, January 7, 2016 18 August 2017
Frijhoff, Willem. Frijhoff (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam) Govert Loockermans (1617?-1671?) en zijn verwanten: Hoe een Turnhoutenaar zich wist op te werken in de Nieuwe Wereld, added 19 August 2017

Died:
Probably Turnhout, Flanders, Belgium

Jacob married Maeyken Nicasius. Maeyken was born in 1585; died in 1640. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Reference Number: 9195

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From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Nicasius-1
Maria Nicasius was the wife of Jacob Loockermans and mother of his children. They married in 1606 in Turnhout, Flanders. He died in 1636, and she died in 1640. [1]

No record of her birth is known. The name "Nicasius" is alternatively rendered as "Casus" or "Caes."[2]

Sources
↑ Frijhoff, pp. 9 and 33-34
↑ Frijhoff, p. 34
Frijhoff, Willem. Govert Loockermans (1617?-1671?) and His Relatives: How an Adolescent from Turnhout Worked His Way up in the New World. Translation of article "Govert Loockermans (1617?-1671?) en zijn verwanten: Hoe een Turnhoutenaar zich wist op te werken in de Nieuwe Wereld," published in Taxandria, Jaarboek van de Geschied- en Oudheidkundige Kring van de Antwerpse Kempen, LXXXII (2011), 5-68. Published at [1] by New Netherland Institute; retrieved 29 November 2014. 52 pages Revised version, January 7, 2016. Accessed 18 August 2017
* Pearson, Jonathan. Contributions for the Genealogies of the First Settlers of the Ancient County of Albany, from 1630 to 1800. Albany, N.Y.: J. Munsell, 1872. p. 75

Died:
Probably Turnhout, Flanders, Belgium

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• Reference Number: 9196

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From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Loockermans-37
Goyvaert the Elder Loockermans was born circa 1545-1550. He moved from the village of Mierde, which is now in Brabant, Netherlands, to Turnhout, which is now in Belgium.[1] In 1570 he was recorded as a cooper in Turnhout.[2]

He was married to Anna (Anneke) Jacobsdr van Loenhout as his first wife. She died in 1614. At his death, there were five surviving children from this marriage. He may have married a second time.[3]

He was the namesake of his grandson, Govert Loockermans. Goyvaert the Elder died in Turnhout in 1628.[4]

Sources
↑ Frijhoff, p. 9
↑ Frijhoff, p. 33
↑ Frijhoff, p. 33
↑ Frijhoff, p. 9
Frijhoff, Willem. Govert Loockermans (1617?-1671?) and His Relatives: How an Adolescent from Turnhout Worked His Way up in the New World. Translation of article "Govert Loockermans (1617?-1671?) en zijn verwanten: Hoe een Turnhoutenaar zich wist op te werken in de Nieuwe Wereld," published in Taxandria, Jaarboek van de Geschied- en Oudheidkundige Kring van de Antwerpse Kempen, LXXXII (2011), 5-68. Published at [1] by New Netherland Institute; retrieved 29 November 2014. 52 pages. Revised version, January 7, 2016 18 August 2017
Willem Frijhoff (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam)Govert Loockermans (1617?-1671?) en zijn verwanten: Hoe een Turnhoutenaar zich wist op te werken in de Nieuwe Wereld, added 19 August 2017