Brief Life History of Engeltje "Angelica"
When Engeltje "Angelica" Mabie was born on 3 August 1777, in Schenectady, Schenectady, New York, United States, her father, Albert Abrahamse Mabie, was 39 and her mother, Maria Hoagen, was 27. She married John H. Burhans on 21 January 1795. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 14 December 1823, at the age of 46, and was buried in Albany Rural Cemetery, Albany, New York, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (8)
- Engeltje Myby Or Mabee, "New York, Marriages, 1686-1980"
- Angelica (Engeltje) Mabie (Mebie) Burhans, "Find A Grave Index"
- Angelica Mabie in entry for Rachel Burhans, "New York, Births and Christenings, 1640-1962"
Spouse and Children
1770–1840 Male
1777–1823 Female
Children (7)
1797–1824 Female
1798– Female
1801–1878 Male
1805–1879 Male
1808– Male
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Parents and Siblings
1738–1797 Male
1749–1799 Female
Siblings (8)
1774– Male
1776–1857 Male
1777–1823 Female
1779–1781 Female
1781–1851 Female
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World Events (8)
1781 · The First Constitution
Age 4
1783 · A Free America
Age 6
1791
Age 14
Name Meaning
Presumably an altered form of French Mabille, a cognate of Mabile . Alternatively, perhaps an adoption of the Scottish or English surname Mabie (see 2 below) or of an altered form of English Mabey 1 in place of the original Dutch surname Van Naerden, an extinct variant of Van Naarden, a habitational name for someone from Naarden in the province of North Holland, the Netherlands. Compare Mabee 1 and Mabey 2.
Possibly also Scottish or English: habitational name from a place so named in the parish of Troqueer in Kirkcudbrightshire, or, alternatively, a variant of English Mabey 1. This surname is apparently no longer found in Britain.
History: The progenitor of the majority of the American Mabies was Pieter Casparszen van Naerden from the Netherlands, who was in New Amsterdam in New Netherland (now New York City, NY) by 1647, where he died in the mid 1660s. He was supposedly of French Huguenot extraction, reportedly a grandson of Pierre Mabille from Neuvy in France, who is said to had escaped to Naarden in the Netherlands after 1572. Pierre Mabille's surname is listed in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors (as Pierre Mabille de Nevi or Mabie) and also in the similar registers of the Huguenot Society of America and the Huguenot Society of South Carolina (as Pierre Gaspard Mabille). However, proof of a French (Huguenot) origin for Pieter Casparszen van Naerden is difficult to substantiate, partly because the first documented use of the surname Mabie or of any of its variants by members of his family reportedly occurred only several years after his death.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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