When Laurens Mattijsz Bancker Jr. was born in November 1650, in Netherlands, his father, Laurens Mattyse Bancker Sr., was 20 and his mother, Annechien Henricks, was 20. He married Annetje Vischer about 1678. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died in 1735, in North Tarrytown, Mount Pleasant, Westchester, New York Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 85.
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In 1655 Adriaen Van der Donck, a Dutch colonist, first published a work which referred to the Pocantico River as Slapershaven or, literally, Sleepers’ Haven. Sleepy Hollow appears to be a later, Anglicized version of this name and actually applied to the valley of the Pocantico River. It now serves as the name of the incorporated village.
After the English took over in the 1660s, the colony was renamed New York, after the Duke of York
Historical Boundaries 1683: Westchester, Colony of New York, British Colonial America 1776: Westchester, New York, United States
Some characteristic forenames: German Siegfried, Bodo, Gerhardt, Heinz, Horst, Kurt, Waltraud.
German (mainly Bäcker): variant of Becker . Compare Backer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesThe earliest Banker, or Bancker of which we have any record was Laurens Mattyse Bancker who came on the scene in Harlem in 1673. For an account of his life and some of his descendants we quote extract …
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