Brief Life History of Geertje
When Geertje Denton was born in 1658, in Jamaica, Queens, New York Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Richard Denton, was 38 and her mother, Ruth Tileston, was 17. She married Cornelius Losee on 14 March 1680, in Flatbush, Kings, New York Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. She died in July 1706, in Livingston, New York, United States, at the age of 48.
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1664
After the English took over in the 1660s, the colony was renamed New York, after the Duke of York
1683
Historical Boundaries 1683: Queens, New York Colony, British Colonial America 1776: Queens, New York, United States 1898: Borough of Queens, New York, United States
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of numerous places so called. The vast majority, including those in Cambridgeshire, Cumbria, Dumfries, Durham, Kent, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northumberland, Oxfordshire, Sussex, and Yorkshire are named from Old English denu ‘valley’ (see Dean 1) + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. An isolated example in Northamptonshire appears in the Domesday Book as Dodintone meaning ‘enclosure, settlement associated with Dodda or Dudda’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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