When Harmen Hooglandt was born before 31 January 1666, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, his father, Christoffel Hooglandt, was 32 and his mother, Catharine Creiger, was 11663. He died in 1681, in New York Colony, British Colonial America, and was buried in At Sea.
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After the English took over in the 1660s, the colony was renamed New York, after the Duke of York
Some characteristic forenames: Dutch Dirk, Gerrit, Roelof.
Dutch: habitational name from a village near Utrecht called Hoogland, or from another place so called, for instance (het) Hoge Land near Barsingerhorn in Friesland, meaning ‘(the) upland’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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