When Jannetje Hendrickse Suydam was born on 23 June 1685, in Flatbush, Kings, New York Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Hendrick Rijcken van Zuidam, was 45 and her mother, Eytje Jacobs, was 40. She married Paulus van Enden in 1701, in Flatbush, Kings, New York Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She died in 1738, at the age of 53.
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Dutch: variant, archaic or Americanized, of Suijdam, itself a variant of Zuijdam or Zuidam ‘south dam’, a habitational name from a dam so named near Maasland.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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