Brief Life History of John Jacobus
When John Jacobus Stryker was born about 1723, in Flatlands, Kings, New York Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Jacobus Gerrit Stryker, was 42 and his mother, Martha Griggs, was 35. He married Sarah Crooker about 1753, in New York City, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 10 May 1759, in Hempstead, Queens, New York, United States, at the age of 37.
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- Jan Stryker in entry for Semson Stryker, "New York, Births and Christenings, 1640-1962"
- Ancestry Family Trees
- Family Data Collection - Individual Records
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Name Meaning
Dutch: variant, archaic or Americanized, of Strijker, from Middle Dutch striker, an occupational name for a measurer (of cloth or linen) or for someone whose job was to smooth cloth or to fill level measures of grain by passing a flat stick over the brim of the measure, thus removing any heaped excess.
Possibly also English: variant of Striker .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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