Brief Life History of Gaultherus Hendricksen
When Gaultherus Hendricksen Hegeman was born about 1631, in Elburg, Gelderland, Netherlands, his father, Reverend Hendrick Jacobsen Hegeman, was 38 and his mother, Mrs Hendrick Hegeman, was 36. He died before February 1652, in Doornspijk, Gelderland, Netherlands.
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Sources (3)
- “The Ancestry of Adriaen Hegeman of New Netherland,” De Halve Maen
- Adriaen Hegeman and Catharina Margits Blogspot by Heather Truckenmiller
- Ancestry of Adriaen Hegeman
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World Events (2)
1642
Curacao became a colony of the Netherlands.
1648
End of Eighty Years' War with Spain.
Name Meaning
Dutch: habitational name for someone from a farm so named in Overijssel, from Middle Dutch hege, hage ‘hedge’ + man ‘man’. See also Hageman .
Americanized form of German Hegemann , a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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