When Mydert Ouderkerk was born on 10 February 1739, in Schenectady, Albany, New York Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Johannes Ouderkerk, was 32 and his mother, Weyntje Arentse Van Petten, was 31. He had at least 1 son with Ouderkerk.
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Dutch: topographic name for someone living by the ‘old church’.
History: This surname is recorded in Beverwyck in New Netherland (now Albany, NY) in the mid 17th century.
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