Van Wicklen/Van Vickle/Van Wickel/Van Wickle/Van Wickler/Van Wicklin Genealogy
Instructions: There are two indexes: a first name index and a surname index. Each name in an index links you to that individual's nuclear family. Where information is available, each page provides links to preceding and subsequent generations. In many cases it is possible to follow links all the way back to Jentie JEPPES, the family founder who traveled with his wife and three children from the Netherlands to New Amsterdam (New York) in 1664. Additional information is provided on each nuclear family as well as source material. I welcome assistance from others interested in VW genealogy.
Two-fold purpose in posting all of this information: 1) to provide information to interested individuals; and 2) to gather additional information on VWs from those who visit this site. Please assist with additions and corrections to these pages by emailing me at john.vanwicklin@houghton.edu.
Picture above is of the Dutch West India Company "Tall Ship" De'Endracht (The Unity or The Concord) on which Van Wicklen/Van Vickle/Van Wickel/Van Wickle/Van Wickler/Van Wicklin "family founder" Jentie Jeppes (Jan Jacobszen), his wife and three young children sailed from Amsterdam, Netherlands to the New World in 1664.
***Click on link for photos and history on New Amsterdam and early New York***More history on the De'Endracht: The ship, Eendracht, 1616 captained by Dirk Hartog,was the second Dutch vessel to make landfall on the continent (the Duyfken was first). On 24 May 1630 it arrived New Amsterdam, having set sail on March 21 from Texel (Island), Netherlands. Wolphert Gerretse Couwenhoven, returns to New Amsterdam. He had already been in 1625. In July 1631, Cornelis Maesen van Buyrmalsen, signed an agreement for three years to Killian van Renssalaer estates for services thereon arrived on the d'Endracht. April 17, 1664 it arrives in New Amsterdam carrying Jentie Jeppes, his wife and three children. --submitted by Michael Wolfe (31 March 2001) For anyone interested, click on "passengers" in left margin for a passenger list for the 1664 voyage of the De'Endracht.
(Below is the famous drawing of New Amsterdam in the 1650s can be found in Peter Newark's Pictures, Bath, England c. 1660. Ship in left foreground may be the De'Endracht. Note similarity of bow structure.)
