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Family of Phebe^6 (Van Wicklen) Eldert

(Photo is of the grave stones of Luke and Phebe Eldert in Wyckoff-Snedicker Family Cemetery, Woodhaven, NY, courtesy of Allan Kaufmann via 5 July 2005 email)

Phebe^6 Van Wicklen (Tunis^5, Gerrit^4, Evert^3, Gerrit^2, Jentie^1 Jeppes), b. 1796 in NY

Married: Luke Eldert (b. 1786 and d. 1845) 9 March 1815 Jamaica RDC

Children:
1. Samuel^7 Eldert, b. 1815
2. Mary^7 Elizabeth Eldert, b. 1817
3. Tunis^7 Van Wicklen Eldert, b. 1820
4. Abraham^7 Ditmas Eldert, b. 1823
5. Garret^7 Van Wicklen Eldert, b. 1824
6. Abraham^7 Ditmas Eldert, b. 1827
7. Luke^7 Eldert, b. 1828
8. Elizabeth^7 Eldert, b. 1830
9. Aletta^7 Maria Eldert, b. 1831
10. John^7 Henry Eldert, b. 1834
11. Caroline^7 Ditmas Eldert, b. 1835
12. Luke^7 Eldert, b. 1837

Parents:
Phebe's parents are Tunis and Mary Van Wicklen
Luke's parents are Samuel and Catalina (Ditmas) Eldert.

Background information:

Phebe^6 Van Wicklen (Tunis^5, Gerrit^4, Evert^3, Gerrit^2, Jentie^1 Jeppes) was b. 20 March 1796 and bap. 22 May 1796, Reformed Dutch Church, Jamaica, Queens, NY and d. 22 May 1852 (bur. Wyckoff-Snediker Burial Ground, Woodhaven, NY. She m. Luke Eldert (b. 20 December 1786 and d. 17 January 1845--age 58 yrs, 27 days, bur. Lott Family Burying Ground, Jamaica Road, L.I. ) 9 March 1815 Jamaica RDC. Luke is the son of Samuel Eldert (b. 8 March 1755, d. 20 May 1822) and Carolina (Ditmas) Eldert (b. 20 September 1762 and d. April 1849; Long Island Cemetery Inscriptions, Wykoff, Vol. 1, p. 19). Luke and Phebe (Van Wicklen) Eldert had 12 children and two of them (Tunis and Garret) were give Van Wicklen as their middle name.

Children of Luke and Phebe are: Samuel Eldert (b. 18 November 1815, 25 February 1870). Samuel married Aletta Ann Stoothof (d/o John and Katherine [Sprainger] Stoothof) on 22 May 1839. Children of Samuel and Aletta are Phebe, John, Mary Catherine, Ditmas, Cornelius, Elizabeth, Sarah, Luke, and Samuel Edmond. Mary Elizabeth Eldert (b. 6 October 1817, bap, 16 Nov 1817, RDF, Jamaica, d. 2 September 1819), Tunis Van Wicklen Eldert (b. 15 March 1820, d. 19 December 1877) Tunis married Caroline Baldwin (b. 1825) and they had five children: Henry (b. 1843), Benjamin (b. 1845), Cornelia (b. 1850), Elizabeth, and  Samuel D. Samuel D. Eldert, the first of his family born in Carnesie, married Caroline Seaman--his first of four wives. They had a daughter, Adeline who married the son of a German immigrant, William Kaufmann (information courtesy of Allan Kaufmann, a direct descendent of Tunis VW Eldert, via 5 Apr 2005 email), Abraham Ditmas Eldert (b. 30 April 1823, d. 8 May 1823), Garret Van Wicklen Eldert (b. 5 April 1824, d. 19 Janurary 1890). Garret married first to Matilda Rider and second to Julia Seaman. Garret had nine children by marriage to first wife, Matilda: Abbey Amelia, Hannah Matilda, Luke, Sarah Marie, Louisa, Matilda, Emma, Samuel, and Garret (Abbey Amelia, d. 25 Feb 1863 at age 11 years, 4 months, 13 days. Her grave marker says... "Dearest Abbey thou has left us from this world of care and pain. Loves strong ties cold death may sever, but we trust to meet again."  Abraham Ditmas Eldert (b. 30 January 1827, bap. 15 March 1827, Jamaica RDF; d. 18 July 1827), Luke Eldert (b. 11 April 1828, bap. 17 April 1828, Jamaica RDF, d. 26 July 1828), Elizabeth Eldert (b. 9 March 1830, bap. 6 May 1830, Jamaica RDF, d. 25 February 1889). She married John B. Hopkins, son of William and Maria [Bennem] Hopkins. They had three children: William Hopkins, John Bennem Hopkins, and Lillian Ida Hopkins, Aletta Maria Eldert (b. 5 May 1831, bap. 24 July 1831, Jamaica RDF; d. 15 January 1835), John Henry Eldert (b. 7 June 1834; bap. 26 July 1834, Jamaica RDF; d. 25 January 1835), Caroline Ditmas Eldert (b. 10 December 1835; bap 17 Feb 1836, Jamaica RDF; d. 6 April 1836), and Luke Eldert (b. 17 May 1837, d. 11 March 1910). He married Sarah Eliza Cooper, d/o Richard and Gertrude [Blake] Cooper, and they had three children: Richard, Augusta, and Walter.

Note that seven of these twelve children died in childhood: Mary Elizabeth (23 months), Abraham Ditmas (one week), Abraham Ditmas "II" (5 months), Luke (3 months), Aletta Maria (3 years, 8 months), John Henry (7 months), and Caroline Ditmas (4 months). (This information courtesy of Richard Alan McCool, unpublished Eldert family document.) (Most of the children are buried at the Lott Burying Ground, Jamaica Road, L.I.)

Source:
Cemetery Inscriptions of William F. Wykoff LDS Microfilm #0017118 v1, p. 20 & v9, p. 6 (for Phebe and Luke Eldert)

Email correspondence with Michael^10 Wolfe (14 June 2000)

Harry Macy, Jr. The Van Wicklen/Van Wickle Family: Including its Frisian Origin and Connections to Minnerly and Kranchheyt; The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 128, No. 4 (October 1997); p. 246.

Richard Alan McCool, Unpublished notes on Eldert Family, p. 21.

Allan Kaufmann, direct descendent of Tunis VW Eldert (through Samuel D. Eldert) provides the following information on Luke and Phebe (Van Wicklen) Eldert

Phebe (Van Wicklen) Eldert Obituary: 6 April 1852, "Died at Jamaica South, on Sunday last, Phebe, widow of late Luke Eldert, aged about 55 years" from the Long Island Farmer, Tuesday, April 6, 1852.

Residence of Phebe (1850), Jamaica, Queens, NY: Census lists Phebe living with sons Garret V., Tunis V., daughter, Elizabeth and father Tunis Van Wicklen at unnumbered address.

Luke Eldert Obituary: January 21, 1845, "Died at the Race Course on the 17th" from Obituary, Long Island Democrat, 21 January 1845, buried Dutch Reformed Church, Jamaica, Queens, NY