Franz Pieterse Klauw

Started by Alex Moes on Tuesday, February 24, 2015
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2/24/2015 at 12:03 AM

Franz Pieterse Klauw is described by Pearson in Contributions for the genealogies of the first settlers of the ancient county of Albany, from 1630 to 1800 so:

"Clauw (Klauw), Fraus Pieterse, carpenter, in Beverwyck as early as 1656, of Kinderhook. 1683, had two son's, Hendrick aud Jurriaau. He was called the Kint Van Weelden, but in 1080 lived at Kinderhook in great poverty."

Other than this i can find no mention except in online family trees which are conflicting and confused and place his birth between 1620 and 1656 either in Brazil, the Hudson River or Denmark.

Certainly the way the Geni tree is currently structured cannot be correct as Franz is older than his mother and only 3 years younger than his father. Certainly with a name like Franz Pieterse Klauw it is hard to doubt that his father's name was Peter but why he has been attached to Pieter Claesen Wyckoff (presumably a spelling mistake) and Margrietje Cornelise ‘Grietje’ van Ness i do not know. Actually i don't see why these two are shown as married either.

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2/24/2015 at 12:49 AM

You know what klauw~clauw means for a carpenter~timmerman?

Peter is sometimes equivalent for Pieter in our language. But Pieter sounds more modern than the Latin baptist-version Petrus. Maybe Pieter ---NOT Pietertje, the little one, for those types of names were for the woman--- was his 'roepnaam', the way he was called (=roepen) by his teachers in school. In English maybe 'nick-name', but never use that word. I myself do NOT have a nickname, my mother hated that habbit.

2/24/2015 at 3:09 AM

Well in English most of a carpenter's work is done with a claw-hammer, at least in our modern era.

I cheated, Google tells me klauw is a nail.

I think we should delete Pietertje or at least disconnect them from Grietje.

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2/24/2015 at 3:52 AM

dit Google tell / teached you that or WikiPedia ?

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