Leeuwen

Leeuw & Liew & Leewen, oh my!

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this is proving to be tougher than I thought. Not able to make any solid connection between Henry of Goshen and these Leeuwe families, who (by the way) can’t seem to agree on a way to spell their name, hehe. Leeuw, Liew, Leuw, Leeuven, Liew, Lieuw, Lyon, Lion, Van Leeuwe, Van Leeuwen… Get it together, people! 🙂

I wanted to post this for future reference, since it appears there may even be two different strains of Leeuwe’s going on on long island to further complicate matters:

Register of the Early Settlers of Kings County, Long Island New York
VAN LIEW or LIEUWEN, JAN FREDERICKS, emigrated in 1652, as per his marriage record, from Utrecht, having been probably at one period a resident of Leuwen, a village in Gelderland, on the Waal, in the Netherlands; m. Aeltje Jans dau. of Jan Jansen. On ass. rolls of Brn of 1675, ’76, ’83, and ’93; deacon in the R. D. ch. in 1683; and took the oath of allegiance in Brn in 1687. Issue:–Jan, bp. Dec. 9, 1677; Margriet, bp. Mar. 14, 1680; Abraham, bp. July 9, 1682; Grietje, bp. Apl. 20, 1685; Dina, bp. Mar. 25, 1687; Esje, bp. Nov. 10, 1689; Hendrick, bp. Apl. 30, 1694; and Elizabeth, bp. Dec. 13, 1697–all in the Kings Co. churches. There was a Frederick Van Liew of Ja, L. I., who emigrated from Utrecht and had 9 children, many of whose descendants are to be found in Somerset Co., N. J., and whose s. Hendrick, bp. Oct. 14, 1683, m. 1st, Apl. 18, 1713, Geertje Cortelyou of N. U. (at which place he probably at one period resided), m. 2d Marya (???), and had a s. Jeurien (by 2d w.) bp. Aug. 26, 1721, in N. U.

Hendrick Van Leeuwen, where’ve you been hiding?

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I was thinking about that 1745 baptism from my last post and thought “you know, Hendrick sounds kind of like Henry – I wonder if someone with that name would just go by Henry”… then I looked up the Van Gieson-Brouwer connection and found Hendrick Van Leeuwen and kept reading.

“Also known as Henry Lion.” “Also known as Henry Lyon”. 

HOT…

DIGGITY…

DOG.

I think we got ourselves a ballgame. 😀

Note: All of the data below comes from this page.

Hendrick Van Leeuwen1

b. between 1690 and 1700, d. before 1732
  • Hendrick Van Leeuwen was possibly born between 1690 and 1700.
  • He married Marytje Abrahamse Brouwer, daughter of Abraham Adamsz Brouwer and CorneliaCaljer, at Reformed Dutch Church, New York City, New York, on 4 August 1718; (banns 4 July 1718) “Henry Lyon & Maria Brouwer.”2
  • Hendrick Van Leeuwen died before 1732 ; when his wife is mentioned as a widow.3
  • Also known as Henry Lion.4
  • Also known as Henry Lyon.5

Family: Marytje Abrahamse Brouwer b. 12 Mar 1699

So here is the theory that I will have to research now and see if it holds water…
Hendrick Leeuw (aka Henry Lyon) marries Maria Brouwer in 1718. They have Jurrie Leeuw in 1721, who marries Susanna Cregier on July 4, 1744.

Fun Fact: The brothers Abraham and Jurrie Leeuw married Elizabeth & Susanna Cregier who are sisters.

Anyway, then Jurrie & Susanna have Hendrick in 1745. My theory is that this Hendrick  Leeuw is my Henry Lyon of Orange County. All that I have seen is that Henry Lyon was born in 1750, but no sources as to why that was thought. 1745 is in quite close enough proximity to that to make this the actual birth year.

I am really excited about the potential of this connection. 😀 Now I need to look over the source material that that site references, make sure it is good, and then see what other connections I might be able to make to solidify that theory!