Pieter Loockermans b. 5 Oct 1614 Turnhout, Antwerpen, Belgium

1614 -

Name	Pieter Loockermans
Born	5 Oct 1614	Turnhout, Antwerpen, Belgium
Gender	Male
Reference Number	8887
Person ID	I8887	FelsingFam
Last Modified	16 Feb 2024

Father	Jacob Loockermans, b. 26 Mar 1583, Turnhout, Antwerpen, Belgium , d. 1636 (Age 52 years)
Relationship	natural
Mother	Maeyken Nicasius, b. 1585, d. 1640 (Age 55 years)
Relationship	natural
Family ID	F2730	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Maria Duncanson, b. Abt 1614, Scotland

Children

	1. Caatje Loockermans, b. Aft 1630 [natural]
	2. Maria Loockermans, b. 1641, d. 1714 (Age 73 years) [natural]
	3. Pieter Loockermans, b. 1646, d. 1684 (Age 38 years) [natural]
+	4. Anna Loockermans, b. 1657, d. 1742 (Age 85 years) [natural]
	5. Hilletje Loockermans, b. 1658, d. 1742 (Age 84 years) [natural]

Last Modified 16 Feb 2024

Family ID F2635 Group Sheet | Family Chart

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Born - 5 Oct 1614 - Turnhout, Antwerpen, Belgium

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From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Loockermans-13
Note on identity
Pieter Loockermans lived in Beverwyck (Albany, New York) in the same years as his nephew and fellow immigrant Pieter Janse Loockermans, and researchers have had found it challenging to determine the family relationships and distinguish the life events of the two men. When both were living in the same area, this Pieter Loockermans was sometimes described as "Pieter the Elder" and his nephew as "Pieter the Younger" (Pieter de Jonge). The epithets "Elder" and "Younger" do not appear in records from years after 1670, which some researchers have interpreted as indicating that Pieter the Elder had died around that time. However, Pieter the Younger was too young to have been the father of the daughters attributed to the Pieter who survived, indicating that it was Pieter the Younger who died around 1670, and Pieter the Elder who lived on.[1]

Biography
Pieter (formally Petrus) Loockermans was born in 1614 in Turnhout, Flanders, the son of Jacob Loockermans and his wife Maria (Maeyken).[2].

In 1637 he married Ursula Vissers in Turnhout.[2] A son, Jacobus, was born in 1638 and baptized in Turhout.[2]. There is no later record of Ursula or Jacobus, and it is surmised that they both died around 1641, the year that Pieter emigrated to New Netherland. [2].

After arriving in New Netherland, Pieter appears to have settled first in New Amsterdam (modern New York City), where in January 1642 he witnessed the baptism of the child of another Flemish immigrant.[2] In 1648 he witnessed the baptism, in New Amsterdam, of his nephew Johannes van Cortlandt, the son of his sister Anneke.[2].

His name appears on several records from Rensselaerswyck and Beverwyck/Albany on dates between April 15, 1649 and April 7, 1685. He received a land patent in Beverwyck in 1653 and bought a house there in 1656. His occupation was listed at various times as carpenter), gunstock maker, and innkeeper, and in 1660 he signed a petition in Beverwyck as a small fur trader.[2].

Pieter married Maria as his second wife around 1650. Maria is often identified as Maria Duncanson/Donchesen/Donckesen,[3] but her identity has been the subject of some debate.[2]. In preparation for his second marriage, in 1664, to Maria Varleth, Willem Teller made provision for his children by his first wife and appointed as their guardians "Sander Leendertse Glen and Pieter Loockermans, uncles of said children." This is interpreted as indicating that Pieter Loockermans' wife Maria was the sister of either Willem Teller or his deceased wife " Margariet Donckesen" (Duncanson).[4] Because Margaret Duncanson had a sister Maria born about the same time as Pieter Loockermans, others Duncanson sisters lived in New Netherland, and there is no record of Willem Teller having any sisters in New Netherland,[5][4] it is most likely that Pieter's second wife was Maria Duncanson. [6] Pieter and Maria are recorded as the parents of four daughters, Maria, Annetje, Hilletje, and Catharina (Catelyntje).[7]

Sources
↑ Frijhoff, pp. 13-14
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Frijhoff, p36
↑ See, for example, Bielinski.
↑ 4.0 4.1 Remington, Gordon L. "The Duncanson Wives of Four New Netherland Settlers: Glen, Teller, Powell, and Loockermans," NYGBR, Jan. 1997, pgs. 1-10.
↑ Bower-McBurney Genealogy
↑ In view of her age, the marriage to Pieter is likely to have been Maria's second marriage. A possible record of her first marriage exists in the form of banns posted in January 1640 for the marriage in Amsterdam, Holland, of a 25-year-old Maria Donckes and a James Macfasse, both from Scotland (cited by Bower-McBurney Genealogy).
↑ Frijhoff, pp. 37-38
Bielinski, Stefan. Maria Donchesen Loockermans, The People of Colonial Albany, New York State Museum, October 30, 2005.
Bower-McBurney Genealogy [1]
Burke, Adrian Benjamin, "The Livingston Ancestry of the Duncanson Sisters of New Netherland: Pt I of III: Identifying their mother Helen Livingston," The Genealogist 27 (Spring 2013): 28-50, at 49.
Frijhoff, Willem. Govert Loockermans (1617?-1671?) and His Relatives: How an Adolescent from Turnhout Worked His Way up in the New World. Translation of article "Govert Loockermans (1617?-1671?) en zijn verwanten: Hoe een Turnhoutenaar zich wist op te werken in de Nieuwe Wereld," published in Taxandria, Jaarboek van de Geschied- en Oudheidkundige Kring van de Antwerpse Kempen, LXXXII (2011), 5-68. Published at [2] (Internet archive version) by New Netherland Institute; retrieved 29 November 2014. 52 pages. Revised version, dated 7 January 2016, was accessed on the New Netherland website on 3 May 2016.
Pearson, Jonathan. Contributions for the Genealogies of the First Settlers of the Ancient County of Albany from 1630 to 1800. (Albany: J. Munsell, 1872)
Remington, Gordon L. "The Duncanson Wives of Four New Netherland Settlers: Glen, Teller, Powell, and Loockermans," NYGBR, Jan. 1997, pgs. 1-10.