Meet the Grandparents - Mullen Line

Mullen Direct Line Ancestors (with Date & Place of Birth if available. If linked, it will bring you to a page with more information about the person).

End of Line - means this is the last ancestor with that surname. Will update upon further research.

The suffix "-se" on Dutch middle or sur names - The Dutch used the surname convention of the father's first name with the suffix "-se". (Hermen's son, Jan, would be Jan Hermense and Jan's son's surname would be Janse). When they came to the United States, a lot of them adopted their own family names that would be used by all future generations and just used the Dutch father's names as middle names. For example, Van Kleeck was chosen by Barent Baltus' son, Baltus Barentse Van Kleeck and became the family name still in use today.

             Abbott, Ralph (1590) - End of Line
Adams, Margaret (1598 - Bristol, England) - End of Line
Adams, Henry (1642 - Weymouth, Massachusetts, USA) - End of Line
Andrews, John (1618 - Norfolk, England) - End of Line
Baker, Sarah (1614 - Stratford, England) - End of Line
            Bassingbourne, Catherine (1460) - End of Line
Beardsley, Johnathan (1678 - Fairfield, Connecticut, USA) - End of Line
Billington, John (1580 - England) - End of Line
Birdseye, Nicholas (1560 - Bedfordshire, England) - End of Line
Blakeman, John (1570 - Staffordshire, England) - End of Line
Blanchan, Leonin (1574 - Calais, France) - End of Line
Blott, John (1551 - Bedfordshire, England) - End of Line
Booth, Katherine (1580 - Derbyshire, England) - End of Line
Boosey, Alice (1598 - Cornwall, England) - End of Line
Bouquet, Catharine (1577 - Holland, Netherlands) - End of Line
Brereton, Elizabeth (1327 - Cheshire, England) - End of Line
Brooks, Gilbert (1624 - Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA) - End of Line
Bryan, Jane Joan (1614 - Milford, Connecticut, USA) - End of Line
            Bull, Richard (1590) - End of Line
Burt, Henry (1595 - Devon, England) - End of Line
            Bushe, Mary (1591) - End of Line
Buys, Jan Cornelius (1629 - Holland, Netherlands) - End of Line
Calaweart, Catalyntie (1589 - Holland, Netherlands) - End of Line
Charlton, Robert (1675 - Northumberland, England) - End of Line
Chomeley, Richard (1261 - Cheshire, England) - End of Line
Chorley, Maud (1357 - Cheshire, England) - End of Line
Cooper, Mary (1672 - Northumberland, England) - End of Line
            Corbin, Mary - End of Line
            Cornwall, William (1609) - End of Line
Crane, Henry (1621 - Dorchester, Massachusetts, USA) - End of Line
Crawley, Joan (1568 - Bedfordshire, England) - End of Line
Davison, Grace (1650 - England) - End of Line
Dayton, Ralph (1588 - London, England) - End of Line
Declifford, Henry (1493 - Yorkshire, England) - End of Line
Degrauw, Merretje (1620 - Netherlands) - End of Line
Deguyter, Laurence (1586 - Holland, Netherlands) - End of Line
Despurstow, Catherine (1302 - Cheshire, England) - End of Line
Deynsell, Richard (1404 - Devon, England) - End of Line
            Duppa, Anne (1594) - End of Line
Eyton, Joan (1416 - Yorkshire, England) - End of Line
Fileigh, ELizabeth Joan (1396 - Devon, England) - End of Line
Fortescue, John (1414 - Gloustershire, England) - End of Line
Foster, Karl (1752 - Germany) - End of Line
Gililalnd, Anna (1799 - Nova Scotia, Canada) - End of Line
Gofton, Richard (1650 - England) - End of Line
             Goldhatch, Alice (1587) - End of Line
Grant, Thomas (1630  - Rehoboth, Massachusetts, USA) - End of Line
Gray, Hugh (1695 - Scotland) - End of Line
Green, John (1624 - Kittery, Maine, USA) - End of Line
Hale, Margaret (1485 - Surrey, England) - End of Line
Halsey, Anne (1591 - Bedfordshire, England) - End of Line
Hanners, Susanna (1735 - Rehoboth, Massachusetts, USA) - End of Line
Hare, John (1460 - Ireland) - End of Line
            Hawley, Samuel (1594) - End of Line
            Hogeland, Aaltje (1721) - End of Line
Holbrook, William (1558 - Somerset, England) - End of Line
Hough, Margaret (1514 - Cheshire, England) - End of Line
            Jamys, Isabel (1420) - End of Line
Jans, Sarah (1616 - Netherlands) - End of Line
            Jenkins, Sarah (1645) - End of Line
            Jinking, Sarah (1745) - End of Line
            Johnson, Richard (1612) - End of Line
Joire, Pierre (1575 - Calais, France) - End of Line
Jordan, Jane (1620 - Suffolk, England) - End of Line
Kingsley, Margery (1265 - Kingsley, England) - End of Line
Kool, Barent (1610 - Holland, Netherlands) - End of Line
LeBlanc, Jacoba (1580 - Calais, France) - End of Line
            Lacoute, Sarah (1679) - End of Line
            Lavalley, Peter (1675) - End of Line
LeRoy, Isabeau (1582 - Calais, France) - End of Line
Loring, Sarah (1600 - Somerset, England) - End of Line
Louw, Pieter (1611 - Schleswig-Holstein, Germany) - End of Line
Lucas, Elizabeth (1510 - Edinburgh, Scotland) - End of Line
MacCormick, Dougall (1730 - Isle of Eigg, Scotland) - End of Line
MacDougall, Mary (1724 - Isle of Eigg, Scotland) - End of Line
MacIsaac, Catherine (1714 - Isle of Eigg, Scotland) - End of Line
MacQuarie, Donald (1708 - Isle of Eigg, Scotland) - End of Line
Marche, Eulalia (1609 - Devon, England) - End of Line
Marr, Cornelius (1699 - East Lothian, Scotland) - End of Line
Martin, Grace (1640 - Devenshire, England) - End of Line
Minshull, John (1508 - Cheshire, England) - End of Line
            Moss, Jane - End of Line
Mullen, Peter (1742 - Poughkeepsie, New York) - End of Line
Nason, John (1585 - Stratford-on-Avon, England) - End of Line
Needham, Alice (1400 - Shopshire, England) - End of Line
            Nichols, John (1720) - End of Line
Northrup, Joseph (1603 - Derbyshire, England) - End of Line
Norton, William (1558 - Bedfordshire, England) - End of Line
 Oem, Herman (1575 - Holland, Netherlands) - End of Line
Oliver, Magdelene (1566 - Worchestershire, England) - End of Line
Ormsby, John (1641 - Saco, Maine, USA) - End of Line
Owen, Margerye (1591 - Wiltshire, England) - End of Line
            Parkenson, Sarah (1610) - End of Line
Parmentier, Neeltje (1689 - Brooklyn, New York, USA) - End of Line
Payne, Catherine (1545 - Norfolk, England) - End of Line
Peck, Margaret (1553 - Suffolk, England) - End of Line
            Penn, Christian (1608) - End of Line
            Pennington, Elizabeth (1465) - End of Line
            Pettee, William (1595) - End of Line
Poole, John (1540 - Cheshire, England) - End of Line
            Potts, Isabel (1680) - End of Line
Ring, Sarah (1659 - Ipswitch, Massachusetts, USA) - End of Line
Rogers, Elizabeth (1581 - Stratford-On-Avon, England) - End of Line
             Sabean, Samuel (1589) - End of Line
Saintleger, Jacquet (1476 - Sussex, England) - End of Line
Saunders, Edith (1562 - Somersetshire, England) - End of Line
Sayre, William (1540 - Bedfordshire, England) - End of Line
Schermerhorn, Helena (1660 - Albany, New York, USA) - End of Line
Schouw, Jillisje Claese (1614 - Holland, Netherlands) - End of Line
             Schreiber, Hannah (1743) - End of Line
Seckerson, Thomasine (1572 - Staffordshire, England) - End of Line
Selbee, Susan (1586 - Essex, England) - End of Line
Squire, Elizabeth (1544 - Bedfordshire, England) - End of Line
Stewart, Nicholas (1505 - England) - End of Line
TerBosch, Johannes (1665 - Harlem, New York) - End of Line
Tolman, Thomas (1550 - Devonshire, England) - End of Line
Turk, Jacobus (1610 - Netherlands) - End of Line
Van Amburgh Lysbeth (1669 - Kingston, New York) - End of Line
Van Blarcom, Eybetie (1635 - Albany, New York) - End of Line
Van den Bogaert, Harmen Myndertse (1612 - Holland, Netherlands) - End of Line
Van Kleek, Baltus Balthazar (1585 - Westfalia, Germany) - End of Line
            Vose, Robert (1599) - End of Line
Wakalee, Richard (1580 - Cambridgeshire, England) - End of Line
Wakalee, James (Connecticut, USA)
Watson, Temperance (1586 - Devonshire, England) - End of Line
            Werner, Michael (1740) - End of Line
Wheeler, Obediah (1506 - Bedfordshire, England) - End of Line
White, Elizabeth (1510 - Bedfordshire, England) - End of Line
Winslow, Kenelm (1524 - Worchestershire, England) - End of Line
Wright, Richard (1575 - Stepney, England) - End of Line
             Wyatt, Nathaniel - End of Line
Yabsley, John (1679 - Marblehead, Massachusetts, USA) - End of Line
             Zimmermann, Maria Magdelena (1745) - End of Line

Harmen Myndertse van der Bogaert

Harmen was only 18 when he came to New Amsterdam (now known as New York City, New York).

The Strange Case of Harmen Meyndertse van den Bogaert

Philip Conry (1700)

Places - Montmagny, Quebec, Canada

Grammy's Bloodline

This is just a digital painting of an ancestral tree for Doris Boulay 1909 combining two of my favorite hobbies, art & genealogy.

Olcha Lydia Lowe/Aaltje Louw: Sometimes The Right Question Pans Out

I've been working on my tree for well over a decade but I am still learning new tricks. I love it when something by chance opens a whole family branch for me.

My father asked me the other day when I'd finally be done with the family tree. Short answer, never, but it made me think of setting some goals. I love to meander off the path and link to some distant cousins, but what about the direct bloodlines I haven't found?

Well, I started by making a spreadsheet and bringing it out 10 generations. This would be 2048 people in my direct line on one sheet. I worked it out and found I only had about 10% of those ancestors (237 of them as of August 9, 2016) . I decided I'll do a bit of work every time I jump on just researching for these particular people and making sure I have enough proof to back it all up.

One mystery got checked off my books in just 24 short hours of doing this. I never could figure out what was with my 5th Great Grandmother, Olcha Lydia Lowe (married to Joshua Northrup 1755- 1841 as noted on Bob Juch's Tree). She always just sat out there, the lonely Lowe on my tree. A broken little nub of a branch. That changed today. With a bit of digging, I hit pay dirt.

Olcha is actually Aatlje (or Alcha) in Dutch and Lowe becomes Louw. This makes my grandmother the daughter of Johannes Louw and Aaltje Hogeland of Poughkeepsie, New York born the 27 of March 1767. Which ties nicely into the Mullen story since this was yet another branch of Loyalists that were chased up into Canada after the Revolutionary War.

Speaking of tying in, in finding Aaltje, I also was able to bring the Turk family closer into the fold. (They were just distant cousins before). The daughter of Jacobus Turk 1661-1710 and Catrina Van Benthuysen 1662-1704, Sara Turk 1695-1756 (aka Zara Zurk in a few genealogical books and references) is Aaltje (Olcha) Louw's paternal grandmother married to Jacob Louw born in 1688.

Oh, and in case your counting, that makes:

Jacobus & Catrina my 8x Great Grandparents
Sara & Jacob my 7x Great Grandparents
Johannes & Aaltje my 6x Great Grandparents

DNA Test Results

When Ancestry.Com came out with the DNA testing, I was all over it. I got one within the first year of them offering the test. It was really easy to do but the waiting for the results was tough.

Here are my results:

Both my mother's parents are from Ireland and not much outside influence in her lines going back about 200 years so I can assume that almost 50% of my Irish is from her. That leaves the question on the other amounts. One really confusing one is the 5%  Italy/Greece Region which wasn't the only shock. I was also surprised that there is such a large Scandinavian percentage and really low amounts of French.

Though the border and nomadic movement of people throughout Europe probably explains a lot, but it is very interesting that a girl who would have said her origins were French and Irish, learns that her French half is much more mixed than it is one thing.

Just a week ago, my father submitted his test (so didn't my husband but that's another story). I am hoping that with his results I can figure out just where to look for more clues.