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- BIRTH INFORMATION:
There is no known information about the exact Birth Date. But he was born in Valkenburg, Maaestrict, Limburg Province, Netherlands. (NAVVF Web Site)
CHRISTENING INFORMATION:
Lambert Van Valckenburch bap 15 Apr (1614) Millen; sponsors: Michiel Scepers and Elizabeth Baesten (NAVVF Web Site)
MARRIAGE INFORMATION:
Lambert Van Valkenburg of Valkenburg on the Guele River, seven miles east of Maaestrict, Limburg Province of the Netherlands, obtained a marriage licence in 1642 and married Annetje Jacobs. This Licence, as furnished and translated by the "Centraul Bureau voor Genealogie" of The Hague, The Netherlands, reads as follows:
"Appeared (before the marriage council of Amsterdam) as before (on the 4th of Jan 1642) Lambert Van Valckenburgh, from Millen, 26 yrs old, having no parents (anymore) living on the Boomstraat, and Annetie Jacobs, from Tonningen (Schleswig Holstein) living as before, having no parents, 20 yrs old, requesting to have their three Sundays' banns proclaimed, in order to have their marriage solemnized and celebrated, insofar no legal impediments occur. And after their having declared to be free persons and (not) related to each other in blood, which would prevent a Christian marriage, their banns have been granted. (NAVVF Web Site)
REAL ESTATE INFORMATION:
Lambert bought a house and 25 morgens (50 acres) of land on 29 Jul 1644, from Cornelis Jacobsen Van Vreelandt on the west side of the Bowery from Canal to Broome Streets. Later, on 16 Feb 1647 he received a grant from
the Dutch West India Company to a lot south of the fort, next to Jan Evertsen. (NAVVF Web Site)
BIOGRAPHY INFORMATION:
LAMBERT JOCHEMSE VAN VALCKENBURCH (Valckenburgh, Valkenberg, Valckenborch), born at Valkenburg in Dutch Limburg, on the Geule River, seven miles east of Maestrict, in Holland, appears first of record in America, July 29, 1644, when he purchased of Jan Jacobsen, a house and plantation on the island of Manhattan, with twenty-five morgens of land adjoining. [Register of the Provincial Secretary of New Netherland, II, 121.] (Evjen's Scandinawan Immigrants in New York (page 406) erroneously places Lambert as a German from Falkenburg in Germany, having been misled by the similarity of place names). The grantor was Jan Jacobsen Stille van Vreelandt who died or left New Amsterdam soon after this sale.
Many years later the land became a part of the farm of Colonel Nicholas Bayard who died in 1707 -- This land is on the west side of the present Bowery from Canal Street to Broome Street. There is no record of the disposal of these twenty-five morgens (fifty acres) of land and the house of Lambert van Valckenburch. It is stated in The Iconography of Manhattan Island (VI,72) that he "may have surrendered this farm to the [West India] Company when he acquired the tract opposite to Kip's Bay plantation," later known as the Samler farm.
This latter property was of twenty-four morgens, granted by Director General Peter Stuyvesant to Lambert van Valckenburch, on May 15, 1649 -- It embraced what are now nine city blocks on the west side of Lexington Avenue from Twenty-Ninth to Thirty-Fifth Streets, and extended, westward, across what are now Park and Madison Avenues beyond Fifth Avenue from Thirty-First to Thirty-Third Street, and included the corner of the present Thirty-Third Street and Fifth Avenue, on which stood, until 1929 the southeastern part of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, and wherein 1931 was erected the Empire State Building, then the highest building in the world.
The confirmation of title to this property issued in 1668 [Libci- Patents, III, 43, Albany] by Richard Nicolls, Governor of the Province of New York, refers to the ground-brief from Stuyvesant to Lambert van Valckenburgh, dated May 15, 1649, covering 48 acres (24 morgens), and recites that the land was conveyed to Claes Martensen. This later owner is identified in the Iconography of Manhattan Island (VI,138), viz.:
Claes Martensen van Rosenvelt, the ancestor of the Roosevelt family, occupied the farm originally granted to Lambert van Valckenburgh, at least as early as 1635. Probably he sold his farm to Claes Martensen when he went north [1652]. Dingman Versteeg identified Martensen as Nicolas Martens, mentioned in a court record as early as August 26) 1638. He is said to have been the direct ancestor of Theodore Roosevelt who was born less than a half-mile distant.
The surname of Roosevelt was adopted by the children of Nicolas Martensen, in place of Nicolsen and Martensen, because Roosevelt was the name of the place in Holland from which their father had come to America.
On January 25, 164.4, a declaration of Olaf Stevensen van Cortland and Gysbert Opdyck refers to a statement of Lambert van Valckenburch respecting property of Peter Livesen deceased. {Register of the Provincial Secretary of New Netherland, II, 95-] Lambert Van Valckenburch seems to have resided upon the fifty-acre farm he purchased of Jan Jacobsen, at least until March 16, 1647, when he was granted, by the Director General of New Netherland, a patent for a lot on the south side of Fort Amsterdam, Manhattan Island.[ Land Papers of the Province of New Netherland, G.G., p. 192.]
Here he may have lived until he removed to Fort Orange about 1652, as his second farm, acquired May 15, 1649, was over two miles northward in a region sparsely settled, not well developed, and far beyond the defensive wall built across the island at Wall Street to protect the village around Fort Amsterdam from Indians and others. The house and garden location close under the southern wall of Fort Amsterdam was of such prominence and interest as to merit further notice.
The fort stood on the southwestern half of the site of the present U.S. customhouse. The distance from the fort to the harbor was much less then than it is now. This land patented to Lambert van Valckenburch was nine rods and one foot long (north and south) by one rod and three feet wide. The northern end of this lot would be about fifty to sixty feet south of the southwestern corner of the U.S. Customhouse; the southern end was directly upon the Strand, the narrow open space between the lot and the harbor. This position gave an unobstructed view, from the lot, over the entire harbor. The grant of the lot was made for the creation thereon of house and garden.
It was a corner lot bounded by open public ways on three sides. This land is outlined as lot No. 1, in Block H of the key to the famous ancient Castello plan of New Amsterdam. This plan depicts a house upon the southern end of the land, exactly in the east-and-west center of the southern end of Manhattan Island. As Lambert van Valckenburch was the first grantee of this land, and, as when he sold it in 1656 to Isaac Gravenraedt (Greveract), his house thereon was sold with the land, It is conceived that he built the house. This lot was one of the only three (all granted in 1647) south of the fort.
The lot next to the west was granted to, and patented by, Jan Evertsen Bout, the interpreter of the language of the Indians, and the other to Sergeant Huybertsen (the Englishman, James Hubbard). Lambert van Valckenburch removed to Fort Orange and Beverwyck (Albany) about four years before he sold this house and land to Gravenraedt in 1656, and, also, seemingly before his farm of forty-eight acres was entered upon by Claes Martensen in 1655 -- Gravenraedt sold the house and lot beside Fort Amsterdam to Pieter Jansen Clott of Mingaquy in New Yarsie March 23, 1670, when the house was described in the deed of sale as "an old Tennement." In 1673 the English commander of New York (New Amsterdam), Captain Colve, confiscated this house and lot, with the two others aforesaid, for military purposes. These houses are depicted in several of the earliest pictures of New Amsterdam.
The site of the original lot would be now a strip 148 1/2 feet long by 19 1/2 feet wide, beginning opposite the southwestern corner of the U.S. Customhouse in State Street, and running southward to near the center of Battery Park. A drawing in The Iconography of Manhattan Island [II, 273,274, 388) outlines the bounds of this land, as well as the boundaries of the farm bought in 1644 of Jan Jacobsen and of the farm secured in 1649 of Director General Stuyvesant.
Original Source: The Washington Ancestry and Records of the McClain, Johnson and Forty Other Colonial American Families
(Prepared for Edward Lee McClain by Charles Arthur Hoppin. Greenfield, Ohio - Privately Printed 1932)
Found Source: Contributed by Karl J. Van Valkenburgh
(Lambert Jochemse van Valckenburch of New Amsterdam, NAVVF Web SIte)
KEY FOR PHOTO IN SCRAPBOOK:
VIEW OF THE MARCKVELDT AND'T WATER, 1652.
A. The Hoisting Crane. B. Southeast Bastion of Fort Amsterdam. C. White Horse Tavern. D. House, late of Dominie Bogardus, who married Anneke Jans, a Norwegian woman. E. Old Store-House of West India Co. F. The "Five Stone Houses" of West India Co. G. Brewery of West India Co. H. House of Cornelis Pietersen. I. House of Pieter van Couwenhoven. J. House of Jan Jansen Schepmoes. K. House of Gillis Pietersen. L. House of Eghbert von Borsum. M. House of Pieter Cornelissen van der Veen. N. House of Lambert van Valkenburgh, German. O. Schregers Hoek or Capoke. P. House of Hans Kiersted, who married Sara Rollefsen, a Norwegian woman. Q. Roelof Jansen Haes, a Norwegian. R. Pieter Cornelissen. S. Paulus Leendertsen van der Grift. T. New Store House of West India Co. U. Augustyn Herrman. German. V. Jacob Haes, husband of Christina Capoen Holgersen, Norwegian. W. Old Church and Lane.
From "New Amsterdam and It's People," by J. H. Innes; copyright, 1902, by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
INFORMATION FROM H.T. VAN VALKENBURGH - 26 NOV 1941
LAMBERT VAN VALKENBURG - Came to New Amsterdam from Holland before 1644. May have been married at the time as there is no record of his marriage in the New York early records; his wife's name was "Annatie" - there is one reference by a descendent that her name was Beekman but I have looked into this ans it seems to be due to a misinterpretation of the early record and would say the Annatie's family name is not given in any early American record.
He probably came in the service of the Dutch W I Company rather than as a settler and was given a grant of land in New Amsterdam 3/16/[16]47 and probably built on what is now the site of the "Battery". About 1652 he went to Fort Orange at Albany where there are records of his acting in a military capacity and also as sort of an under-sheriff and is frequently mentioned in suits where he has made service. He was a member of the church there before 1693. He died before 1697, as his widow requests title to the house and lot in Albany; title papers lost in the flood of 1666 - this was the sw corner of Green and Beaver Streets in Albany. (H.T. Van Valkenburgh, Van Valkenburg, Lambert Geneaology from H.T. Van Valkenburgh, (Personal Letter to Mr. H.J. Quilhot on 26 Nov 1941) from the Mont. County History Archieve, Fonda, New York).
INTERESTING INFORMATION FROM FRED L. CURRY
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ID: I2771 Name: Lambert Van Valkenburg (1)(2) Sex: M Birth: 1614 in Valkenburg, NET Death: 17 SEP 1704 in NY (3) Christening: 16 APR 1614 Millens, NET
Note: (2) Was in New Amsterdam as early as 1644. He received Prent for lNS March 16, 1646. He was not a colonist of Rensselaerwyck. Ref. Old Kinderhood by E. A. Collier, p. 99 Re: Lambert Van Valkenberg m. Annetje Jacobs Posted by: Lorine McGinnis Schulze Date: April 28, 1999 at 13:53:44 In Reply to: Re: Lambert Van Valkenberg m. Annetje Jacobs by Tim TILLYER of 252 There is no evidence that Lambert Van Valkenburg who m. Annetje Jacobse, had a father named Jochem. Although the VV Family (NAVVF) stubbornly clings to this lineage, Lambert has not been found in *ANY* primary source documents with any patronymic, let alone one of Jochemse. I have many court documents relating to Lambert and his name is always given as "Lambert Van Valkenburg" (with variant spellings). In the only two baptismal records found in New Netherland (in the Reformed Dutch Church New Amsterdam, which is present day NY City) Lambert uses *no* patronymic, thus we have no way of determining his father's name. As Tim Tillyer has pointed out in his message, findings published in the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record Vol. 112, #2 p. 79 indicate that Lambert Van Valckenburch [sic] was bpt at Millen on 16 Apr 1614 to Lambert Dryeskens [Andrieskens] van Valckenburch and wife Maria. At his marriage record 4 Jan 1642 in Amsterdam, Lambert's name is once more given simply as Lambert van Valckenburch, age 26, from Millen, with no parents. Again, the books on the VV Family, misinterpret the marriage intentions to mean "no parents living" but all that meant was that the parents were not present. It usually meant that the parents lived too far from the marriage place to attend. It does not mean the parents were necessarily deceased. It is known that Maria wife of Lambert Dryeskens VV died at Millen 20 Oct. 1650. So -- in summary, there is no proof that our Lambert VV had a father named Jochem, but there is very strong evidence that he did have a father named Lambert. Also, the VV book Vol 1 places Lambert's first appearance in New Netherland as July 29, 1644 when he bought a house and 25 morgens of land. However I have found an earlier document dated 25 Jan 1644 which places Lambert in New Netherland probably as early as 1643 (ships did not sail in the winter) 25 Jan. 1644: Declaration. Olof Stevensen (van Cortlandt) and Gysbert Opdyck as to a statement of Lambert van Valckenborch, respecting property of Peter Livesen, dec'd. [Source: Calendar of Historical Manuscripts in the office of the Secretary of State, Albany NY edited by EB O'Callaghan] Hopefully the NAVVF will correct this erroneous assumption of Lambert's name and his first appearance in New Netherland records, in their future newsletters or books. I will be happy to share the court records I have found with anyone who wishes them. Some are very interesting -- did you know that our Lambert was the official rattle watch of Fort Orange and Beverwyck? (Akin to being the town crier) Here is just the start of the court document I found which describes Lambert's duties: "Instructions issued by the honorable commissary and magistrates of Fort Orange and the village of Beverwyck for the rattle watch, appointed at the request of the burghers to relieve them of night-watch duty; to the rattle watch of which place Lambert van Valckenborgh and Pieter Winnen were appointed the 6th of July of this year 1659, on condition that they together are to receive for the term of one year one thousand and one hundred guilders in seawan and one hundred guilders in beavers. Lorine It is recorded that Lambert bought a house and 25 morgens (50 acres) of land on July 29, 1644, from Cornelis Jacobsen Van Vreelandt on the west side of the Bowery from Canal to Broome Streets. Later, on February 16, 1647 he received a grant from the Dutch West India Company to a lot south of the fort, next to Jan Evertsen. This is shown on the Tyler map of New York City and is recorded in the Dutch records in the City Clerk's office in New York City. Family legend indicates that Lambert was a minor official at the fort. On May 15, 1649, Peter Stuyvesant granted Lambert 50 acres of land embracing nine city blocks on the west side of Lexington Avenue from 29th to 35th Streets extending west across Park and Madison Avenues beyond 5th Avenue from 31st to 33rd Streets including the site of the Empire State Building. Soon Lambert would be moving to Beverwyck (Albany), NY so he sold this property to Claes Martensen Van Rosenvelt, ancestor of both Teddy and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In 1703 his heirs owned a house and lot in "Ye Voddermark" bounded on the west by the burying ground and on the north an east by the highway (west corner of Green and Beaver Streets), Albany, NY. (Change Date: 5 OCT 2000)
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Note from One World Tree by Fred L. Curry
http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=flcurry&id=I2771&ti=4300
(Editorial of Curry Piece by Michael Schuler 6-2-06, I think this piece has a lot of interesting Information but the Death Information I have a hard time believing and is not sourced or explained at all. Everything that I have read place Lambert's Death bef 1697 when has widow went into court to to given title to his estate and nothing in this piece explains away that.)
FAMILYSEARCH INFORMATION: Lambert has 3 AFN's that I found all of them connecting him to Jochem as a father or with the middle name of Jochemse. I have listed all three for search purposes but him does not have an AFN that connects him to the believe correct father of Lambert. (MAS 6-2-06)
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