Catalijn “Katherine” Glen

New Amsterdam - Immigrants

Catherine Duncanson (also Donckesz, Donchesen, Donckesen, Doncassen, Dongan, and other variant spellings) married Sander Leendertsz Glen in Amsterdam, Holland, on 31 October 1638, and emigrated with him to New Netherland, where they arrived in 1639.

Mother of Jacob Alexander Glen, Alexander Glen and John Sanders Glen

She died at Schenectady, New York, on 12 August 1684.

Disputed Origins

1638 - Amsterdam, Government of Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Description:

I got this marriage announcement document for my ancestor Catalijn Donckes while in Amsterdam. The archivists there translated it and Catalijn was born "in an alley" in Amsterdam, Netherlands. I was told this means she was poor and she was Dutch. There are two x marks at the bottom and one of those is hers. The other belongs to Sander Glen, her soon to be husband.

document uploaded by Dana Davis

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Duncanson-24

Catherine Duncanson (also Donckesz, Donchesen, Donckesen, Doncassen, Dongan, and other variant spellings) was a daughter of Rev. James Duncanson, minister of Alloa and Tullibody, Clackmannanshire, Scotland, and his wife Helen (Livingston) Duncanson. Catherine was born in Alloa, Scotland, and baptized there on 15 April 1621.

Three other Duncanson sisters were to settle in New Netherland in the ensuing years -

References

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Duncanson-24#S21 cites
• Remington, Gordon L. "The Duncanson Wives of Four New Netherland Settlers: Glen, Teller, Powell, and Loockermans," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Jan. 1997, pgs. 1-10.
• Adrian Benjamin Burke, "The Livingston Ancestry of the Duncanson Sisters of New Netherland: Part I: Identifying their mother Helen Livingston," in The Genealogist 2013, pp. 28-50.
• Pearson, Jonathan. A History of the Schenectady Patent in the Dutch and English Times; being contributions toward a history of the lower Mohawk Valley. Albany, New York: J. Munsell's Sons, Printers, 1883. Repository: #R4. Call Number: R 974.744 P36 Repository R4 Schenectady County Public Library
• Pearson, Jonathan. Contributions for the Genealogies of the Descendants of the First Settlers of the Patent and City of Schenectady, from 1662 to 1800. Albany, New York: J. Munsell, 1873. Repository: #R4. Call Number: R 929.1 P36c
• https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261286089_Recent_Literatur... Mary Loockermans, Anne Powell, Margaret Telller, and Katherine Glen were sisters. They were daughters of the Reverend James Duncanson, minister of Alloa and Tullibody, Clackmannanshire, Scotland, by his wife Helen Livingston. Grand daughters of the Reverend John Duncanson, minister and to the household of King James VI,probably (now known to be certainly) by John's first wife, Janet Watson. Helen Livingston was a daughter of the Rev. Helen Livingston, minister of St. Ninian’s, Stirlingshire, by his wife Agnes Gray, and a granddaughter of Henry Livingston of Falkirk and Margaret Forrester ...