Descent from Dutch Colonist Gilles J. Mandeville
Ancestor Arrived in New Amsterdam in 1659
Aug 16, 2009
Gilles Mandeville was French and it is likely that he or his father had been persecuted by the Catholic Church and took refuge in Holland, which welcomed members of the new Protestant sects. Several of the earliest immigrants to New Amsterdam were of French origin and had been persecuted for their religious beliefs.
Gilles Jansz Mandeville was probably born in the 1620s. He was married, probably in Holland, to Elsie Hendricks in 1649. They came together from Holland to New Netherland in 1659 in the ship de Trouw, which, translated, means faith. The Mandevilles made their home in New Amsterdam. Gilles died in 1701.
Following is a line of descent which includes genealogical data for family researchers.
Descent from Dutch Colonist Gilles Jansz Mandeville
- Hendrick de Mandeville, son of Gilles and Elsie Mandeville, was born in 1650, probably in Holland, and died between 1709 and 1714. He married 1) Annetje Pieterse Scholl and 2) in 1699, Elizabeth Jansen Berry.
- Hendrick de Mandeville was baptized in 1704 and died in 1790. He married Elizabeth Vreeland (1703-1781). They lived in New York and New Jersey.
- Hendrick Mandeville, known as Henry, was baptized in 1729 and died in 1793. He married 1) Sarah Bertolf and 2) in 1762, Margaret Jones.
- Rev. Garrett Mandeville (1775-1853) was married in 1799 to Margaret DeWitt. She was born in 1775 and died in 1829. They lived in New Jersey and New York.
- John Mandeville (1807-1886) married Elizabeth Cook (1823-1879) in 1843. They lived in New York, Wisconsin and Kansas.
- Mary Charlotte Mandeville (1851-1940) was married in 1872 to Jared Baker White. He was born in 1834 and died in 1904. Mary lived in Wisconsin, Kansas and Oklahoma.
- Harriet Newel White (1887-1979) married in 1911 Clarence Rufus Steele (1886-1970).
- Margaret Rosalie Steele was born in 1923. In 1948 she married Robert Victor Bolene, who was born in 1925.
Eligibility for Holland Society of New York Membership
Male direct line descendants of Gilles Jansz Mandeville who still bear the Mandeville surname are eligible for regular membership in the Holland Society of New York. All female line descendants of Gilles, the colonial immigrant, are eligible for membership as a “Friend” of the Society.
(See the companion article on the Holland Society of New York, which is devoted to locating and preserving information on the Dutch colony’s early colonial immigrants and their families, as well as the history of their culture.)
Source:
The writer received this lineage in 1988 from Margaret (Steele) Bolene, who was then living in Ponca City, OK.
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