Person:Willem Van Berckeloo (1)

The 1698 census of New Utrecht shows Willem Berkeloo with a family of one man, one woman and one child. They were probably living on the part of the Cortelyou estate left to his daughters by Jacques Cortelyou, consisting of "the rear end of the aforesaid plantation with all the buildings standing on the same".

1. ↑ Cortelyou, John Van Zandt. The Cortelyou Genealogy: A Record of Jaques Corteljou and of many of his Descendants. (Lincoln, Nebraska: Brown Printing Service, 1942)
   pages 67, 86, 87.

   The father of Willem Hermensen van Borckeloo (or Barkelo) was Harman Janse (van Barkelo), who married Willemtje Eldringh and d. prior to 1672. (See ESKC, p. 21). This Harman emigrated with his brother Willem Janse in 1662 or earlier from Borculo, a community near Zutphen, in the province of Gelderland, Holland. He bought a house and lot in New Utrecht on Feb. 17, 1667. Willem Hermensen is not listed by ESKC among the children of Harman Janse (van Barkalo), however.

2. ↑ Bergen, Teunis G. The Bergen Family or the Descendants of Hans Hansen Bergen, one of the early settlers of New York and Brooklyn, L. I: with notes on the genealogy of some of the branches of the Cowenhoven, Voorhees, Eldert, Stoothoof, Cortelyou, Stryker, Suydam, Lott, Wyckoff, Barkeloo, Lefferts, Martense, Hubbard, Van Brunt, Vanderbilt, Vanderveer, Van Nuyse, and other Long Island families. (Albany, New York: Joel Munsell, 1876)
   page 228.