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Catalyntje Jeronimus Trico

Catalyntje Jeronimus Trico

Female 1605 - 1689  (84 years)


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  • Name Catalyntje Jeronimus Trico  [1, 2, 3, 4] 
    Birth 1605  Prisches, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Baptism 1605  Prisches, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    FSID LTHG-FJW  [5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14] 
    Burial 1689  Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 

    • Flatbush Reformed Dutch Church Cemetery
    Death 11 Sep 1689  Wallabout, Long Island, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Person ID I45431  footsteps
    Last Modified 1 Jul 2025 

    Family Joris Janssen Rapelje,   b. 1604, Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this locationbur. 1663, Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 59 years) 
    Marriage Netherlands Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. Maretje Jorise Rapalje,   b. Abt 1625, New York, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1685, Talbot, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 60 years)  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: natural]
    +2. Jeronimus Joriszen Rapalje,   b. 27 Jun 1643, New York, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1690, New York, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 46 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F24968  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 1 Jul 2025 

  • Notes 


    • The genealogy of this family has for years followed the fabricated line of some 19th Century Genealogist. 2. The true line was proved by Hugh Law in his book: SLC FHLC 940 D2hl, Chapter 7 is entitled: Ancestors traced to France: Joris Jansen de Rapalje & Catherine Trico. Parish records from her home town don't begin for many years after the birth of Catherine Trico, but there are many Trico families living in the area. At her marriage in Amsterdam, Holland, she gives the place of her birth. She was 18 at the time of her marriage. Her sister Mary Flamengh accompanied her.

      In a deposition in 17 Oct 1688 Catalynie states she was 83 years of age, born in Paris France, She came to this country in the Ship Unity in 1623, commanded by Adrian Jorise arrived in Albany New York and after 2 years moved to New Amsterdam (New York City) !Birth place: She states in 1680 as born in Paris France. On her marriage intents her place of birth Prais France is lined out and Pris in Walslant is written in. Further research verifies that Pris in Walslant is correct. !FATHER: these two sources list her father as Joris Trico: 1. Reg. of Early Settlers of Kings Co., Long Island, N.Y. by. Bergen, Teunis G.; SPL R929.1747 B453R pg 326; 2. Gen. & Family History of Southern New York by Cutter, SPL. R929.1747 C981G pg 830

      George E. McCracken, "Catalyntje Trico Rapalje", The American Genealogist vol.35 (1959): 35:193.
      Dorothy A. Koening, "Further Information About Catalina Trico", New Netherland Connections Vol.1, page 89 (1996): pages 91-92.

      About Catalyntje (Catherine)
      "From the Journal of Dankers & Sluter, Labadists [a 17th century religious sect] who visited this country in 1678: On May 30, 1679, they visited Catalynie. "M. deLaGrange and his wife invited me to accompany them in their boat to the Walebocht, a place situated on Long Island, an hour's distance below the city and opposite Corlears Heock. The aunt of de LaGrange (Catalynie Trico) is an old Walloon. She is wordly-minded, living with her whole heart, as well as body, among her progeny, which now numbers 145 and will soon reach 150. Nevertheless, she lived alone by herself, a little apart from the others, having her little garden and other conveniences with which she helped herself."

      Source: The Vandaveer Family of Greene County, Illinois by Frederick Ewart Vandaveer, West Side Blue, Inc., Fairview Park, Ohio, 1970, page 32, citing the journals of Jasper Dankers and Peter Sluyter,1679-1683, unknown publication information.

  • Sources 
    1. [S273] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 07 March 2025, 19:56), entry for John Smith V (PID https://ark.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:G72P-5H4 ); contributed by various users.
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    2. [S273] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, Shorto, Russell. The Island at the Center of the World. United States, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2005.
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    3. [S273] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, M, Laura. “Ancestor Biographies: The Mother of New York — Catalyntje Jeronimus Trico.” Ancestor Biographies, 23 Feb. 2012, ancestorbios.blogspot.com/2012/02/mother-of-new-york-catalyntje-jeronimus.html. Accessed 29 July 2024.
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    4. [S288] FamilySearch.org, Find a Grave Index, "Find a Grave Index", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKW-WWP7 : Tue Apr 01 21:30:20 UTC 2025), Entry for Catalyntje Jeronimus Trico Rapalje.
      https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33545024/catalyntje-jeronimus-rapalje
      Catalyntje Jeronimus Trico Rapalje
      BIRTH 14 Jul 1605 Prisches, Departement du Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
      DEATH 11 Sep 1689 (aged 84) Long Island City, Queens County, New York, USA
      BURIAL Flatbush Reformed Dutch Church Cemetery
      Flatbush, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, USA Show Map
      MEMORIAL ID 33545024
      Catalyntje Jeronimus Trico was born on 14 July 1605 in Prisches, France. She married Joris Jansen Rapalje on Jan 21, 1623/4 in Amsterdam, Netherlands in the Walloon Church. She came into this Country with a Ship called ye Unity in year 1623. Catalyntje Jeronimus Trico is listed as a Huguenot ancestor represented in the Membership of the Huguenot Society of New Jersey.
      Spouse: Joris Janssen Rapalje 91604–1663)
      Father: Jeronimus Tricault (1580–1606)

    5. [S273] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, Catelyn Trico aged about 83 years born in Paris doth Testify and Declare that in ye year 1623 she came into this Country wth a Ship called ye Unity whereof was Cammander Arien Jorise belonging to ye West India Company being ye first Ship yt came here for ye sd Company;.

    6. [S273] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, "Catalyntje Trico:  A Life in New Amsterdam." New Amsterdam History Center https://newamsterdamhistorycenter.org/2024/09/29/catalyntje-trico-a-life-in-new-amsterdam/. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
      Catalyntje Trico:  A Life in New Amsterdam Catalyntje Trico: A Life in New Amsterdam  Reviewed by Esme E. Berg In Catalyntje Trico:  A Life in New Amsterdam, author Lana Holden offers us a vivid re-creation of life in New Amsterdam and New Netherland in the 17th Century.  This book is carefully and extensively researched and includes many of the major events that occurred during Catalyntie’s long lifetime. We follow her from 1623 when she leaves Amsterdam, until her death in 1689. “She was the only European who lived in this settlement from the first day colonists stepped off the ship until the English took over forty years later,” the author writes in her preface. As a young girl in Hainaut, Catalyntje leaves her home and family with her young sister to escape religious persecution.  They make their way to Amsterdam where they live comfortably for a short period of time with their half-sister Marie, until Catalyntje meets the love of her life, Joris.  The two marry and decide to accept the invitation of the Dutch West India Company to go to the Dutch Colony in the New World, called New Netherland.  It is the year 1624 and Catalyntje is 18 years old.  When they finally arrive, the young couple is separated from the friends they made on the voyage and sent to the rough wilderness near Fort Orange. Here they begin a new life for themselves, building their own house from trees cut down by themselves, beginning a garden with the seeds that Catalyntje brought with her, and having their first child with no one to help.   No sooner are they settled than officials of the Company declare the area is no longer considered safe and they are forced to move south to New Amsterdam and start again.    Arriving in New Amsterdam, Catalyntje is bereft to discover that the dear friend that she had made on the ship has died.  Although lonely for her friends and family left in Europe, Catalyntje and Joris bravely work with courage and determination to create a new life in a wild and difficult land. Braving harsh weather and other adverse forces, they build another new home on Pearl Street, and gradually prosper while raising eleven children.  Thanks to their simple and accepting ways, their relations with the native peoples are friendly and beneficial to all–until things change drastically as a result of various wars and ultimately the British take-over in 1664.   Following the couple year by year from youth to middle and then to old age, Lana Holden draws us into the life and times of what New York was like at its earliest beginnings.  This novel portrays the life of a strong woman about whom the author writes, “over four hundred years ago, an incredibly strong-willed and kind woman worked, loved, and lived in the Dutch Colony of New Netherland.  Catalyntje’s life happened at a different time and place from mine, but I feel connected to her as a woman, striving to help those around me and to positively impact the people I meet each day.”

      Source created by RecordSeek.com

    7. [S273] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, "Catalina Trico: Founding Mother." Wams https://wams.nyhistory.org/early-encounters/dutch-colonies/catalina-trico/. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
      Catalina Trico: Founding Mother A record of one of the first European women in the colony of New Netherland. Includes newspaper clippings and created video summary. Source created by RecordSeek.com

    8. [S273] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, Onderdonk, Elmer, and Onderdonk, Andrew Joseph. Genealogy of the Onderdonk Family in America. United States, Priv. print., 1910.
      Genealogy in which Catalyntje and Joris are mentioned.

    9. [S273] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, BERGEN, TUNIS (TEUNIS) G. Dutch Settlers in New Jersey. In New Jersey Genesis, vol. 13:2 (Jan. 1966), pp. 544-546; vol. 13:3 (Apr. 1966), pp. 557-558; vol. 13:4 (July 1966), pp. 569, 571; vol. 14:1 (Oct. 1966), pp. 580-582; vol. 14:2 (Jan. 1967), pp. 592-594.https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/259876-the-new-jersey-genesis-v-13-no-2-jan-1966https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/114931-the-new-jersey-genesis-v-13-no-3-apr-1966https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/502623-the-new-jersey-genesis-v-13-no-4-july-1966https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/121708-the-new-jersey-genesis-v-14-no-1-oct-1966https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/791916-the-new-jersey-genesis-v-14-no-2-jan-1967.
      Catalyntje is noted in several volumes of the New Jersey Genesis in a series of articles by Teunis Bergen. In the citation, I've listed FREE links to all of the sources cited on the original Ancestry index link.

    10. [S273] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, Hamm, Margherita Arlina. Famous families of New York. [New York etc. G. P. Putnam's sons, 1902] Library of Congress Call number 8196024.
      Compilation of families who settled New York and historical details. Rapalje family chapter begins on page 53.
      page 53 Joris arrived in New Amsterdam 1623 aboard "Unity"
      page 54 mentions Sarah; next pages list other descendants

    11. [S273] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, Dorothy A. Koenig and Pim Nieuwenhuis, “Catalina Trico from Namur (1605-1689) and her nephew, Arnoldus1de la Grange,” New Netherland Connections, 1 (1996), 55-63, with addenda at 89-93.

    12. [S273] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, Virkus, Frederick A., "The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy", Chicago: A. N. Marquis & Company, Publishers, 1925.*note: the Rapaljes are present in ALL of the 7 volumes.
      The Rapaljes are listed in many of the biographies in these volumes, as they are intricately connected to pretty much every major early family in New Netherlands and later, in the US.

      The previous editor listed these page numbers, however, they did not list the volumes these came from.

      Pg. 296 says, lists Sarah as a child of Joris Janssen de Rapalye and Catalyntie Trico and says, "Sarah (1625-85), first white female b. in New Netherlands, m. 1639 Hans Hansen Bergen (d. 1653/4, native of Norway, came from Holland to New Amsterdam, 1633."

      Reason:Pg. 489 says, "Isbrandt Van Cleve - - - m. Janetje Aertse Van der Bilt; bpt. in New Utrecht, 9/16/1682. She was the dau. of Aert Vanderbuilt, who was a captain of infantry in 1700 and who m. Hildegrad Remson."

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      Marriage Record of Joris and Catalina

    14. [S325] FamilySearch.org, Netherlands, Noord-Holland, Church Records, 1523-1948, "Netherlands, Noord-Holland, Church Records, 1523-1948," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9QV-47TJ?cc=2037985&wc=SM9S-DPN%3A1293193204%2C382015502%2C382302101 : 21 August 2014), Nederlands Hervormde > Amsterdam > Huwelijksaangiften, Trouwen 1623-1625 > image 172 of 596; Nederlands Rijksarchiefdienst, Den Haag (Netherlands National Archives, The Hague).
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