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 Abt 1630 - Abt 1695 (~ 65 years)
Generation: 1
Generation: 2
| 2. | Jans (John) William Woertman (Workman) died before 1647 in Amsterdam, Holland. Notes:
Original Source: Workman Family History -this seciton researched by Lydia W. Billings
John WIlliam Workman (the Dutch form of his name being Jans William Woertman) died in Amsterdam, Holland, some time before the year 1647. Little is known of him except that he was married and had a family. It is believed that he was an
emigrant from England, comming to Holland as a result of religious persecution during the time of the Puritan upheavals. In Holland, John seemingly integrated into the social and religious way of life of the people there and his family adopted
their customs so completely so that during the time of their emigrations, they were known mainly as sons, daughters, of wife of John. In church records the patronymic pattern was followed almost completely so that John's son, Richard, is
recorded as Dirck Jansen very frequently. As early as the year 1628, Jans WIlliam Woertman had married Harmtje (Hannah, an unusual name among the Dutch) and they were the parents of at least three children born in Amsterdam, Holland.
Jans married Harmtje (Hannah) in 1628. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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| 3. | Harmtje (Hannah) Notes:
Annetje, most commmonly known as Annetje Lodowycke may have been a half-sister to Dirck and Elizabeth, inasmuch as Lodowycke de Jong appeared as a sponsor to the Baptism of Annetje's first child. Proponenets of this theory point out that the
motherof the family, Harmtje, widow of Jans, probably married Lodowycke in Holland and he probably sponsored the family, Elizabeth and Dirck, children of the first marriage, and Annetje, his own daughter, in the move to America. It is fairly
certain that the mother came to America, but in all land transactions she is known merely as Harmtje Jans with Lodowycke never appearing in the picture. She lived to a ripe old age and owned considerable property in Long Island and Brooklyn
and died after 1685. This would make Annetje, born probably in 1636, half sister to the other children. At her marriage in 1655, she names herself as "Annetje Lodeerycks van Amsterdam" (Annetje Loderycks of Amsterdam). It is also
conceivable, and there is indication in the records, that she was a little older than assumed and she came to America as the widow or wife of Lodowycke de Jong. This would then make the Lodowycke de Jong, sponsor of her first child, a nephew
or other relative; or this could have been an attempt to name the father of the child of a previous marriage.
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