The Fulkerson Family Pages
PHILIP VOLKERSE (4th generation)
b. 1670 d. 1740
Philip Volkerse (Volkers, Volckerson and Folkerse in other records) married Ann Van Clieft in 1696. She had a daughter, Volckertjie, by her first husband Volkert De Witt who died in 1695. Several of their children were born in Boswyck before they moved to New Jersey. The 1698 census for Brooklyn shows Philip having a wife and 2 children. They had 8 children altogether: Annetje (1st, died young), Folkert, Johannis, Rebecca, PHILIP, Annetje (2nd), Joseph and Dirck. All of these children used the FULKERSON surname.
Philip and his brothers Dirck and Nicholas operated a mill near Bound Brook on lower Millstone River, for which they were assessed taxes. Dirck and the two brothers each inherited from their father Volkert one third of the 164 acres at Bushwick, Long Island. On Mar 26, 1718/19 they made a joint sale of all this land to Peter Praa. Under this sale there passed from the Fulkerson line all that remained of the large estate acquired by their grandfather. The stone house occupied by their grandfather and father on Noorman's Kill became known as the Calyer Estate.
Sometime between about 1715 (?) and July 1722, Philip married Mettie Van Arsdale. Born about 1672, she was the daughter of Simon Janse van Aersdal of Gouda, Holland, and the widow of Evert Jansen Van WICKELEN of Flatbush. Philip dated his will on Jan. 15, 1740, naming brother Dirck as one of the executors. Philip died in Somerset County, New Jersey, in 1740. On June 17, 1740 the will was read. On June 19, two days later, Dirck renounced his executorship, possibly because of his own advanced age (however, Dirck survived his brother by 14 years).
JOSEPH VOLKERTS (5th generation)
b. 1708
Joseph VOLKERTS was born in 1708 in Somerset Co., NJ. He m. Aeltje RAPALJE and had 8 children baptized at the Raritan (Somerset County) First Reformed Church between 1733 and 1751. On the 1735 Franklin Township tax list he had 4 head of cattle but no land. He probably died by 1755, when wife Aeltje - recorded as 'Aelte Voescke' -witnessed the baptism of their grandson Joseph.
PHILIP FULKERSON (6th generation)
bpt. 20 Sep 1733
Little is known about Philip FULKERSON, chiefly because he was one of several Philips living in New Jersey in the mid-1700s. There were a number of Philips on tax lists, etc., but it is impossible to accurately match any of that information with any particular Philip. This is what we know of him: he was baptized at the Raritan, Somerset Co., NJ First Reformed Church; he
married Margrita FARLEY (bapt 1738 at the Raritan DRC, daughter of Caleb FARLEY); and they had at least two sons, Joseph (1755) and Caleb (1762) and possibly 2 daughters. Margrita's FARLEY, HUNGERFORD and royal ancestry goes back to the late 6th Century....all the way back to my 48th great grandfather.
CALEB FULKERSON (7th generation)
b. 17 Jan 1762 d. 4 Mar 1848
Caleb was born in Hillsborough, Somerset County, New Jersey. He married Deborah Tunison (27 Jul 1772-28 Dec 1859) on 6 Apr 1787 and they moved to New York State in 1805. They had 12 children: Philip (1789), Margaret (1791), Deborah (1793), Joseph (1796), Ann (1799), Letticia (1802), Elinor (1804), Peter M. (1807, twin), SAMUEL (1807), Caleb Jr. (1809), Rebecca (1811), and William G. (1813).
SAMUEL FULKERSON (8th generation)
b. 16 Mar 1807 d. 30 Apr 1851
Samuel married Jane Ellen Norman (16 Oct 1808-29 Aug 1883) in 1831. Jane was the daughter of Solomon Norman (b. 8 Feb 1761) of the Parish of West Acklam, Linthorpe (a small town near the river Tees), Cleveland, Yorkshire, England, and Susanna Charles (b. 10 Aug 1785) of Delaware. They were on the 1810 census in the town of Benton, Yates Co., New York. Solomon Norman's parents were James Norman and Mary Mann. James was christened 5 Dec 1736 in West Acklam. Mary was christened 14 Nov 1736 in Eston, Yorkshire, England. They were married the 17 May 1758 in West Acklam, and James was the constable in Linthorpe. James father was John Norman and his mother's first name was Mary. Mary Mann's father was Solomon Mann: christened 31 Oct. 1704 in Eston. Mary Mann's mother was Esther Cornforth. They were married 13 Nov. 1733 in Stokesly, Yorkshire, England. There is additional interesting information about Solomon Norman from cousin David Smith, who also descends from the Fulkerson-Norman connection.
