The Fulkerson Family Pages
Jennekin Dircks, #9 of 9 of Dirck and Christina
Jennekin Dircks was the youngest of seven sisters and the baby of her family, the youngest of the nine children of Dirck Volckertszen De Noorman and Christina Vigne. Jennekin was born December 07, 1653, in New Amsterdam, New York, in Buswyck, Queens County. Jennekin was the Note that Amsterdam, New York, is a small town upstate in the vicinity of Schenectady; whereas, New Amsterdam was renamed New York after the English Duke of York in 1665.
Jennekin Dircks, a.k.a. Jennekin Volkertson DeNorman is cited as an ancestor on the genealogy pages of 1,277 families subscribed to Ancestor.com.
Minister Johannes Megapolensis served the Reformed Dutch Church of New Amsterdam from 1649 to 1670. It is likely Megapolensis baptized the two youngest children of Dirck Volckertszen De Noorman and Christina Vigne, Araiantje and Jennekin.
Pieter Stuyvesant would have been the Dutch Director-General in charge at the time of Jennekin's birth. Stuyvesant served as the last Dutch Director-General of the colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664, after which it was renamed New York. He was a major figure in the early history of New York City.
This portrait, A Young Woman Wearing Pearls, from the 1600s Emilian School (Bolognese), depicts a woman who lived in the era of our ancestor. No doubt, as a woman of means, her wardrobe was likely much more sophisticated than that of a child grown up on the frontier in the New World of the Dutch colony in New York.
