The Quackenbush Family Line
A generation-by-generation descendancy view following the Quackenbush line from the Netherlands and New Netherland into New York, Upper Canada, Ontario, and Montreal.
Following the Direct Line
This page follows one direct ancestral line through the Quackenbush family. Each generation is shown as a couple, with the direct ancestor on the left and their spouse on the right.
The line begins with Dutch origins, moves through New Netherland and colonial New York, then continues into Upper Canada and Ontario before reaching Montreal in the twentieth century.
Pieter Janszoon Quackenbush and Nelletjen Pietersdochter Starrevelt
Generation 1Pieter Janszoon Quackenbush
Early Quackenbush ancestor associated with the family’s Dutch origins.
Nelletjen Pietersdochter Starrevelt
Wife of Pieter Janszoon Quackenbush and part of the earliest known couple in this line.
Pieter Quackenbush and Maritje Ariensdochter
Generation 2Pieter Quackenbush
Born at Leiden, Netherlands. He arrived at New Amsterdam with Johan de Hunter on the ship Graft in 1653 and proceeded to Fort Orange, now Albany. In 1668 he purchased the brickyard where he had been working from Adriaan van Ilpendam. He also appears under the aliases Piet Bout, Bont, Quackenbos, and Quackenbosch.
Maritje Ariensdochter
Maritje was heavily involved in the operations of the family brickyard and appears in court records representing the business around 1660.
Reynier Quackenbush and Claesje Jacobs Stille
Generation 3Reynier Quackenbush
Reynier’s first wife was killed by Mohawks at the family homestead near present-day Clifton Park during the Schenectady Massacre period. He moved to Manhattan about 1690 and remarried. He was appointed petty constable for the Bowery district for 1700/1701 and purchased 45 acres of land near present-day Union Square from Samuel Congo, a free Black man, with Teunis de Key.
Claesje Jacobs Stille
Claesje was the daughter of Jacob Corneliszen Stille and Aaltje Fredericks. Aaltje was born in Recife, Brazil, adding another Atlantic-world connection to this family line.
Jacob Quackenbush and Annetje Elizabeth Brouwer
Generation 4Jacob Quackenbush
Direct ancestor in the Quackenbush line. He belongs to the generation that carried the family forward from the Dutch colonial world of New York into later New York and New Jersey family networks.
Annetje Elizabeth Brouwer
Daughter of Jacobus Adams Brouwer and Annetje Bogardus. Her grandmother was Annetje Jans. She was baptised at Flatbush/Queens.
Reynier Quackenbush and Catherine Waldron
Generation 5Reynier Quackenbush
Born at Manhattan. He was part of the founding or first consistory of New Hempstead Brick Dutch Reformed Church and served as an Elder at Kakiat/Ramapo Dutch Reformed Church. He farmed in New York and New Jersey. His original 1770s house remains at 24 North Middletown Road, New Jersey.
Catherine Waldron
Daughter of Johannes Barentsze Waldron and Susanna de la Maetre, also written Delameter. Catherine belonged to the Harlem Waldron family.
Pieter Quackenbush and Maria Pulisfelt
Generation 6Pieter Quackenbush
Pieter left New Hempstead, New York with his family for Upper Canada in 1795. He settled at North Fredericksburg in Lennox and Addington County, south of Napanee.
Maria Pulisfelt
Daughter of Andries Pulis or Pulisfelt and Cornelia Winter. The Pulis family was originally from Darmstadt, Germany, and lived as neighbours to the Quackenbush family at New Hempstead, New York.
Rynard Quackenbush and Martha “Patty” Parliament
Generation 7Rynard Quackenbush
Rynard was a pioneer of Prince Edward County, Ontario. He owned land at Burr, where Burr Old UEL Cemetery is located today. He was a farmer and was buried in that cemetery.
Martha “Patty” Parliament
Born at Mountain View, Prince Edward County, to George Parliament and Mary McTaggart. Her maternal grandfather was Corporal James McTaggart UE. After Rynard’s death, Martha remarried Peter Wanamaker and settled on Concession 14, Seymour Township.
Calvin Quackenbush and Mary Carnrike
Generation 8Calvin Quackenbush
Calvin apprenticed as a tailor with his cousin James Quackenbush in Dundas. He enlisted in the United States Civil War at Auburn, New York, near Fayetteville, in 1863, and later settled at Warkworth, Ontario.
Mary Carnrike
Daughter of John Carnrike and Matilda Tillotson. Most of her family, including her father, moved to a homestead in Fort Collins, Colorado in the late 1860s.
James Fayette Quackenbush and Hannah Maria Hynes
Generation 9James Fayette Quackenbush
James was a tailor from Warkworth. After Hannah’s death, he remarried Sarah Emily Gerow. He homesteaded near Matheson in Cochrane District, Ontario, later retired to a farm in Calton/Aylmer in Elgin County, and was buried at Aylmer Cemetery.
Hannah Maria Hynes
Daughter of William Hynes and Maria Hatherly, who immigrated from Devon, England and settled land at Roseneath near Line 1 and Brock Road. Hannah died at Warkworth while giving birth to her tenth child.
Calvin James Quackenbush and Bridget Mary Gallagher
Generation 10Calvin James Quackenbush
Born at Castleton, Ontario. He served with the 87th Battalion during the First World War. After the war, he lived in Matheson, Ontario before moving to Montreal with his wife and son Jim. He was employed by the Canadian National Railway and was known by the nickname Charlie.
Bridget Mary Gallagher
Daughter of Thomas Gallagher and Margaret Calpin, Irish famine migrants from Castleconnor, County Sligo, Ireland to York, England. Her father served in the British military in India, and the family history includes time connected to York Castle and Wakefield Prison. Bridget was ordered to an Industrial School by the NSPCC. She married Calvin at St George’s Church, York in 1918 and had previously been in Quebec when her brother died in Vermont in 1915.