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Generation: 2
Generation: 3
4. | Josse de Peyster (2.Catherine2, 1.1) was born in 1475 in Ghent, Belgium. Notes:
Biography:
From Henry de Peyster:
"This branch of the de Peyster family was closely associated with the oldest and most famous of the Archers' Guilds at Ghent, namely with that of Saint George. Other branches of the family were identified with the St. Sebastian Guild. We find as members of St. George :
Josse de Peyster, Oste's son, member since 1517.
Catherine Sanguewyn, Josse de Peyster's wife, member in 1524."
Family/Spouse: Catherine Sanguewyn. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Family/Spouse: Catherine Blanckaert. Catherine died in 1509. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 10. Oste de Peyster was born in 1506 in Ghent, Belgium; died in 1551.
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Generation: 4
8. | Josse de Peyster (4.Josse3, 2.Catherine2, 1.1) was born in 1515 in Ghent, Belgium; died in 1587 in Ghent, Belgium. Notes:
Biography:
From Henry de Peyster:
"It was during their life time that the de Peysters and their relatives joined the Protestant cause. Vaernewyck, the celebrated historian, mentions Reynier de Peyster, secretary to the schepens, as being a Protestant in 1566. Several members of the de Peyster family took refuge in England and Holland where we find their names in the registers of the Walloon or Flemish Protestant churches since the year 1570. After 1579, however, most of these refugees returned to Ghent at the time of Jean de Hembyze's dictatorship. They had to pay fines for having left the city without having been granted leave by the magistrates. On the roll of fines we meet many names, mentioned in these pages, of families related to the de Peysters. ...."
"The youngest branch, from which the American family descends, had therefore all
become Protestants in or about 1566. The first direct ancestor of the American family to do so was Josse de Peyster who had married Elisabeth Danckaert."
Schepens are aldermen.
Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Danckaert. Elizabeth (daughter of Thierry Danckaert and Elizabeth van Hessche) died in 1557. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Family/Spouse: Marguerite van Roome. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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