Walter Gilbert Genealogy: Jan Jansen Van Breestede & Engeltje Jans

3898–3899. Jan Jansen Van Breestede was born in Bredstedt, Schleswig-Holstein, Prussia, about 1596, and died in 1641. Engeltje Jans was born about 1600. They were married in 1621. She took the name Engeltje Van Breestede. They had five children:

i.	Elsje Jansen Van Breestede [#1949]: She was born in Breestede, Schleswig, Denmark, about 1622.
ii.	Jan Jansen Van Breestede: He was born in about 1624 in New Amsterdam, America. He married Marritje Lucas (or Andries) on November 1, 1647.
iii.	Tryntje Jansen Van Breestede: She was born in about 1625 in New Amsterdam, America, and died on November 24, 1711. She married Rutgers Jacobse on June 3, 1646.
iv.	Dorothea Jansen Van Breestede: She was born in about 1627 in New Amsterdam, America, and died on November 22, 1681. She married Volckert Jansen Douw on April 19, 1650.
v.	Frans Jansen Van Breestede: He was born in about 1630 in New Amsterdam, America. He was married on April 17, 1657.

Her second marriage was to Egbert Wouters on Wednesday, September 1, 1641. She took the name Engeltje Wouters.

Sources:

Mormon family record sheet, with reference to (literally): "vol. 7 N.Y.Gen and Biog. R. vol. I p. 24 Amer. Anc. vol. 55 p. 358 N.Y.Gen and Biog. S. Coll. also vol. I p. 11 and 16; vol. 2 p. 114 Ulster County Probate Wills"