Bruin Bruinszoon Zee was the first Dutch-born Zee, born in Medemblik in 1735 to Bruno Zee and Anna Margaretha Meyers. In his twenties, he was a sailor and ships carpenter,…
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The Ballyknock Murphys Pierce Murphy and Ann Doran are ancestors that many of our family trace back to. Pierce and Ann raised their family in Ballyknock – a small townland…
Robert Nolan and Mary Byrne are to date the earliest known ancestors of our branch of the Nolan family. Robert and Mary were the parents of six children: I’ve started…
The Seekamp name dates back to – at least – November 25, 1481 [1]. That Friday, Heinrich Clüver [2] sold a piece of land near Bollen known as the Sehekampswerder to the…
Mangan Farm is the ancestral homestead of Thomas Kavanagh and Margaret ‘Judith’ Cleary, located between Enniscorthy and the Blackstairs mountains – about 5 miles from each. Our Nolan family traces…
When the VOC Ship Schoonenberg was wrecked off Cape Agulhas in November 1722, the surviving sailors faced an arduous overland trek to the company headquarters at the Cape. Fortune favoured…
Bruno Zee, sailor, adventurer, rebel and mutineer, and our first Zee ancestor, was born in Bollen, near Bremen, in 1697, as Brüne Seekamp. He changed his surname to Zee, but…
Two tiny towns on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean are bound together through the history of Irish emigration. In the latter half of the 19th century, a trail west…
Westeinde is a little piece of the main road from Twisk to Opperdoes, in Noord Holland. It’s essentially part of Twisk, even though it falls under the historical records of…
Twisk is a special little place. It’s a uniquely beautiful little Dutch village and sparkles in the crown of Noord-Holland. Our family history dates back to around 1810 here. Jan…
