New Yorker Names

I came across these in a book on New York genealogy. Technically some of the names are Connecticut, England, or Holland, but since they are in the ancestry of New Yorkers, I felt the title for this post applied.



GIRLS

Aeltje

Jacomyntje




BOYS

Banyer

Beant -

Catoonah- name of an Indian chief in Long Island in the early 1700s

Clermont

Cuyler- I've seen Kyler in recent years, but this spelling was the first name of the author of a book on genealogy published in 1914.

Eckford

Goozen

Levinus

Medad - name of a New England colonial inhabitant

Roelif

Wolrave