Catalina
Trico
Alternate First Name
Catalyntje Catalyntie Catharina Jeronimus

Marriage Document for Joris Rapalje and Catalina Trico ,   "Netherlands, Noord-Holland Province, Church Records, 1523-1948," images, Nederlands Hervormde > Amsterdam > Huwelijksaangiften, Trouwen 1623-1625 > image 172 of 596; Nederlands Rijksarchiefdienst, Den Haag (Netherlands National Archives, The Hague).

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ID
660,031
Gender
Female
Birth Date
1605
Birth Date Notes
daughter of Jeronomis (George) Tricot of Pris
Death Date
1689
Family
Husbands | Marriages
Husband Marriage
Joris (George) Rapalje (ID: 184) 184 - 660,031 Rapalje - Trico
Notes:

Catalina Trico (1605-1689) and her husband Joris Jansen Rapelye (1604-1662), Walloons, from Wallonia in today’s Belgium, were among the first group of settlers in New Amsterdam in the Dutch colony of New Netherland, arriving on the Eendracht (Unity) in 1624.

 

Catalina was not born in Paris, but rather in Pris, short for Priches, Hainault, in what was then called the Spanish Netherlands which later became part of Belgium.    Namur, where she lived, is today in northern France, near Valenciennes, where her husband was born. Pris became translated as Paris over the years, and this is a classic example of the constant need to update scholarship. 

Catalyntie and her husband were Walloons, French-speaking Protestants in the Calvinistic tradition.

The ship deposited them and their shipmates in Fort Orange, present-day Albany, where they stayed for two years until Pieter Minuit, serving as governor of the little colony, decided that for their safety from the Indians, and for the better management of their farming practices, all should be resettled on Manhattan Island, where a fort was soon to be built.

The couple prospered.  Some twenty years later, Joris purchased 335 acres in Wallabout Bay in Brooklyn, where the Brooklyn Navy Yard stands today. A son-in-law bought an extensive adjoining property.

Together Catalina and Joris had eleven children. Their daughter Sara (1625-c.1686) has been described as the “first European Christian female child born in New Netherland,” although this is considered “unlikely” by some, as there had been births before hers, in 1624.

Catalina's deposition given at the age of 83 provides a window in to a very different life.  https://encyclopedia.nahc-mapping.org/document/deposition-catilyn-trico…;
See Ship Journeys - 1624 - Unity for detailed account.  

Ship Journey(s)