Eugene Lee Kuykendall
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 422
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Jacob Luurszen (b.1616) immigrated from Holland to New Netherland, New York, and married Stijntje Douwes. Luur Jacobsen, their American born son, adopted a surname of "van Kuykendaal." Through his six sons, Luur became the common ancestor of most present-day Kuykendalls (including variant spellings). Earlier research has chiefly focussed on the elder sons of Luur who moved to Pennsylvania, Virginia and to the southwest. Little has been documented about the descendants and relatives of Luur's last son, Pieter van Kuykendaal, who remained in New York. Vol. 1 deals with the early Dutch ancestors in New York and Pennsylvania of Theodore Kuykendall (1860-1945), grandfather of the author, and a direct descendant in the thirteenth generation of immigrant Jacob Luurszen. Vol. 2 has some additional genealogy for this ancestry of Theodore, but chiefly deals with other descendants of Pieter van Kuykendaal. The Cuykendall and Coykendall branches are not complete, and " ... are intended to encourage others of those families to complete that research"--Foreword to v. 2. Descendants and relatives of Pieter lived in New York, New England, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois, Minnesota and elsewhere.