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Tom Brokaw

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Tom Brokaw

TV Journalist and Author

    Joris Jansen Rapalje

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    • 9th Great-grandfather of Tom Brokaw — 12th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 2062 
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    • Christening Date:
    • 28 Apr 1604 
    • Christening Location:
    • Valenciennes, Hainaut, Spanish Netherlands (now France) 
    • Death Date:
    • 21 Feb 1662 
    • Death Location:
    • prob. Wallabout, Brookly, Kings, New York 
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    • Marriage Date:
    • 21 Jan 1623/1624 
    • Marriage Location:
    • Walloon Church, Amsterdam, Holland 
    • Children:

      • Sara Joris Rapalje (Ahnentafel No:1031 )

      Jannetje Joris Rapalje

      Lysabeth Joris Rapalje

    • Notes: 

    • Josis Rapalje and his wife were aboard the Eendracht, the first ship to sail to New Netherland in 1624.

      Joris Rapalje's given name is also seen as Jores and George, and his surname as Rapalie and Rapalye.

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  • Sources for Joris Jansen Rapalje

    • 1 NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1996, Vol. 13, pp. 23-24.
    • 2 American Society of Genealogists, The Genealogist, Rockport, Maine: Picton Press, 2001, Vol. 15, pp. 196-197.
    • 3 Bergen, Teunis G., The Bergen Family: Or the Descendants of Hans Hansen Bergen, One of the Early Settlers of New York and Brooklyn, L.I., Albany, New York: Joel Munsell (1876), 22-30.
    • 4 Bogart, John Albert, The Bogart Family: Tunis Gysbert Bogaert and His Descendants, Scranton, PA: Haddon Craftsmen (1959), 107.