Ancestry of
Herman Melville

Author of Moby Dick

Teunis "Anthony" Cornelis van der Poel

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Herman Melville — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 114 
  • Father:
  • Cornelis Corneliss van der Poel 
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  • Neeltgen Hendricks van Tielant   
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  • AFT 17 Jun 1687 
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  • Catrina Jansen Croon
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  Ellzabeth van der Poel (Ahnentafel No:57 )

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  • Published sources have long claimed that Teunis "Anthony" Cornelis van der Poel was the son of Gerrit and Cornelia (Wynant) van der Poel clearly ignoring the patronymic of Cornelis. A 1676 notarial deed in the Utrecht Archives identifies his parents as Cornelis Corneliss and Neeltgen Hendricks (van Tielant) van der Poel.

• Sources for Teunis "Anthony" Cornelis van der Poel

  • ¹ Notarial Deeds (The Utrecht Archives), (accessed 03/26/2021).
  • ² Fernow, Berthold, ed., Calendar of Wills on File and Recorded in the Offices of the Clerk of the Court of Appeals of the County Clerk at Albany, p. 59, Will of spouse Catrina Jansen Croon.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 174, gives incorrect parents.
  • ⁴ Wells, Theodore W., Ancestral Tablets from Colonial Days to the Present Era, Patterson, New Jersey: Press Printing and Publishing Company (1893), 266, 268.