Ancestry of
Herman Melville

Author of Moby Dick

Anna Van Wely

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of Herman Melville — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 217 
  • Father:
  • Jan Van Wely 
  • Mother:
  • Eleanor Haeckens   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1601 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Amsterdam, Holland 
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  • Death Date:
  • 12 Jun 1670 
  • Death Location:
  • Amsterdam, Holland 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Kiliaen Van Rensselaer
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 Dec 1627 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Amsterdam, Holland 
  • Child:

  Jeremias Van Rensselaer (Ahnentafel No:108 )

• Sources for Anna Van Wely

  • ¹ Glenn, Thomas Allen, ed., Some Colonial Mansions: and Those Who Lived in Them, Vol. 1, Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates and Company (1898), 165.
  • ² Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 174.
  • ³ Van Rensselaer, Florence, The Van Rensselaers in Holland and in America, New York: The American Historical Company, Inc. (1956), 4-7.