Paternal
Lineage: Elizabeth10, Gilbert9, Lodowick8, Gysbert7, Lodowick6, Gysbert5, Johan4, Johann3, Derick2, Henric1

  UPDIKE, c.1295-1723 Related Families:  Renwalts | Zailen | Ryswick | Van Wesek | Smith | Wightman

Migration: Wesel, Rhineland, PRUS>New Amsterdam, N. NETH>Washington Co., RI

 

        (1)  Henric Op Den Dyck, born about 1295 in Wesel, Rhineland, Prussia, was father of:
 

        (2)  Derick Op Den Dyck, born about 1340 in Wesel, Rhineland, Prussia, died 1419, was father of:
 

        (3)  Johann Op Den Dyck, born about 1380 in Wesel, Rhineland, Prussia, died 21 March 1458/1459, was father of:
 

        (4)  Johan Op Den Dyck, born 1420 in Wesel, Rhineland, Prussia, died about 1505; married Ida Renwalts, born about 1422 in Wesel, Rhineland, Prussia, daughter of Engelbrecht Renwalts.  Parents of:
 

        (5)  Gysbert Op Den Dyck, born about 1447 in Wesel, Rhineland, Prussia, died 1513 in Wesel, Rhineland, Prussia, was father of:
 

        (6)  Lodowick Op Den Dyck, born about 1492 in Wesel, Rhineland, Prussia, died 27 May 1571; married Aletta Zailen, born about 1494 in Wesel, Rhineland, Prussia.  Parents of:
 

        (7)  Gysbert Op Den Dyck, born 1528 in Wesel, Rhineland, Prussia, died 19 April 1585; married Maria Ryswick, born about 1526 in Wesel, Rhineland, Prussia.  Parents of:
 

        (8)  Lodowick Op Den Dyck, born 1565 in Wesel, Rhineland, Prussia, died about 1615; married Gertrude Van Wesek, born about 1567 in Wesel, Rhineland, Prussia.  Parents of:
 

        (9) Gysbert Lodowick Op Den Dyck a.k.a. Gilbert Updike, born 25 September 1605 in Wesel, Rhineland, Prussia, died 1666 in Narraganssett, Washington Co., Rhode Island; married 24 September 1643 in New Amsterdam, New Netherlands, Katherine Smith, born 1624 in Narraganssett, Washington Co., Rhode Island, died 1664 in Narraganssett, Washington Co., Rhode Island, daughter of Richard Smith.
        Gysbert was employed at Dutch West India Company, possessed of Coney Island, Cow Neck and he was sheriff of Newtown, Flushing and Jamaica, New Netherlands. He was also innkeeper. He gave up his lands to the English and moved to Rhode Island in 1669.  Parents of:

  1. Elizabeth, born 27 July 1644, died 26 April 1716 in Kingstown, Washington Co., Rhode Island; married Geroge Wightman, born 4 November 1632 in Burton-On-Trent, Staffordshire, England, died 7 January 1722 in Kingstown, Washington Co., Rhode Island.

 
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