The Vigne and Volckertszen descendants at one time owned all of the Wall Street belt and 200 acres on Greenpoint (Brooklyn near the Williamsburg bridge).

Rev. Jean de la Vigne, a Walloon minister who was born in Valenciennes, France, and fled to Holland during the Spanish Inquisition, was minister in Amsterdam from 1585 to 1622.555

He was a Walloon minister, he was the Walloon Domine from 1585-1622, in Amsterdam.. He fled to Holland during the Spanish Inquisition and was minister in Amsterdam from 1585 to 1622.

The name Vigne means "vine" in French, and is most often associated with vineyards for making wine. Vigne is pronounced VIN-YEH , with neither syllable accented.

Two other Vignes are mentioned in Leiden Walloon Church records. Margrite Vigne, wife of Jacques Collet, was listed as a member of the church in Leiden in 1652. Richard Vigne and his wife Susanne Lambert joined the church at Leiden, by certificate from the church at Mets, in Oct. 1648. If you look back up the page at Rachel's baptism record, you'll see these Vignes probably were relatives of our Vigne family.

One of our Vigne cousins searched an index of Baptisms at the Catholic Parishes of Valenciennes, France, looking for records of the Vigne family. There are four or five parishes, but only one [St. Nicholas] has records extending back into the Sixteenth Century [it starts in 1567, and may be incomplete]. The only Vignes listed were two children of a Piere Vigne [Jacque and Marie Joseph], both baptized 7 July 1694.

"Ariaentje Cuvilje [Adrienne Cuvelier], Matriarch of New Amsterdam," by Herbert F. Seversmith, National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. 35 [1947], pp. 65-69

"New Netherland Ancestors of Aeltje Van Laer," by David Riker, De Halve Maen, Vol. 58, no. 4 [1985], pp. 4-6

Narratives of New Netherland, ed. by J. Franklin Jameson, New York, 1909