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Some questions about the Valkenburg surname that we hope to answer with this project are:
· Are all Valkenburgs from The Netherlands related to Wouter Henken, or is there an assortment of different Valkenburg families? Note: this question has been answered! There is more than one Valkenburg family.
· Where did the original Valkenburgs come from? Note: currently we have identified The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, and Scotland.
· How many different common male ancestors are associated with the Valkenburg surname? Note: at present, we have identified 11. Some of these may turn out to share an older ancestor, but at present this is not clear.
· Was there a migration from one place to another? When did that take place? Note: there was a migration from Asia westward to Europe and, for some members, onwards to North America.
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· Where are today's Valkenburgs located? Note: members are located in The Netherlands, Canada, and USA.
One member of the Netherlands - Ammerzoden sub-group traces his ancestry back to Matthijs Hendricksz, born about 1555 and died around 1607. No paper trail has currently been found that links Matthijs to his father. Records show him living in Well and Ammerzoden in The Netherlands as an adult. Some researchers believe that the father of Matthijs was Henrick Adams, a descendant of Wouter Henken from Valkenburg, others are not sure. So who was his father? We don't know for certain. Like the researchers of other Valkenburg lines, our member is stuck in the1500s as before that the paper trail was poor or non-existent. His Y-DNA shows he belongs in Haplogroup G-L177.
One member of the Netherlands-Den Bosch sub-group traces his ancestry back to Jan Spierinc van Hesewijck, born in 1350 and died in 1420. He and the member whose ancestry was traced to Matthijs Hendricksz are somehow related but their combined ancestries show no common link. His Y-DNA shows he belongs in Haplogroup G-PF3252.
Several members trace their ancestry back to Andries van Valkenburg, born around 1540, and died in Millen in present day Belgium. Many of the descendants of Andries moved to the USA. The father of Andries is not known. Many of the descendants of Andries, including his son Lambert, moved to the USA. The National Association of the Van Valkenburg Family was founded by the descendants of Lambert Van Valckenburgh in 1970(http://www.navvf.org/).
A few project members in Haplogroup R-M269trace their ancestry back to Andreas Driess (Driess later became Treece), born1677 in Germany. There was a non-genetic inter-relationship with families with the surname Baumann, who were Mennonite and came from the Dinaric Alps region (This is a mountain chain which spans from Italy in the northwest,over Slovenia, Croatia,Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia,Montenegro,Albania to Kosovo in thesoutheast.)
One member of Haplogroup R-BY3291 traces ancestry back to a Cornelius Driess, born 1710 in Germany, one member to Andries van Valckenburg (same as the members of R-M269), while a third member traces ancestry to George DeVall, born mid-1700s in France.
The member of Haplogroup R-Z1222, whose connection to the others is more distant, traces his ancestry to John Pigman, born 1622 in England, but whose origins are believed to be French. The surname Pigman could very likely have originated from Piedmont, Italy. (The Piedmont region is located in the foothills of the Alps forming its border with France and Switzerland.) The relationship between this haplogroup and Haplogroup R-BY3291 is closer than that of R-M269 or R-M343.
The member of Haplogroup R-P312 traces his origin to James Faulkenberry, whose origins are unknown.
The member of the Scotland “Mcbee” subgroup, in Haplogroup R-U198, does not share a common ancestor with any other subgroup and cites John Mcbee, born in Virginia, but with origins in Scotland, as the oldest known ancestor.