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Roger Nordyke 10/12/00
These are notes that I keep while researchingthe NORDYKE Family line for early historical accounts into the sources of their family surname.
NORDYKE Origins:
North Dike of the North Sea
1.) Jacob Nordyke of Harlingen: [Netherlands Freisland]
On a trip by Thomas Story, Recorder of Deeds in Pennsylvania, to Holland and Germany in 1715 reported the following account: Jacob Nordyke of
Harlingen went ahead to prepare a Mennonite meeting after a wagon broke down near Oudeboone. Jacob was called "... Menist and Friendly
man...". He also said that Quaker's and Mennonite's shared the same churches in Holland in 1715.
By Richard L. Allen
2.) Jacob Nordyke of Harlingen: [Netherlands Freisland]
In 1715 Thomas Story traveled in the Netherlands province of Freisland with Jacob Nordyke. This was two years after the Peace of Utrecht in 1713
that ended the thirty years of warfare by Louis XIV in Holland. With peace in Freisland, Thomas Story traveled to Mennonite comunities that
opposed taking oaths, holding public office, or performing military service. The Quakers and Mennonites shared early religious interest in the
Netherlands.
By Richard L. Allen
4.)
Morris Nordyke died at Kent County Maryland by 1725 and his wife re-married Joseph Trulock of Maryland in 1726.No offspring listed.No idea how he is linked to any of the New Jersey Nordyke's.
5)
What little research that I have done list a variation "Nordike" comes from Austria and refered to armsmen that protected nobility of the region. I
belive that they mean that the "Nordikes" were hired bodyguards of their time.
By Roger Nordyke
Private NORDYKE Histories:
1)Heritage of NORDYKE Family
PUB: Beatrice Bailey(in 1980)
(300 heads of family in U.S.A.)
(Directory listing of <1980 Addresses)
(of LITTLE genealogical value: prior 1980 Addresses)
(un-listed for any library)
2)The Nordyke Family
Compiled by Marie Perry Nordyke
1980 - 1981
(private publication)
3)Genealogy of the Asa Nordyke
Branch of the Nordyke Family
By A. Nordyke
L. N. Bossert
pp. 1 - 20
@ Lilly Library of Earlham CollegeRichmond, Indiana
LDS: 1572053 #3
4)Terrell - Nordyke Genealogy
By C. Clayton Terrell
Allen County Public Library
Fort Wayne, Indiana
#1781180
LDS: 0974081 #6
Gc.929.2.T27704t
@ Ft. Wayne County Library/IND
NETHERLANDS:
1.)Surname NORDYKE:
NORTH:NOOR - NOORT - NOORDT
DIKE:DIJK - WIJK
2.)Dutch Dictionary: English - Dutch
NORTH:Naar=After owards ofor
Noord=North
Noorden=North
Noordwaarts=Northward
Noordelijk=NorthernNortherly
DIKE:Sloot=Ditch
Gracht=Canal or Moat
Dijk=DikeBankDam
Stenen=Stone
Muur=Wall
Dam=DikeCausewayBarrage
[This is Dutch view of "North Dike"]
3.) Mis-Spelled Surnames:
NORDYTE - NOORDYK - OBERDYKE - NORDYK - NORKYLE -
MOREDYKE - NORRADICK - NORRODICK - NORADILLE - NOYDIKE -
NERDICKIE
4.) There are no listings for Nordyke, Nordike, or Noradyke
in the Dutch telephone directories for large cities.
In Netherlands Telephone Directory there are listings
forNOORDIJK and NOORDWIJK; however, only for the
very large directories.This may be due to the manner
of listing every small towns in separate sections.
5.) Gazetteer of Netherlands:8 Locations
NOORDDIJKNN31-12
NOORDDIJKNN31-12
NOORDDIJKNN32-07
NNORDWIJKNN32-10
NOORDWIJKNN32-07
NOORDWIJK - BOSWACHTERIJNN31-12
NOORDWIJK - AAN - ZEENN31-12
NOORDWIJK - BINNENNN31-12
[see L. of C. maps: G6004.L4, G6004.N4 & G6004.N6]
5.)There are eight official designations of NORDIJK within the
Netherlands.This does not count the some 250 other
designations that start with the prefix "NORTH".One
should comment that it is the "North Dike" that keeps
the North Sea away from the Netherlands.This is true
that the Netherlands is the "North Dike" of Europe.
I would than suppose that "North Dikes" existed from
the earliest times of dike building, or at the
foundations of the Dutch written language.
This surname must have exited long, in some form,
before Peter The Great came to the Netherlands in 1697.
6.) Addison Hayes Nordyke of Indiana tells the fullest
tale(s) of the Nordyke's of Holland, and that the
original forefather was "Peter The Great".This is
also where Henry Nordyke of Burlington County, New
Jersey is called "Stephen".
7.)A family story about Peter The Great of Russia is that while
in Holland he had a son who was called Nordyke, either
by place of birth or from his Mother's name.He in
turn had a son who sent two of his sons to the Dutch
colony of New York.
[Tale in History of White County, Indiana (1883)]
8.) Peter The Great, Tsar of Russia (1682 - 1725) visited
Holland & England as a man of 15 years in 1697 to 1698.
If he is the start of the Nordyke Surname, than Jacob
living in 1715 is 18 years distance, Morris who died in
1724 is 27 years distance, and Henry who is born in 1710
is 17 years distance.As there are three, not one,
men who could be the possible offspring of Peter
the Great, than this tale interesting.This does not
rule out that there may have been an offspring, just
that the founder of the Nordyke Surname could have been
known by the place of birth in the Netherlands.
9.)William Penn, Founder of Pennsylvania, visited
Noordwyck on one of his trips to Europe in 1671, 1677
or 1686.He wrote, "Nortwyck, ... between Leiden and
Amsterdam, near The Hague...".Hence, the location
pre-dates the visit of Peter, The Great to Amsterdam
in 1697.[It would be of interest to determine how
far back in time this, or other "North Dike" locations,
could be dated.Plus also the beginning of the use of
the currently used site name.]
10.)The early Dutch immigrants to the Colony of New York
had no surname(s).To avoid confusion with others of
the same Christian names, they would often be known by
a surname based on their village of origin, local, or
province.Sometimes, this would apply to all
locations of origin for one person.The fixed surname
was not required in the Netherlands until the
Napoleonic Decree of 1811.Even Denmark, did not
require use of fixed surname, until 1915.
11.)1690 to 1720 was the period of movement of many Dutch
colonists from New York settlements into the New
Jersey areas.This started with the Great English
Revolution before 1690, when King James II fled the
county to be replaced by Mary and William.
12.) When did the first Nordyke emigrate to the North
America Atlantic seaboard settlements, is a natural
question?
There were three divisions of (Quaker?) emigration to
North America:
a.)First Wave: 1682 - 1710
b.)Second Wave: 1710 - 1730
c.)Third Wave: 1730 - 1750
The Burlington Court Book: 1680 - 1709 covers the
period of the First Wave.There are indexes to the
families that the Nordyke's married into (such as:
Perkins, Rogers, Fenimore, and Alcott), but none for
the Nordykes (or Kitchens, Brackney or Betts).
By 1725 there is a Morris Nordyke (with wife Mary who
later re-marries) that died in Kent County of
Maryland, and a Henry Nordyke that marries a Rebecca
Perkins in Burlington County of West Jersey in 1731.
This places the earliest North American Nordyke's
within the Second Wave of Emigration.A Jacob
Nordyke of Harlingen of Freisland (Netherlands)
Province in 1715 is the earliest adult male Nordyke
worldwide, as obtained from North American records.
13.) The Netherlands was Belgian, Friesland, and Holland.
These are three distinct groups that Emigration Ports
in America did not always sub-classify.All were
lumped together as "Dutch".
14.) New Jersey, and the colonization of North American
began with the division of Jersey into East and West
Jersey occurring in 1674, in that Lord Berkeley sold
his interest to Quakers at the end of the 3rd Anglo-
Dutch War.There continued two governments until the
Crown appointed a single governor in 1702.
15.) George Fox, founder of Quakerism, journeyed to West
Jersey as late as 1672, and pronouncing it "..
unoccupied wilderness..".There followed Swedish,
Finnish, & Dutch settlers to the Delaware River
region.Quakers, due to religious beliefs of its
owners, went to settle in West Jersey.However, due
to financial problems of one of the owners, William
Penn had to mediate, and later, asserted some
political control of the Jersey Quaker's by 1682.
16.) Mennonites had a strong religious following in the
Netherlands until 1809.Names after Menno Simmons, his
followers kept minimal records.In part, this group
did not recognize governmental authority, abstained
from holding government positions, and would not bear
arms.They were also forbidden to marry outside there
local religious group.
17.) The Quakers followed similar outlook, and viewpoints,
of Mennonites until the late 1800's, when their religious
services accepted the American format of "Hymns with
a Sermon by an appointed Minister".This was the cause of
the Great Hicksite splintering of the Quaker Faith.
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