Born in New Amsterdam, New Netherlands

Daughter of Johannes Pieterse van BRUGH 1624 – 1699 and Trijntje "Catherine" ROELOFFS 1629 – 1684

Hendrick Van Rensselaer and Catharina Van Brugh were married in New York City on March 19, 1689. Their marriage is recorded in the records of the New Amsterdam (NYC) Reformed Dutch Church.

Married Hendrick van RENSSELAER Sr 1667 – 1740; parents of (at least):

Maria van RENSSELAER 1689 – 1771
Catherine "Catryna" van RENSSELAER 1692 – 1770
Anna van RENSSELAER 1696 – 1756
Helena van RENSSELAER 1702 – 1792
Jeremias van RENSSELAER 1705 – 1730
Johannes van RENSSELAER 1708 – 1783
Hendrick van RENSSELAER Jr 1712 – 1793
Killaen van RENSSELAER 1717 – 1781

"Catharina Van Brugh was born in New York in 1665. She was the daughter of merchant Johannes Pieterse and Catharina Roeloffs Van Brugh.

In March 1689, she married Hendrick Van Rensselaer in the New York City Dutch church where their first child was baptized a few days after the wedding. Before long, the couple moved to Albany where Hendrick's family owned a great estate and where Catharina's brother, Pieter Van Brugh, would be appointed mayor of Albany in 1699. Her remaining ten children were baptized in the Albany Dutch church where both parents were active members.

Catharina raised her large family in Albany and at their country seat called Crailo. Seven of her sons and daughters married and raised families in the region - bringing a steady stream of visitors to this Van Rensselaer home for many years.

"Katie" Van Rensselaer died at Greenbush in December 1730. An early Albany matriarch, she lived for more than sixty-five years and was buried from the Albany Dutch church."

By Stefan Bielinski

"Notes: from ancestry.com classeneventer

The life of Catharina Van Brugh Van Rensselaer is CAP biography number 8627. This profile is derived chiefly from family and community-based resources. The basic genealogical source for the family is "The Van Brugh Family," by John Ross Delafield as printed in NYGBR vol 66 (1935). The Van Brugh name passed from Albany rolls with the death of Pieter Van Brugh in 1740. However, the marriage of her Van Rensselaer children rooted the family in early New York society.

By 1724, Catharina had witnessed (or sponsored) more than twenty baptisms at the Albany Dutch church. She was probably a pewholder - but we have found no pewholding records for her lifetime."

Web: RootsWeb Cemetery Index, 1800-2010 about Caterina Annetje Van Brugh
Name: Caterina Annetje Van Brugh
Death Date: 6 Dec 1730
Burial Place: United States
Location: Rensselaer, NY
Notes: Van Rensselaer