Id like to know the origin of the surname Van Dunk came from?What country my ancestors came from?

Question

I was thinking Amsterdam or Holland, but not sure. our family settled in Ringwood, NJ, NY area

Answer 1

Try the Holland Society of New York
http://www.hollandsociety.org/index.html

Van Donk/Van Dunk is listed as one of the original families to settle in New Amsterdam. Many Dutch familes moved to New Jersey and set up the Dutch Reformed Church where you can find birth and death records.(If you have to go back that far.)

Donck, Adriaen van der
http://www.dutchgenealogy.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=119&Itemid=29

I've found one family listing on rootsweb.com world connect:
(http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/) for Ringwood NJ Van Dunk

Augustine VAN DUNK. He married Elisabeth MANNUELS.

Child of Augustine VAN DUNK and Elisabeth MANNUELS is:+ 2 i. John VAN DUNK was born in New Jersey, Passaic, Ringwood.



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Descendant Register, Generation No. 2

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2. John VAN DUNK (Augustine VAN DUNK1) was born in New Jersey, Passaic, Ringwood. He married Hannah VAN DUNK.

Child of John VAN DUNK and Hannah VAN DUNK is:+ 3 i. Mary Elizabeth VAN DUNK was born 16 Apr 1868, and died 12 Feb 1940.


Here is the link:
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=DESC&db=:2449863&id=I550874173

Also Read:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1006060101131
regarding Black Dutch

Answer 2

The Van Dunks live in Ringwood, Mahwah, and some in Hewitt NJ. Adrien Van Der Donck was not our relative, he was childless. They go back to the Sixteenth Century at least. Augustine Van Donck was born around 1690. His lineage comes down all the way to the present age. I m his relative.
The American Indian wars started in the 1600 s (1618) against everyone it seems. The Dutch came on the boats very early and possessed land after Henry Hudson found the river and proclaimed it Dutch. The Van Dunk surname possessed land in Manhattan. The Farm was in the upper portion.

Answer 3

Hey Goldenear,

Here are a few things that I can find on Van Dunk. All LDS Family Search records are in the US. There are no records with the Ellis Island web site.

"The Jackson Whites of New York and New Jersey

The Jackson Whites, the only large mixed group of the North, is the only one whose members have been willing to throw in their lot with the Negroes, though they do not class themselves with the colored population at large. Though within easy commuting distance of New York City (Bergen County, New Jersey, and Rockland County, New York), their existence has apparently depended historically on a refuge in the fault-bounded Ramapo Hills. Their names of Mann, DeGroat, DeFreese, and Van Dunk suggest a relation to the Dutch settlers of New York; all of these names but the last are old (29) in the area, while a de Vries appeared in a seventeenth century reference (30) as a free *****." ref 1

Answer 4

"van" names are usually Dutch (from Holland.) A bunch of people came to New York from Holland when it was a new colony. It used to be called "Nieuw Amsterdam", actually. Check Holland.

Answer 5

Probably Hollond-Dutch

Answer 6

Holland, but it could be the country of Oreos
or donuts.