Rev. 13 Dec. 2000, Gen. 509

 

DESCENDANTS OF JAN GRAVES AND BARBARA BOONEN

OF UTRECHT, NETHERLANDS

 

 

GENERATION 1

 

Jan Graves (1) married Barbera Boonen. They lived in Utrecht, Netherlands. Jan may have had a second marriage, since there is a marriage of a Jan Graves to Charlotta Van Kastrop on 25 April 1764 in Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands.

Children - Graves

+2. Jan Boonen Graves, bapt. 26 Dec. 1758, m. Sarah Attwood.

 

 

GENERATION 2

 

CHILDREN OF JAN GRAVES (1) AND BARBERA BOONEN

Jan Boonen Graves (2) was baptized 26 Dec. 1758 in Ijsselstein, Utrecht, Netherlands. He apparently immigrated to the U.S. and lived in New York City, NY. (There is an immigration record which has not yet been looked at.) He was known as John Boonen Graves in the U.S. He married Sarah Attwood. (R-1)

Children - Graves

2. William Lodewyck Graves, b. 22 Oct. 1800, d. 12 Sept. 1837. The Louisiana Archives has a record in Orleans Parish Death Index, 1837, for William Lodwick Boonen Graves, 38 years of age, white, died 12 Sept. 1837, vol. 7, p. 293.

+3. E. Boonen Graves, m. Mary Ann Emmet.

+4. Edward Attwood Graves, b. 10 March 1803, m. ------, d. 6 Oct. 1865.

+5. Sarah Anne Graves, b. 14 Feb. 1805, m. Joseph Michael de Domburg Meert, 20 Dec. 1825, d. 11 Feb. 1832.

6. Nathaniel Marius Graves, b. 10 Dec. 1807, d. 28 May 1838.

7. Mary B. Graves, b. 5 April 1810, never married, d. May 1838 (421 Broome St., NY City, NY, consumption).

 

 

GENERATION 3

 

CHILDREN OF JOHN B. GRAVES (2) AND SARAH ATTWOOD

E. (probably Edward) Boonen Graves (3) died before his wife. He married Mary Ann Emmet, daughter of Thomas A. Emmet. She was born about 1805, and died 20 July 1866 of dysentery at age 61 in Middletown, Staten Island, NY.

He was the owner at one time of a well-known painting, Ecce Homo, by Willem van Herp (c. 1614- Antwerp - 1677). This painting was previously in the Emmet Collection, Seville, Spain (note that Emmet is also his wife's surname), was subsequently owned by Louis Durr until 1882, then by the New York Historical Society, and in 2000 was for sale by a London art gallery.

Children - Graves

8. Edward Boonen Graves, b.c. 1843, d. 16 July 1854 (constipation of the bowels, age 11, Florence, Northampton, Hampshire Co., MA). Bur. New York Marble Cem., NY City, NY.

 

Edward Attwood Graves (4) was born 10 March 1803 and died 6 Oct. 1865. He married ------. There is an Edward A. Graves listed in the 1850 census of Northampton, Hampshire Co., MA, which is probably him.

Children - Graves

9. John Boonen Graves, b.c. Nov. 1833 (NY), d. 1 Sept. 1834 (inflammation of the brain, 10 months of age, 421 Broome St., NY City, NY).

 

Sarah Anne Graves (5) was born 14 Feb. 1805 in NY City, and died 11 Feb. 1832 of consumption at 6 Pearl St., NY City, NY. She married Joseph Michael de Domburg Meert on 20 Dec. 1825 He was born about 1782 in Bruges, Belgium, and died 2 Feb. 1848 of congestion of the lungs at 109 Clinton Place, NY City, NY. They were both buried in New York Marble Cem., NY City, NY. (R-1)

Children - Meert

10. John Graves Meert, b.c. 26 Dec. 1830 (NY), d. 28 Feb. (or 1 March) 1832 (convulsions, 6 Pearl St., NY City, NY).

+11. Sarah Atwood Meert, b. 1850, m. William Henry Anthon, 23 Jan. 1850.

 

 

GENERATION 4

 

CHILDREN OF SARAH A. GRAVES (5) AND JOSEPH M. MEERT

Sarah Atwood Meert (11) married General William Henry Anthon, son of John Anthon and Judith Hone, on 23 Jan. 1850. He was born 2 Aug. 1827 in NY, and died 7 Nov. 1875 of pneumonia at 56 Irving Place. He was a lawyer and an assemblyman for Staten Island, NY. He was buried in New York Marble Cem., NY City, NY, and was later removed to Woodlawn Cem. 15 April 1911.

Children - Anthon

12. Theresa Anthon

+13. Marion Graves Anthon, m. Stuyvesant Fish, 1 June 1896.

14. John Anthon, never married.

 

 

GENERATION 5

 

CHILDREN OF SARAH A. MEERT (11) AND WILLIAM H. ANTHON

Marion Graves Anthon (13) married Stuyvesant Fish, son of Hamilton Fish and Julia Kean, on 1 June 1896. He was born 24 June 1851 and died 10 April 1923, both in NY City, NY. Stuyvesant Fish became a financier and railroad executive (president of Illinois Central Railroad). He was vestryman at Trinity Church, NY City. He had a home at 21 Stuyvesant St., NY City, 78th St. and Madison Ave., NY City, and Newport, RI.

Children - Fish

15. Livingston Fish

16. Sidney Webster Fish

17. Stuyvesant Fish

18. Marion Anthon Fish, m. Albert Zabriskie Gray.

 

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