Orphan lines, by assigned definition here, can be any lines with ancestral OR descendancy connection problems. They will invariably lack hard evidentiary documentation like bibles, church or probate records, to specifically identify parentage.
1. HARMANUS J. BARKELOO, is born circa 1775 in New Utrecht,Kings Co.,New York, the son of Jacques B. Barkeloo(1747-1813) and Catherine Suydam(1753-1788). A baptismal record for Harmanus has not been found.
2. HARMANUS J. BARKELOO, marries Elsie Van Brunt about 1797 in New Utrecht, Kings Co.,NY.
3. JACQUES BARKELOO,is born 18 May 1798, in New Utrecht, Kings Co.,NJ., the first child and oldest son of Harmanus J. and Elsie(Van Brunt) Barkeloo. The infant is named after his paternal grandfather, Jacques B. Barkeloo.
4. JACQUES BARKELOO, is baptised 17 Jun 1798, in the New Utrecht DR Church.
5. MARIA BARKELOO, is born 31 Aug 1799, in New Utrecht, Kings Co.,NY., the second child and eldest daughter of Harmanus J. and Elsie(Van Brunt) Barkeloo.
6. MARIA BARKELOO, is baptised 10 Nov 1799, in the New Utrecht RD Church. She is the last of Harmanus and Elsie Barkeloo's children to be baptised there.
7. HARMANUS J. BARKELOO, about 1800/01, for some reason, breaks from the New Utrecht DR Church. All children subsequent to his second child, Maria, are not baptised there. If they were baptised elsewhere, those records have yet to be found.
8. HARMANUS J. BARKELOO, after a decade of relative obscurity, assumedly still in New Utrecht, emigrates to Ohio just after the end of the War of 1812-1815. An enclave of Barkeloo relatives from New Utrecht have already chosen Butler County,Ohio as their new residence. The group includes his brothers, Henry(b.1778), Jacques J.(1780-1853), Johannes J.(John)(1786-1871), and sisters, Catherine(b.1771), wife of Johannes Ross, their daughter, Catrina Ross(1790-1821)(m.Thomas Speer), and the family of sister, Catherine(Barkeloo) Wiggins, wife of Samuel Wiggins. It's not known whether they traveled together, or separately, but it appears they followed, by a couple years or so, their cousin, John Barkuloo(1778-1849), who emigrated to nearby Dearborn County,Indiana before the war.
9. HARMANUS J. BARKELOO, appears in the 1820 Federal Census of Wayne Twp.,Butler Co.,OH.,p.71. His data(221101-31010) shows 10 children. Family records suggest an even larger family, numbering, perhaps, as many as 15 children.
10. CATHERINE (BARKELOO) SPEER, age 30, wife of Thomas Speer and sister of Harmanus J. Barkeloo, dies 25 Jun 1821,in Wayne Twp.,Butler Co.,OH. Some ten months later, in the same township, Harmanus, possibly suffering from the same illness, recognizes his vulnerability and makes out a will. Late spring deaths in those days were often a result of pneumonia or typhoid fever. As a guess, it was more likely a lengthier illness, like tuberculosis, which induced premonitions of impending mortality that prompted Harmanus to pen his Last Will and Testament at such an early age.
11. HARMANUS J. BARKELOO, on 30 Apr 1822, makes out his will, perhaps knowing his condition is terminal, or the recurring condition or illness from which he is suffering has a history of little or no recovery. He names wife, Elsie, but only seven children: sons- Jacques, Abraham, William and Harmonius, and daughters, Catherine Ann, Mariah, and Jane.
12. HARMANUS J. BARKELOO, dies about Aug 1822 in Hamilton County,Ohio, less than four months after making out a will.
Technically, now that a probate document has been found for Harmanus Barkuloo, presumably naming all his surviving children, he no longer qualifies as an orphan line. His ancestral line was never in question, just the problem of identifying his surviving descendants. But, there are still questions, among them being whether there was a child born posthumous to his death. Most of his children appear to have remained in the Cincinnati area after Harmanus' death. If Elsie returned to Brooklyn as some family researchers contend, it is apparent few, if any, of their children chose to remain there. Elsie is supposed to have died back in Brooklyn, but an 1835 probate record for her has been found in Butler Co.,OH., a document now being vigorously sought.
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