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1. 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.
2. JACQUES BARKELOO, is baptised 17 Jun 1798, in the New Utrecht DR Church.
3. HARMANUS J. BARKELOO, father of Jacques, for reasons not known, breaks from the New Utrecht DR Church about 1800. All children subsequent to his second child, Maria(chr.10 Nov 1799), are not baptised there. If they were baptised elsewhere, those records have yet to be found.
4. HARMANUS J. BARKELOO, after a decade of relative obscurity, emigrates to Ohio just after the end of the War of 1812-1815. An enclave of Barkeloo relatives from New Utrecht are already residing in Butler County. The group includes brothers, Henry(b.1778), Jacques J.(1780-1853), and Johannes J.(John)(1786-1871), and sisters, Catherine(b.1771), wife of Johannes Ross, and the family of sister, Catherine(Barkeloo) Wiggins, wife of Samuel Wiggins. They may have traveled together, or separately, but it seems certain they followed, by a couple years or so, their cousin, John Barkuloo(1778-1849), who had already emigrated to nearby Dearborn County,Indiana before the war.
5. 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.
6. JACQUES BARKELOO, age 22 by the 1820 census, is neither married or enumerated as a head of household in the census, but appears to be the "male(18-26yrs)" enumerated with his parents.
7. CATHERINE (BARKELOO) SPEER, Jacques' aunt and wife of Thomas Speer, dies 25 Jun 1821,in Wayne Twp.,Butler Co.,OH., cause unknown.
8. HARMANUS J. BARKELOO, Jacques' father, dies of unknown cause about Aug 1822. Family records infer his administration took place in Hamilton Co.,OH., but I've yet to find it there, or in Campbell Co.,KY., or in Kings Co.,NY. Among those three venues, Hamilton County records suffered the most from fires in 1816 and 1849, and numerous Ohio River floods, and may have been the repository of his probate. It's also possible his estate was handled both in the county and state where he died, as well in Kings Co.,NY., although, as mentioned, I have not found it.
9. JACQUES BARKLOO, appears to be taxed in Campbell Co.,KY in 1826. This could be a 28-year-old Jacques, son of Harmanus J., or, it could be his 46-year-old uncle, Jacques. A Henry "Bartlow" was taxed in Campbell Co.,KY from 1819-1822 who was very likely Henry Barkeloo(c1778-1829), Jacques' uncle, who returned to Brooklyn,NY by 1823. Henry probably handled the administration of his brother, Harmanus Barkeloo's estate, and may have escorted the widow, Elsie, and some of the children back to Brooklyn with him.
As you can see, it is believed this Jacques Barkeloo is the same who appears in tax lists in Campbell Co.,Kentucky during the 1820's, but vanishes from any further records after 1829. Did he return to New York as did other members of his extended family, or, is he the Jacob C. "Burkelow" who married Mary Ann Garrett, 23 Jan 1835, in Fayette Co.,KY? Jacob is not a trackable Christian name among Burklow branch lines in KY, IL or MO during the 1800's, and the usual translation of Jacques among German-speaking communities would be Jacob, as opposed to James among communities knowing its family origin as being French. The cross-over spelling of Barkeloo to Burkelow or other variations for any specific document prior to 1840 is a standard phenomenon, or curse, of this Dutch family line.
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