Hendrick Christiansen, Great-Grandfather of LaPrairie Voyageurs?

Based on “Netherlands, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1910” in the ancestry.com database there is a creditable argument to be made that Hendrick Christiansen was the great-grandfather of Marie Anne Christiansen who married Moise Dupuis in Schenectady, New York in 1699, and moved with him to LaPrairie, Canada (New France).

If these somewhat murky records are correct then Hendrick Christiansen is the 2nd great-grandfather of LaPrairie voyageur Francois Moise Dupuis (Dupuy) (1709-1764) my 6th great-grandfather.

Who was Hendrick Christiansen?

Hendrick Christiansen (also spelled Christiaensen, and Corstiaensen) was a Dutch mariner, explorer and fur trader.  He was a ship captain and trader employed by the Van Tweenhuysen Company of Amsterdam, and was, in all probability, the founder of New York City and he certainly was the founder of Albany.

In 1611 Christiansen paid two visits to Manhattan in his ship Fortuyn.  Upon his return to the Netherlands in 1612, he brought back with him two young Native Americans who were the sons of a local sachem (probably Mohawk).  The Dutch were fascinated with the boys, whom they called Orson and Valentine Christiansen.

In 1613 Christiansen returned to New Netherlands with Captains Adriaen Block and Cornelius Hendricksen.  Together they created the first map of the region that showed Manhattan and Long Island as separate geographical entities.

In 1614 Christiansen sailed the Fortuyn  up the North River to Castle Island (New York), where he built a warehouse on the ruins of an old abandoned French fur trader's fort. He added a stockade and a moat eighteen feet wide.  He named it Fort Nassau (present day Albany, NY) in honor of Stadholder Count Maurice of Nassau. 

The river, sometimes known as the Mauritius was also named after the Count. 

Christiansen took two cannon and eleven swivel guns from the Fortuyn and left twelve men under the command of Jacob Eelkens, before returning downriver.

Artists conception of Fort Nassau 1614, on the North River

In the spring of 1625 (historians differ on the date, some have it as early as 1616) Christiansen's ship, the Swarte Beer, was lying in the Hudson River when his ship was surprised by Indians. In the attack Hendrick Christiansen and the greater part of his crew were killed. The survivors succeeded in driving away the Indians from the ship by two shots from the guns.

Hendrick Christiansen and His Probable Descendants

GENERATION 1

Hendrick (Henrik) Christiansen (Christiaensen) (Corstiaensen) 1575–1616

BIRTH ABT. 1575 • Probably, Netherlands

DEATH AFT. 1616 • New Netherlands, North America

10th great-grandfather

Record Citation: Netherlands, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1910

Name: Henrik Christiaensen

Gender: Male

Spouse: Enneken Wessels

Child: Jan Christiaensen

GENERATION 2 

Jan Mariner Chrisitaanse 1625–

BIRTH 1625 • Netherlands

DEATH New York, United States

9th great-grandfather

Record Citation: Nederlands Hervormde Kerk (Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland), Trouwen 1627 - 1671, Microfilm nr. 108628

Name: Jan [Christiaensen]

Gender: mannelijk (Male)

Christening Date: 19 dec 1639

Christening Place: Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland

Father: Henrik Christiaensen

Mother: Enneken Wessels

GENERATION 3

Christian Christiansen 1650–1696

BIRTH 1650 • Netherlands

DEATH SEP 1696 • Bergen, New Jersey, United States

8th great-grandfather

Record Citation: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-Current

Name: Christian Christiansen

Gender: Male

Birth Date: 650

Birth Place: Netherlands

Death Date: sep 1696

Death Place: Bergen, New Jersey, United States

Death Age: 46

Father: Jan Mariner Chrisitaanse

Mother: Neeltje Brantzen

Spouse: Elizabeth Ysbrants Eldersz

Children: Christiaan Christiansen 

Daniel Christiansen 

Elizabeth Christiansen 

Neeltie Christiansen 

Marie Anne Christiansen

GENERATION 4

Marie Anne Christiansen 1676–1750

BIRTH 1676 • Schenectady, Schenectady, New York, United States

DEATH 27 OCTOBER 1750 • Laprairie Notre Dame de LaPrairie de la Madeline, Quebec, Canada

7th great-grandmother

Record Citation: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-Current

Name: Marie Anne Christiansen

Gender: Female

Birth Date: 1675

Birth Place: Schenectady, Schenectady, New York, USA

Death Date: 26 okt 1750 (26 Oct 1750)

Death Place: Laprairie, Quebec, Canada

Death Age: 75

Father: Christian Christiansen

Mother: Elizabeth Ysbrants Eldersz

Spouse: Moise Dupuis

Children: Marie Barbe Dupuis 

Marie Charlotte Dupuy 

Francois Dupuis 

Marie Anne Dupuis 

Marie Francoise Dupuis 

Charles Dupuis 

Marie Angelique Dupuis 

Charles Dupuis

GENERATION 5

Francois Moise Dupuis (Dupuy) 1709–1764

BIRTH 14 FEB 1709 • La Prairie, Laprairie, Quebec, Canada

DEATH 19 SEP 1764 • St-Philippe, Laprairie, Quebec, Canada

6th great-grandfather

Record Citation: Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968

Name: Francois Dupuy

[Francois (father - Moyse) Dupuy] 

[Francois Dupuis] 

Gender: masculin (Male)

Baptism Age: 1695

Event Type: Baptême (Baptism)

Birth Date: 14 Février 1709 

Baptism Date: 14 févr. 1709 (14 Feb 1709)

Baptism Place: La Prairie, Québec (Quebec)

Place of Worship or Institution: Notre-Dame-de-LaPrairie-de-la-Madeleine

Father: Louise Dupuy

Mother: Mariane Christiane

GENERATION 6

Marie Anne Dupuis (Dupuy) 1753–1807

BIRTH 30 JUN 1753 • Saint-Constant, Laprairie, Quebec, Canada

DEATH 24 DEC 1807 • St-Constant (St-Constant), Québec

5th great-grandmother

Record Citation: Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968

Name: Marie Anne Dupuy

Event Type: Baptême (Baptism)

Baptism Date: 1753-1772

Baptism Place: St-Philippe, Québec (Quebec)

Place of Worship or Institution: Laprairie

LEARN MORE AT: Ripples from La Prairie Voyageur Canoes -- My Voyageur Ancestry

http://laprairie-voyageur-canoes.blogspot.com/2017/10/ripples-from-la-prairie-voyageur-canoes.html

Inspirations for a Chatsworth Western Movie Historian

This is what Woodland Hills looked like in 1954

Jerry England, Chatsworth Movie Historian

Jerry England’s cowboy legacy and pioneer heritage can be back-trailed for more than twelve generations across the forests and prairies of North America.

In the 1940s and 1950s, when Jerry was growing up, the San Fernando Valley was still full of movie cowboys, beautiful ranches, and fine horses.  Where he lived, in rural Woodland Hills, most kids had a horse or two in their backyards.

Jerry recalls, “As youngsters we rode our horses to Calabasas, Canoga Park, and Chatsworth on dirt roads.”

Jerry reminds us that in the 1930s, most of Hollywood's six-gun heroes worked for a single studio, such as Warner Brothers, Universal or Republic.  Many of the early cowboy actors, like Gary Cooper, Tom Mix, John Wayne, Roy Rogers, and Clark Gable bought ranches and moved to the Valley.

By the 1940s, celebrities such as Barbara Stanwyck, Zeppo Marx, Janet Gaynor, William Holden, and Robert Taylor boasted of owning working horse-ranches.  Nearby Northridge billed itself as the "Horse Capital of the West."

Some of Jerry’s favorite memories from the 1950s include attending the annual Rose Parade in Pasadena, where youngsters were sometimes treated to actually meeting their cowboy heroes.  He was one of those lucky kids who got a souvenir good luck coin directly from Hoppy. 

During the mid 1950s Jerry often attended the Los Angeles Sheriffs' Rodeo at the Los Angeles Coliseum and remembers there being more than 100,000 fans in the stands.  One of those years, 1956 he recalls, Roy Rogers was the Grand Marshall.

In the mid 1950s, cowboy star Wild Bill Elliott lived just down the road from him on a ranch in Calabasas where he hosted Junior Equestrian horse shows that Jerry participated in.

Jerry remembers riding past Rancho El Escorpion’s old barn and dreaming of bygone days of the early vaqueros and cattle ranching.  Miguel Leonis built the adobe barn in the 1870s, and it still stood until the 1960s.  

There were plenty of interesting characters left over from an earlier era that reminded us of a passing West.”  While out on a trail ride Jerry met a fellow named Don Brandstetter who had a beautiful Arabian stallion named Baleyn.  

Jerry remembers, “We got to be pretty good friends, and Don showed me some great places to ride.  We sometimes rode our horses under Ventura Boulevard through a huge 8' diameter iron culvert, and we'd stop by the old Calabasas general store for a Nehi soda,” 

“Don really loved that stallion and would do some mighty funny things with that horse.  I remember him holding up his canteen so he could share a drink with his horse, and I remember him inviting the horse into his house.  I'll admit ol' Balane had pretty good manners.  A special treat was watching Don and Balane in the Rose Parade dressed in full Arabian attire.”

We lived on Manton Avenue, in Woodland Hills, still a dirt road in 1955

As late as 1956, sheep herders were still bringing their sheep wagons, horses, border collie dogs, and herd of sheep to graze off the wild oats that grew across the road from his home in Woodland Hills.

By 1957, the Valley was getting way too populated for his dad, so he moved to Oakhurst, a hamlet in the High Sierras (population 356).  After completing his service in the U. S. Army Jerry moved back to the valley in 1965, and now lives in Chatsworth.

Today Jerry is a movie historian, cowboy folk artist, and photographer who, for the past twenty years, has researched and collected memorabilia associated with the movie locations in Chatsworth's Santa Susana Mountains. 

After making a 2007 guest appearance on the ReelzChannel Dailies program titled "Hollywood Was Here - The Iverson Movie Ranch", he was urged to share his research and knowledge. 

Using movie stills, screenshots, and his own photographs Jerry has documented the unique landscape features that attracted filmmakers to Chatsworth a century ago, and has published two books about Chatsworth's filming locations:  “Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas” (2008) and “Boulder Pass - Hollywood's Fantasyland” (2010).

If you'd like to learn more about Chatsworth movie locations Jerry invites you to visit his blog links listed below:

Chatsworth Movie Locations

Chatsworth's Road to Movie Magic -- Part One

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2014/07/chatsworths-road-to-movie-magic-part-one.html

Chatsworth's Road to Movie Magic -- Part Two

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2014/07/chatsworths-road-to-movie-magic-part-two.html

My Baby Loves Western Movies & Ranches

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/12/my-baby-loves-western-movies-ranches.html

Chatsworth's Rock Stars

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/05/chatsworths-rock-stars.html

Meanwhile back at the ranch -- Map to rock star locations

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/01/meanwhile-back-at-ranch-map-to-rock.html

Big News on the Iverson Movie Ranch

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2013/03/big-news-on-iverson-movie-ranch.html

Homage to six-gun heroes and their gallant horses

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/02/homage-to-six-gun-heroes-and-their.html

San Fernando Valley Horses and Movies Are Forever Linked

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/08/san-fernando-valley-horses-and-movies.html

Movies and serials filmed in Chatsworth

Early Days

Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- The beginning (1912 - 1922)

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/03/celebrating-100-years-of-chatsworth.html

Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Sound arrives (1923 - 1929)

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/03/celebrating-100-years-of-chatsworth_04.html

Classic Movies

Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- 1930s Classic Movies

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/03/celebrating-100-years-of-chatsworth_06.html

Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- 1940s Classic Movies

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/03/celebrating-100-years-of-chatsworth_15.html

Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Classics 1950 - 1953

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/05/celebrating-100-years-of-chatsworth_13.html

Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Classics 1954 - 1956

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/05/celebrating-100-years-of-chatsworth_14.html

Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Classics 1957 - 1959

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/05/celebrating-100-years-of-chatsworth_15.html

Cliffhangers (Serials)

Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- 1930s Cliffhangers (Serials)

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/03/celebrating-100-years-of-chatsworth_755.html

Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- 1940s Cliffhangers (Serials)

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/03/celebrating-100-years-of-chatsworth_17.html

Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- 1950s Cliffhangers (Serials)

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/04/celebrating-100-years-of-chatsworth_9916.html

Western Movies

Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns (1930 - 1936)

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/03/celebrating-100-years-of-chatsworth_07.html

Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns (1937 - 1939)

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/03/celebrating-100-years-of-chatsworth_5642.html

Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns 1940

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/03/celebrating-100-years-of-chatsworth_18.html

Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns 1941

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/03/celebrating-100-years-of-chatsworth_20.html

Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns 1942

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/03/celebrating-100-years-of-chatsworth_22.html

Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns 1943

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/03/celebrating-100-years-of-chatsworth_24.html

Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns 1944

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/03/celebrating-100-years-of-chatsworth_27.html

Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns 1945

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/03/celebrating-100-years-of-chatsworth_30.html

Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns 1946

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/04/celebrating-100-years-of-chatsworth.html

Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns 1947

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/04/celebrating-100-years-of-chatsworth_03.html

Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns 1948

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/04/celebrating-100-years-of-chatsworth_06.html

Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns 1949

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/04/celebrating-100-years-of-chatsworth_09.html

Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns 1950

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/04/celebrating-100-years-of-chatsworth_12.html

Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns 1951

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/04/celebrating-100-years-of-chatsworth_15.html

Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns 1952

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/04/celebrating-100-years-of-chatsworth_18.html

Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns 1953

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/04/celebrating-100-years-of-chatsworth_21.html

Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns 1954

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/04/celebrating-100-years-of-chatsworth_25.html

Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns 1955

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/04/celebrating-100-years-of-chatsworth_28.html

Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns 1956

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/05/celebrating-100-years-of-chatsworth.html

Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns 1957

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/05/celebrating-100-years-of-chatsworth_04.html

Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns 1958

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/05/celebrating-100-years-of-chatsworth_07.html

Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns 1959

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/05/celebrating-100-years-of-chatsworth_10.htm

Celebrating 100 years of Chatsworth Movies -- Westerns after 1960

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/05/celebrating-100-years-of-chatsworth_18.html

Television Shows

'Wait for me, Wild Bill!' -- Chatsworth's TV Westerns

http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2012/03/wait-for-me-wild-bill-chatsworths-tv.html

Iverson Movie Ranch Video Montage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_HBwVKaHjo

Reel Cowboys, Cowgirls, etc -- Chatsworth's Six-Gun Heroes

https://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2018/11/reel-cowboys-cowgirls-etc-chatsworths.html

Jerry's Cowboy Heritage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n7fn9wtIh4