Johannes Waldron

Native of England

Resident of Holland

Johannes Waldron's name in England, before the family migrated to the Netherlands, was likely John Waldron. At present we do not know the year when the family left England, but it is believed that John belonged to a landed family, the Waldrons of Walderne Woods near the east coast of England.
During the tumultuous years after the Reformation and the subsequent absolutist reigns preceding the English Civil War, Protestants in many countries sought sanctuary from persecution in the Netherlands or in Mannheim Germany, both known for tolerance. These upheavals may or may not have influenced the Waldrons' leaving England. If the birth date and place for John/Johannes Waldron are correct, the family was still in England in 1579, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. They appear to have left sometime before 1610, the year in which Johannes married Maria Covert in Harlem, Netherlands. Possibly, they had political difficulties with the absolutist rule of James I, and his son Charles I. By the time of the Restoration, the Waldrons had made new lives in Holland, with Dutch wives and children who spoke the Dutch language. In our direct line, no generation of the Waldron family lived their entire life in Holland. John/Johannes Waldron left England before marriage, and died in Holland. His son Resolved Waldron was born in Holland, and immigrated to New Amsterdam in America. Perhaps the number of refugees from elsewhere in Europe put too much pressure on the available land, and Resolved and his children left for the Dutch colony in America hoping for property and a new start.

English history in the time of the Waldrons

• The religious Reformation movement began in 1517.
• Henry VIII ruled England from 1509-1547, instituting the Protestant Church of England.
• The child Edward VI and his two Protectors ruled from 1547-1553; the country remained Protestant.
• Queen Mary ruled from 1553-1558. She was, like her mother, Catherine of Aragon, a fervent Catholic, and under her direction many Protestants were convicted of heresy and burned at the stake.
• Elizabeth I, a Protestant, ruled from 1558-1603. The Spanish Armada was defeated in 1558.
• James I (reigned 1603-1625) and his son Charles I (reigned 1625-1649) both ruled by "Divine Right of Kings", ignoring Parliament and exerting absolute authority.
• Oliver Cromwell, military and political leader, defeated the royalists in the English Civil War, and became "Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland" in Dec. 1653; he ruled with a repressive style of Puritanism.
• "The Restoration": Cromwell was overthrown, and Charles II ruled (1660-1685) with a reactionary laxity focused on the sensuous life devoted to his own pleasure.

UNDOCUMENTED ANCESTOR CAUTION: There are obvious errors in the dates & information for Maria Covert (born 1590) and son Resolved Waldron (born 1594) which put their entire line of ancestry in question. This page, from undocumented sources, is offered only as a starting point for further research. There appears to be an effort on many websites to connect with Edward Waldron, by whatever means. At this distance in time, some allowance is made for posting what bits of data are found, knowing they are not directly aligned. Please use advisedly, with all necessary caveats.

	Date	Location	Notes	Sources
Birth	1579	Alcester, Warwickshire, England
Marriage	1610	Harlem, Netherlands	To Maria Covert (1590-1650)
Death	1650	Waldron Hall, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Burial

Ancestry chart segment

Generation 13                  Generation 14          Generation 15     
     
                                                  +-- Edward Waldron                        
                                                  |   (1552-1619)
                           +-- Johannes Waldron --+
                           |   (1579-1650)        |
                           |                      +-- Mary Hunt
 Resolved Waldron (1594) --+                          (1560-1620)
 (1594- 1670)              |                           
                           |
                           +-- Maria Covert
                               (1590-1650)
     
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Children with Maria Covert

Name	Gender	Date of Birth	Birthplace	Spouse	Notes	Sources
Resolved Waldron (1594)	M	1594	expect N- Holland

Places of Residence

Location	Dates	Notes	Sources
Alcester, Warwickshire, England	b. 1579
Harlem, Netherlands	m. 1610
Waldron Hall, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands	d. 1650

Sources

Ref. Num.	Description	Image of original
1	Resolved Waldron's Descendants, Vanderpoel Branch, compiled by James Henry Slipper 1910. copy at MN Hist. Soc. Library, St. Paul MN, extracted 2008 by Elizabeth Wilson Williams. Note: Resolved Waldron in these notes is not a direct-line ancestor; he is the son of direct line ancestor Resolved Waldron born 1594, and the brother of our direct line Joseph Waldron. Johannes Waldron, grandfather of Resolved Waldron Resolved Waldron b. 1616, emigrated 1650.(Refers to sources "Waldron Ancestry" and "Riker's History of Harlem".) Resolved Waldron received patent of land east end of Manhatten called New Harlem, where his grandson Johannes built mansion with bricks imported from Holland and named it Waldron Hall, Horne Hook. Resolved died 1690; left estate to 4th son Samuel. (Refers to "New Harlem Register" at N.Y. Hist. Soc. Library, a genealogy of the descendants of the 23 original patentees of the town of New Harlem, with proofs of births, baptism & marriages from 1630-1903.)

DISCLAIMER: USE OF UNDOCUMENTED WEB SOURCES Some of the information on this page was found on websites presented by researchers who have either not listed their sources completely or employ the circular logic of citing additional undocumented websites. These web site sources are listed separately below. The attribution number for these web sources is preceded by a "W". As we frequently find conflicting information on the web family trees, we offer the un-sourced information here as a starting point for further research only. We discourage its inclusion on additional posted websites or in other reproduced material without either further documentation or a disclaimer.

Web Sites - Documentation Incomplete

Ref. Num.	Description	Extract
W1	"Kircher Family tree", at Ancestry.com. Owner: royalribbonsfarm. http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/person.aspx?tid=3086178&pid=-1158918341 This tree lists 6 generations of the Waldron family, plus spouses: siblings Judith and Daniel Waldron<Joseph Waldron< Resolved Waldron < Johannes Waldron < Edward Waldron. Johannes Waldron born 1579 in Alcester, Warwickshire, England; died 1650 at Waldron Hall, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, netherlands ; spouse Maria Covert (1590-1650); parents Edward Waldron (1552-1619) and Mary Hunt (1560-1620); no siblings shown. This site lists as its only source other Ancestry.com family trees.
W2	Waldrons of Green County NY and Beyond, by Ronald Allan Waldron, homepage at http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/w/a/l/Ronald-A-Waldron/index.html family tree at http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/w/a/l/Ronald-A-Waldron/tree1.html This site lists the line of descent as Daniel Joseph Waldron (1647-1690) m. Sara Rutgers (1643-1737); < Joseph Willemszen Waldron (1620-1662) m. Annetje Daniels (1624-1688); < Willem Waldron (1599-1639) m. Ruth Walker; < John Rudolph Waldron/ Johannes Waldron m. Joan unknown. Beyond that, the author indicates a 5-generation gap of unnknowns, then implies a direct descent from William Walderne (b. 1380); then a 7 generations of unknowns, then Adolphe Waldron (b. 1140) < Rudolf Van Waldron (b. 1069) < Waleran Venator (b. 1039). Also presented is an extract from the Domesday Book of 1066 indicating the presence of a location of Waldron, in England, held by William (presumably King William I) from Roger de Courseulles, with the note that Alfwy held it before 1066. Mentioned are 3 villagers, 3 smallholders, 1 slave, meadow, pasture, woodland....The named location is "lost". See: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/w/a/l/Ronald-A-Waldron/FILE/0001text.txt This site has photos of old Waldron homes and cemetery in Coeymans, New York. The author of this website does not list his sources. A Waldron Pedigree "copied from the Chancery Records in the Tower of London, and from the Parish Register of Alaster, in Warwickshire - by H. Gl Somerby, Esq." list descendants of Edward Waldern of Alcester, m. Joan. None of the descendants of Edward & Joan appear to link to the family tree presented by this author. See: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/w/a/l/Ronald-A-Waldron/PHOTO/0012photo.jpg