Jans Pietersen Couvert

Resident of Holland

The Covert Surname:
According to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (see Covert Family History, NY G&B Record), regarding the name in early New York and New Jersey families:

"The derivation of the surname Covert seems to be uncertain; and four Dutchmen (familiar with the origin of names) have furnished no solution. Possibly it came from Coevorden, or Koevorde, a fortified town in the Province of Drenthe, Holland, 23 miles SSE of AAsen. This town-name form has not been seen in connection with Theunis', whose surname is variably recorded as Coevors, Coevers, Converts, Etc; but has been seen in two instances connected with his alleged children. These are:

• (a) in the record of marriage of Aeltje, where she appears as "Aeltje Theunis Van Couverden".[N.Y. Du. Ch. Rec - NYG&B Soc. Coll., 1890, p. 45]; and
• (b) in Snell's Hist. of Hunterdon and Somerset Cos., NJ, p. 561, and Messler's Hist. of Somerset Co., p.34, where the authors say that among the heads of families who came from Long Island to New Jersey was "Jan Hans Coeverden."
  The next nearest form is in the deed from "Abraham Covert" to his brother "Isaac Coverd." In olden times, spelling was very variable."

From Somerset County Genealogical Quarterly; Vol 8; No. 3; September 1991 (See source [W1] below: TEUNIS JANSZEN, the progenitor of the COVERT family of America, did not assume a surname designating his European origins. According to his own testimony, he came to America in 1651. It was not until 10 years later that he began using the last name Coevors.

The research on this family, as it has come to us, indicates that the earliest known ancestor was possibly a Frenchman, Pierre Couvert. The French word "couvert" today means "cover" or "shelter"; as a surname this could refer to some aspect of the family residence. It is speculated that the family were French Huguenots, taking refuge in Holland.

	Date	Location	Notes	Sources
Birth	~ 1599	Noord Holland
Marriage			To
Death	1670	Holland

Ancestry chart segment

    Generation 11                  Generation 12                Generation 13
                                                            +-- Pieter (Pierre) Couvert
                                                            |   (~1570-????)     
                               +-- Jans Pietersen Couvert --+ 
                               |   (1599-1670)              |
+-- Teunis Janszentje Covert --+                            +-- Sarah Lucas
|   (1625-1697/98)             |                                (~1600)
|                              +-- Unknown
+
|                              +-- Lucas Van Kessel
|                              |
+-- Barbara Lucas Van Kessel --+
    (1631-????)                |
                               +--  Unknown
Sources: 

Children

(children with Barbara Lucas Van Kessel)

Name	Gender	Date of Birth	Birthplace	Spouse	Notes	Sources
Teunis Janszentje Covert	M	b. 1625	Lommel Holland	Barbara Lucas Van Kassel	died 13 Mar 1697/98

Places of Residence

Location	Dates	Notes	Sources
Noord Holland, Netherlands	b. 1599
Lommel, Holland	son born 1625
Holland, Netherlands	d. 1670

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Web Sources - Documentation Not Given

Ref. Num.	Description	Extract
W1	Newell, Popper, Budinsky, Stanley, Guyon, Moatti, Bitoun, Le Baut Website on Rootsweb.com, owner J.K. Loren; see at: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=lorenfamily&id=I51525 Jan (Jean) Pietersen Couvert/Jans Pieterzsen Coovard b.1599 in Noord Holland, The Netherlands; d. 1670 in Holland, The Netherlands. Child: Teunis Janse Covert b: ~1625 in Heemstede, The Netherlands. Parents of Jan Pietersen Couvert: Pieter (Pierre) COUVERT b: ABT 1570 in Noord Holland, The Netherlands, wife Sarah Lucas b. ~1600. No sources given.
W2	My Family Website on Rootsweb.com, owner Debbie Harrison; see at: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2424533&id=I519050993 For extract of data on our direct line, see "My Family" by Debbie Harrison on Rootsweb.com. No sources given. Teunise Janszentje COVERT (b. 1625 in Lommel, Holland; d. 13 Mar 1697/98) was a son of Jean Pietersen Couvert (no further data) and grandson of Pierre Couvers (no further data).