Hello - thanks for this site. I am looking for birth details and parents names of Johannes van Beverhodut EZ (EZ means Engel's son) born about 1763 in the Danish West Indies - not sure which island. This record would probably be in the church books from the Danish West Indies - can anyone help me find this information? Thank You from Western Australia
His name sounds more Dutch to me than Danish. In St Thomas there was a Dutch church. There are no birth records from the time he was born. Perhaps you can find a marriage record.
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Eva M
Check out this site. It is about van Beverhoudt Family on the Virgin Islands, maybe your Johannes is here. The pages are in English.
http://www.sandcastlevi.com/facebook%20-%20the%20van%20beverhoudt%20family%20-%20appendix%20a.pdf
I agree with Eva that the name sounds more Dutch than Danish. In the first two paragraphs it says that the Family originally comes from Holland/Netherland (Dutch) but that the Danish council asked if he wanted to stay on the Island. Maybe he had connection to denmark through the wife.
How do you know, that he was born about 1763?
Do you know who he married?
Heidi
May be you can get some help from David Lynch on this site
http://200inparadise.blogspot.dk/search/label/van%20Beverhoudt
Sandra, please contact me at paradise200blog@verizon.net. I have done a lot of research into the van Beverhoudts of St Thomas and St Croix. Unfortunately, I'm not sure who you are looking for. Can you provide me the information you know, including how you get back to him?
There was a Johannes van Beverhoudt EZ who was the Royal Bookkeeper in St Croix at around that time. Perhaps this is the same person.