Goelet family explained

Goelet
Region:	New York
Origin:	La Rochelle, France
Otherfamilies:	Innes-Ker family Livingston family Del Ponte
Estate:	Glenmere mansion Ochre Court

The Goelet family is an influential family from New York, of Huguenot origins, that owned significant real estate in New York City.

History

The Goelets are descended from a family of Huguenots from La Rochelle in France, who escaped to Amsterdam.^[1] Francois Goelet, a widower with a ten-year-old son, Jacobus, arrived in New York in 1676. Returning to Amsterdam on business, he left the boy in the care of Frederick Philipse, but was apparently lost at sea. His son, John G. Goelet, married Jannetie Cannon, daughter of merchant Jan Cannon.^[2]

Family tree

• Francois Goelet
  • Jacobus Goelet (1665–1731) m. Jannetje Coesaar (1665–1736)
    • John G. Goelet (1694–1753) m. Jannetje Cannon (1698–1778)
      • Catharine Goelet (d. 1806) m. 1755 Peter Theobaldus Curtenius (1734–1798)^[3]
      • Peter Goelet (1727–1811) m. Elizabeth Ratsey (1734–1769)
        • Peter P. Goelet (1764–1828) m. Almy Buchanan (1768–1848)
          • Peter Goelet (1800–1879)
          • Jean Buchanan Goelet (1802–1882)
          • Hannah Green Goelet (1804–1895) m. Thomas Russell Gerry (1794–1848)
            • Elbridge Thomas Gerry (1837–1927) m. Louisa Matilda Livingston (1836–1920)
              • Angelica Livingston Gerry (1871–1960)^[4]
              • Mabel Gerry (1872–1930) m. 1925: Francis Saxham Elwes Drury (1859–1937)^[5]
              • Robert Livingston Gerry Sr. (1877–1957) m. Cornelia Averell Harriman (1884–1966)^[6]
                • Elbridge T. Gerry II (1908–1999)
                • Robert Livingston Gerry Jr. (1911–1979) m. Martha Leighton Kramer^[7]
                  • Robert Livingston Gerry III (b. 1937)
                • Edward Harriman Gerry (1914–2003) m. Martha Farish (1918–2007)
                • Henry Averell Gerry (1914–2000)
              • Peter Goelet Gerry (1879–1957) m. (1) 1910 (div. 1925): Mathilde Townsend m. (2) Edith Stuyvesant Dresser Vanderbilt (1873–1958)
          • Robert Goelet Sr. (1809–1879) m. Sarah Ogden (1813–1888)
            • Robert Goelet (1841–1899) m. Harriette Louise Warren (1854 - 1912)
              • Robert Walton Goelet (1880–1941) m. Anne Marie Guestier (1899-1988)
                • Beatrice Goelet (1922–2015)^[8] m. 1948: Hayward Ferry Manice^[9]
                • Robert Guestier Goelet (1924–2019) m. 1976 Alexandra Creel (b. 1940)
                • Francis Goelet (1926–1998)^[10]
                • John Goelet
              • Beatrice Goelet (1885–1902)^[11]
            • Ogden Goelet (1846–1897) m. Mary Rita Wilson (1855–1929)
              • Mary Goelet (1878–1937) m. 1903: Henry Innes-Ker, 8th Duke of Roxburghe (1876–1932)
                • George Victor Robert John Innes-Ker, 9th Duke of Roxburghe (1913–1974) m. (1) 1935 (div. 1953): Mary Evelyn Hungerford Crewe-Milnes (1915–2014) m. (2) 1954: Margaret Elizabeth McConnel
                  • Guy David Innes-Ker, 10th Duke of Roxburghe (1954–2019)
                    • Charles Innes-Ker, 11th Duke of Roxburghe (b. 1981)
                  • Lord Robert Anthony Innes-Ker (b. 1959) m. 1996: Katherine Pelly
              • Robert Wilson Goelet (1880–1966) m. (1) 1904 (div. 1914): Marie Elise Whelen Clews (1880–1959) m. (2) 1919 (div. 1924): Donna Fernanda di Villa Rosa (1885–1982) m. (3) 1925: Roberta Willard (1891–1949)
                • Ogden Goelet (1907–1969)^[12] m. Maria Virginia Zimbalist (1915–1981) m. Florence Enid Matthew (1912–1992) m. (5) Sara Sherburne Haigh (1908–1989)
                  • Ogden Goelet
                  • Enid Goelet (1934–2005) m. Ranald T. McNeil (1933–2013)
                • Peter Goelet (1911–1986)
                • Robert Walton Goelet Jr. (1921–1989) m. (1) Jane Potter Monroe (1920–1999) m. (2) 1949 (div. 1956): Lynn Merrick (1919–2007)
                • Mary Eleanor Goelet (b. 1927)^[13] m. (1) 1949 (div.): James Eliot Cross (1921–1997)^[14]
                  • Eliot Goelet Cross (b. 1952)
        • Robert Ratsey Goelet (1769–1824) m. Margaret Buchanan (1769–1848)^[15]
          • Elizabeth Goelet (1808–1882) m. Elbert Samuel Kip (1799–1876)^[16]
            • George Goelet Kip (1845–1926) m. Anna Margaret Geissenhainer (1847-1893) ^[17]
              • Charles Augustus Kip (1870–1940) m. Marie Gilmour Bryce (1878–1940)^[18]
              • Elbert Samuel Kip (1874–1950) m. Alice Alden Bushnell (1872–1952) ^[19]
                • Elbert Bushnell Kip (1901–1975) m. Doris Frederica Pantaenius (1904–1983)
                • Hendrik Kip (1906–1970) m. (1) Virginia Hastings (1909–1991) m. (2) Juliana Soule (1912–1969)
                • Josephine Alden Kip (1909–1978) m. Sherburn Edward Edgerly (1910–1962) ^[20]
              • Anna Elizabeth Kip (1880–1918) m. A. Paul Olmsted (1882–1948)
            • Margaret Goelet Kip (1847–1854)
        • Jannetje Goelet (1758–1840) m. Robert Troup (1757–1832)
          • Charlotte Troup (1792–1872) m. James Lefferts Brinckerhoff (1791–1846)
            • Maria Louisa Brinckerhoff (1816–1866) m. 1836: Robert Livingston Pell (1811–1880)
            • Charlotte Brinckerhoff (1818–1861) m. Frederic Bronson (1802–1868)
              • Frederic Bronson (1851–1900) m. Sarah Gracie King (1850–1931)
                • Elizabeth Duer Bronson (1877–1914) m. Lloyd Carpenter Griscom (1872–1959)
        • John Goelet (1759–1853) m. Eliza Taylor Buncombe (1766–1840) (daughter of Edward Buncombe)
        • Elizabeth Goelet (1766–1856) m. William Cornelius Bucknor.^[21]
          • William Goelet Bucknor (1798–1852) m. Emily Beelow^[21]
            • Cornelia Bucknor (1838–1914) m. John Howard Van Amringe (1835–1915)
              • Guy Van Amringe (1869–1936)

See also

• Duke of Roxburghe
• Glenmere mansion
• Livingston family
• Ochre Court

Notes and References

1. Lyman Horace Weeks, Prominent Families of New York: Being an Account in Biographical Form of Individuals and Families Distinguished as Representatives of the Social, Professional and Civic Life of New York City, New York: The Historical Company, 1897 http://www.mocavo.com/Prominent-Families-of-New-York/277631/233
2. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1879/11/22/102808245.pdf "An Eccentric Man Gone", The New York Times', November 22, 1879
3. Book: Goodfriend . Joyce D. . Who Should Rule at Home?: Confronting the Elite in British New York City . 2017 . . 9781501708039 . 76 . 19 August 2019 . en.
4. News: ANGELICA L. GERRY DIES 2 Ancestors Were Signers of Declaration of Independence. 11 September 2016. The New York Times. November 5, 1960.
5. News: Robinson. Grace. NEWS OF NEW YORK SOCIETY Social Register at Gerry Wedding. 11 September 2016. The Chicago Tribune. November 1, 1925.
6. https://www.nytimes.com/1908/03/04/archives/miss-harriman-bride-of-robert-l-gerry-grace-church-so-crowded-by.html New York Times article dated March 4, 1908
7. News: Staff. Daughter to Mrs. R. L. Gerry Jr.. 7 April 2016. The New York Times. June 30, 1935.
8. News: Paid Notice: Deaths MANICE, BEATRICE GOELET. 28 November 2016. The New York Times. 13 February 2015.
9. News: BEATRICE GOELET, H. F. MANICE MARRY; Daughter of Late Robert W. Goelet Married to Former Lieutenant in the Navy . 19 August 2019 . . 8 February 1948.
10. News: Kozinn . Allan . Francis Goelet, Philanthropist And Music Lover, 72, Is Dead . 19 August 2019 . . 23 May 1998.
11. News: MISS BEATRICE GOELET DEAD. Only Daughter of the Late Robert Goelet Succumbs to Attack of Pneumonia. . 19 September 2018 . . February 12, 1902.
12. News: OGDEN GOELET, SON OF FINANCIER HERE; Heir to Real Estate Holdings Dies in His 62d Year. 16 April 2017. The New York Times. 10 October 1969.
13. News: Times. Special To The New York. Goelet Infant Is Named Mary.. 16 April 2017. The New York Times. 4 September 1927.
14. News: James Cross, Gulf Stream Commissioner. 16 April 2017. Sun Sentinel. en. 2017-04-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20170416130039/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1997-12-18/news/9712171382_1_planning-board-eliot-town. dead.
15. Book: Scoville . Joseph Alfred . The Old Merchants of New York City . 1968 . Greenwood Press . 46 . 19 August 2019 . en.
16. Book: The Wealth and Biography of the Wealthy Citizens of the City of New York. 14 March 2018. Beach. Moses Yale. 1846.
17. News: Society At Home and Abroad. 26 February 2018. The New York Times. April 8, 1906.
18. News: Society Enjoys Autumnal Season in the Country. 19 March 2018. The New York Times. September 21, 1913.
19. News: Kip-Bushnell. 26 February 2018. The New York Times. June 29, 1899.
20. News: Miss Josephine Kip Becomes A Bride. 26 February 2018. The New York Times. April 5, 1936.
21. Book: Bayne . Howard Randolph . The Buckners of Virginia and the Allied Families of Strother and Ashby . 1907 . Genealogical Association . 299 . 20 August 2019 . en.