Daniel Tourneur

Daniel "Jean" Tourneur was born March 20, 1605, probably in Amiens in the Picardy region of northern France. He left Picardy, "Valley of the Somme", specifically because of violent religious persecution during the Thirty Years War (1618-1648). He fled to Leyden, Holland, with his mother, about 1648. There he married Jacqueline Parisis on September 5, 1650, at Leyden. Her brother, Rev. Eustacius Parisis, "Pastor of the Walloon", performed the service. They left Leyden after the baptism of their first son, which occurred on July 30, 1651, at the Walloon church, and set sail for New Amsterdam. They settled at Midwout, now the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York, and then removed to New Amsterdam, where he was a butcher for about 12 years. He then removed to Harlem, where he was appointed as magistrate or "schepen" in the 1660s. He was the second Deacon of the Harlem Church beginning in 1662. He was appointed as Deputy Sheriff from 1665 to 1670 and overseer in 1671. He died in Harlem in 1673, leaving five children, all who married and produced children. "Of him Riker says that he was 'a man of generous instincts and of great energy, an to his tract and abilities the town owes much of its success.'"

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One of Daniel Tourneur's daughters, Magdalena, married Jan Dyckman, who arrived in New Amsterdam abt. 1661, ten years after our Johannes Dyckman arrived. Daniel's other daughter, Hester, married Frederick de Vaux (or Deveaux), and it was Hester's daughter, Rachel Deveaux, who married Johannes Dykeman, son of Cornelius and grandson of Johannes, our immigrant ancestor.