Ruloff Kype

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Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Ray Stewart Lobb ← Gladys Myrtle Kipp ← Edgar Allen Kipp ← Isaac Kipp ← Benjamin Kipp ← Isaac Kipp ← Isaac Johannes Kip ← Johannes Kip ← Jacobus Kip ← Isaac Kip ← Hendrick Kip ← Hendrick Kip ← Ruloff Kype

In brief

Born 1544, in France. 1562: Fled to the Netherlands with his father and brothers after their house was burned down by Protestants. He died 1596 in Netherlands.

Family

Father

Ruloff de Kype

Children

Hendrick Ruloffzen Kip · in this line
b. 1576 in New Amsterdam or Holland
m. Margaret de Marniel1, 5, 6/de Marveil3
d. Netherlands

Siblings

Henri de Kype
Jean Baptiste de Kype

Life story

A Merchant's Conversion

Ruloff Kype was born in 1544 in France, the son of the squire Ruloff de Kype, and fled with his father and brothers to the Netherlands in 1562 after Protestant forces burned the family's château. Educated by monks at the cathedrals where the family sought refuge during their exile, Ruloff nonetheless converted from Catholicism to Protestantism and settled in Amsterdam, where he built a career as a wealthy merchant. He died in 1596, leaving his fortune to his son Hendrick.

Sources (5)

Frederic Ellsworth Kip, History of the Kip Family in America (Boston, Massachusetts: Hudson Publishing Company, 1928), pages 13-14, 19.
William Ingraham Kip, Historical Notes of the Family of Kip of Kipsburg and Kip’s Bay, New York (Albany, New York: Joel Munsell, 1871), pages 8.
Margherita Arlina Hamm, Famous Families of New York Vol. I (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1902, page 218; digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/famousfamiliesof02hammm/page/n345/mode/2up : accessed 1 December 2023).
Edwin R. Purple, Contributions to the History of the Kip Family of New York and New Jersey (New York: Self Published, 1877); digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/contributionstoh1877purp/page/n9/mode/2up : accessed 16 January 2025).
Charles Howard Burnett, The Chipp Family in England and America (Los Angeles, CA: United Printing Company, 1933, page 153; digital images, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/chippfamilyineng00burn/mode/2up : accessed 20 January 2025).