Origins of the Bice name

From A History of the Fulkerson Family from 1630 to the Present, by Laila Fulkerson Thompson (Vol. 51 of D. A. R. California Bible and Family Records), p. 160:

 

The Buys name is sometimes given as Bice, and Boyce. There is a record of a Femmetji Buys christened April 1698 in Brooklyn D. R. Church. Parents are Jacob Buys and Marritje. Jan Jansen Damen had a sister, Cornelis Hendrickje Jans who married a Buys and had a son Jan Cornelis Buys.

 

Jan Jansen Damen was Christine Vigne's (Dirk Holgersen's wife) step-father.

From a supplement which Ms. Thompson had sent me concerning this subject:

 

According to a member of the Buys family in Bakersfield, Calif., the family name originated from the time the Spanish occupied the Netherlands. The name Buys is a derivative of the Spanish name BAEZ (pronounced Buys), and there is a volume about this family that he had seen when he visited relatives in Holland.

  

Femmetjie Buys (b. 1698, Brooklyn, NY), wife of Folkert Folkertson (1697-1780), and great grandmother of Phoebe Bice Fulkerson is probably the source of the Bice middle name that can also appear in other descendants of Femmetjie and Folkert.

Back to Phebe Bice Fulkerson

This page created on 04/16/99 12:36:23.