Frances Woolsey

• Not the same as Frances Crispe & not the daughter of Sir Thomas Roberts, 1st Bt of Glassenbury
• Seen as daughter of John Hooke, Jr & Grace Harte

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Known in Rotterdam as Franchina Robertschen. (bad spelling, sorry).

Note: that’s a patronymic, not a surname.

Frances Robbechtser married George Woolsey about 1610 and they had four children - John, Robert, George, Francis. Her husband George died in 1629.

?Sometime after 1630, Frances Roberts married Robert Hunt, Merchant (probably English).? (Her death record is as Woolsey.)

From the Records of the Dutch Reformed Church, Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Netherland (from Arie Noot), her death is noted: A coffin of 6 guilders for Fransijntije Woolsij, widow, from of the dreijbreg next to the kamerbewaerder in street.”

The dreijbreg or draij brugge as it is spelled out on the city map of 1599 (nr 24) is a bridge that can be lifted to allow ships to pass. (In English a drawbridge.) The meaning of the word kamerbewaarder is not clear. It indicates “room /custodian” but does not explain whether this is referring to the location in the street or to the location within the house where she died, nor what is meant, in this case by that title.

References

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Robbechtser-1