We are looking for any variant spelling of this name that may have originated in Holland. Any help appreciated.. I cant give dates as of yet but if anyone recognises the name or different spelling of the name please get in touch.. Margaret Visit the Spearin Surname Project @ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~spearin/Index.html

Doctor Cornelis Spiering, banished from Antwerp (Flanders) in 1567, moved to England. He became an elder of the Italian Reformed church in London. He became an elder of the Dutch church in London, became a notary public. His daughter Catharina, was baptized in Austin Friars Dutch church on London on 29 Oct. 1587. Find a bio on him under SPIRINXUS in Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek at http://www.inghist.nl/retroboeken/nnbw/ One Magdalena Spierincx, already a widow in 1571, married three more times in London. See records of Austin Friars, London, which is online. A Francois Spiering (Francois Spierincx), a cloth shearer, with wife Nies Pieters, had children in Amsterdam between 1589 and 1601. Frans Spiering (1549/51-1631) of Antwerp, moved to Delft, Zuid-Holland. Wife: Maria Menninck. He owned a tapestry weaving manufactory. One of his sons was appointed Swedish ambassador in 1635; the other inherited the business. There must have been a Gijsbersdr Spierinck well before 1480, because his daughter Yda Gijsbersdr Spierinck married Goossen Michiels van Vaerlaer, and had at least two sons with him ca 1510. One of the sons was a silk merchant. See Parenteel van Vaerlaer / (van) Strijbosch: http://www.antenna.nl/~daktari/vaerlaer.htm Some of these van Verlaers moved to Amsterdam. A family of at least four siblings, from Tournai, are found in Leiden marriage records in the 1580's to 1599. One Jacques Spierincx was a toolmaker; having children in Amdterdam between 1589 and 1612. His son Jacques (Jacob Jacob) Spierincks may be the toolmaker who provided a chest of tools to the Colonial patroon Kiliaen van Rensselaer, which was included in a shipment sent to the colony in 1634. See Van Rensselaer Bouwery Manuscripts. Apparently, O'Callaghan (History of New Netherland) had erronaously supposed that Jacques Spierincks had gone to Rensselaerswyck as a settler, which was not the case. No clue if any of these families now have living descendents who would like to buy a DNA kit, but hope this helps somehow. Liz J On 3 June 2011 21:43, Margaret Spearin <[email protected]> wrote: > > We are looking for any variant spelling of this name that may have  originated in Holland. Any help appreciated.. I cant give dates as of yet but if anyone recognises the name or different spelling of the name please get in touch.. > Margaret