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Heyman Gijsbert Roosa (b. 1592, d. Abt. 27 Feb 1678)

Heyman Gijsbert Roosa (son of Gijsbert Goertzen Roosa and Maria Alertse Dicksen) was born 1592 in Gelderland, Netherlands, and died Abt. 27 Feb 1678 in Hurley,Ulster,N Y ,Usa. He married Metjie Walraven Gysertsdottor Roos on Abt. 1615 in Gelderland, Neatherlands, daughter of Gijsbert Roos.

Notes for Heyman Gijsbert Roosa:
The Roosa family appears to have come from Spain,the name probably changed from Rosa ,Rosa was a very common Jewish name in Spain.Bert S. Feldman says the Roosa/Rossa's were a rabbinical family,they were probably descended from the Iberian (Sephardic) Jews,possibly Spanish Jews who fled to Portugal in 1492 and later came toHolland

More About Heyman Gijsbert Roosa and Metjie Walraven Gysertsdottor Roos:
Marriage: Abt. 1615, Gelderland, Neatherlands.

Children of Heyman Gijsbert Roosa and Metjie Walraven Gysertsdottor Roos are:

+Albert Heymansen Roosa, b. 1621, Herwijnen, Gelderland ,Holla nd, d. 27 Feb 1679, Esopus, Hurley, Ulster, N.Y. U.S.A..