Deturck Family History

Isaac DeTurk was baptized on 17 January 1685. He was the son of Johannes and Hester Kip DeTurk who were of French Hugeunot descent. “His ancestors, according to the record of the Huguenot Refugee Congregation at Frankenthal, Germany, originally came from the vicinity of Picardy in Northern France”

At age 23 Issac and other Hugeunots and Palatines accepted the invitation of Queen Ann to emigrate to America. He departed London with the company of Reverend John Kocherthal on the ship Globe arriving in New York on 31 December 1708. He temporarily settled at Esopus on Quassick Creek in Duchess County, New York. In the fall of 1709 he married Maria DeHarcourt Weimer in the fall of 1709 probably Esopus. In 1712 the family relocated to Oley in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

The Deturck family remained in the Oley Valley and surrounding Berks county area for many generations.

There are two family burial grounds on the orginal land grant in Oley.

Deturck 2 is in progress of having the stone walls repaired by the Berks County Association for Graveyard Preservation.

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