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Beekman

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Beekman is a Dutch toponymic surname, literally translating as "creek man".[1] Variant forms are Beeckman and Beekmans. The Estonian poet Vladimir Beekman's family originally carried the name Peekmann.[2] People with the surname include:

People

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Beekman family of New York

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Prominent descendants of the Beekman family originally of Overijssel, Netherlands:[3]

  • Wilhelmus Beekman (1623-1707), Treasurer of the Dutch West India Company, Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania, 1653/58-1663
    • Gerardus Beekman (1653–1723), colonel, surgeon, Governor of the Province of New York

Other people with the surname

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Beekmans

Given name

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Places and buildings

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All named after descendants of Willem Beekman:

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Beekman at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands.
  2. ^ Vladimir Beekman genealogy at geni.com.
  3. ^ William Benford Aitken, Distinguished Families in America, Descended from Wilhelmus Beekman and Jan Thomasse Van Dyke, Knickerbocker Press, 1912