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Author: jeffcarley2000
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Meredith Van Carley had 2 daughters and a son. Janice, Anita "Tee Dee" and Lynn
Carley. Lynn is the only one still living out of Meredith's children. Anita had no
children of her own, but adopted 2 children that reside in Lafayette (Micky and Julie)
Tee Dee married James "Jim" Riehle and was the Mayor of Lafayette, more info at
their family page
www.riehle.net
The reason you cant find any more history on the Lawrence Van Buskirk name is because
Lawrence changed his name from Anderson to Van Buskirk in the 1600's. I have also
seen this name change from Laurens Anders to the Americanized version Lawrence Anderson,
meaning son of Anders
Here is the story of the name change:
This is a paragraph from a book called "Decendants of Levir Van Buskirk and Susan
Towle of Woodstock, New Brunswick, Canada and Orono, Maine" written by Margaret (Van
Buskirk) Loeffelbein in 1985, that was passed down through my family to me.
"Frances Van Buskirk, daughter of Charles Van Buskirk of Bear River, Digby Country,
Nova Scotia, years ago visited Holland and got the history and coat-of-arms. The original
name was Lawrence Anderson and he was knighted and given the name of John Van Buskirk for
his valor in fighting for the church, (John, the King's own given name, Van, the
title, being the same as 'de'' in French). He was a farmer or bushman, as they
are called and so 'bus' was the first part of the name and 'kirk' for the
church was the last part of the name. She bought some hand painted ones as the
coat-of-arms were so nice, having so much on them, The motto is AMOR PATRIE EXCITAT, the
Latin meaning, "The love of Country excites me"
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