The origin of the surname van Blaricum is the village Blaricum in het Gooi, a area in the province of Noord-Holland, near the city of Amsterdam. Before the year 1800 someone was mostly known by his first name and a "patroniem" (fathers-name). In official papers this name was sometimes extended with a "toponiem" (a geographical name), being the birth place of the person. When following generations use this patroniem or toponiem as a surname, it has become a family name. In the trees III and IV you can see that a family can generate more than one family name. In tree III there are the names Gracht and Blaricum and in tree IV the names Blaricum and (probably) Lubbertsen.
During the last centuries the family-name has been written in many many ways. There are 29 different variations in the database, of which the following 8 are still in use up to the present: Blarcom, Blarcum, Blaricom, Blaricum, Blargan, Blarikom, Blarkom en Blerkom.
At this moment I know of 3 "main" trees, namely the trees I, IV and V. It is very plausible that the trees II and III are related to each other, they are based in Utrecht since the 17th century and in those days this town had only about 30.000 inhabitants. The trees VI and VII originate from tree II.
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| The "oostermeent" of Blaricum Drawing by Ton Veldmeijer. |
The village of Blaricum was originally a settlement of farmers, living in turf huts and simple farm-houses. It was during the tenth century or probably even sooner that the first people were living in the Blaricum moorland and woodland. The living in the medieval Naerdincklandt and afterwards Gooiland consisted mostly of bringing the land under cultivation for the farming, with cattle-breeding on the common fields, keeping sheeps on the moorland, cutting sods for the cattle in the stable and sowing and harvesting of the fields. For many centuries the agrarian production was the main means of support in the villages of the Gooiland. Blaricum could keep this agrarian character until 1920 and is considered these days as the prettiest village of the district. In 2007 was Blaricum the municipality with the highest average house prices of the Netherlands.
The website of the municipality Blaricum: www.blaricum.nl
A nice website of Gerard Grootveld about the vilage Blaricum in Past and Present: http://gerardg.nl/blaricum/
Around 1700 Jacob Hendriksz van Blarcum settles down at Ankeveen, he was probably born in Blaricum and his fathers first name should be Hendrik.
The family van Blarcum lived for years in "Het Reghthuys" at Ankeveen, with behind it large gardens. In the fifties a new residential area was build in those gardens. To remember the family van Blarcum and their influence on the village they named a road "Van Blarcumlaan" (from "Straatnamen van Ankeveen"). The last inhabitant of Ankeveen of the family van Blarcum was Christianus Joannes van Blarcum.
Although both the trees II and III are based in Utrecht, it is not yet sure, if there is a relation between them.
In 1608 is in Utrecht the marriage of Gerrit Jansz van Blaricum, also known by the name Gerrit Jansz van der Gracht, whose father has to be Jan van der Gracht, with Marrichje Herman Willems van Doorn. His occupation, and that of his son Herman Gerritsz and Lubbert Gijsbertsz of tree IV was "rademaker". Those days there was a castle in Blaricum known by the name De Graft. It was a big house that stood in the "Bouwvenen" beside the "Gooiersgracht". It is possible that Gerrits origin lies there, it should explane the existance of both surnames. His children kept the name "van der Gracht", but the children of his son Herman took the name "van Blaricum".
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| The Eendracht. |
Lubbert Gijsbertsz was born in Holland in 1600 or 1601, because he was 33 years old when he made on 15 April 1634 a contract with the diamond merchant Kiliaen van Rensselaer from Amsterdam, concerning his coming to the new colony of the landowner: Rensselaerswijck. This colony was placed on both banks of the river Hudson near Fort Oranje (Fort Orange, now Albany, New YOrk). He became the first wheelwright and wagonmaker of the colony.
Lubbert with his wife and three children sailed to America on the Eendracht, leaving from Texel early May 1634. They arrived in Rensselaerswijck about two months later, because his account with the colony was opened on 20 July 1634. His account was closed in 1647, when they moved to Nieuw Amsterdam, where they stayed for several years. On 5 Dec. 1654 he got a Dutch patent for 50 morgen (about 100 acres) of land in Bergen Neck, NJ. Just south of him was his son-in-law Jan Corneliszen Buys with 25 morgen and then his son Jan Lubbertsen also with 25 morgen. On 15 September 1655, after an Indian had been killed in Nieuw Amsterdam for stealing fruit from an orchard, a large war party of Indians terrified Nieuw Amsterdam, across the river Hudson down to Bergen Neck and over to Staten Island. They burned the Dutch bouweries and plantations and killed or captured everyone who had not fled. It is likely that Lubbert was killed during this Indian raid, since his wife Divertje moved back to New Amsterdam without him. There she, as a widow, requested permission to tap on 1 May 1656, together with her son-in-law Jan Corneliszen Buys, alias Jan Damen.
When Lubbert Gijsbertsz arrived in America, he had three children. After that he got at least six more. It is likely that most of the children kept the surname Lubbertsen, while only the descendants of Jan Lubbertse kept the surname "van Blarcom".
After the American Revolutionary War many of the colonists who had served in the British Army or were loyal to the British ("Loyalists"), went in 1783 to Nova Scotia in Canada. Amongst them were Peter van Blarcom and his brother Hermanus.
| David Gerritsz van Blaricom | 1st Regiment, Monmouth County, New Jersey Militia | ||
| John van Blarcom | Revolutionary Soldier | ||
| Garret van Blarcom | |||
| Hendrick van Blarcom | Captain | ||
| Samuel S. van Blaricom | Private | Capt. Isaac Monnett’s Company | 28 July-6 September, 1813 |
| Johannes Petrus van Blarkom | |||
| Henry van Blaricom | Battalion of California Volunteers, Mounted Rifle, Company E | 1846-1849 | |
| A. H. van Blarcoan | Private | 65th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment | |
| Daniel J. van Blarcom | Corporal | 22nd New Jersey Volunteer Infantry Regiment | |
| Daniel Squire van Blarcum | Corporal | 19th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company C | |
| Francis van Blarcom | USS Santee, frigate | ||
| Henry van Blaricom | Private | 4th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company I | 1864-1865 |
| Isaac van Blarcom | Private | 95th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company D | |
| John Canon van Blaricom | 75th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company I | 1861-1864 | |
| Lewis van Blarcom | First Lieutenant, Captain | 15th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company D | 1862-1864 |
| Martin van Blarcom | 19th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company C | ||
| Peter van Blargan | 105e Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company F | Feb 1865- | |
| Phillip Eli van Blarcom | Private | 1st Minnesota Volunteer Cavalry Regiment "Mountain Rangers", Company B | October 11, 1862-November 9, 1863 |
| Samuel van Blarcom | Corporal, Sergeant | 15th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company D | 1862-1865 |
| William Harrison van Blaricum | Private | 106th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment | 1861-1865 |
| Earl Winfield van Blaricom | Canadian Field Artillery, 50th (Queen's), later 52nd Battery | March 14, 1916-July, 1919 | |
| Gilbert Francis van Blarcom | |||
| John Olen van Blarcom | Private | ||
| Lewis van Blarcom | Captain | New Jersey State Militia | |
| Shelomi van Blaricom | |||
| Albert E. van Blaricom | |||
| Albert Miller van Blarcom | Electronics Officer | -1946 | |
| Amos James van Blarcom | |||
| Cletus J. van Blargan | Machinist's Mate First Class | U.S. Navy | 1943-1945 |
| Darrell J. van Blaricum | Private, field artillery | U.S. Army | |
| Earl Bruce van Blarcom | Lieutenant colonel | U.S. Army Air Force | |
| Elton van Blargan | Private First Class | U.S. Army | |
| Elvin L. van Blaricon | Private First Class | U.S. Army | |
| Eugene Clifford van Blarcom | Pilot Officer | Royal Canadian Air Force, 5 Group, 50 Squadron, Lancaster NF921 | -1944 |
| Francis Alfred William Blerkom | Sergeant (Flight Engineer) | Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, 101 Squadron | 1944 |
| Fred Abraham van Blaricum | Private | U.S. Army | December 5, 1941-March 31, 1943 |
| Glenn Franklin van Blaricum | First Lieutenant | 1941-1945 | |
| Harry Jack van Blaricum | Private | March 16, 1943-November 14, 1945 | |
| Herbert M. van Blargan | Private First Class | U.S. Army, 3rd Infantry Division, 7th Infantry Regiment, Company F | |
| Irvin Francis van Blargan | Sergeant | U.S. Army Air Force, 344th Bombardment Group, 494th Bombardment Squadron | 1943-1945 |
| James Alton van Blarcum | U.S. Army | ||
| James Walter van Blaricum | Captain | U.S. Army | |
| Leslie Eugene van Blaricum | Corporal | U.S. Army | |
| Levi van Blaricom | Private | ||
| Lloyd Daniel van Blargan | U.S. Army | ||
| Lucien Rule van Blaricum | Private | ||
| Paul E. van Blaricom | Coxswain Third Class | U.S. Seabees | |
| Raymond H. van Blargan | U.S. Army, 110th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron | ||
| Raymond van Blarcom | |||
| Sherben Edward van Blaricom | First Lieutenant | U.S. Army Air Force, 28th Composite Group, 36th Bombardment Squadron | January 14, 1942-July 15, 1943 |
| Stanley Wasson van Blaricum | Corporal | U.S. Army | |
| Verlyn George van Blaricom | Boatswain's Mate First Class | U.S. Navy | |
| Vincent Ebert van Blaricum | U.S. Navy | ||
| Wallace Ray van Blaricom | Electrician's Mate First Class | U.S. Navy | |
| Warren F. van Blaricom | U.S. Army | 1941-1946 | |
| Wayne Willard van Blaricom | Technician fifth grade | U.S. Army, 537th Field Artillery Battalion, B Battery | |
| William Neal van Blaricum | Private | U.S. Army | |
| William Reeve van Blarcom | Quartermaster Third Class | U.S. Navy, USS Design, mine sweeper | 1943-1945 |
| Donald Frank van Blarcom | Sergeant | U.S. Army | |
| Earl Bruce van Blarcom | Lieutenant colonel | U.S. Air Force | |
| Earl Eugene van Blaricom | U.S. Army | ||
| James W. van Blarcom | U.S. Army | ||
| Ronald Grover van Blaricom | 1st Marine Division | ||
| Thomas A. van Blaricom | |||
| Wesley Delroy van Blaricom | Private | U.S. Marine Corps | |
| Boyd Winton van Blaricum | Private | U.S. Army | |
| Francis William van Blargan | U.S. Army | 1963-1966 | |
| Howard Lionel van Blaricom | Sergeant | U.S. Marine Corps | |
| Kenneth Clare van Blaricum | Specialist Fourth Class | U.S. Army | |
| Paul Joseph van Blaricum | Private | U.S. Army | |
| Richard William van Blarcom | Specialist Fourth Class | U.S. Army, 101st Airborne Division, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion, A Company | 1968 |
| Timothy Lowell van Blaricum | Private | U.S. Army | |
