15591Lÿsbeth Thÿssen is explicitly named in only one record: Her name appears on a long list of members of New Amsterdam's Dutch Reformed Church who had joined since the year 1649.1,2

This church record is the only document that directly mentions 15591Lÿsbeth Thÿssen. Full page.1 Transcription.2

Other records make clear that her husband was 15590Laurens Corneliszen,3 and that she had a brother named Claas Tysen.4 The evidence thereof is presented and discussed here.

Sources Cited:

1: Reformed Dutch Church of New York, Ecclesiastical Records 1618-1697, pages 495 and 508. FamilySearch film 1927968, images 407 and 419. FamilySearch.org restricts access to these images, so you can see copies here: 407, 419.

2: The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume IX (1874), page 45. This is a transcription/transliteration of the ecclesiastical record cited above (source citation #6).

3: The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume V (1874), page 177, entry dated 30 August 1656 for the baptism of Lÿsbeth.

4: Berthold Fernow, The minutes of the Orphanmasters of New Amsterdam, 1655 to 1663 (Francis P. Harper, New York, 1902), page 62.