The four families were Walloons, from Valenciennes, Roubaix, and other towns, all now in France's Département du Nord, but then part of the Netherlands under the rule of Spain. The Rapaljes were one of "only four of the identified families aboard these two ships known to have left descendants in the colony". These emigrants were the advance party for the colonization planned by the West India Company. The Rapaljes were among 18 families that remained on-board Unity to go to Fort Orangie (Now Albany), when it came to the "Mannatans". The ship arrived in New Netherlands in late March or early April of 1624, and after a stay of just a few days, sailed up the Hudson River to Fort Orange (now Albany, New York). Known to be passengers of the Unity with Joris and his wife were Sebastian Janszen Krol, John Monfort and his wife, Jacqueline Moreau, and about a dozen other families with marriageable daughters and sons, with 30 unaccompanied men. The banns for Joris and Catalina were published on Saturday, Januand their marriage took place on Sunday, January 21, 1624. This necessitated the publication of the intent to marry and the actual marriage, a process which then usually required at least 3 weeks. Catalina Trico and Joris Rapalje agreed to take part in the wildly hazardous enterprise on the condition that the company first marry them. The West India Company had recruited families to settle New Netherland and transported them aboard two ships: De Eendracht (Unity), which sailed January 25, and Nieuw Nederland, which sailed two months later. All Huguenots in those days may have been known by the general title of Walloons in Holland. French-speaking refugees founded churches in the Netherlands and held services in French. Holland, a Protestant country, welcomed religious refugees from France, Belgium, and other countries. Georges (Joris) was probably a proscribed Huguenot who took refuge in Holland. It is not known if he ever knew his genetic mother, but it seems possible that his father would have employed the services of some woman, perhaps a mistress, perhaps Joris' genetic mother, to raise his family. He also would not have known Elizabeth, since she also died in 1606. One way or the other, Joris probably did not know or remember his father very well, since his father, Jean, died when he was less than 2 years old. (see Reference Note 1) Valenciennes, a town in what is now Northern France, had long been a Protestant stronghold in the province of Hainaut, Spanish Netherlands. Nicholaes Roman Catholic Church of Valenciennes. Georges Rapareillet (pronounced Raparlie) was baptized April 28, 1604, as entered in the Register of St. He died on February 21, 1663, at the age of 58. He married Catalyntje Trico on January 21, 1624. Joris was the youngest child of Jean Rapareilliet, probably born to a woman other than Jean's wife, Elizabeth Baudoin, but possibly adopted by her (see Note 4). Joris Jansen Rapalje was born in 1604, in Valenciennes, Nord, France to Jean Rapareilliet and his wife, Elizabeth Baudoin.
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