HOME SEARCH1703 Anna Catherina Kuhn (Coans)
Born: Aug. 19, 1703, in Hessen, Germany Died: 1744 (or 1751), in Kinderhook, NY (conflicting information) Her father was 1664 Samuel Kuhn. Her mother was 1665 Magdalena Berthen. Her Americanized name seems to have been "Catherine Kuhn" and was sometimes spelled "Katherine Kuhn". She was also referred to as "Anna Catherine Kuhn" and "Anna Catherina Kuhn". She was married July 9, 1728 to 1703 James Livingston, in the Reformed Dutch Church, Kinderhook, Columbia County, New York. James and Anna Catherina (Catherine) had these children together: 1730 Elizabeth Livingston (possibly born 1729; died 1733) 1731 Sara Livingston 1733 Elizabeth Livingston 1736 James Livingston (possibly born 1735) 1738 Samuel Livingston (birth year is approximate) 1740 Maria Livingston (possibly born 1739) 1746 Jacob Livingston 1750 William Livingston (birth year is approximate) N.B. Her mother may have actually been Elizabetha Loescher. According to the source information I have, Samuel Kuhn married Elisabetha Loescher in 1688, then married Magdalena in 1692; as Catharina was born in either 1699 or 1703, her mother was probably Magdalena, although the same source shows her mother as Elisabetha. N.B. Catherina may have been born after 1703; if the birth year of her youngest child, William is correct at the year 1750, she would have been 47 years of age when he was born, which seems very unlikely. Also her first child, Elizabeth, was born in 1729 or 1730, when she would have been already 26 or 27 years of age; in that period it was common for women to marry and start having children by the age of 20. Therefore, it seems likely that Catharina was born sometime after 1703. In the autobiography of her husband it is mentioned that Catherina was a member of the "PlatteDeutsch" group that sailed from Rotterdam to the New World. Information from Robert N. Livingston Jr. and Peggy Brewster