The following excerpt is from an article about Springsteen/Springs genealogy. Interesting…
… She told Springsteen the two of them shared a last name and were probably related through those early Springsteens who left Holland in the 1600s for what is now New York City. She’d send him a family genealogy, she said.
Close, daughter of the late Elliott White Springs, who headed Springs Cotton Mills, now Springs Industries, says her family name was changed to Springs in the 1700s when Derick Springsteen was living in Delaware.
Derick’s son John Springs and his wife Sophia were lured south by friends who told them of a beautiful and promising section of North Carolina called Mecklenburg. In 1766, they packed up their children and headed this way.
Within a few generations, the Springs owned half the block on the northeast corner of what is now Charlotte’s Square, as well as vast holdings in both Carolinas.
Bruce Springsteen’s family has remained mostly in the Northeast, but there’s no doubt that his family, too, immigrated from Holland. His father was called Douglas “Dutch” Springsteen. His earliest known Dutch ancestor was John Springsteen, born in 1759 in Middlesex County, N.J.
Read the full article by Dannye Romine Powell in the November 10, 2009 edition of the Charlotte Observer.
My family tree through my paternal grandmother Elsie May VanWickel has been traced by the NYB&GS back to 1664 Jente Jeppes from Wijckel, NL. The earliest Springsteen in my family tree is Caspar Melcherse Springsteen married to Maria Storm. abt 1680.
Is this of any help?
https://www.wiewaswie.nl/en/search/advanced-search/
Groom: Casparus Springsteen
Place of birth: Boswijck
Residence: ‘t Hogeland
Civil status: Jongeman (not previoulsy married man)
Bride: Wijntie Jurcx
Place of birth: New Albany
Residence: New York
Civil status: Jongedochter (not previoulsy married woman)
Event: Trouwen
Date: Sunday, August 09, 1693
Event place: NDG
Source type: DTB trouwen
Organisation:
Nationaal ArchiefNationaal Archief
Place:
Den Haag
Collection region:
New Netherland
Record date:
9 August 1693
Record place:
Nieuw Amsterdam-New York
Collection:
Collegiate Church of New York
Record type: Trouwboek
Comment: Vertoog verleent op 9 augustus 1693
Is this of any help?
https://www.wiewaswie.nl/en/search/advanced-search/
Groom: Casparus Springsteen
Place of birth: Boswijck
Residence: ‘t Hogeland
Civil status: Jongeman (not previoulsy married man)
Bride: Wijntie Jurcx
Place of birth: New Albany
Residence: New York
Civil status: Jongedochter (not previoulsy married woman)
Event: Trouwen
Date: Sunday, August 09, 1693
Event place: NDG
Source type: DTB trouwen
Organisation: Nationaal Archief
Place: Den Haag
Collection region: New Netherland
Record date: 9 August 1693
Record place: Nieuw Amsterdam-New York
Collection: Collegiate Church of New York
Record type: Trouwboek
Comment: Vertoog verleent op 9 augustus 1693
The earliest Springsteen relation I have in my tree is Caspar Joosten Springsteen (b 1664). He married Maria Storm (b 1662) in 1683 in Tarrytown, Westchester, New York. They are Bruce’s 6th great-grandparents. My 7th great-grandfather was Maria’s brother, Pieter Storm, making Bruce Springsteen is my 8th cousin 1x removed. Hi, Bruce, if you ever happen upon this.
The Storm family are of Dutch origin, they were also among the earliest European settlers in New Amsterdam. I have traced the Springsteen family back to Bruce’s 8th great-grandfather, Casper Springsteen (b 1614 in Den Bosch, Boxmeer, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands).
I am descended from Jan Van Tassel and his wife Catharine Springsteen Van Tassel, from the same early Dutch settlers.
Catharine Springsteen
Birth
Catharine (Twin) Springsteen (2) was baptised on Apr 06, 1684. Baptism was recorded at the central Reformed Dutch Church of New York, New York . Sponsors were: Johannes Casparsz, Caspar Jansz, Maria Tunis, Teuntie Jurrian;
Parents
Father: Joost Casparse Springsteen
Mother: Magdelena Jensen.
Catharine (Twin) Springsteen (2) was bp. on Apr 06, 1684. Baptism was recorded at the central Reformed Dutch Church of New York, New York[4]. Sponsors were: Johannes Casparsz, Caspar Jansz, Maria Tunis, Teuntie Jurrian; married Jan Van Tassel, son of Jan Cornelis Van Tassel and Annetje Alberts Coning;
Marriage
Catharine (Twin) Springsteen (2) married Jan Van Tassel, son of Jan Cornelis Van Tassel and Annetje Alberts Coning, on October 5, 1700 in the Dutch Reformed Church of New York City, [5]
I am a direct descendant of Jan Cornelis Van Tassel and Catherine Springsteen. Jan Cornelis Van Tassel’s mother was Catoneras of the Montauk Nation.
Beyond his 4g grandfather John Springsteen who married Catherine Van Pelt, Bruce Springsteen’s exact Springsteen line is not well documented.
However, a male-line relationship has been confirmed for a descendant of the above John Springsteen (b. 1759 NJ) and a descendant of John Springs (d. 1790 NC, husband of Sophia). The Springsteen man and the Springs man tested Y DNA on Family Tree DNA at the 67-marker level. Showing a genetic distance of 2, the two testers are currently one another’s only close Y match on the site. The Springs Y DNA tester is a 3g grandson of Adam Alexander Springs (d. 1840), who was a grandson of John Springs. The Springsteen tester is a gg grandson of Anthony Springsteen and his wife Martha Ann O’Hagen. Clearly these two guys, and by extension all of the two Johns’ descendants, share a distant Springsteen ancestor whose forebears were from the Netherlands.
@DJ Dyer: we would like to get in touch with you. For a book publication we have been researching the Dutch heritage of Bruce Springsteen and we cannot find actual confirmation of the birth place of Casper Josephs Springsteen (born 1614). You state it was Den Bosch, Boxmeer. These are actually two separate towns in the south of the Netherlands, 28 miles apart. In Dutch archives we could not find any confirmation of his birth in the Netherlands, neither of his wife Geesje Jans, nor the oldest son Joost Casperse (direct line to Bruce Springsteen, born in 1638). Two other (younger) sons were born and baptized in Groningen, which is in the north of The Netherlands.
Can you please share the information you have?