The Sigsbee family descends from Evert Sixbee (Sixby), of Schenectady/Albany, NY. It is unknown at this time who his parents were, but it is assumed by many that they were Manasseh Sixberry (Sexbury) and Pieterje Jonkers.  The exact date/place of Evert's birth is also unknown.  He was a member of the Dutch Reformed Church.  The original spelling and origin of the name are also unknown, and spelled a variety of ways in the old records.  The current spelling Sigsbee was adopted by Nicholas #1, around 1800.  Many families with similar spellings adopted the Sigsbee spelling after the sinking of the USS Maine and resulting popularity of Capt. Sigsbee.  Some have even taken his entire name as their own.

Evert SIGSBEE (SIXBEE/SIXBY) (1715-1770)
sp--Elsje Egmont
Children:
1. Marytje SIGSBEE (1738)
2. Anna SIGSBEE (1741)
3. Catharina SIGSBEE (1743)
4. Nicholas E. SIGSBEE (1744) (cont. below)
5. Catrina SIGSBEE (1748)
6. Gerrit SIGSBEE (1751)
7. William SIGSBEE (1754)
8. Evert SIGSBEE (1756)
9. Alice SIGSBEE (1759)
10. Jacob SIGSBEE (1762)

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Nicholas E. SIGSBEE (1744-1820)
sp Cornelia Cooper
Children:
1. Elsje SIGSBEE (1774-1851)
2. Evert SIGSBEE (1776-1857)
4. Annatje SIGSBEE (1779-1807)
5. Marytje SIGSBEE(1782-1844)
6. Abraham N. SIGSBEE (1784-1820)
7. Jacob SIGSBEE (1786-1816)
8. Elizabeth SIGSBEE (1789-1789) died infancy
9. Elizabeth SIGSBEE (1790-1856)
10. Nicholas SIGSBEE (1792-1867) (cont. below)
11. Obadiah SIGSBEE (1795-1852)
12. William SIGSBEE (1798-1886)

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Nicholas SIGSBEE (1792-1867)  (3 marriages)
sp(1) Jane SIBLE
Children:
1. Nicholas J. SIGSBEE, Jr.  (1816-1890) (cont. below)
2. Jacob Paul SIGSBEE (1819-1845)

sp--(2) Hannah Fowler
Child:
Ida Jane (1858-1866)

sp--(3) Margaret, widow of ___ Earle - no children

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Nicholas  J. SIGSBEE, Jr. (1816-1890)  (2 marriages)
sp(1) Agnes ORR
Children:
1. Jane Augusta SIGSBEE (1840-1910)
2. Charles Dwight SIGSBEE, Sr. (1845-1923) (cont. below)
3. Julia Elizabeth SIGSBEE (1846-1936)
4. Luther Paul SIGSBEE (1850-?)

sp--(2) Celeste Scrambling in 1872 - no children

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Charles Dwight SIGSBEE, RAdm (1845-1923)
sp--Eliza Rogers LOCKWOOD (1850-1928)
Children
1. Anna Lockwood SIGSBEE (1871-1942)
    sp--Sumner Ely Wetmore KITTELLE, RAdm (1867-1950)
    Children:
    1--Anna Louise KITTELLE (1898-1990)
        sp Charles KITTELLE Moore, Capt USN (1889-1974)
    2--Elsa SIGSBEE KITTELLE (1901-1902) died young
    3--Mary SIGSBEE KITTELLE (1903-1956)
        sp--Lester Adolphus DESSEZ, BrigGen USMC (1896-1981)
    4--Sumner SIGSBEE KITTELLE (1909-1996)
        sp--Josephine Catherine McGEHEE
    5--John KITTELLE (1913-circa 1978)
        sp--Poly Wayne WIRGMAN
    6--Nancy KITTELLE (1915-1989)
        sp--Fred Groch BENNETT (1915-alive)
2. Charles Dwight SIGSBEE, Jr. (1889-1919)
    sp--Agnes HADDOW (1893-1991)
    Child:
    1--Charles Dwight SIGSBEE, III (1918-1956)
         sp--Georgie Mary SHEPHERD (1922-1988)
                 Cheryl Sigsbee
3. Agnes SIGSBEE (died young)
4. Mary Ellen SIGSBEE (1877-1960)
    sp--(1) David Balfour KER
    Child:
    1--David Balfour KER FISCHER (1906-1922)
    sp--(2) Anton Oltto FISCHER
    Child:
    2--Katrina SIGSBEE FISCHER (1914-1998)
5. Ethel SIGSBEE (1886-?)
    sp--Robert Toombs SMALL
    Children:
    1--Elizabeth SMALL
    2--Marjorie SMALL
         sp--Joseph McCAMMON
    3--Jean SMALL
        sp-- ______ MELE (and 2 others)
6. Eleanor SIGSBEE 1886-1899) died age 12