The Goelets are descended from a family of Huguenots from La Rochelle in France, who escaped to Amsterdam.[1] Francois Goelet, a widower with a ten-year-old son, Jacobus, arrived in New York in 1676. Returning to Amsterdam on business, he left the boy in the care of Frederick Philipse, but was apparently lost at sea. His son, John G. Goelet, married Jannetie Cannon, daughter of merchant Jan Cannon.[2]
Francois Goelet
Jacobus Goelet (1665–1731) m. Jannetje Coesaar (1665–1736)
John G. Goelet (1694–1753) m. Jannetje Cannon (1698–1778)
Lord Robert Anthony Innes-Ker (b. 1959) m. 1996: Katherine Pelly
Robert Wilson Goelet (1880–1966) m. (1) 1904 (div. 1914): Marie Elise Whelen Clews (1880–1959) m. (2) 1919 (div. 1924): Donna Fernanda di Villa Rosa (1885–1982) m. (3) 1925: Roberta Willard (1891–1949)
Ogden Goelet (1907–1969)[13] m. Maria Virginia Zimbalist (1915–1981) m. Florence Enid Matthew (1912–1992) m. (5) Sara Sherburne Haigh (1908–1989)
Ogden Goelet
Enid Goelet (1934–2005) m. Ranald T. McNeil (1933–2013)
Peter Goelet (1911–1986)
Robert Walton Goelet Jr. (1921–1989) m. (1) Jane Potter Monroe (1920–1999) m. (2) 1949 (div. 1956): Lynn Merrick (1919–2007)
Lyman Horace Weeks, Prominent Families of New York: Being an Account in Biographical Form of Individuals and Families Distinguished as Representatives of the Social, Professional and Civic Life of New York City, New York: The Historical Company, 1897