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Mrs. Hans Bielenstein
(Gabrielle Maupin Bielenstein)
Mrs. Gabrielle Maupin
Bielenstein, the daughter of William Gabriel Maupin and
Florence Mary Brayley, was born in Portsmouth,
Virginia. She met and married her husband, Johan Henrik August
"Hans" Bielenstein, in Canberra, Australia,
where they lived
for a number of years. Upon Dr. Bielenstein's
appointment to a chair at Columbia University, the
Bielensteins moved to New York City, where they
reside today. Dr. and Mrs. Bielenstein have two
daughters: Danielle Erika Mary and Andrea Johanna
Gabrielle Bielenstein.
Mrs. Bielenstein was educated at a series of small private
schools, including
Holton-Arms in Washington, D.C.
She took her B.A. at
Sweet Briar College, where she
was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Mrs. Bielenstein
completed her M.A. on a Fullbright Scholarship at the
University of Melbourne.
Mrs. Bielenstein spends her summers in Portsmouth,
Virginia at her family home, while Dr. Bielenstein
summers in Sweden.
During the summers, Mr. Bielenstein devotes her time as a
guide, detailing the rich Tidewater history of the
Portsmouth area.
Memberships
* National Gavel Society
*
Order of the First Families of Virginia 1607-1624/5
*
Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192 (3rd Vice President
General)
* Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States
of America
* Order of Colonial Lords of the Manors in America
* Hereditary Order of the Descendants of Colonial
Governors (former
Governor General)
* National Society Daughters of the American Revolution
(former Chaplain)
* Daughters of the Cincinnati (former President
General)
* National Society Colonial Dames of America (former
Historian; former
Corresponding Secretary)
* Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of
Independence (former
2nd Vice President General; former Chaplain and Secretary General)
*
Descendants of the Illegitimate Sons & Daughters of the
Kings of Britain
*
National
Society of the Washington Family Descendants
* Jamestowne Society
*
National Society
Daughters of the Barons of Runnemede (Registrar
General)
* Presidential Families of America (Board Member)
* Huguenot Society of America (former Secretary General)
* Huguenot Society of South Carolina
* Huguenot Society of the Founders of Manakin in the
Colony of Virginia
* National Society United States Daughters of 1812 (Board
Member)
*
Order Of Descendants of Colonial Physicians and
Chirurgiens (former
Historian General)
* Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy
(former Board Member)
*
National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters
l607-l86l
(Board Member)
*
Sons and Daughters of the Colonial & Antebellum Bench &
Bar 1565-1861
* National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars
* Hereditary Order of Descendants of Loyalists and
Patriots of the
American Revolution (former Secretary
General)
*
National Society Descendants of Early Quakers
* Order of Descendants of Ancient Planters
* United Daughters of the Confederacy
* Flagon & Trencher
* Companions of the Conqueror
Chivalric Orders
*
The Sovereign Military Order of the
Temple of Jerusalem,
(New York Prioriy)
Other Notes
Mrs. Bielenstein is a member of the Princess Anne Club in
Virginia, and the New York Junior League.
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