Thanks, Mary. Now I have little Claara all tucked away. She apparently died young, since back when I first got the info on her, Lorine found no other record of her. Doris ---------- Original Message ---------- From: Mary Van Orsdol <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DUTCH-COLONIES] Baptismal Record Schenectady 9 Dec 1798 Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 07:53:51 -0800 Yes, 8480 is the number Kelly assigned. Mary On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 8:50 PM, [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote: > Mary, > Thank you--I didn't see this before I asked for it again. > Let me make sure I follow the whole thing. > baptism Dec. 9 1798 Harmannus Van Slyke (name as father) {this is the > place where in the original his name was upside down, indicating an > illegitimate birth, I was originally told}. > Is the 8480 the number Kelly gave to the baptism in his listing? > DOB is Oct. 6. I didn't remember whether the baby's last name showed up, > so that's good to know too. > Neeltje Schermerhorn (Schermerhoorn) is the mother. So the sponsors must > be Evert Schermerhoorn and Elizabeth Schermerhoorn. I've learned not to > assume that means a married couple, and at the time I didn't know who either > was. Now I know that an Elizabeth was Neeltje's sister, and she married an > Evart Schermerhorn. The family, like many early settlers, was very > inbred--they went back to 1636 in NY, and Neeltje herself was descended from > two of Jacob Janse's sons. So it would make a lot of sense to have her > sister and her husband as sponsors, especially with an out of wedlock child, > when the father married someone else between the birth and the baptism. I'm > very grateful for the information. > Thanks, > Doris > I've got the DOB as Oct. 6 and of , baby Clara Van Slyke (I wasn't quite > sure whether the last name showed up in the record so that's good to know) > > ---------- Original Message ---------- > From: Mary Van Orsdol <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [DUTCH-COLONIES] Baptismal Record Schenectady 9 Dec 1798 > Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:18:10 -0800 > > >From *Baptism Record of Schenectady Reformed Church: Schenectady, New > York, > 1694-1811* (New York: Arthur C. Kelly, 1987), page 371. > > "1798 > 12. 9 Harmannus Van Slyke (name as father) 8480 Clara Van Slyke Evert > Schermerhoorn > Neltje Schermerhoorn b 10. > 6 Elizabeth Schermerhoorn" > > Hope the formatting comes through. > > Mary > > > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 3:30 PM, [email protected] < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Can someone please check for me a baptismal record in the Schenectady > DRC, > > 9 Dec. 1798, for Claara, child of Neeltje Schermerhorn and Harmannus Van > > Slyke. The father's name is upside down. I hadn't known, until told, > that > > this meant an illegitimate birth. What I had was Neeltje's own New > > Testament, where she listed her children. Claara is listed there as her > > first, without a last name or a father, unlike her later children. > > > > A number of years ago, someone on this list got this record for me from > > Kelly. I was a newbie, and I didn’t write down the number from Kelly, or > > the names of the sponsors. I do remember that at the time I didn’t > > recognize the names; now that I’ve done more research and have more of > > Neeltje’s relatives, they may be more meaningful. And now I know the > > importance of having Kelly’s number, just for future reference. I've got > > all the children from her marriage to Hendrick Bastiaanse accounted for, > > Kelly's numbers, sponsors and all, so I just need Claara's. > > <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" > > /> > > Thanks, > > Doris Waggoner > > ____________________________________________________________ > > Obama Urges Homeowners to Refinance > > If you owe under $729k you probably qualify for Obama's Refi Program > > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4d3622c62a3cbc540a5st03vuc > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ____________________________________________________________ Obama Urges Homeowners to Refinance If you owe under $729k you probably qualify for Obama's Refi Program http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4d3739d36b193d4bd5fst01vuc