Pat, what a plausible suggestion, since otherwise she is too young for the events we know took place early in her long life. I would like to point out that Ackerman in his Genealogy of the Haring Family, does say that Grietje was born in 1634 in Harlem, Holland, though where he got that information/idea from is unknown. He also says that the immigrant Jan Pieter Haring was the grandson of Peter Haring and Cathys Boogaert of Holland - another mysterious claim. The Ackerman genealogy, with all its faults, at least does give one a place to start searching the family, and it is online at http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/FH21&CISOPTR=37492&REC=18 Regina Haring http://www.dutchdoorgenealogy.com > Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 13:36:12 -0400 > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [DUTCH-COLONIES] Cozyn Gerritsen Cozyn and Vroutje Gerrits > To: [email protected] > > My thought is that Margariet, baptized 1641 was perhaps a few years > old at the time of her baptism. The NYC Ref Ch record does not give a > date of birth. Is there any other mention of her date of birth or age > in any other records? I think because it was, at that period, the norm > to baptize infants soon after their births, it has always been > generally accepted that if she was baptized in 1641, she was born in > 1641. > > I'm thinking that since Vrouwtje apparently made trips to the > Netherlands and back, perhaps this child had been born in the > Netherlands, and remained there when Cozyn Gerritszen & Vrouwtje first > came to New Netherland. Perhaps, in this scenario, her mother brought > her to New Amsterdam in a "return" trip, and had her baptized there in > 1641 (when she was a few years old). > > It seems a better solution than the drastically young child bride > theory. > > I don't know how this could ever be proved, though. > > What I would really like to see is a separate documented mention of > her birth date or age at any given time. > > Pat