Dear Judy, I have been looking through the Brooklyn and Flatbush baptismal records to see if I could find an Abraham _____ and a Jannetje ______ baptizing children in the 1670s since Gerrit Lammertsz Dorland (Marritje's future husband) was born about 1674. I could find only one such couple -- Abraham du Toict and his wife Jannetje Jeronemus Bocquet. Teunis G. Bergen has a paragraph about them on page 105 of his "Register of the early settlers of Kings County". On page 385 of the Voorhees' edition of the Flatbush records: On 2 June 1678 Catharina [child of] Abraham Du Toiet [and] Jannetje Bocquet was baptized. The witnesses were Bourgon Broucard and his wife Katharine. Bergen says that their daughter Hester was baptized on 4 April 1680 in New Utrecht (the published baptismal records for New Utrecht begin in 1718 :-(). Have you and Barbara already considered this couple who are living at the right time and place? Dorothy >It has been suggested that perhaps Maritje was actually born a >Dorland of another branch. Another thought from my perspective is >the fact that daughter #3. was named Annetje, while son # 2 was >named Abraham. To my knowledge neither name is a Dorland ancestral >name of Lammert Janse or Garrets, so it is more than possible that >these names were of Maritje's family who may not be Dorlands. >Annetje's baptismal sponsors were her Aunt Lena and Uncle Jan, >siblings of her father Garret, we have no baptismal information for >Abraham. Since Abraham never had children or even married that we >know, we can't follow his line >Annetje, however, who married Simon Van Arsdalen did have a >daughter Annetje or Ann and a son Abraham. > >Judy > >------------------------------- >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