Thanks Dorothy, No we didn't and then of course Barbara became ill and we tabled all but the essential things, so thanks so much. will check into this new information. Appreciate the fact you took the time to do this Judy Dec 15, 2010 01:43:17 PM, [email protected] wrote: =========================================== 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 ------------------------------- 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