I think I remember an article in Dorothy's "New Netherland Connections" concerning Maria Badie and her parents. I will have to go through my back issues and try to find it. I show she was married 3 times: (1) Jacob Verdon (2) Willem Adrianse Bennett (3) Paulus Van der Beek. I have her death as aft 1694 with the notation of: 28 Feb 1693/4 deeded land to Anna Huyken. She signed the document with her mark so she was still alive at this time. I was sloppy and did not put in my database my source for her death nor her birth. Lisa protzy41@optonline.net wrote: > Lisa, > > I have an undocumented note that Maria was b. Netherlands, and her father was b. France and died in the netherlands in 1610, just 2 years after her birth. > > Bob Protzmann > > > > > >

Probably the most comprehensive information availabe of Marie Thomas Badie can be found in NYGBR Vol. LXV, No. 3, Page 105, that is unless someone has done more recent comprehensive research one her families. This is an article on the Verdon family. I realize the questions about her are being asked because I mentioned last week that the ancestors of Fytie Adam Brouwer were not Dutch. This is not something I have personally researched, however, if I remember correctly I read somewhere that their origins were Flemish. I am not sure there is sufficient documentation available to prove one way or the other where they actually came from. As I have learned from my research on Matthys Cornelissen, we make a serious mistake assuming that people who lived in New Netherlands, who had what could be Dutch sounding names were actually Dutch. People came from other places in Europe, in order to fit in, they adopted the naming convention of the place where they were now living. It may very well turn out there were Dutch ancestors in the Verdon, Thomas or Braconie ancestors, but it is questionable that such documentation exists, simply because very little documentation from the 1500s has survived. Marleen Van Horne