I am still looking for help regarding the parents of the Neeltje Voorhees who married Ferdinand Schureman. I am hoping that a kind soul who has access to one of the more recent Van Voorhees genealogies, such as the one compiled by Florence Christoph, could look her up. I understand from an earlier posting that the family is discussed on pages 85 and 86 of Christoph’s compilation. Many sources identify her with Helena Voorhees, daughter of Roelof Lucasse Van Voorhees and Neeltje Schenck, baptized 4 Apr 1731 in New Brunswick, but I have my doubts that they are really the same person. Firstly, Roeloff still refers to his daughter as Helena in his will, which was written in 1750, presumably only a year or two before her marriage. Yet Ferdinand Schureman’s wife is called Neeltje, Nelly, Eleanor, etc. and never Helena. Secondly, according to “The Schuremans of New Jersey” by Richard Wyncoop, Neeltje and Ferdinand had 8 children: Anne (who died young), Eleanor, Jacobus, Abraham, another Anne, Lena, Margaret and Jane. No Roelof among them. Yet it appears they followed the Dutch naming system with regards to Anne (named for Antje Terhune) and Jacobus (named for Jacobus Schuremen). Eleanor could be named for Neeltje Schenck, but what about Abraham? It seems to me that Roelof’s brother, Abraham Lucasse Van Voorhees and his wife Neeltje Courtelyou make better candidates to be this woman’s parents. According to “A Genealogy of the Van Voorhees Family in America” by Elias W. Van Vorhis, Abraham had 7 children, among whom there was a Nelly. No details are given. But she had a brother, Jacques, baptized 1733 and a sister Catalina baptized 1735, which more or less puts this family's offspring in the right time period. Any chance this Nelly grew up to become the wife of Ferdinand Schureman? I would appreciate any help. Many thanks, David