Liz and Renee, Renee wrote: > Joan Sholl Francis, > > on the webpage link that you gave, gives a marriage date for Maria Jans > and Lambert Sickels as 1690, which is probably an estimate from the > > baptism of their first known child. > > New York Dutch Reformed Church With Banns proclaimed 7 Nov 1690, Lambert Zacharias, j.m. Van N. Albanien, en Maria Jans, j.d. als boven, beyde alhier, were married 8 Dec 1690. Liz wrote: Lambert Sickels had five children by > 1698 (Long Island census). > E B O'Callaghan, The Documentary history of the state of New-York; Albany, N.Y. (1849) 3:137 Census of Kings County; about 1698 Town of Flatbush als Midwout Lambert Sighels; one male, one female; 5 children; one slave Hope the above helps. Regards, Pam Sears