Lilly, My thought would be that Perkins is really her middle name. Maybe she was named for a (fictional) Mary Perkins and the family called her Perkins instead for some reason. So be receptive to that possibility. You might want to be looking for a girl with the middle initial of P. Back then parents named their children for people with their full name, like if you were going to name a child for me you would name her Anita Clayton Martin, Clayton being my married name. Anita Clayton > Since her first name is so Strange, for a girl, it must be an "old > Family > Name", probably some woman with a surname of PERKINS, married a > LAMBERT man, > and produced a Perkins Lambert. > ....Lilly Martin

Anita, Thanks for the idea. I am prepared for any Lambert female, married in 1768, NYC to a Brouwer/Brower. Since her actual marriage license says Perkins Lambert, and the 4 baptism records at RDC say Perkins, I think the name is Perkins. But, her great grandson, wrote it was PERKES when he charted the family line in 1868, and his own father would have been alive and living nearby, so that spelling came from her own Grandson, presumably. Perkins is a English surname, also PERKES is an English surname. I would have to stick with Perkins, as I have 5 official records which say Perkins. But those 5 might have got it wrong, or even she herself was using a variation of the original birth name given by her parents? What I NEED to find, is a male Lambert line, having a daughter in the 1740-50 time frame, which might fit the bill. Especially if that man was living in NYC at 1768, the time of her marriage. Since the GREATEST concentration of Lambert names is found in New Jersey, I am thinking she was from New Jersey ROOTS, but had moved to NYC, and happened to marry a NYC man, Johannes Brouwer (of the Adam Brouwer line out of Brooklyn). Need to find a LAMBERT researcher, who has a ggod database of Lambert names in NJ, to pinpoint who may have gone to NYC in the 1768 time frame. In 1790 census, there were only 2 men named Lambert living in NYC, one was Michael, the other George. Since George Lambert lived in the WEST Ward, this is the same neighborhood that Johannes Brouwer and Perkins Lambert lived at. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anita G Clayton" <rclaytonsr@juno.com> To: <NJHUNTER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 2:55 PM Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Lambert > Lilly, > > My thought would be that Perkins is really her middle name. Maybe she > was named for a (fictional) Mary Perkins and the family called her > Perkins instead for some reason. So be receptive to