Hi Kay, I'm sorry that I don't have the sources to give you for the Charity/Geertje equivalency. There are numerous charts which give such listings although this particular one may not listed. That is because it isn't based in etymology, as you just demonstrated, and many of the list are also etymology based. Instead, it is based in the unique situation of the cultural transformation of the Dutch speaking settlers into English speaking early American settlers. To the English speaking clerks and to some of the Dutch, "Charity" was the English name that sounded the most like the Dutch name "Geertje". Here the equivalency has nothing to do with the linguistic roots of the name. Renee L. Dauven On 3/23/2012 6:28 AM, kaysfo@aol.com wrote: > > No, Mr. Shafer. I am one of the correspondents who was not aware of this. And could you quote a factual source for your assumption. The names have very different meanings even. Gertje has the meaning "strong with a spear" and Charity means love or dearly beloved. I am really curious about this. > > Kay Larsen > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Stephen Shafer<sqs1@columbia.edu> > To: njhunter<njhunter@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Fri, Mar 23, 2012 8:57 am > Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Charity Wyckoff - Samuel Wheaton query from 2009 > > > Sorry, I'm jumping in midstream. All correspondents are probably aware > hat Charity and Gertie (Gertje) were readily interchangeable as given > ames, but let me mention that anyway. > tephen Shafer > Quoting christietrapp@aol.com: >> > Rita: > > Thanks so much for finding the marriage entry for Samuel Wheaton. > It is very obvious from the entry that Charity was not his wife, but > a Gertie. The date of the marriage and the name doesn't match > anything I have in my particular database; however, I will have to > check the Wyckoff genealogy to see if any of the volumes (editions) > have recorded these names. > > I'm surprised that the LDS has digitized these records. It appears > that this is a compilation from original sources such as returns > which were entered into a docket book all at the same time. I say > this because the handwriting in the record is all the same from the > top of the page to the bottom and the dates are a spread over a > number of years. Therefore, had the entries been made at the time, > the clerk's handwriting would have been changing. I'm not saying > the marriages didn't take place, it just appears to me that this > record is a secondary source rather than a primary source. > > Thanks again for your help. At least it clears out my 2009 email > that I've sat on all these years. I finally got around to taking a > look at some of my old saved mail because I was getting bored with > my current stuff!! Ha! Ha! > > Christie > > > Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:13:29 -0400 > rom: Rita Chesterton<rchesterton1@verizon.net> > ubject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Charity Wyckoff - Samuel Wheaton query from > 2009 > Here ya go: > https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VW51-4XJ > amuel Wheaton marries Gertie Wyckoff, 20 Jan 1796, Somerset, NJ > > Visit the Hunterdon County GenWeb page at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~njhunter > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NJHUNTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > Stephen Quentin Shafer > Visit the Hunterdon County GenWeb page at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~njhunter > ------------------------------ > o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NJHUNTER-request@rootsweb.com > ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of > he message > > Visit the Hunterdon County GenWeb page at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~njhunter > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NJHUNTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >