Saartjen and Sara are equivalent names. Charity is not. The Dutch variant is usually Gerretje. Sometimes Geertruy, where Geertruy is a corruption of Gerretje, less likely where Geertruy really is a Geertruy. Jim -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Sylvia Hasenkopf Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 2:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NYGREENE] John Brandow and Charity Decker;John Decker and Mary Brandow You know, I was wondering the same, however I think Saartjen is short for Sara. Sylvia ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 2:14 PM Subject: Re: [NYGREENE] John Brandow and Charity Decker; John Decker and Mary Brandow > > Could Saartjen be the same as Charity? John had a sister Saartjen baptied > 16 Jun 1776 in Claverack > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sylvia Hasenkopf <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 10:28 am > Subject: [NYGREENE] John Brandow and Charity Decker; John Decker and Mary > Brandow > > > > Does anyone out there know where John Decker and mary Brandow moved to? I > see them in the 1820 census and then they are gone. I am also assuming > that > Charity may be a sister to John Decker. Thoughts? > > Sylvia > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body > of > the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

That being the case (and I do now recall seeing Gertrud/Geertruy as Charity in English), I submit that John Brandow married Gertrud, da/o of Gysbert Decker and Catalyntje Spoor. I hadn't a spouse for her. This would meand that her brother John Decker, married Maria Brandow, apparently John Brandow's sister. Sylvia ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Brady" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 3:41 PM Subject: Re: [NYGREENE] John Brandow and Charity Decker;John Decker and Mary Brandow > > Saartjen and Sara are equivalent names. Charity is not. The Dutch variant > is > usually Gerretje. Sometimes Geertruy, where Geertruy is a corruption of > Gerretje, less likely where Geertruy really is a Geertruy. > > Jim > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Sylvia Hasenkopf > Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 2:45 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [NYGREENE] John Brandow and Charity Decker;John Decker and > Mary Brandow > > > You know, I was wondering the same, however I think Saartjen is short for > Sara. > > Sylvia > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 2:14 PM > Subject: Re: [NYGREENE] John Brandow and Charity Decker; John Decker and > Mary Brandow > > >> >> Could Saartjen be the same as Charity? John had a sister Saartjen baptied >> 16 Jun 1776 in Claverack >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Sylvia Hasenkopf <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 10:28 am >> Subject: [NYGREENE] John Brandow and Charity Decker; John Decker and Mary >> Brandow >> >> >> >> Does anyone out there know where John Decker and mary Brandow moved to? I >> see them in the 1820 census and then they are gone. I am also assuming >> that >> Charity may be a sister to John Decker. Thoughts? >> >> Sylvia >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] >> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the >> body >> of >> the message >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message