There are two conflicting pieces of evidence for Dievertje's date of birth.
The first is her baptism record from the New Amsterdam DRC: 1650 Nov 27; Evert Janszen; Dievertje; Susanna Philips
The second is a prenuptial agreement in the Albany County Records, dated 30 June 1663, between Evert Janzen Wendel and his second wife, among other details it mentions daughter, Diewer, aged 10.
Because the child baptised in 1650 would have been 12 years old in 1663 some researchers theorise that the 1650 Dievertje must have died as an infant and another daughter must have been born two years later and given the same name. While this idea would sit comfortably with the principles of the Dutch naming conventions, so it cannot be ruled out completely, it seems to be a case where genealogists are creating rather than reporting facts.
The theory of two daughters named Dievertje is picked up by some internet family trees but is not displayed here on Geni because the simplest solution to the conflicting data is actually that the Albany record contains an inaccuracy. Is the prenuptial agreement preserved in it's original form or has it been transcribed? Who actually wrote the document? Who informed the author regarding the children's ages? How clear is the hand writing?
