Geesje Bartholds - dates/places

Started by Alex Moes on Wednesday, July 10, 2019
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7/10/2019 at 3:41 PM

There is no way this woman was born 1645 in Overijssel but not baptised until 3 years later in Utrecht. Period.
Dutch society in this era baptised within a week of birth so one of the dates (or both) must either be wrong or two different people are represented by this data.
In fact a birth record from the mid-1600s would be extraordinarily rare, mostly they did not keep civic birth records in this period only church books.

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7/10/2019 at 3:53 PM

Did the Dutch reuse names of children who died young? In the Anglo U.S. tree from that period, these types of discrepancies are usually due to two children with the same name getting mixed up.

7/10/2019 at 4:01 PM

Yes, the Dutch gave this wonderful present to USA :)
It's a reasonable explanation but at a minimum you'd have to find both baptism records and confirm that both sets of parents in those records had the same names.

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