Brink, Huybert Lambertsen

1661 - 1725  (63 years)

• Name	Brink, Huybert Lambertsen  [1]
  Birth	4 May 1661	Gelderland, Netherlands   [1]
  	At Sea, Wageninge, Gelderland, Netherlands
  Gender	Male
  Arrival	1715	New York, New York, USA   [1]
  Death	1725	Hurley, Ulster, New York, USA   [1]
  Person ID	I24310	WETZEL-SPRING

  
  

  Family	Swartwout, Hendrickje Antoni,   b. 6 Jun 1658, Ulster County, New York, USA d. 28 May 1699, Hurley, Ulster, New York, USA (Age 40 years)
  Marriage	16 Mar 1679	Hurley, Ulster, New York, USA   [1]
  Children	1. Brink, Hendrickje,   b. 19 Apr 1686, Church, Wetzel, West Virginia, USA d. 1688, Hurley, Ulster, New York, USA (Age 1 year)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Dolder Brink, Eva Hybertse,   b. 25 May 1690, Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA d. 1735, Somerset, Somerset, New Jersey, USA (Age 44 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Lambertese Brink, Thomas,   b. 6 Dec 1685, Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA d. 1761, Walpack, Sussex, New Jersey, USA (Age 75 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Brink, Roelof Ralph,   b. 27 Apr 1684, Hurley, Ulster, New York, USA d. 27 Sep 1718, Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA (Age 34 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. Lambertese Brink, Henderick,   b. 6 Nov 1687, Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA d. 19 May 1719, Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA (Age 31 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   6. Lambertese Brink, Henricus,   b. 18 Nov 1694, Kingston, Ulster, New York, USA d. 1814, Hurley, Ulster, New York, USA (Age 119 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   7. Brink, Lambert,   b. 4 Mar 1680, Hurley, Ulster, New York, USA d. 11 Apr 1702, Hurley, Ulster, New York, USA (Age 22 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F6678	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Birth - 4 May 1661 - Gelderland, Netherlands Marriage - 16 Mar 1679 - Hurley, Ulster, New York, USA Arrival - 1715 - New York, New York, USA Death - 1725 - Hurley, Ulster, New York, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S394] Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Database online., Skinner/Schinzel-Ahlemeyer/Haines Tree J_Ahlemeyer. Record for Hendrickje Ant Swartwout Family name history If we are all descendents of the same Tomys Swartwout, how did we end up with so many variations of the spelling of the name? There are a number of factors that could have affected the spelling that your branch happens to be currently using. A footnote in Chapter 1 of the Swartwout Chronicles provides the following: Zwarte, also written swarte, a Dutch adjective, meaning black, and agreeing with the neuter substantive woude, also written wout, of the same language, signifying a wood or forest. There is also a Dutch noun, hout, expressing wood or timber as material. The Dutch words woud and hout are closely allied in meaning to the German terms wold or wald, and holt or holz. It was the early census takers that really split the family up. They used their phonetic capabilities to write down the name as the head of the family said it. Dutch accents would have their impact on what was heard. And once they wrote it down for one family, they would use the same spelling with any of the related families they ran across. Of course, the census taker on the other side of the village or county may have written it differently, splitting the family on the spelling. The first several generations of the family spoke Dutch and their records are recorded in that language. Some of the earliest written records we have in English are found in the 1790 census. In many of the following generations the number of individuals that may have been illiterate would have been higher, and many still would not have been comfortable speaking English. What the census taker wrote down could have been the first time they saw the name in print. It would have been this spelling that people would have used when applying for their Veterans' and Widows Benefits from the Revolutionary War or copied down in the family Bible. The spelling Swartwout when heard in the Low Dutch Tongue, sounded like Swartwoudt and anyone not familiar with the Low Dutch Tongue, could easily hear it as Swartwood. In the early days of America, many people spelled words as they sounded. So the name Swartwout was often translated and written down as Swartwood. Given the close meanings and the very similar sounds, it's pretty easy to see how a census taker could have readily chosen any one of the four options. A breathy h or w would be easily missed, or the writer may have been attempting to Anglicize the name by changing the word to its English equivalent of wood. Zwartewoude or Zwartewold, the present tract of land bearing that name, is described as lying in the canton of Holwerd, arrondissement of Leeuwarden, district of Ferwerderadeel, quarter of Oostergoo, in the province of Friesland, bordering northwest on the highway from Hijum to Hallum, northeast on the Hallum canal, southeast on the Hallum meadows, and southwest on the Hallum lake, and having an area of five English acres and certain fractions of an acre. Some families changed the name for convenience. I have heard a story of one man that was tired of his mail getting mixed up with the Swarthout down the street, so he dropped the H to make it easier for the mailman! And I have now communicated with an individual who changed her name from Swartwout to the literal translation of Blackwood! ronsand31 added this on 16 Nov 2010 bdgierke originally submitted this to Gierke Family Tree on 12 Jul 2010

  
  

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