Is Cornelia Ten Broeck the daughter of Dirck Wesselse ten Broeck instead of his sister?

Question

The "Ten Broeck genealogy, being the records and annuls of Dirck Wesselse Ten Broeck of Albany and his descendants" suggests that Cornelia Ten Broeck might actually be the daughter of Dirck Wesselse Ten Broeck instead of his sister:

https://archive.org/details/tenbroeckgenealo00runk/page/246/mode/2up

This is also stated in the "Wynkoop Genealogy in the United States of America, 1904", page 66:

Cornelia Ten Broeck, who died June 10, 1729, aged 60 years, 3 months, daughter of Major Dirk Wesselsze and Christina Cornelisze (Van Buren) Ten Broeck.

Comments

Nineteenth-century genealogies can be valuable resources, but they are not reliable sources for early genealogy. They have led more than a few of us astray at times.

To the extent possible, we try to compile the primary records to confirm (or construct) the genealogy we find in books.

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Ok, thank you.

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I answered too hastily. I should expand...

This family is one with a history of messy genealogy here in WikiTree. The existing WikiTree profiles seem to have arisen from multiple online family trees and similar dubious sources. The indication that several of the "ten Broeck" children were born in Wiltwyck (Kingston) in years like 1638 and 1642 is one tidbit in these profiles that raises my eyebrows, as settlement did not begin there until at least a decade after that.

The indications in the 1897 book may be correct (they are based on actual sources!) and definitely deserve to be investigated. However, rather than repeating the old mistake of uncritically copying the statements from a book, I would like to hope that WikiTreers can compile the evidence and provide an analysis of what is and is not known -- and how it is that we know it (or think we know it).

Given that Cornelia married the Domine in 1687, I think it more likely that she was born in the early 1660s than in 1642 (as her profile claims), but far too much idle speculation about this family has made its way into the profiles already...

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