Resolved and Joseph Waldron were the sons of William Waldron and Ruth Walker

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I've been working on finding the early records of the Waldrons and came across a 1995 NYGBR article about the European ancestry of Resolved and Joseph. They were the sons of William Waldron and Ruth Walker. This was discovered because Joseph used a patronym of Willemsz. William Waldron had a sister Deborah (both were mentioned in the wills of their parents and Deborah followed William to Amsterdam) who appears as godmother in the first marriage intention of Joseph. Resovled also had children named William, his first son, and Ruth, who wasn't named until his third daughter but it seems possible that Resolved named his second daughter Aeltje as tribute to Joseph's first wife who died young and just before Resolved's second daughter was born. And Joseph named a daughter Deborah. Neither Resolved nor Joseph's baptism records have been discovered but both of their marriage records show that they were born in Amsterdam.

There has only been one update to these findings in the NYGBR and that was the discovery of a second marriage for William.

"Johannes Resolved" will only have to be renamed but Maria Goverts will have to be detached. Maria Goverts is actually the mother-in-law of Joseph Waldron, the mother of Joseph's second wife Annetje. Joseph was supporting her and the old research of Riker assumed her to be Joseph's mother. I haven't gotten to the part of the article where Maritje Laurens = Maria Goverts but the article covers all of the lines so we'll see.

Edit: Maritje Laurens is apparently a transcriber error somewhere; her husband Daniel was a Walloon and their family name was Lernout. His name changes back and forth between versions of Lernout and versions of his patronym Adriens. The witness to the baptism in question (right, left, sixth) is Teuntje Goverts, known sister of Maritje Goverts that married Daniel Lernout.

Edit: Also, there is no proven link between this Waldron family, and the Waldron family of New Hampshire and Alcester, Warwickshire. This Waldron family, the family of Resolved, migrated from Hampshire, England, to Amsterdam, to New Netherland.

Resolved is my direct ancestor.

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I know I'm a little late to the party. I'm a direct descendant of Resolved myself, he's my 12th ggrandfather. I'm curious as to if you were able to read further in your findings that Ruth Walker is indeed the mother of Resolved & Joseph. I just replaced Maria Govert with Ruth Walker on my tree, but have yet to receive any feedback. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

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I think there's more information about it in the NYGBR article.

Richardson, Douglas. "The European Origin and Ancestry of Joseph and Resolved Waldron." In The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 12-24. 1st ed. Vol. 126. New York, N.Y.: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1995.

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Thank you! But how would someone who lives in Ohio, get access to this information? Thank you!

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So it seems you have "resolved" a brick wall - :-) Congrats! Where (which language) does Resolved stem from ... it is totally unfamiliar to me as a first or surname (or patronymic) .... But then with names as Capability and Sensibility ...

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Hehe, the honor of the breakthrough belongs to Mr. Douglas Richardson. :D

They were British. I come across a lot of weird old English names like Patience, Mourning, etc.

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Great work Carrie ! They indeed have a lot of weird names . Came across some and also a Resolved (still looking for the baptism of one in Leiden :P ) working on some of the mayflower Pilgrim families. Added a Daniel Lerou (as mentioned in the marriage record ) profile as father and husband now, since there wasn't a profile for him yet. Added the Leroud version already to other last names, will add some more ;)

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And the Amsterdam Archive has changed the URL again, so all links are useless again, already have added a few new ones. Will look if I have some time tomorrow for the rest . 

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Fantastic Bea!

That's a shame about the Amsterdam Archive as they used to have the easiest to find records. I've been trying to stick to OpenArch and the FamilySearch scans, though OpenArch has lost access to archives before.

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It's a historically English Calvinist tendency, specifically.  You won't find it among Catholics or members of the Church of England historically...or at least I never have.  That's why it's common among Pilgrims, who were Calvinist refugees.  They named their children after virtues they wished to instill in them, rather than based on Biblical figures or Saints as does most of the rest of Christendom.

Resolved is my 11x great grandfather, by the way.  I come from Aeltie.

Can someone link me to the article, by chance?