Annetje Barents (1607 - 1662)

Born 26 Aug 1607 in Altenbruch, Hannover, Niedersachsen, Germany

Wife of Albert (Andriessen) Bradt — married 27 Mar 1632 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

Descendants

Died 6 Jun 1662 at age 54 in Beverwyck, Rensselaerswyck, Nieuw Nederland

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Biography

Annatje Barentse van Rolmers/van Rotmerz, also known as Aefje, had German parents, but according to some genealogies was born in Oudenbrath, Norway in 1608, but according others Altenbruch (Oudenbroeck), Niedersachsen, Germany. She married Albert Andriessen Bradt April 11, 1632 in Oudekerk, Amsterdam, Holland. (The banns were on March 27.) She emigrated October 8, 1636 from Amsterdam to Rensselaerwyck, New Netherland with husband and children on the Wapen Van Rensselaerwijck. She died in the winter of 1661-1662, as payment was made for a funeral pall on February 13, 1662.

Name

Barents, Barentsz, Batentse, von Rotmers, Rottmer, VonRotmer

Birth

1607 Altenbruch, Lower Saxony, Hanover, Germany ^[1]

August 26, 1607 in Altenbruch, Hannover, Germany ^[2]

Abt 1608 Altenbruch, Lower Saxony, Hanover, Germany^[3]

1608 Landkreis Cuxhaven, Lower Saxony, Germany ^[4]

She is sometimes said to have been born in Oudebroek, Netherlands, because her brother is referred to as Baerent Baerentss van Oudebroek in a 1632 document. ^[5]

Marriage

Albert and Annetie were both 24 years old when they married on 27 Mar 1632 at the Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His occupation is given as sailor and he is assisted by Lourens Pieters his uncle. Annetje Barents is assisted by her mother Geesje Barents

• Source: Stadsarchief Amsterdam ^{[6] [7]}

Children

Husband: Albert Andriessen Bradt

Wife: Annetje Barents

1. Eva* Bradt
2. Storm Albertson Van Der Zee
3. Engelte Alberts Bradt

Immigration

1637 Beverwyck, Nieuw Netherland ^[8]

04 MAR 1637 New Amsterdam

Death

13 Feb 1661 New Amsterdam, New Netherland ^[9]

She died before February 13, 1662 (this is a New Style date; the Dutch did not use the English calendar) in Beverwyck, New Netherland, when payment was made for a funeral pall for her.^[10]

It is clear that she was deceased before 3 June 1662, when her estate was settled.^{[11][12] [13] [14]}

Burial

Menands, Rensselaerwyck, New Netherland ^[15]

Research Notes

Annatie appears twice in the Amsterdam church records, as a sponsor at baptisms of her brother Barent's children, in 1633 and 1635.

Sources

1. ↑ Neal, Dan. "de HOOGES/BRADT family lineage." pp.103-4.
2. ↑ FamilySearch profile: Annetje Barentse Von Rotmers.
3. ↑ Supplement to Descendants of Albert and Arent Andriessen BRADT, by Cynthia Brott Biasca, Henington Publishing Co., Wolfe City, TX, 1993, pg 1.
4. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 12 September 2023), memorial page for Annetje Barentse Rottmer Bradt (1608–1661), Find A Grave: Memorial #127223834; Burial Details Unknown; Maintained by Robert DeVowe (contributor 48224154).
5. ↑ Boyd, Michelle (2003) Barent van Rottmers and Geesje Barents, Image.
6. ↑ Stadsarchief, Marriage register, Amsterdam 1631-1632, archive number 5001, inventory number 438, p. 289.
7. ↑ "Netherlands, Noord-Holland Province, Church Records, 1523-1948," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1961-31158-17798-26?cc=2037985 : accessed 9 October 2015), Nederlands Hervormde > Amsterdam > Huwelijksaangiften, Trouwen 1630-1632 > image 441 of 602; Nederlands Rijksarchiefdienst, Den Haag (Netherlands National Archives, The Hague). Right page, bottom entry.
8. ↑ U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Place: New York, New York; Year: 1637; Page Number: 60.
9. ↑ Christoph, Peter R. Bradt Family: a Norwegian family in Colonial America. Higgins Book Co., Salem, MA, third edition, 1994, pg 48. Data: In 1661 Annatie Barents died. On 13-Feb the church received from an unnamed person nine boards with 9 for the pall of "Annetgen on the Muelenkil (mill stream).
10. ↑ Biasca (page 15) said she died in 1661, but this is stated in passing without an indication of the basis for this date.
11. ↑ Christoph, Peter R. Bradt Family: a Norwegian family in Colonial America Higgins Book Co., Salem, MA, third edition, 1994, pg 48. Text: In Jun-1662, the estate of Annatie Barents was settled when Albert signed over to his children his house in Manhattan, each child receiving an equal share.
12. ↑ Pearson, Jonathan. Contributions for the Genealogies of the First Settlers of the Ancient County of Albany, from 1630 to 1800. Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, MD, 1984, pg 24.
13. ↑ The American Genealogist, Whole #96, October 1948, vol XXIV, #4, pg 231-241. Text: Died abt. 1662. On 3-Jun-1662, "Albert ANDRIESZ, widower of the late Annetje Barentsz van ROTMERZ, dwelling in the colony of Rensselaerwyck in New Netherland," made an agreement with "Mr. Roeloff SWARTWOUT, husband and guardian of Eva ALBERTSZ, sons of said Albert ANDRIESZ, Theunis SLINGERLAND, husband and guardian of Engeltie ALBERTSZ, and Jan van Eckelen, husband and guardian of Gisseltie ABLERTSZ, as well for themselves as in these presents filling the place of and undertaking for Andries, Jan and Dirck ALBERTSZ, minor children, sons and daughters of said Albert ANDRIESZ, their father, and Annetie BARENTSE, their mother, deceased," with respect to the sale of the children's interest in their mother's estate, a house in Amsterdam in New Netherland [New York}, "at present occupied by the honorable Burgomaster Albert ANTHONY."
14. ↑ Getty, Innes. Bratt genealogy. (Yonkers, New York, 1945). LDS microfilm #0000781. See https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&query=%2Bfilm_number%3A0000781 Text: Probable sister of Christian van ROLMER.
15. ↑ She was not buried at Menands. That's the site of the Albany Rural Cemetery, where early burials from Albany were reinterred in the mid-1800s.

• Kiliaen van Rensselaer. New York State Library: Van Rensselaer Bowier Manuscripts Being the Letters of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, 1630-1643, and Other Documents Relating to the Colony of Rensselaerswyck. Transl. and Ed. by A. J. F. Van Laer.. Albany, 1908. p. 809-810.

• Hoppin, Charles Arthur. The Washington Ancestry and Records of the McClain, Johnson, and Forty Other Colonial American Families, Vol. 3 (Edward Lee McClain, Greenfield, Ohio, 1932) "Albert Andriessen Bradt of New Amsterdam and Rensselaerswyck," p. 357.

• The NY Genealogical and Biographical Record, vol 118, #3, July, 1987, pg 133-34.
• Abbott, John Howard. The Courtright (Kortright) Family: descendants of Bastian Van Kortryk, a native of Belgium who emigrated to Holland about 1615 (Tobias A. Wright, New York 1922)
• Biasca, Cynthia Brott. Descendants of Albert and Arent Andriessen Bradt. Henington Publishe Company, Wolfe City, Texas. 1990.
• Bielinski, Stefan. "The People of Colonial Albany." nysm.nysed.gov/albany. Accessed July 09, 2015. http://exhibitions.nysm.nysed.gov//albany/bios/b/anbarents.html
• Record: July, 1987, page 130.
• The American Genealogist, Vol. XXIV, No. 4 (October1948) "Bradt or Bratt of Albany and New York, N.Y." p. 231.
• Van Laer, A.J.F. Settlers of Rensselaerwyck 1630-1658 (Clearfield Company, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1980) p. 10.
• Ackerman, Bruce E. "Ackerman-Carhart and Related Families: Albany County, New York" (1990) p. 20.
• Descendants of Albert and Arent Andriessen Bradt by Cynthia B Biasca, 929.273 B729bc, page 1.
• Evjen, John Oluf. Scandinavian Immigrants in New York, 1630-1674: With Appendices on Scandinavians in Mexico and South America, 1532-1640, Scandinavians in Canada, 1619-1620, Some Scandinavians in New York in the Eighteenth Century, German Immigrants in New York, 1630-1674 (K.C. Holter, Minneapolis, Minn., 1916). Pages 42-43.
• Macy, Harry Jr. "Origins of Some New Netherland Families," The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, vol 123, #1, Jan-1992, pg 17-20. Text: It appears that the ROTTMER family is from Aletenbruch and Ottendorf (in Germany) Oudenbroek and Aterendorp ( in Dutch). This area seems to have been on the North German coast at the mouth of the Elbe River, just east of Cuxhaven. The area is now part of the state of Niedersachsen, and was formerly included in Hannover.
• Miner Descent - Albert Andriessen Bradt [on-line] http://minerdescent.com/2010/08/17/albert-andriessen-bradt/ Note: Annatje Barentse Van Rotmers was born in 1608 at Oudenbroek. Oudenbroek may now be that place called Altenbruch , Niedersachsen, Germany. Her parents were Barent VAN ROTTMER and Gissel (Geesie) BARENTSDR (Barentsdochter, Baerens). Annatje died 1661 in Rensselaerwyck (now Albany, NY). BdFM

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