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Cornelia Arentse (Bratt) Bradt (1655 - 1690)

Cornelia Arentse Bradt formerly Bratt aka Pootman, Potman, Pottmann
Born in Rensselaerswyck, New Netherlandmap
Ancestors ancestors
Wife of — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
Wife of — married 1676 in Schenectady, NYmap
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 35 in Schenectady, Albany County, Province of New Yorkmap
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Biography

Cornelia Andriese Bradt was born in 1655.[1] She married Johannes Pootman at Albany, Albany, New York about 1676.[2] Their son was Victor Janse Pootman.[3] She died in 1690.

Birth

1655 Rensselaer, Rensselaer Co, NY.

Marriage

1670 Albany, Albany Co, NY.

:1676

Named in step-father's will the six children of wife Cathalyntie, namely the children of Andries Bratt ...Cornelius (transcribed rather than Cornelia) Bratt, formerly wife of Jan Pootman. He named his wife as exe and Ryer Janse Schermerhorn and Dirck Arent Bratt as overseers.[4]

Death

9 February 1690. Schenectady, Albany Co, NY, Slain By Indians.

Sources

  1. Source: #S30 p. 142.
  2. Source: #S59 p. 2.
  3. Source: #S-1419663407 Ancestry Family Trees
  4. Page 85-6 of NY Abstracts of Wills Liber 8 https://ia902704.us.archive.org/24/items/abstractswillso07kellgoog/abstractswillso07kellgoog.pdf
  • Source: S-206385720 Repository: #R-843783675 Family Data Collection - Marriages Edmund West, comp. Publication: Ancestry.com Operations Inc
  • Source: S-206385760 Repository: #R-843783675 Family Data Collection - Deaths Edmund West, comp. Publication: Ancestry.com Operations Inc
  • Source: S-206875698 Repository: #R-843783675 North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
  • Source: S-206920434 Repository: #R-843783675 American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) Godfrey Memorial Library, comp. Publication: Ancestry.com Operations Inc
  • Source: S-208581191 Repository: #R-843783675 U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
  • Source: S-211148022 Repository: #R-843783675 Global, Find A Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
  • Source: S-211155700 Repository: #R-843783675 Family Data Collection - Births Edmund West, comp. Publication: Ancestry.com Operations Inc
  • Source: S-211165985 Repository: #R-843783675 Family Data Collection - Individual Records Edmund West, comp. Publication: Ancestry.com Operations Inc
  • Source: S-211214303 Repository: #R-843783675 U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Yates Publishing Publication: Ancestry.com Operations Inc
  • Source: S-211274955 Repository: #R-843783675 U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
  • Source: S59
  • Source: S-1419663388 U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Author: Yates Publishing Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
  • Source: S-1419663407 Ancestry Family Trees. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.

Acknowledgments

  • This person was created through the import of Austin_Alfred_2011-03-28.ged on 28 March 2011.
  • This person was created on 13 September 2010 through the import of 124-DeCoursey.ged.
  • WikiTree profile Bradt-130 created through the import of Tree 22712.ged on May 10, 2012 by Pat Brooks.

Research notes

LNAB

Cornelia was born in Albany where records prior to 1683 were destroyed, moved to Schenectady where records prior to 1694 were destroyed and was killed in the Schenectady massacre. None of records of the events in her life have survived. Therefore Bratt, the name given for her by Pearson in Contributions for the genealogies of the descendants of the first settlers of the patent and city of Schenectady, from 1662 to 1800 is her LNAB.




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Mark, your concern for historical accuracy -- and by extension for the NNS project policy related to LNAB and current last name -- is much appreciated. However, there are also practical considerations that cannot be overlooked. Many people have family trees, books, or other resources that call this woman by the names Pootman, Putnam, and other variants. To help those people find her profile in searches, and to prevent the creation of new duplicate profiles, we need to include those names on her profile as index terms. To accomplish this, Other Last Names needs to include not only other names a person was known by in their life, but also names that have been recorded for them by posterity.
posted by Ellen Smith
Ellen, my synopsis suggests that Bratt was the original name as you also suggest. In light of what you have said, the names Pootman, Potman, and Pottmann should be removed as Dutch women often did not use their husbands surnames. The period records, however, for her husband Johannes Pootman show he spelled or wrote his surname as Pootman in his apprenticeship paper and elsewhere. I noticed that many of his children and second generation descendants on Wikitree.com have the spelling Putman as the birth name, which in every case is untrue. The name Putman was not used until the American Revolutionary War. I think it is misleading to called Johannes Pootman, John Putnam, or otherwise. It's a calumny of the original name and does not treat our heritage with dignity and quality.
posted by Mark Putnam
Mark, the New Netherland Settlers project deals with a diverse variety of names from multiple cultural heritages, often oddly spelled by clerks from other backgrounds. Rather than trying to apply modern theories of what a person's name really might have been, we use the names and spellings found in records from the person's life, or as close as we can get to such records.

"Other last names" can include the names that have been given to her by subsequent writers, even if we think they're misspelled, or don't think she used them.

As the note at the bottom of the profile says, there are no records from her life. Pearson seems to be the best source. It calls her Bratt, so that's what we're using for her LNAB. I see no evidence that she used her husband's name; do you have any such evidence?

posted by Ellen Smith
I have never seen the name Brandt used for this family except perhaps in later much later documents . . . but perhaps I'm wrong. It would be nice to have a resource for this spelling. In German "Brand" mean fire or blaze while "Braten" means to roast. However, the Bradt family was not German but Norwegian at least before they arrived in the early 1600's in North America. In Dutch" Branden" means fire or blaze while "Braden" means to roast, too. Swedish "Brand" likewise means fire. In Swedish "Brant" means steep or precipitous. "Brant" in Norwegian means burned or scorched. In the end, "bratt" in Norwegian means steep or precipitous. I would think that in Norwegian that Brant and Bratt do not match! The surname Brandt for Cornelis Bradt or Bratt seems wrong.
posted by Mark Putnam
Cornelia Bradt's married surname was Pootman and Potman and at least once was written as Pottmann. The surname Putnam was never used by Cornelia Bradt. The name Putnam is a modern fabrication or prevarication that makes sense in an English speaking world but was not the original way her maiden surname was spelled or pronounced. Her descendants 300 years later may have been known as Putnam, but she did not used the Putnam surname.
posted by Mark Putnam
Bratt-273 and Bradt-15 appear to represent the same person because: I believe these to be the same person based on dates, parents and siblings.
posted by Tracy Lawrence
Brandt-1335 and Bradt-15 appear to represent the same person because: same parents, no sources to defend any of the data on -1335, dates are same/similar, husband has alternate spelling of name
posted by Robin Lee

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