Gertryd (Rees) Barthel (1731)

Born 11 Mar 1731 in Columbia County, New York, British Colonial America

Wife of Wilhelm Barthel — married 3 May 1752 in Rhinebeck Reformed Church, New York

Biography

Gertruyd Rees was born March 11, 1731 in Columbia County, New York. She was baptized in Athens Zion Lutheran Church, on May 9, 1731, daughter of Benjamin & Gertruyd Ros. Witnesses were Casper Halenbek & Marytje wife of Garrit Van Hoesen. ^[1]

On 3 May 1752, in the Rhinebeck Reformed Church. when Gertruyd was 21, she married William Bartel, son of Andreas Bartel (ca 1692-) & Sophia Elisabeth Mertz ^[2]

William and Gertruy were witnesses at several baptisms:

• 1752 for their nephew Willem Bressie (son of Catharina Rees);
• 1754 for their neice Madilena, daughter of Johannes & Geertruy Bartel;
• 1756 for Gertruy Race, daughter of Cornelius (who was Gertruy’s first cousin);
• 1757 for Willem & Philip, sons of Jacob Bouwer & Grietje Bartel;
• 1758 for their neice Geertruy Harder (daughter of Maria Rees);
• 1763 for Wilhelmus, son of Jannes Best & Eva Launert;
• 1776 for Jocobus (in Albany, son of Jacobos Proper and Eva Althouser).

Sources

1. ↑ “New York Births and Baptisms: Southeast Region 1660-1916,” Ancestry.com, 1999
2. ↑ Graham Louer, “Baptism and Marriage Records of Rees, Race, etc. in Eastern New York State,” Oct 2001