Disambiguating Sara Decker

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Surnames/tags: decker dekker

Contents 1 Disambiguating Sara Decker 1.1 Background 1.2 WikiTree Profiles for Sara Decker/Dekker 1.2.1 Confusing Saras who married Decker/Dekker men 1.3 Spouses of Sarah Decker/Dekker 2 Sources

Disambiguating Sara Decker

Background

There is evidence for several girls and women named Sara (or Zara or Sarah) Decker (or Dekker) living in Ulster County, New York, or the Minisink Valley region of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania in the first half of the 1700s. One of these Sara Deckers, WikiTree profile Decker-201, has been connected as married to two different husbands at the same time,

Comment inserted by Joyce (Marks) Patterson, 10 Jun 2023:

Not exactly check the Sarah Decker in Family search. Much easier reading!

Sarah Decker

Female

27 May 1711 – 20 February 1769…LHFP-GPL [Joyce refers to https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LHFP-GPL -- Ellen Smith-62120 14:34, 10 June 2023 (UTC)]

Her parents are not the same as my Sarah Decker! Check the facts on Family Search much better sources!

@Joyce: On WikiTree, profile Decker-201 has in fact been connected to both Rosenkrans and Titsoort as husbands. Similarly, on FamilySearch and other genealogy websites, we can find user-contributed profiles that connect that person to both of these men (and possibly others) as her spouse. The FamilySearch profile you cite may be correct, but it is user-contributed content that is not a reliable source. The woman in that profile is on WikiTree as Dekker-439 (one of the multiple Sara Deckers listed on this page), but without any biographical information (including spouse) beyond her baptism. We could arbitrarily assign the various different Sara Decker profiles to the various men who are recorded as having married a Sara Decker (or take a "vote" based on the number of personal family trees that have each marriage), but on WikiTree we try to collect primary sources and other reliably sourced evidence and evaluate the evidence to see what it tells us about the relationships. That is what I am hoping we can do on this page.

Most of the profiles for these people have been very poorly supported by good sources (that is, they have little or no information cited to reliable sources). Many of the records for these people are online on free websites, so no special skill is required to find them and extract the information, but this can be time-consuming. When we carefully document the information found in sources like baptism and marriage records, we often can discern family relationships. For example, when we have a fairly complete list of a man's children, we may be able to use the given names of the first two sons and first two daughters to identify the grandparents on both sides of the family. Names of witnesses on baptism records and birthplace locations on marriage records also can be very valuable as clues. Smith-62120 15:34, 10 June 2023 (UTC)

This page is created to compile and compare sourced information about the several women or girls with this name, with the goal of connecting each of them to the correct parents, spouses, children, and life events.

WikiTree Profiles for Sara Decker/Dekker

• Decker-8152 baptized on 10 May 1702. Parents: Hendrick Decker and Antje Quick. Died Young
• Decker-201 baptized on 11 September 1709 in Kingston, New York. Parents: Hendrik Dekkeh and Antje Kwik. Witnesses: Jacob du Bois and Gerritje Nieuwkerk.
• Dekker-546 baptized 7 May 1710 in Kingston, New York. Parents: Jacob Gerritse Dekker and Geertje van Wagenen. Witnesses: Evert van Wagenen and Hillegont van Heyningen. Identified as wife of [Stephanus Swart by the 29 March 1730 baptism of Jacob, where witnesses included her parents.
• Dekker-439 baptized on 27 May 1711 in Kingston, New York. Parents: Jacob Janse Decker and Annatje Hendricks van Kortryk. Witnesses: Jan Van Kampen and Elysabeth Van Kampen.
• Decker-120 baptized 17 August 1712 in Kingston, New York. Parents: Jan Dekker and Barbar de Wit. Witnesses: Dirk Roosekrans and Eyke de Wit.
• Decker-2197. Unsourced. Supposed to have been baptized in 1732 and married Jacob Jansz van Campen.
• Decker-5083. Supposedly born about 1734 in a place that was not yet settled; probably born in Minisink region.
• Decker-7685. Unsourced. Supposedly born 1737 and married Henry Kuykendall.
• Dekker-427. Baptized 3 May 1737 in Kingston. Parents: Jacobus Dekker and Nieltje Tietsort. Witnesses: Stephanus Ditsoort and Saartje Hoorenbeek.
• Decker-34. Born(?) 29 May 1739 in Machackemeck. Sourcing unclear.

Confusing Saras who married Decker/Dekker men

• Tietsoort-55, baptized 7 June 1741 at Machackemeck. Recorded parents: William Ditschious (Willem Titsoort??) and Sara Decker. Witnesses: Salomon Decker and Neelgje Decker. She is supposed to have married Josias Decker, but she appears to have died young, so that may be her younger sister born in 1747
• Ditsoort-1, baptized 5 Jul 1747 at Machackemeck. Recorded parents Willem Ditsoort and Sara Decker. Witnesses: Salomon Decker and Neeltje Decker.

Spouses of Sarah Decker/Dekker

• Stephanus Swart (1703-). Identified as husband of Dekker-546 by the 29 March 1730 baptism of Jacob, where witnesses included Jacob Gerritsz Dekker and Geertjen van Wageningen (the parents of Dekker-546).
• Jacobus Rosekrans (1706-1763), son of Dirk & Weyntie. Married Sara D. by 1728. He and Sara D. witnessed baptism of child of Willem Titsoort and Sara D. in 1746. Was widower of Sarah Decker by 1747.

Regarding his wife, the 1900 book Rosenkrans Family in Europe and America says:^[1]

Jacobus Rosenkrans, second son of Diik, was bap. in Rochester March 17, 17()(), and m. "Sara Dekker" about 1728. She was probably a granddaughter of the emigrant of the Decker family, Jan Gerretsen Decker, from Heerden Gelderland, Holland, who married in New Yoik, Grietjen Hendrick Westercamp, 1664. He had sons, Hermanus and Hendrick, and perhaps others, but we have found only the family of Hendrick.

• Willem (Tizzo) Tietsoort (abt.1706-abt.1791), son of Stephanus and Sara. Married Sara D. by 1741.

Salomon Decker and Neeltje Decker witnessed baptisms of two daughters named Sara. They probably are Solomon Decker (abt.1722-aft.1815) and Leentje Eleanor (Quick) Decker (abt.1726-aft.1815). Salomon is brother of Sara Dekker-439.

• Gysbert Van Campen (bef.1716-1755), son of Jan & Magdalena. Married Sara D. by 1739; she is supposedly Decker-120.
• Jacob Jansz Van Campen (bef.1724-), son of Jan & Magdalena. Supposed to have married Decker-2197 as second wife.
• A Jacobus Middagh married a Sara Decker by 1752. Witnessed a baptism in January 1752 and had a child baptized in June 1752, at Machackemeck. (Vosburgh, pages 124-125.)

Sources

1. ↑ Rosenkrans, Allen. The Rosenkrans Family in Europe and America. Newton, N.J.: New Jersey Herald Press, 1900. page 67

• Hoes, Roswell Randall. Baptismal and Marriage Registers of the Old Dutch Church of Kingston, Ulster County, New York (De Vinne Press, 1891)
• Rosenkrans, Allen. The Rosenkrans Family in Europe and America. Newton, N.J.: New Jersey Herald Press, 1900.
• Vosburgh, Royden Woodward, ed. Minisink Valley Reformed Dutch Church Records, 1716-1830. Collections of the New-York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Vol. V. New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1913.

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