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Cornelis Janse BUYS

Male Bef 1652 -


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  • Name Cornelis Janse BUYS 
    Birth Bef 3 Nov 1652 
    Gender Male 
    Notes 
    • (1) Totten, John Reynolds, "Jan Cornelis Buys (alias Jan Damen) and His Three Wives," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 66 (1935), pp. 229-231:

      Cornelis Janse Buys, "baptized November 3, 1652, son of Jan Corneliszen. Sponsors: Hendrick Janszen van Schalckwyck, Jan Lubbertszen and Tryntie Lubberts" (BDC, I:33). KCo. 56-57 is in error in stating that his father Jan Cornelis Buys married as his third wife Machteld Gerrits. It was Cornelis Janse Buys?the son of Jan Cornelis Buys?who married Machteld Gerrits; for at the date of marriage, July 21, 1676, the father Jan Cornelis Buys was the husband of Willemtie Thyssen, as will be shown. Cornelis Janse Buys married by license on July 21, 1676, as is shown by NYM:60, which states: "July 21, 1676, Buys, Cornelius, and Mactell Gerritz, W. O. P. iii 202" (W.O.P. refers to volume endorsed Warrants, Orders, Passes). It will be noted that in the baptisms of the children of this Cornelis Janse Buys, he is variously registered as Jan Buys, Cornelis Buys and Jan Cors Buys?which confusion of designation is thought to be due to the fact that his father was known sometimes as Jan Damen and sometimes as Jan Cornelis Buys; and this confusion caused the son also to be variously designated, sometimes in direct opposition to the then prevailing Dutch custom. To make this point clear we here below give a list of the children of Cornelis Janse Buys and Machtelt Gerrits:

      1. Cornelis Buys, 1st, "baptized 1677, on Pinkster Day by Domine Gideon Schaets, son of Jan Buys" (Brkn:181 and KCGC:57). This child died young as will be seen in the baptismal record of the second son Cornelis Buys baptized later.

      2. Jan Buys, "baptized June 30, 1678" [Brkn:151 and KCGC:59, register this baptism as June 31, 1678, an obvious error for there is no June 31], "son of Jan Cornelis Buys and Machtel Buys. Sponsors: Jan Buys and Christiaen Jakobsen Wolf." Note that the father of this child is registered as Jan Cornelisse Buys and not as Cornelis Janse Buys, as would seem to be the proper registration according to the prevailing Dutch custom. (See KCo., 56).

      3. Margrietje Buys, "baptized October 12, 1679, daughter of Cornelis Buys and Machtel Gerrits. Sponsors: Jan Buys and Willemptje Thyssen" (Brkn:152 and KCGC:60). These sponsors were respectively the child's paternal grandfather and paternal step-grandmother, as will be shown later. The names of these sponsors are conclusive circumstantial evidence that it was Cornelis Janse Buys who married Machtell Gerrits.

      4. Cornelis Buys, 2nd, "baptized December 14, 1684, son of Jan Cors Buys and Machteld Gerrits. Sponsors: Johannis Michaelz, Susanna Emants and Tryntie wife of Tys Lubberts" (Flat. 134 and Flat. Frost: Baptisms I :46).

      5. Adam Buys, "baptized December 14, 1684, ?twin?son of Jan Cors Buys and Machteld Gerrits. Sponsors: same as those of his twin brother Cornelis Buys" (Flat. 134 and Flat. Frost:Baptisms I:46.)

      6.[?] Tryntjen Buys (KCo.:57). Possibly this Tryntjen Buys is the one who married "November 27, 1698, Dirck Stratenmaker, as per Bgn. M, 130, which states: "betrothed November 6, 1698, Dirck Straetenmaker, y.m. and Tryntje Buys, j.d., received certificate No. 24 to be married November 27, 1698." This Tryntje Buys was admitted to the Bergen Church, June 28, 1697, and as the wife of Dirck Stratenmaker was dismissed to the church at Tappan, June 21, 1699 (Bgn. Members No. 868, 869).

      7.[?] Hendrickjen Buys (KCo., 57) of whom we have no further record.

      A careful consideration of the facts as set forth in this record of Cornelis Janse Buys and of his children induces me to the belief that Cornelis Janse Buys and Jan Cornelis Buys were one and the same person; and that the fact that he was sometimes entered on the records as Jan Buys, and at other times as Jan Cornelis Buys and still again as Cornelis Buys was due to confusion on the part of the registering functionary occasioned by the double identity of his father as Jan Cornelis Buys alias Jan Damen.
    Person ID I12599  Frost, Gilchrist and Related Families
    Last Modified 26 Mar 2024 

    Father Jan Cornelis BUYS,   b. Abt 1629   d. Aft 29 Nov 1689 (Age ~ 60 years) 
    Mother Ida LUBBERTZE 
    Marriage Bef 3 Nov 1652 
    Family ID F5715  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart