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From: Anita G Clayton <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Lambert
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 07:41:53 -0500


Good luck, a friend of mine has a grandmother who was Martha Sayers but
went by Morice or Morris, I am thinking her middle name.


On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 08:23:16 +0300 "Lilly" <> writes:
> Anita,
> Thanks for the idea. I am prepared for any Lambert female, married
> in 1768,
> NYC to a Brouwer/Brower.
>
> Since her actual marriage license says Perkins Lambert, and the 4
> baptism
> records at
> RDC say Perkins, I think the name is Perkins.
> But, her great grandson, wrote it was PERKES when he charted the
> family line
> in 1868, and his own father would have been alive and living nearby,
> so that
> spelling came from her own Grandson, presumably.
>
> Perkins is a English surname, also PERKES is an English surname.
> I would have to stick with Perkins, as I have 5 official records
> which say
> Perkins. But those 5 might have got it wrong, or even she herself
> was using
> a variation of the original birth name given by her parents?
>
> What I NEED to find, is a male Lambert line, having a daughter in
> the
> 1740-50 time frame, which might fit the bill. Especially if that man
> was
> living in NYC at 1768, the time of her marriage.
>
> Since the GREATEST concentration of Lambert names is found in New
> Jersey, I
> am thinking she was from New Jersey ROOTS, but had moved to NYC,
> and
> happened to marry a NYC man, Johannes Brouwer (of the Adam Brouwer
> line out
> of Brooklyn).
>
> Need to find a LAMBERT researcher, who has a ggod database of
> Lambert names
> in NJ, to pinpoint who may have gone to NYC in the 1768 time frame.
>
> In 1790 census, there were only 2 men named Lambert living in NYC,
> one was
> Michael, the other George. Since George Lambert lived in the WEST
> Ward,
> this is the same neighborhood that Johannes Brouwer and Perkins
> Lambert
> lived at.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anita G Clayton" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 2:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Lambert
>
>
> > Lilly,
> >
> > My thought would be that Perkins is really her middle name. Maybe
> she
> > was named for a (fictional) Mary Perkins and the family called
> her
> > Perkins instead for some reason. So be receptive to
>
>
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