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From: Phyllis Kinzie <>
Subject: Christoffel BRUSSY and family
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 09:38:24 -0500


I though I would add my two cents to the discussion. I have several
different lists of Christoffel's children, none documented primarily
because of that Albany baptisms records lapse.

Besides the children mentioned by Dorothy, there is surely a Wensam who
married an Elsie Scism. There is possibly an Antje baptized in Albany
in 1703. There may be a Gabriel who either never married and lived with
his sister Geetruy or married a woman named Geertruy. Someone has even
suggested a Johannes who married a woman named Annatje ?.

O'Callahan's court minutes for Albany also has a 1681 case in which Omie
La Grange, Gerrit Teunisse (vVechten), and Christoffel are involved in a
squabble over a yacht. I think this is the case in which Christoffel
cannot appear in court because his wife is ill.

Here are some nagging questions for this family.

Who was Christoffel's wife? One reference has her mother as Christina
d'Endracht which does not sound reasonable. Another has her as the
daughter of a Norwegian immigrant from Flekkero, and she is involved in
a paternity suit in 1671 (CMARS I: 274-75). That doesn't seem very
reasonable either.

And why did Ariaenntje Wendell sponsor two of their children? They
certainly had been in the area long enough to have close friends if not
any other family. Were they somehow involved with the Wendells? Or
were they just needing some important Albany person because they had no
one else to choose?

And lastly, one researcher has tried to make a case for Christoffel
being the son of Peter Bosie on the grounds that the French
pronunciation of Bosie at that time could have been construed by the
Dutch as Brussy.

There is by the way, apparently no Huguenot listing of Christoffel
Brussy.

Phyllis

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