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From: "Perry Streeter" <>
Subject: [NEW-NETH] Placename: HEERFORT; Surnames: COVERT/DELENDAL/NICHOESEN/POST/TROPHAGEN
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 22:34:30 -0500


>From the following record...

Collegiate Church, New York City - Manhattan, records. New Brunswick NJ,
Reformed Church in America. FHL microfilm 1927968

den 2 Mart Ao. 1687 vertrocken na Heerfort - Aeltie Theunis, h.v. Willem
Post

Source = http://olivetreegenealogy.com/nn/church/rdcmem78.shtml

...we learn that Aeltie Theunis, wife of Willem-2 POST (Cornelis-1) and dau.
of Teunis-1 Jansen COVERT left for Heerfort. Does the Dutch verb
"vertrocken" connote any distance? Was Heerfort located in the Old or New
World? Why did she go there?

In the New World, Dorothy found a reference to "Hereford Inlet", a township
in Cape May County an 1874 gazetteer of New Jersey; and Herford, near
Baltimore, Maryland. Are there other candidates?

With respect to Old World possibilities, I found...

"...Willem Trophagen, ...son of Johannes Trophaegen, doctor and medical
officer of the manor at Hemelyck in the diocese of Minnen (Stift Minnen)
under the Count vanderlip, born in the city of Lemmichor--Hendrick
Trophaegen being brother of the appearer's father. His son, Anthony
Trophaegen, preacher of the Calvinists at Almina. ... The appearer s mother
is named Eeledt Delendal. Her sister had a daughter Stoeten (Something is
evidently left out here in the original) and burgomaster within Lemigo
(having yet two sisters Elsebus Trophagen, Catharina Trophagen)... Her
brother's name is Johannes Delendal, prebendary within HERFORT, and her
other sister had a husband whose name was Johannes Nichoesen, Councillor
within HAERFAERT."

Source = http://www.geocities.com/~cabrooks/page1.htm

And this variation...

"...Her brother is Johannes Delandel, prebentary within HERFORT and her
other sister had a husband by the name of Johannes Niehosen, councillor
within HEERFORT."

Source = http://www.geocities.com/grovenburg/d2757.html

Per the following site, these locations are apparently within modern
Germany...

Source = http://home.earthlink.net/~petrakim/gdtree/61.html

Using www.multimap.com, I am wondering if HEERFORT might be HERFART, Hordof,
Germany, part of Schleswig-Holstein, near the Atlantic Coast?

Thanks for your help,

Perry



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