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From: (Howard Swain)
Subject: [ORIGINAL-13] Re: Kunders, Kusters, and "Eunike"
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 21:54:21 -0500 (EST)

Hi Carolyn and all,

At 02:57 PM 1/23/01 -0500, wrote:
>I just found this new? page. I belong to the Custer/Kusters family and
>still can't put them all together comfortably. Does anyone have a
>primary record tying Emanuel Custer b. 1754 to Emanuel Custer b.
>1779????

I can't help you with your Custer/Kusters question except to say
that you might consult this book for ideas:

_The Descendants of Paulus and Gertrude Kusters..._, Jean M. White,
editor; The Castor Association of America, 1991.


>http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/philadelphia/wills/wba-d.txt
>KLINCKEN, Aret.
>12/10/1707/8. Feb 20, 1707/8. C.71.
>Wife: Nislee.
>Son: Anthony.
>Daughters: Ellin Williams, Eunike, wife of Kunrad Kunders.
>Exec: Nephew Dirck Jansen, Francis Daniel Pastorius.
>Wit: Dennis Kunders, Abraham Tunis, Wm. Streepers, Peter Shoemaker.

I remember when I first saw "Eunike" in this will abstract. I
thought it was yet another variation in spelling of the name
which the Dutch would spell Anneke or Anneken.

I might note that she also appears as a witness on the marriage
certificate of Henry Kunders and Catharine Strepers (1710).
This has been transcribed in the Publications of the Genealogical
Society of PA vol II pp 66-67. There she is shown following her
husband, "Cunraed Cunraeds", as "Enneke Kunrads" -- which is
pretty close to Anneke.

And then it dawned on me. I bet Aret's will really says
"Ennike" and somewhere along the line, someone misread the
first n as a u. And thus created Eunike.


Regards,
Howard

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