Jacobs, Heiltje

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This life sketch looks like a confusing argument between a couple different people--not sure what's going on here.
My great-grandmother was a Decker and I married a Swede. I lived in Sweden for 8 years. The first names Heyltje and Willemtje are Dutch, not Swedish. There were a lot of Dutch living in Sweden during this time period, particularly port towns lik e Göteborg, for work as ship builders. Heyltje could have very well been born in Sweden to Dutch parents and her last name could have been "Jacobs" without her father being named "Jacob". That far back, her last name would NOT have been "Jacobsson " anyway, it would have been "Jacobsdotter". The Dutch didn't use patronymics in the same way the Swedes did. Willemtje could have very easily married a Swedish man since her family was obviously living in Sweden. Shannon

Heyltie Jacobs married Jan Broersen Decker. Jan Gerritson Decker is a DIFFERENT person. See Discussion under Jan Broersen Decker.

Patronymics!!! Her father will be Jacob somebody! Please, don't think you know who her father is until you understand what patronymic is and how it works. By patronymics Helytje Jacobs father will be Jacob somebody, NOT Rutger Jacobs. The Dutch di dn't take surnames until the English forced them to - 1664 - long after Heyltje was born.--

Also, Heyltje was born in Sweden, NOT the Netherlands where Rutger Jacobs was from. Rutger Jacobs became the progenitor of the RUTGERS family in America.

The idea that Heyltje and Willemtje were from Goteborg, Sweden appears to be a misunderstanding of her sister, Willemtje‘s husband’s origins. If read a certain way, it appears that the marriage record is stating that Willemtje was from Gotenburg , but it was actually her husband Jan Cornelisse, who was from Gottenburgh, Sweden. The first names Heyltje and Willemtje are common Dutch names.

“1679 Dec 24 Jan Broersse Decker, widower of Heiltie Jacobs, resid. in Marbleton, and Willemtie Jacobs, widow of Jan Cornelisse, of Gottenburgh, resid. in Kingston. First publication of Banns, 29 Nov. [7] 1668 Jan Cornelissen, of Gottenborgh, j.m. , and Willemtie Jacobs, widow of Albert Gerritsen. First publications of Banns, 22 April; second, 29 April. Married by the Hon. Justice. [7]
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Jacobs-3243 See Scandinavian Immigrants in New York, 1630-1674, p. 166.”

Heiltje married Lieutenant Jan Broersen Dekker in 1663 in New York, USA. (Lieutenant Jan Broersen Dekker was born in 1630 in Husum, Nordfriesland, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, christened in 1630 in Husum, Husum, Nordfriesland, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, died in 1712 in Ulster Co., New York, USA and was buried in 1702 in Ulster, New York Colony, British Colonial America.)