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Note: There are no primary source records that show who the parents of Michael were. However, his parents were almost certainly Jan Vandervoort and Magdalena Huysman.
1. Dutch naming conventions:
a. The grandparents of his wife, Mary Fonteyn, are known are known from the arbitration bond of the estate of her grandfather, Jaques Fonteyn: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cyocom/ijfprobate.htm
b. Mary Fonteyn`s parents are known to be Charles and Mary Fonteyn from her baptismal record at the First Reformed Church of New Brunswick on 4 DEC 1726.
c. From that we can tell that their oldest son, Charles, and their oldest daughter, Mary, were named after their maternal grandparents.
d. From this it can be presumed that their second son, John, was named after his paternal grandfather, and their second daughter, Magdalena, was named after her maternal grandmother.
e. Michael himself was named after his paternal uncle.
2. Migration patterns
Michael Vandervoort and his presumed siblings, Jacob, Christina Voorhees, Magdalena Messerole and Adriantje Voorhees, all migrated to New Brunswick, NJ.
3. 1738 census of Kings Co.
1738 Bookland, Kings Co. Census (taken in 1731)
Jan Vandervoort 5 1 1 0 5 males over 10, 1 male under 10 and 1 female over 10
This allows for Jan, Michael, Jacob Abraham and 2 other males to be living in the household. They cannot be found anywhere else in the census.
4. Fit
a. Paul and Neetlje Vandervoort and Michael and Styntje Vandervoort both have their own sons named Michael.
b. He is not the grandson of Michael and Styntje who married Jannetje Wesselse. She was still living on 7/27/1744 when her grandfather wrote his will.
c. Ot the sons of Paul and Neeltje Vandervoort, only John appears to have been old enough to have had a grandson by 1745. His two oldest sons were named after their grandfathers. Even if he had an undocumented son named Michael, it is very unlikely he would have been born early enough to have had a child by 1745..
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