Person talk:Marten De Vries (15)

Patronymic of Father [13 September 2012]

[Discussion from User talk:JBS66 for the record.]

The couples Family:Harmen de Vries and Wytske Mulder (1) and Family:Harmen De Vries and Wijtske Mulder (1) look a lot alike. I think they are duplicates, and for some reason for his 1824 child Marten, the name of Harmen Martens de Vries was recorded using the name of his maternal grandfather Sipke instead of his father's name Marten. (The discrepancy is present in the image.) --Pkeegstra 17:36, 12 September 2012 (EDT)

I agree those families are duplicates. On the birth record for Marten, his father signed his name as H M de Vries, so Sipkes was likely a clerical error. --Jennifer (JBS66) 17:48, 12 September 2012 (EDT)--Pkeegstra 05:53, 13 September 2012 (EDT)