Clara (Moockers) Post (abt. 1624 - 1675)

Born about 1624 in Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland [uncertain]

Wife of Adriaen Crijnen Post — married 1645 in Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

Descendants

Died 4 Dec 1675 at about age 51 in Bergen, Province of New Jersey

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Origins

Multiple theories of Clara's origin have been published on the Internet, but evidence is lacking for all of them. She is often said to have been born in The Hague; birth years 1624, 1628, and 1632 were included in earlier versions of this WikiTree profile. Her father has been identified as Robert Moockers, about whom no evidence has been found, or a Francois Moockers, whose claimed biographical details suggest him to be the same person as Francois Le Sueur, son of Benjamin and Sara Le Sueur of Jersey. A son of these parents named Francois was baptized in St Helier, Jersey, on 30 October 1603. A Thomasse Binet has been identified as the wife of Francois and mother of Clara. all of these parent connections have been removed from this profile.

Biography

Clara Moockers was the wife of Adriaen Crijnen Post. They are estimated to have married in about 1645, probably in The Hague, Zuid Holland, The Netherlands.

By 1649 they removed to the Dutch colony in Recife, Brazil.

The name Clara Moockers appears in the baptism record for her daughter Maria, baptized on 6 June 1649 in the Dutch Church in the Dutch colony in Recife. Brazil. ^{[1] [2] [3]} Some genealogies give her first name as Claartje and her last name as Moojers.

There are also church records in Recife for a Geertruyt Moockers, wife of a man recorded as Pieter Le Rouge or Lenorge. Geertruyt might have been Clara's sister.

The family subsequently removed to New Netherland, where baptisms of several children were recorded in the Reformed Dutch Church of New Amsterdam.

Died December 4, 1675 in Bergen, New Jersey.^{[citation needed]}

Church Records

1. 1649 Juny 6. Kinderen: Maria. Ouders: Adriaen Crijnen Post en Clara Moockers. get: Jan Gerretsen, Brecht Champers.
2. 1663 Aug 21 Geertruyd, Adriaen Post, Clara. Wit.: Nicholaes booth, Fytie Michiels. ^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Inventaris 379: Archief van de Nederlandse Hervormde Kerk; Classis Amsterdam: 211 Register van gedoopten in Recife en omgeving 1633 - 1654, at https://archief.amsterdam/inventarissen/inventaris/379.nl.html#A28455000076. See Copy of image posted in WikiTree.
2. ↑ Een Doopregister der Hollanders in Brasilie, Algemeen Nederlandsch Familieblad, VIde Jaargang (Volume 6). 's Gravenhage: Vereeniging het Nederlandsch Familie Archief, 1889. page 26.
3. ↑ "Brasil Batismos, 1688-1935," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5MN-3HH : 5 December 2014), Clara Moockers in entry for Maria Moockers Post, 06 Jun 1649; citing DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH, RECIFE, PERNAMBUCO, BRAZIL, reference ; FHL microfilm Q981.3V2W.
4. ↑ Thomas Grier Evans. "Baptisms from 1639 to 1730 in the Reformed Dutch Church, New York." In Collections of the New-York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Vol. II. New York: Printed for the Society, 1890.

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