Daughter of Claes Corneliszen and Metje Herperts. [See WikiTree.com]

William J. Hoffman, "Claes Cornelissen Van Schouw(en), Meutelaer and the Wyckoff Ancestry", The American Genealogist Vol. 22, page 65 (1945).

Geertien Claess was born before 1639 at New Amsterdam.

Ibid., page 65 (1945): 22:69. Baptism not recorded, born prior to existing records at New Amsterdam.

Married Hendrick Volckerszen at Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam, on 26 February 1655 "Hendrick Folkers, Van Jever in Oldenburgerlt, en Geertje Claes, Van N. Amsterdam."

Samuel S. Purple, Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and New York; Marriages from 11 December 1639 to 26 August 1801 (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, reprint 2003, original 1890 NYG&BS), p.19.

Children by Hendrick:

Volkert Hendricksen Bries b. 15 Aug 1655, d. between 15 May 1711 and 15 Apr 1712

Marretje Hendrickse b. between 1660 and 1665

Cornelis Hendricksz Bries b. between 1660 and 1670

Jeuriaen Hendrickszen b. 5 Dec 1660, d. 15 Dec 1660

Jouriaen Hendricksz Bries b. 6 Nov 1661, d. ca. 1706

Hillegont Hendrickse b. between 1665 and 1675

Suybroech Bries b. before 1677

"Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York", New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vols.5- (1874-): 5:155. Parents Hendrick Volckertszen, Geertie Claes.

William J. Hoffman, "The Founders of the Bras(s), Brasser, Bresser, Bries and Brazier Families", The American Genealogist Vol. 20, pp. 140-148, 215-223; Vol. 21, pp. 147- (1944): 21:148.

Baptisms in the Reformed Dutch Church of Brooklyn as per the records of said Church from Oct. 31, 1660 to Dec 13, 1719: From Corporation Manual of the City of Brooklyn, 1869, pages 448 to 504; FHL film #0017529, item 4 (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1939), Copied and translated from the Dutch by Teunis G. Bergen. Filmed from the typed manuscript in the Holland Society of New York, p.448.

Ibid., p.449.

William J. Hoffman, "The Founders of the Bras(s), Brasser, Bresser, Bries and Brazier Families", The American Genealogist Vol. 20, pp. 140-148, 215-223; Vol. 21, pp. 147- (1944): 21:148.

Bio includes data from The Brouwer Genealogy Database.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brouwergenealogydata/surname_index.htm