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Esther <I>DeTurck</I> Bertolet

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Esther DeTurck Bertolet

Birth
New York, USA
Death
19 May 1798 (aged 86)
Oley, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Oley, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
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Wife of Abraham Bertolet, daughter of Isaac DeTurk and Maria DeHarcourt. Mother of Maria m Daniel Hoch, Daniel, Elizabeth m John DeTurk, Samuel, Esther m George Yoder, and John Bertolet. She was born in the Palatine camp in Schoharie NY, baptized at the French church in New York City. Her baptism in French, cited in a
footnote in Memorials of the Huguenots in America, by A Stapleton, 1901, page 62:
Baptism at French church in NY City:
"Baterne, amourdhuy dimanche 29c d'Avril 1712, Monsieur Louis Rou, ministere, batise Esther le Turque, nee le 30c. d'Aoust dernier, fille de Isaac le Turque et Maria sa femme, presente au St. Bateme par Francois Lucas et la mere du dit enfan parein et Marienne. L. Rou, Pasteur." (born Aug 30 1711, bp 4/29/1712)

It is noted the date on her tombstone does not agree with the baptismal record.

From Reading Times 3/20/1876
Esther DeTurk Bertolet remained a widow for thirty-two years, and died in 1798, aged 88 years. She was an estimable Christian woman, and a daughter of a certain widow named Wammerin [sic widow of Peter Wemar/Vemar/Weimar], who emigrated in 1713 [sic 1708 with her daughter Catharina, aged 2, on the Globe with Rev. Kocherthal from the Palatinate] from England under a passport from Queen Anne. On April 30, 1767, a year after the death of her husband [Abraham Bertolet], she conveyed her property to her eldest son, Daniel Bertolet, for eleven hundred pounds English money.
Wife of Abraham Bertolet, daughter of Isaac DeTurk and Maria DeHarcourt. Mother of Maria m Daniel Hoch, Daniel, Elizabeth m John DeTurk, Samuel, Esther m George Yoder, and John Bertolet. She was born in the Palatine camp in Schoharie NY, baptized at the French church in New York City. Her baptism in French, cited in a
footnote in Memorials of the Huguenots in America, by A Stapleton, 1901, page 62:
Baptism at French church in NY City:
"Baterne, amourdhuy dimanche 29c d'Avril 1712, Monsieur Louis Rou, ministere, batise Esther le Turque, nee le 30c. d'Aoust dernier, fille de Isaac le Turque et Maria sa femme, presente au St. Bateme par Francois Lucas et la mere du dit enfan parein et Marienne. L. Rou, Pasteur." (born Aug 30 1711, bp 4/29/1712)

It is noted the date on her tombstone does not agree with the baptismal record.

From Reading Times 3/20/1876
Esther DeTurk Bertolet remained a widow for thirty-two years, and died in 1798, aged 88 years. She was an estimable Christian woman, and a daughter of a certain widow named Wammerin [sic widow of Peter Wemar/Vemar/Weimar], who emigrated in 1713 [sic 1708 with her daughter Catharina, aged 2, on the Globe with Rev. Kocherthal from the Palatinate] from England under a passport from Queen Anne. On April 30, 1767, a year after the death of her husband [Abraham Bertolet], she conveyed her property to her eldest son, Daniel Bertolet, for eleven hundred pounds English money.


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