The Putman Family Bulletin

Something Interesting

I corresponded with someone from the Pittendrigh family of Aberdeenshire, Scotland whose family Y-DNA appears to be close to the Putman family Y-DNA Type.

You will see from the spreadsheet above that the Vom Broich family has STR values that are the most similar to a possible common ancestor.

 

What Research has Taught Me . . .

Through my Y-DNA SNP analysis, I have found that the Pootman/Putman family, which descends from Johannes Pootman born in 1644 in the Netherlands, is described as I1* or I1-DF29+. 

My SNP DF29 marker has proved to be positive while Z58 and Z63 SNP values have proved to be negative.

When you read on, you will find there was a Victor Pootman who lived in Aalburg, Gelderland, Netherlands, who was likely the father of Johannes Pootman.  Victor Pootman was a Latin School master in Aalburg beginning about 1642.  Victor Pootman was born about 1620 and married Maria Davids who was born about the same time.

The given name "Victor" is not  very common but was used in Germany by the Puettmann family. It is my guess that Johannes Pootman descended from this Puettmann family.  Also, as best as I may ascertain, the Puettmann family descends from the Vom Brunnen De Puteo family of the area near Soest, Germany.  

The De Puteo family seems to be connected with the Everhardus Vom Brunnen De Puteo family of Ahlen, Germany, who lived just northwest of Soest.  The Vom Brunnen De Puteo family may have moved to Duelmen, Germany, west of Ahlen and became known as the Ten Putte and later the Puettman family.

TheGerman word "Brunnen" means well or spring.  The Latin word "puteo" also means well or spring.  Vom Brunnen [De Puteo] is both a German and Latin reference for the same meaning. 

Another family that is in the I1-DF29+ group is the Brun or Bruno family.   The Vom Broich of Kuerten, Germany, is also close to the Pootman family in both STR and SNP values, and  at ancestry.com the Bruhle-de plater family is also close in STR values.

All these "conincidences suggest that the  ancient name of these families and a common ancestor may have been known as the "Brook" family or Bruche family.  Today in Germany, bruch means swampland.

 The Lippe River area that surrounds Soest, Germany, was anciently inhabited by the Bruckteri people an ancient people of Germany.

All these names seem to connect with the Bruckteri and the German word Bruch.

The common given name of the early Vom Brunnen De Puteo family was Everhardus.  His name means "boar hard" or "eber hard".

The Vom Brunnen De Puteo family seems to have originated northeast of Soest in the area near Benninghausen where about 1225 there was a Johannes Vom Brunnen De Puteo. 

Early records also show that the west of this area was a place called "Regio Puteo" or "Puteo Regis".  This along with Aspe was an early name for the area around Bad-Westernkotten, which is just east of Soest, Germany.  The early records call Westernkotten as "Kothe".   Early German "cuthe" means well or spring although "western cottages" has also been suggested as a meaning.

In Bad-Westernkotten, there was and is today a salt well now called Sole-Thermen.  In German, "sole" means salt-water while "thermen" means thermal of hot spring, so the phrase "sol thermen" means salt thermal spring or bath.  "Bad" in German means bath.

The Low German word "sood" means a well.  Bad-Westernkotten was also called "Koning's Sood" meaning the King's Well.

In the 1300's, at St. Anne Kappelle, was located Johann Vam Sode de Puteo whose name meant [Salt] well. 

There was also a Bruno Hautekaufer also known as Bruno Sode de Puteo.  These later two seem to have lived in the Hanover area of Germany.

The German word  "sode" today means turf or sod, but anciently it meant salt-works or salt well.

The Pootman family name may have come from the name Vom Brunnen de Puteo where "brunnen" means well and was connected with the Bruno, Broch, and Bruhle families.

For a good understanding of the roots of the Putman family, please read on.

   

Potina Regio

Latin Germany

In the map below, Duisburg is shown as the Latin town of Dispargum near the Caesia Silva that likely means the Blue Woods. 

Just north of Dispargum runs Luppia Fluss known today as the Lippe River. 

South of dispargum is the town of Novaesum, which is today the City of Neuss.  To the west of Dispargum was the area called in Roman times Potina Regio, which is a area different then Puteo Regio mentioned in the previous article. 

Potina Regio seems to mean Goddess Potina Region.  Potina Regio was an early area of coal mining, and each pits left behind was called in Latin a "puteus", which in German is a puett or pott.

Goddess Potina was the goddess of the child's first drink.  Her name  comes from Latin "potus" that means to drink.  The closest English words for potus are potage and potion.  It is likely the word potus was connected with the Latin word "puteus" meaning a well or spring.

In Germany, Puettmann means one who dwells near a well or spring. 

A cropping of the early map below "Belgii Veterus Typus" shows the Potina Regio.   

The Dutch-American Putman was originally called Pootman and seems to have lived in the area east of Old Potina Regio.

 

 

The Earliest Home of the Putman Family

The clan to which the Pootman/Putman family belongs is described as I1* or I1-DF29+. 

I may also be described as I1-ABA or perhaps I1-AAA according to the work of Terry Robb.

See the following link that shows the picture below:

http://www.goggo.com/terry/HaplogroupI1/

The Putman/Pootman family STR and SNP DNA values are very close to those of the Vom Broich family that seems to be I1-AAA, and I would guess that the Pootman family is also I1-AAA. Both I1-AAA and I1ABA results would place the Pootman family in Northeast Germany in the Lippe River Valley.

Terry Roob's I1 Haplotype "decision maker" for the Pootman Y-DNA shows the results in the link below:

http://www.goggo.com/cgi-bin/branchFind.cgi?Kit=GTZGV

At Ysearch.com, the Pootman/Putman Y-DNA shows the following results for STR markers.  We are closest to Terry Robb's I1-ABA:

User ID	Last Name	Origin	3 9 3	3 9 0	1 9	3 9 1	3 8 5 a	3 8 5 b	4 2 6	3 8 8	4 3 9	3 8 9 | 1	3 9 2	3 8 9 | 2	4 5 8	4 5 9 a	4 5 9 b	4 5 5	4 5 4	4 4 7	4 3 7	4 4 8	4 4 9	4 6 4 a	4 6 4 b	4 6 4 c	4 6 4 d	4 6 0	H 4	Y C A I I a	Y C A I I b	4 5 6	6 0 7	5 7 6	5 7 0	C D Y a	C D Y b	4 4 2	4 3 8	4 2 5	4 4 4	4 4 6	5 3 1	5 7 8	3 9 5 S 1 a	3 9 5 S 1 b	5 9 0	5 3 7	6 4 1	4 7 2	4 0 6 S 1	5 1 1	4 1 3 a	4 1 3 b	5 5 7
GTZGV	Putman	Netherlands	13	22	14	10	13	14	11	14	12	13	11	29	14	8	9	8	11	23	16	20	28	12	14	15	16	10	10	19	21	14	14	16	20	35	36	12	10	12	13	13	11	8	15	15	8	11	10	8	9	9	23	25	16
3J7YJ	I1-ABB Anglo-Saxon Norway	Unknown	13	22	14	10	13	14	11	14	11	12	11	28	15	8	9	8	11	23	16	20	28	12	14	15	16	10	10	19	21	14	14	17	20	35	38	12	10	12	13	13	11	8	15	15	8	11	10	8	9	9	23	25	16
JZ8SJ	Shiver	Unknown	13	23	14	10	13	14	11	14	11	12	11	28	15	8	9	8	11	23	16	20	28	12	14	15	16	10	10	19	21	14	14	16	19	35	36	12	10	12	13	13	11	8	15	15	8	11	10	8	9	9	23	25	15
S9YN2	i1-ABA,anglosaxon, Denmark	Unknown	13	22	14	10	13	14	11	14	11	12	11	28	15	8	9	8	11	23	16	20	29	12	14	15	16	10	10	19	21	14	14	16	20	35	37	12	10	12	13	13	11	8	15	15	8	11	10	8	9	9	23	25	16

 

SNP's are Here!

For a number of years, we have defined our lineage in Y-DNA mostly  in the terms of STR Marker values.

They are the 12, 25, 37, 67 and 111 markers that are seen so commonly. The steady increase in the number of Y-STR Markers helped refine our understanding of who we match and who we don't match particularly within people with the same or similar surname.

The Dutch-American Pootman/Putman family descendants here in the United States match within 63 or more of 67 STR Markers.

We are now on the verge of entering a new genealogical era with the assistance from another part of the y-Chromosome - the SNPs. SNP stands for [Y-Chromosome] Single Nucleotide Polymorphism.

SNP mutation occurs only once in history and is passed down to all of the male descendants of the man who first had that mutation. YSNP’s will in the future define family lineages or lines.

Over centuries SNPs built up a progression that allowed scientists to catalog and deduce a family's place in the Family Tree of Man. The branches of SNP’s are called Haplogroups.

The Dutch-American Haplogroup is currently designated simply as I1.  I1 is designated by the SNP M253.  Haplogroups were assigned capital letters of the alphabet initially and then are further broken down into branches such as I1f1a.

The identification of SNPs has exploded and is now the new frontier in Y-DNA research on a genealogical level.

Haplogroup names are getting much longer. The longer names indicate that more and more branching is being discovered. However, while others may have a long Haplogroup name, such as in the R1 Haplogroup family, the Dutch-American Pootman/Putman family still is classified simply as I1*. 

Mark Putnam had a number of SNP’s tested that include the following list where + means he tested positive for the marker and – means he tested negative for the marker:

DF29+, L22-, M161-, M170+, M21-, M223-, M227-, M253+, M258+, M26-, M307+, M72-, P109-, P19+, P259-, P30+, P37.2-, P38+,Z58, Z63.

DF29+ means by itself that the Pootman/Putman family is I1*

M21- means that we are not I1a or one of its subgroups.

M227- indicates that we are not I1b . . .

P259- indicates that we are not I1c . . .

L22- indicated that we are not I1d . . .

Z58- and Z63- mean we are not I1f or I1g . . .

Below are the current Haplogroups in the I1 Tree:

• I1 L64, L75, L80, L81, L118, L121/S62, L123, L124/S64, L125/S65, L157.1, L186, L187, M253,
M307.2/P203.2, M450/S109, P30, P40, S63, S66, S107, S108, S110, S111
• • I1* [This is the group to which the Pootman/Putman belongs]
• • I1a M21
• • I1b M227
• • • I1b* -
• • • I1b1 M72
• • I1c M507/P259
• • I1d L22/S142
• • • I1d* -
• • • I1d1 P109
• • • I1d2 L205
• • • I1d3 L287
• • • • I1d3* -
• • • • I1d3a L258
• • • I1d4 L300
• • I1e L211
• • I1f Z58
• • • I1f* -
• • • I1f1 Z59
• • • • I1f1* -
• • • • I1f1a Z60, Z61
• • • • • I1f1a* -
• • • • • I1f1a1 Z62
• • • • • • I1f1a1* -
• • • • • • I1f1a1a Z140, Z141
• • • • • • • I1f1a1a* -
• • • • • • • I1f1a1a1 L338
• • • I1f2 Z138, Z139
• • • • I1f2* -
• • • • I1f2a Z73
• • I1g Z63

The SNP is here!

Within a year or a few years we'll see family lineages with their own defining SNP.

As the SNP research progresses, we will see Haplogroup branches tracked into historic times that will connect with our own paper trail down to our current written history.
 

Am Gen Putt

Putt, Germany

 

I tried to find a place in the “Rohrpott” or Ruhr Valley of Germany that was called Putt.  I thought that from such a place our Pootman family may have originated.   

Looking at the Familysearch.org website, I found that nearly all the Putt’s  were from the Heinsberg, Germany, area, and upon further investigation I found that there was a small village called Putt just a couple of miles south of Heinsberg.   

This Putt family went by the name of An Gen Putt and Am Putt. 

Heinsberg is mentioned on Wikipedia as the ancient home of coal mining in the Ruhrpott or Ruhr Valley.

I currrently don't feel weare connected to the Am Gen Putt famly.

Am Gen Putt Time Line Births and Baptisms Casparus an Gen Putt:  Born to Petri An Gen Putt and Maria Finnemans. 14 Jan 1618. Heinsberg Catholic Church. Gerardus Aengeen Putt:  Born to same parents. 8 Apr 1626.  Same Church. Joannes Tho Putt:  Born to Merten Tho Putt and Bilgen.  28 Jun 1662.  Moenchenglabach Catholic Church. Wilhelm Putt:  Born to Peter Putt and Bilgen.  18 Jun 1678.  Monechenglach Catholic Church. Vitus Putt:  Born to Alffs Putt and Oeletgen. 23 Oct 1685.  Moenchenglabach Catholic Church. Reinerus:  Same parents.  Same Church.  3 Nov 1687 Sybilla Putt:  Same parents.  Same Church 28 Aug 1695 Many more entries are extent.   Puet and Pott Puett:  The word Puett in Low German means pit, fountain, or pool.  Puett is related to the Dutch wowrd put, the French word puits, and the English word Pit.  In Old High German the word is pfuzzi.  Koelsch: Puetz .  Latin puteus also means well.  Puett denotes in the Ruhr German and in the Aachen-Heinsberg area a coalfield or a mine. Puett is in in Low German Pütt. Today the word Puett is a synomyn for the mining industry:  Pütt = coalier.  Püttrologe = Miner Nobleman. The local dialect of German is commonly called Ruhrdeutsch or Ruhrpottdeutsch. Locals prefer to call the Ruhr  Ruhrpott", where "Pott" is a derivate of "Pütt" (a pitman's term for mine; the English "pit") or "Revier". Mining began in the south of the Ruhr and in the Ruhr Valley where the seams were exposed.  Then the mining shifted further and further north. Coal was mined first only from the surface and then deeper and deeper until a funnel-shaped pit was created in the ground.  Water would ingress and make further exploration impossible.  This type of coal mining continued until the 16th Century. It produced pits or puett Latin puteus a well. In some parts of North Rhine-Westphalia, someone who works in a (coal) mine is a Püttmann , sometimes called Pütti or Püttek . When the miner noble was described, they call him or her thePüttrologe or Püttologe.

 

De Puteo

At an early date there was no exact spelling for surnames such as Pootman or Putman.  It was often up to the deacon or priest to write a person's name in records. 

If the meaning of the Dutch-American Putman/Pootman family surname was “man at the pit or well”, in Latin it would have been spelled “De Puteo”.  In Latin, “puteus” means pit, spring, or well. 

http://www.pooth.de/chronik.htm 

In Dortmund, Germany, Bertramus De Puteo was a witness to a land transaction on February 20, 1241. 

A Bertram De Puteo was also listed in 1271.

In July 27, 1335 Bertram Van De Putte was also mentioned. 

On the list of aldermen for Dortmund, one may determine that the name De Puteo was also known as Du Puteo, De Poto, and Van De Putte. 

The De Puteo Time Line

1239       Alffwinus De Puteo

1241       Bertrammus De Puteo

1253       Bertrammus De Puteo

1255       Gerhardus Poth

1257       Arnoldus De Poto

1263       Alvinus De Puteo

1270       Bertramus De Puteo

1271       Alvinus De Puteo

1271       Bertram De Puteo

1272       Hinricus De Pote

1287       Albertus De Puteo

1289       Albertus De Puteo

1309       Henricus De Poto

1311       Henricus De Poto

1316       Ulvin Von Puteo

1286       Wulvino De Puteo

1301       Bertramus De Puteo

1313       Henricus de Poto

1320       Henricus De Poto

1322       Alvinus De Poto

1323       Hendrich Van Dem Putte (De Pote)

1334       Bertrammus De Puteo

1336       B. De Puteo

 [1336    Bertammus De Puteo]

1336       Bertam Van Dem Putte

1338       Bertramus De Puteo

1347       Bertrammus De Puteo

1360       Bertold Vamme Putte

1369       Segebode Van Dam Putte

In 1335, the Koster of Benninghausen mentioned Johann De Puteo, Richter, in Soest, Germany.  Johann De Puteo may have been from a different family then the above Dortmund De Puteo family.

In the area of Kaldenkirchen, Monchengladbach, Viersen, Lueth, and Tegelen on the Maas River and near the Dutch Border west of Dortmund variations of the “man at the well or man of the pit” surname are Poet, Poets, Puete, Peth, Puth, Pothen, Putter, Putten, Putz, and Puyt.

In regards to the names Pootmann and Puettmann, the spellings with one "n" at the end are seem west of Dortmund along the Maas River while the names with two "nn's" were found near Dortmund and then north into the area of Dulmen and Munster, Germany. 

The name Pootman is found more south of the Lippe River while Puettmann is found more to the north of the Lippe River.

There were three Victor Puttmann’s who were born between 1705 and about 1720 in Duelmen, Germany, north of Dortmund. 

The progentitor of the Putman family of early New York, USA, was the son it appears of Victor Pootman of Aalburg, Netherlands, whose ancient name may have been Puettmann.

The Ten Putte and Puttmann Time Line

Dulmen, Germany

1460, Evert Ten Putte was a witness. 

 1489, Bernd Ten Putte is mentioned with his wife Hille.

n 1495, Bernd Ten Putte's house and lot were mentioned

1496, Johan Ten Putte was a witness.

 1500, Evert Ten Putte and his wife Stine are mentioned.

1502, Bernd Ten Putte is mentioned.

1514, Bernd Ten Putte is called burger or citizen of Dulmen.

1566, Bernd Thon Putte and his wife Anna are recorded.

1598, Berd Putmann is called a court usher.

In 1602, Evert Putman and his wife Heilken are listed.

In 1602, a Gerdt Puttmann is listed.

In 1612, Gert is again listed.

In 1643, a Bernhardus Puttmann was born to Bernhardus Puttmanm.

In 1646, an Evert Putman marries Elizabeth Richters.

In 1705, a Victor Puttmann was born to Johann Bernard Puttmann.

In 1706, a Victor Puttmann was born to Melchior Puttmann.

In 1719, a Victor Anton Puttman was born to Hermann Puttmann.

In 1726, a Victor Puttmann married Maria Horstman.   

From my understanding, the name Pootman was associated more with Protestant churches while the name Puettmann was associated more with Catholic Churches in Germany.

The given name Victor came into the Puttmann [Ten Putte] family in the early 1600's about the same time that Victor Pootman of Aalburg, North Brabant, Netherlands, was born. 

Victor Pootman may have been the father of the immigrant to America Johannes Pootman.

 

Pootsmanns-hof

On the internet, a niece picture of Pootsmanns-hof or Pootman's House, is found.  The house was later called Pott's Hoff and is in Stockum, Germany, northwest of Voerde. 

http://www.stockumer-heimatfreunde.de/galerie-katen.html

Gordt Pootsmann was born in the house in 1640.  The court was the property of the order of Saint John of Wessel about 1600. 

Gordt  Pootman owed his name it was said to the very wet surface of the surrounding court ground. 

To the north and west of Pootshof from the overflowing of the Mombach at high tide a rather large "poot" or puddle was formed.   "Poot" is a German variant name for a puddle  that also in German is spelled "pfutze" 

     The descendants of Poot or Pootsmans were called Pottman around 1800 . . ..  The court is now called Pott's Hoff.   

Suhle and Pfuhl

In German "suhle" and "pfuhl" mean a mire, pool, or wallowing place.   

The migration of the Anglo-Saxons and Juts to England likely did not  take place directly from the Denmark area, but rather along a  route from Saxony to the Lippe River Valley and then to Flanders and southwestern England. 

This migration is seen in establishment of place names with the root "sol" as in Solengen, Germany, which is south of Dortmound, Germany.  In Anglo-Saxon, "sol" means a wallowing place that is in German also called a "pfuhl" a pool or "pfutze" a puddle. 

There is a Putte, Germany, that is west of Stralsund in the northern most part of Germany.  The large local pond there is called Putte See. 

I looked at the name Von Putten in regards to Putte, Germany, and also looked at instances of the name "de Puteo" in Nieder-Saxony or Lower Saxony and found that Vom Soden was an equivalent to De Puteo both meaning the person from the spring or well. 

The old Anglo-Saxon word "syd" means wallowing place while "pytt" is  translated as "pit".   

Along the route from Denmark to the Lippe River there area a number of place names that mean spring or well such as Brunswick ["brunnen" in German means well and a "wick" was a town], Paderborne [Borne also means well], and places with the root "sol" such as Solengen. 

The Vom Soden family is anciently from the area near Hanover, Germany.

The word "sul" is older then "sol" in the Anglo-Saxon langugage and you may see this on the way from Denmark to England with "sul"  being used near Denmark and "sol" being used more frequently nearer to England. 

 

Bruno, Broich, Bruhle

Early words for well or spring in Germany were the Latin word "puteus" and the German word "brunnen".  The German word "brunnen" is connected witht he word brook.  In Germany the word "bruch" means a morass or swampland.

I recently reviewed I1 yDNA that was close to the Putman YDNA and found some things that were interesting. 

http://www.familytreedna.com/public/yDNA_I1/

The following were close matches:  Vom Broich from Kuerten, Germany;  and Bruno from Paris, France;  and Bruhle-de Plater from Germany.  

I looked at the Broich and Bruno families who are I1-DF29+.

Bruhle-de Plater family is found at the following link:

http://dna.ancestry.com/compareY.aspx?uid=161654&tid=18447

The surnames Bruno, Broich,  and Broehl and Pootman all seems to mean swampland.  

In Old German "broil" meant wetland as did the Middle High Germany "bruel".  In Low German "broich" meant swampland. 

Today, in Germany "bruch" means marshland. 

To me it seems these surnames stem from the Bruckteri people whose name meant the brook or marsh people.

 

The Bructeri People

Of the Saxon tribes, the Bructeri were a powerful tribe that first dwelt north of the Lippe River and later occupied part of the territory south of the Lippe River.

They derived their name from the marshes, or bruchen, in German, that were included within their territory. 

It seems possible that the Putman/Pootman family might be descended from the Bructeri.

Today the Puettmann family has its highest concentration of members in the area that was once the homeland of the Bructeri that was east of the Rhine, north of the Lippe, and west of the Ems River.

The Bructeri were later included in the Riparian [River] Franks.

The Dutch-American Putman [Pootman] family Y-DNA is very closely matched to the Bruhle-de Plater family of West Hemmerde, Germany, which is southeast of Unna, Germany.

Hemmerde is first mentioned in 875 as Hamarithi "Villa in Pago Borahtron", which means "Hemmerde Vilalge in the District of Bructeri".

Other "relatives" of the Pootman family were the Bruno and Broch families whose names also mean it appears the "brook" people.

 

 

 

Nativity of Johannes "Jan" Pootman

Founder of the Mohawk Valley, New York, Pootman / Putman / Putnam Family in the USA

JAN POOTMAN was baptized on 28 Feb 1644 in Wijk en Aalburg in what is now the Province of North-Brabant in The Netherlands.  Jan Pootman's birth date was likely on or a few days prior to the 28 Feb 1644 date.  Jan's father was Victor Pootman; his mother was Marie Davids (as was the custom, she kept her maiden name when she married).  Jan's siblings were Geuntjen [perhaps Geertje], David and Marija.  Jan's parents were married in Wijk en Aalburg, Noord-Brabant, and Jan and his siblings were baptized and most likely born there. 

This "new" information suggests that the family of Jan Pootman, the founder of the Dutch-American Pootman/Putman/Putnam family has been located in Europe.  If so, this would be an important discovery for genealogists and descendants who have been seeking to confirm Jan Pootman's place of birth for 350 years.  Further information is available to all who may wish to consider it as shown on the following pages: 

Related URLs:          

     Go to:  http://www.traceyourdutchroots.com/prov/nb.html  

     o       Under "Online Resources" mid-page, select Brabants Historisch Informatie Centrum.

     o       On the navy bar of the BHIC page, select "Stamboom" then the first item in the drop-down box "Voorouders binnen Brabant".  

     You will be automatically linked to a BHIC search page.

  o       Then, enter "Pootman" in the box under "Achternaam" and click on "Zoeken".

The search results from page 1 of this document will appear.  Click on each line of the search results to display or print the detailed data shown on the next two pages.

�   Note  �

This "new" information was found within the online records of the Brabant History Information Center in December 2009 by Katherine E. McMullen-Serrault a direct descendant of Jan Pootman through her father Carl Eugene Putman, EdD of Wisconsin.  (Dr. Putman is an avid genealogical researcher of each of his family lines since the 1950's and is among the first participants in the Dutch-American Putman/Putnam Family DNA project.)    

Having studied the work of others, Katherine continued to seek proof of Jan Pootman's origin.  Katherine was particularly encouraged by Mark Putnam's work including Mark's emphasis on the use of Dutch naming patterns or conventions.  During her extensive analysis of the various theories, she like Mark had discovered the web reference to Victor Pootman schoolmaster in Aalburg, Noord-Brabant.  Genealogists will find that these "new" Noord-Brabant records are in line with both the reference to Victor Pootman having been a schoolmaster in Aalburg and with Dutch naming conventions as expressed in the names of Johannes Pootman's immediate descendants.    

Traditionally, Johannes "Jan" Pootman's father has been said to have been a dominee (a minister).  Although we currently have no proof that Victor Pootman of Wijk en Aalburg, Noord Brabant was a dominee historically schoolmasters were under the supervision of the Church.  At a minimum, Victor's work would have been closely related to that of a dominee. 

Lending further credibility to the theory that the correct Pootman family has been found are various historical references to the places from which other members of Jan Pootman's near family originated in North Brabant.  There are many such references one from Mark Putnam under this discusssion on this page entitled "Victor Pootman, Aalburg, The Netherlands" where he states: "Johannes and Cornelia Pootman's first son Arent married Elizabeth Akkerman whose family was from the area of S'Hertogenbosch just a few miles east of Aalburg.  Also, Cornelia's stepfather Klaus Van Bokhoven was from Bokhoven, which is only a couple of miles east of Aalburg."      

Mrs. McMullen-Serrault acknowledges that her discovery would not have been possible without the work of her father as well as several other genealogists whose work is more widely known.  Grateful acknowledgement is extended to the family of the late Warren T. Putman of California, to Mark Putnam of Michigan, and to the researchers, compilers and authors who are referenced in their work as well as to Bill Putman (www.billputman.com) and the many others who make family historical information available via the Web.

Something New

In February 2010, Ms. McMullen-Serrault received information from the BHIC that the source for the Victor Pootman and Marie Davids family records was an index prepared by an unknown person from the damaged original records.  Unfortunately, no copies of the original records are available from the BHIC, as only the index was made available to them.  All information available from the BHIC for these records is already reported within their Web database.  

The Putman Linage in STR yDNA Language