The Putman Family BulletinDe Puteo
[An interesting page is at the following internet address http://www.pooth.de/chronik.htm.]
At an early date there was no exact spelling for surnames such as Putman or Pootman. 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 was “man at the well”, in Latin, it would have been spelled “De Puteo”. In Latin, “puteus” means spring or well.
In Dortmund, Germany, Bertramus De Puteo was a witness to a land transaction February 20, 1241. A Bertram De Puteo was also listed in 1271, and in July 27, 1335 a Bertram Van De Putte was mentioned. All these entries may be for the same person or family.
On the list of aldermen for Dortmund one may determine that the name De Puteo was also shown as Du Puteo, De Poto, and Van De Putte. The following list shows the change in the name De Puteo to De Poto and then to Van Dem Putte in the area of Dortmund:
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.
In the area of Kaldenkirchen, Monchengladbach, Viersen, Lueth, and Tegelen on the Maas River and near the Dutch Border west of Dortmund, a large group of “possible kin” are found under spellings that are complicated by the nuances of dialect and writing. Variations of the “man at the well” surname are Poet, Poets, Puete, Peth, Puth, Pothen, Putter, Putten, Putz, and Puyt. In the Netherlands, the names were expressed with an “oe”, which has a sound that was similar to “oo”.
Our Putman surname has been spelled in American as early as 1661 as Pootman and Potman and later as Poetman, Pottman, Puttman, and Putman and more recently by some as Putnam.
In regards to the names Pootmann and Puttmann, the variant spelling Pootman with one "n" at the end was seem west of Dortmund along the Maas River while Puttmann was found around and north of Dortmund and into the area of Dulmen and Munster, Germany. There seems to be two loci . . . one for the spelling and pronunciation Pootman and the other for Puttmann in this part of Germany.
In the 1460’s, the Van Dem Putte’s of Altenbochum, a couple of miles southwest of Dortmund, used the spellings Putte, Tom Putte, Van Dem Putte, and Puttmann and were associated with the town of Hattengen-Niederwenigern, Germany just southwest of Dortmund. This Puttmann family was connected with the Closter Marienborn of Ludgedortmund, which was located between Altenbochum [Bochum] and Dortmund. The patriarch of this Puttmann family mentioned in the 1460’s was Johann Von Blankenstein also known as Puttmann.
Johann Von Blankenstein or Puttmann and his wife Stine Tom Putte had the following Children: Wennemar, Katharina, Hille, Else, and Gertrude Puttmann. According to the early records of at http://familysearch.org there was a Wennemar Pootmann who was born about 1635 in Niederwenigern who may have been a descendant or relative of Wennemar Puttmann above.
It is possible that the three (3) Victor Puttmann’s who were born between 1705 and about 1720 likely at Coesfeld near Dulmen, Germany, north of Dortmund, were descendants of Bertramus De Putte. The progentitor of the Putman family of early New York, USA, was the son it appears of a Victor Pootman whose ancient name may have been Puttmann. The early Latin form of the name Puttmann was De Puteo, which meant “man at the well”.
As to the area of Coesfeld, the local Puttmann family at an early date went by the name of Ten Putte. The earliest record I have found from the area of Dulmen shows an Evert Ten Putte who was a witness in 1460. In 1495 Bernd Ten Putte's house and lot were mentioned, and in 1496 Johan Ten Putte was also a witness.
Ten Putte and Puttmann Time Line
Coesfeld, Dulmen, and Munster Records
In 1489, Bernd Ten Putte is mentioned with his wife Hille in the records.
About 1500, Evert Ten Putte and his wife Stine are mentioned also.
In 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 is associated more with Protestant churches while the name Puttmann is associated with Catholic Churches in Germanym and near the Dutch border the spelling Pootman is used while along the Lippe River Pootmann is used.
The given name Victor came into the Puttmann [Ten Putte] family in the 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. Whether there is a connection between Victor Pootman and the Victor Puttmanns of the Dulmen area is presently unknown.
Pootsmanshoff
On the internet, Pootsmannshof is found with a nice picture of the house now called Pott's Hoff, which is in Stockum, Germany not far from Voerde. The description of the picture says that Gordt Pootmannauf was born in the court in 1640. The court was the property of the order of Saint John in Wessel around 1600. It is said it appears that Gordt Pootman owed his name to the very wet surface of the surrounding court grounds. To the north and west of side of Pootshoff from the overflowing of the Mombach at high tide, a rather large "Poot" or puddle was formed. "Poot" is the German name for a puddle , which also in Germany is "pfutze" The descendants of Poot or Pootsmans were called Pottman around 1800 . . .. The court is now called Pott's Hoff.
There is also another site also that indicates that the slang word for puddle or "pfutze" in German is Poot.
Suhle and Pfuhl
The german words "suhle" and "pfuhl" mean a mire, slough, or a pool or wallowing place for wild animals. The word Suhle may be connected with sow meaning a pig. The migration of the Anglo-Saxons and Juts to England likely did not take place directly from the Denmark area, but rather travled along a route to Saxony to the Lippe River Valley and then to Flanders and southwestern England. This migration is seen in the use of the root place name "sol" as in the place name Solengen, Germany, which is south of Dortmound. Germany. In Anglo-Saxon, "sol" means a wallowing place that is in Germany also called a "pfule" 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 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". [One may suspect that "s" and "p" and "d and "tt" were interchangeable.]
In the early Anglo-Saxon language "sode" meant to bubble, boil, or seethe, which may be the root meaning of Vom Sode. Along the route from Denmark to the Lippe River there area a number of place names that mean well such as Brunswick ["brunnen" in German means well and a "wick" was a town], Paderbrone [Borne also means well], and places with the root "sol" such as Solengen. The Vom Soden family is anciently from the area of Hanover, Germany.
The root "sul" is older then the root "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 near or in England.
The root of the Germany word "suhle" seems to be sow, or pig, and I tend to wonder if the boar's heads on the Putmannus and Putman coat of arms may indicate that the family lived at the wallowing place, the muddy puddle, or the place of the pig. ""Suhle esentailly means a sully or muddy hole or pool".
Bruno, Broich [Bruche], Broehl and YDNA
Early words for well or spring were the Latin word "puteus" and the German word "brunnen". From the later we get the word brook. In Germany the word "bruche" means a morass or swamp.
I was recently reviewing YDNA [http://www.familytreedna.com/public/yDNA_I1/] that is close to the Putman YDNA and found some interesting coincidences. The following are close matches possible from the most recent to the oldest: Putman or Pootman from the Netherlands; Wiat from England; Vom Broich from Kuerten and Elsdop, Rhineland, Germany; Mueller from Hanover, Germany; Franck from Saxony, Germany; Jensen from Denmark; Bruno from Paris, France; Hamm from England; Ole Ericksen from Bronnoy, Norway; Byrnes from New York, USA; Brown from Rhode Island, USA; Von Friesen; Latvia.
I note the high frequency of the family names and place names that meanin spring or well [and swamp or morass] such as Bruno, Broich, Bronnoy, and perhaps corruptions resulting in Byrnes [a well in Germany is also called a Borne] and Brown.
When I looked at 37 Markers and those that closely matches the Putman YDNA at http://www.ysearch.org, I find that Bruno is an exact match although the Bruno family only tested at 12 markers; Broich was off by 4 markers at 37 tested; and at http://dna.ancestry.com/compareY.aspx?uid=161654&tid=18447, which is ancestry.com, the Broehl-de Plater family is an exact match at about 25 markers. It appears that Bruno, Broich, and Boehl all means swamp or morass, which may also be the same meaning of Poot. The Broel family was from Broehl Castle, which is in the neighborhood of Lutgendortmund, Reckinghausen, Westhemmerde [Broehl], Holthausen, Brunninghausen, and other small towns.
In Old German "broil" meant swamp or wetland while in Middle High Germany "bruel"meant swamp. In Low German "broich" also meant marshland or swampland. Today, in Germany "bruch" means marsh. In 1852 there was a mention of a Henrick Pothman zum Bruche in Duisseldorff. Pothman and Pootman are used interchangably.
The Pittendrigh family from Aberdeenshire, Scotland, also has YDNA that is some what similar to the Putman YDNA. Anglo-Saxon "pytt" means spring or well. John Pittenreich was born before 1715 in Logie-Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
The Putman/Pootman family is also a very close match about 21 of 23 markers with the Bachman/Baughman family. "Bache" means beck or valley stream. The Bachman family was located in Pennsylvania, Germany, and Switzerland. The reported time to most recent common ancestor between the Putman and Bachman family is about 600 years.
Of the Saxon tribes, the Bructeri, a powerful tribe, dwelt in the country north of the Lippe and probably occupied part of the territory south of the Lippe River. It appears that they derived their name from the marshes, or bruchen in German, that were included within their territorial limits. It also seems possible that from YDNA and the surnames of YDNA matches that the Putman/Pootman family might be descended from the Bructeri People or the marsh people.
Today the Puettmann family has its highest concentration of members in the area that was once the home of the Bructeri [Bruateri] between the Rhine, Lippe, and Ems Rivers. The Bructeri were included in the Riparian Franks.
The Dutch-American Putman [Pootman] family in its YDNA is very closely related to the Dem Broel De Plater familiy of West hemmerde, Germany southeaswt of Unna.
Hemmerde is first mentioned in 875 as Hamarithi Villa in Pago Borahtron or Hemmerde in the District of Bructeri.
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.
Related URLs:
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.
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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
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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."
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.
There now about six [6] Putman's or Putnam's whose YDNA match and who descend from Johannes Pootman and Cornelia Bradt of Schenectady, New York. Johannes Pootman was born in 1644 likely in Aalburg, North Brabant, Netherlands, and was likely the son of Victor Pootman and Maria Davidse. John Pootman was about 16 in 1661 when he was apprenticed to work in Albany, New York.
Using the Haplo-I Subclade Predictor that is located on the Internet the results show that the Dutch-American Putman YDNA is I1 M253-AS Generic-1. Using Ken Nordtveldt's work, the Pootman Haplotype is a form of AS-Generic 1 as contrasted with AS-Generic 2.
The spreadsheet below shows the Y-DNA results for four Putnam's tested.
The assumed early place of origin of the haplotype M253-AS-Generic is Netherlands, Denmark, and Northern Germany.
The information below comes from http://ysearch.org. All the male children of Johannes Pootman and Cornelia Bradt are represented.
All markers match in those tested except the following ones that describe mutations in the four branches of the Pootman/Putman family.
(1) DD8VD is a descendant of Arent Janse Pootman and has marker CDYa = 36 and 442 = 11.
(2) 79VEY is a descendant of Lodewyck Arentse Putman and has marker 437 = 15 and 576 = 17 . 79VEY values are not shown below in the spreadsheet.
(3) GTZGV is a descendant of Victor Janse Pootman and seems to have the original marker values for those of the immigrant of Johannes Pootman.
(4) VA25H is a descendant of Victor son of David Janse Pootman and has marker 385b = 15.
(5) There is a descendant of Cornelius Janse Pootman whose Y-DNA marker values are at Ancestry.com who has marker 442 = 17.
These mutations are between 50 to 350 years old.
|
User ID |
Last Name |
Origin |
3 |
3 |
1 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
4 |
3 |
4 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
4 |
4 |
4 |
4 |
4 |
4 |
4 |
4 |
4 |
4 |
4 |
4 |
4 |
4 |
H |
Y |
Y |
4 |
6 |
5 |
5 |
C |
C |
4 |
4 |
|
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 |
|
DD8VD |
Putnam |
Hamm, Westphalia, Germany |
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 |
36 |
36 |
11 |
10 |
|
GPPYF |
M253-AS-Gen 1 |
Netherlands |
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 |
|
|
|
|
12 |
|
|
VA25H |
Putnam |
Netherlands |
13 |
22 |
14 |
10 |
13 |
15 |
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 |
The Dutch-American Pootman lines in DNA follow:
Haplogroup I 24,000 years, ago
I1 M253 AS General Marker 439 = 11; Marker 389-1&2 = 12, 28; Marker 458 = 15; 3,500 Years Ago
I1 M253-ASGen-Ancient Pootman Markers 389-1&2 =13, 29?; Then Marker 439 = 12; and then Marker 458 = 14.
Johannes Pootman 350 Years Ago
Arent Janse Pootman
Son of Arent Markers CDYa = 36; 442 = 11.
The origin of Haplogroup I seems to have been in the Western Balkans, and descends from one person who lived there before the last glacial maximum.
150,000 Years Ago
75,000 Years Ago
37,500 Years Ago
18,7500 Years Ago
Today
Homo Sapiens
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I would encourage anyone who is a Dutch-American Putman or any other Putnam/Putman who is a male with the surname Putnam/Putman to have their Y-DNA tested to expand the database.
You get the best rates as a member of the Putnam DNA Project Group: Recruitment.
Hinricus Pootman
B. c. 1340
In
America, Johannes Pootman’s name was occasionally spelled Potman and
Pootmann. The name Pootman in
Belgium seems to indicated a person who worked or lived by the gate or port
of a city whence a Poortman.
Johannes Pootman was likely born in 1664 and was the son of Victor Pootman
and Maria Davids of Aalburg, Netherlands.
This article is a look at the names Pootman, Poetman, Pothman, Pottman, and
Puettman in Germany, their interrelationship if any, and their places of
residence about 1600 to 1700.
We will look at Hinricus
Pootman from whom many of these families may be connected or descended.
Henricus Pootman
Kloster St. Walburgis, Soest,
Germany?
B. c. 1340 d. c. 1400
The Pootmann,
Potmann, Pothmann, Poetmann, Puettmann, and Puttmann families center round
the old County of Mark in Germany.
They appear to radiate westward from the area about Soest, Germany,
to the northwest and southwest.
The YDNA of the Dutch-American
Pootman/Putman family is an exact match with that of the [Broel-] De Plater
family one of whose branches is called Syburg-De Plater and whose ancient
home was at Hemerde near Syburg and Schwerte, Germany.
This is in the heart of the Old County of Mark, Germany.
Henricus Pootman may be the earliest known Pootman of whom we know whose
surname was published as Pootman.
He was listed in the Latin text of the early records of Lubeck,
Germany, associated it appears with the Kloster of Walburgis [Parish of
Walburg in Soest, Germany?] about 1380.
There also was a Victor Puettmann who may have descended from Hinricus
Pootman and who was born about 1700 near Muenster, Germany, just northwest
of Soest, Germany. Since the
Dutch-American Pootman family used the somewhat uncommon given name Victor
[Putman], Victor Puettmann is a person of great interest.
There was a Syburg connection to the German Pottmann or Pothamn family likely from the marriage of Jacob Syburg to a Ms. Pothamn about 1820. Their descendants it seems used the name Syburg-Pothman.
Today, we see usually only the surnames Puettmann and Pottmann in Germany
and see those names mostly in the area about Munster, or Dulmen, Germany.
The Mayor of Munster, or Dulmen, today, is a Puettmann.
*** Region One ***
East of Soest, Germany
Fredericus Pottman
ß
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Hinricus Pootman?
B.
c. 1640
Henrich Poetman/Pottman
Son of the above
B.
c. 1660 Altengeske, Germany
Johan Pootman
B.
c. 1680 Soest, Germany
*** Region Two ***
Southwest of Soest,
Germany
Johan Pootmann added an “n”
ß
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Hinricus Pootman?
B.
c. 1610 Schwerte, Germany
Henrich Pootmans/Pottman
B. c. 1620 Friemersheim,
Germany
Lambert Pottman
B. c. 1640 Freimersheim,
Germany
William Pootmans
B. c. Friemesheim,
Germany
Gert
Potmanns/Pottmans
B.
c. 1689 Iserlohn, Germany
Diedreich Pootman
B.
c. 1700 Bochum, Germany
[Syberg-Pothmann
B.
c. 1820 Schwerte, Germany]
*** Region Three ***
Northwest of Soest
Conrad Poetmann[s]
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Hinricus Pootman?
B.
c. 1690 Sendenhorst, Germany
Wiricus Poetman
B.
c. 1680 Munster, Germany
Victor Puettmann [Three[
B.
c. 1700 Dulmen, Germany
Henry Puttmanns
B.
c. 1630 Overhoff, Germany
Adam
Putmans
B.
c. 1610 Hamm, Germany
I found the following from Gevelsburg.de to be of interest as it describes
the meaning of the surname Poeten:
Poeten:
Ahd. Putte kann Pfütze und Ziehbrunnen bedeuten.
Vgl. auch das durch
My translation is the following:
Poeten: Putte or Pfutse and
Ziehbrunnen mean in Frankish “puteus” and pot meaning marsh.
It is today commonly known [in Germany] as pu[e]tt.
In 1486 we find a Hynrich Ten Poeten and in 1634 a Smith Ten Poeten,
a John of Poeten, and a Potman.
In 1712 there is an Evert of Pothen, and finally in 1789 the House of Poeten.
So, with this information and with other information such as the origin and
meaning of the Stockum, Germany, name Poots or Pootman,
we find that more often than not the
name Pootman, Pottman, Pothaman, and Puettmann in Germany mean Poolman,
Puddleman, or Pitman, which is connected with the Latin word puteus meaning
a well. Latin poto means to
drink.
The above passage goes on as follows:
Der Schmidt zum Poeten ist nach dem Dokument von 1645 Bewohner eines
To me, it is translated as follows:
The Smith of Poeten in 1645 is documented as living in a Herrenkotten, or
Master Cottage, and preformed the work of a smith.
Poeten was distinguished in the industry of Gevelsberg.
He was tied particularly with the names Hasenclever, Suberg, Goeble,
Schmit, and Drevenmann.
Frederick the Great [granted? in] 1705 the scythe of Poeten.
In his Enneperstrasser Narrative, Frederick didn’t forget the [Pruner
and the] important place of Mr. Poeten.
Later on in the Netherlands, Maria Janse, a native of Ketwijck in the Land
of Cleves, Germany, was married to Jan Van Roocken.
He died before 1647 in Warmond, Netherlands.
Maria Janse was it appears the brother of a Gerrit Jansz Pootman.
There was a Gerrit Pootmanns who lived in Iserlohn, Germany, just
west of Soest, Germany, about this same time.
Gerrit may have been the brother of Maria Jansz [see Chart].
It is possible that our Pootman family was from the early the County of Mark
in Germany, too.
Johannes Pootman the ancestor of the Dutch–American Pootman/Putnam family
was likely the son of Victor Pootman of Aalburg, Netherlands.
The name Victor is uncommon in both Germany and the Netherlands, but
there was a Victor Puettmann who was born about 1700 near Duelmen, Germany,
who may have been the son of Wiricus Puettman born about 1680.
The surname Wyrick is of
patronymic origin. Patronymic names are those surnames which derive their
origin from the first name of the father of the initial bearer. In this
instance, the surname Wyrick is
derived from various personal names, the first being Wirich, Wigerich and
Wigirich, stemming from the German words "wiga" meaning "struggle and
fight", and "rik" meaning "king". [The surname Wyrick can also be
derived from the personal names Winrich, Weinrich and Weirich, stemming
from the German words "wini" meaning "friend"
and "rik" meaning "king".]
The Pootman family is a close match genetically (Y-DNA) with the Wiatt
family, too. Ancestry.com says
this about the surname Wiatt/Wyatt:
English: from
the medieval personal name Wiot,
Wyot, Gyot, which derives from the Old English personal name
Wigheard, [is] composed of the elements wig ‘war’ + heard
‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’. Under Norman influence it was also adopted
as a diminutive of both Guy and William.
It is an educated guess that the Pootman/Putman family descends from a
person whose name was Wighard who lived by a pool, well, or pit.
The names Lodewick means Famous War, Wighard means War Hardy, Wigher means
Warrior, Wigmar means War Fame, and Wigmann means War Man.
There is a site on the internet about the Christopher Voght family of Clinton, New Jersey. Christopher Voght married Cornelia Davidse Pottman, Potman, or Portman, the daughter of David Pottman who was a son of Johannes and Cornelia Pootman of Schenectady, New York.
The David Janse Pootman family used the name Portman according to the Voght record.
In the article on the Voght's . . . http://hunterdonhomes.com/history/TheVoughtHouse.pdf . . . it says that David Potman deeded his homestead to Henry R. Traphegan his grandson. Christopher Vought lived between Potterstown and New Germantown [Oldwick], New Jersey. David Pottman it appears lived next to Christopher Voght or just below today's McCrea Mills, New Jersey, and just northeast of Potterstown. David lived along the middle brook of the Rockaway Creek. Just below the David Pottman plantation was the Van Horne Plantation located at what is today White House, New Jersey.
Christopher Vought removed a few miles west to the South Branch of the Raritan River and north of Clinton, New Jersey.
The 1741 Census of Hunterdon County, New Jersey, shows David Potman living in Readington Township near Potterstown according to the order of the inhabitants listed. Potterstown may have been named for David Pottman.
Cornelia Potman married first Ralph Traphagen by who she had two children: Sarah and Henry. Sarah married Gerrit Covenhoven or Conover. Sarah inherited or purchased a division of the David Pottman Plantation with her brother Henry. Northeast of Potterstown is Covenhoven Road, which was probably at one time near or next to the Pottman Plantation.
I received and an email that stated that David Potman bought land from Mathius Corneliusen [Van Horne] in Middletown, Monmouth Co., New Jersey, [about 1722]. From the deed, the Potman Lot was contained within Mathius' property. David's land consisted of about 10 acres while Mathius had about 200 acres. Mathius Corneliusen's wife was Fyke Adamse Brower who married first Evert Hendrickson Van Gelder. Fyke and Evert it appears had a daughter Helena who may have married David Pottman and received the lot of land for a nominal price. The location of the Potman and Van Horne lands were likely near Centerville, NJ.
The Van Horne's about 1722 removed to White House about the same time that David removed to Potterstown. Potterstown is just upstream from White House and on Rockaway Creek.
David Pottman's Plantation near Potterstown may have been in both Readington and Tewksbury Townships.
In the 1741 Hunterdon Census, David Potman is listed in Readington while Simon Voght, Christopher Voght's father is listed in Lebanon Township.
The "Homeland" of the Dutch-American Putman family may have been the ancient Land of Cleve, Germany, which at one time included parts of North Brabant.
Cleve is Latin for "cliff".
On the Internet, I've discovered that the last name Pootmann was common in the neighborhood of Voerde, Germany, in the early 1600's. Wilhelmus Pootman in 1683 was "Vesalia Clivensis, Ex classibus ibidem promotus". "Vesalia Clivenis" is Latin and means the Town of Wesel in the Duchy of Cleve.
In 1614, a Marijtje Jans Pootman married Jan van Roocke in Leiden, South Holland. Marijtje Jans was probably the sister of Garret Janse Pootman. Maritje was born in the Kettwig, Duchy of Cleve. Kettwig is near the cities of Essen and Duisburg, Germany, at the bottom of the old Duchy of Cleve.
Voerde includes the suburbs of Stockum, Spellen, and Goetterswickerhamm. In the late 1600's and early 1700's, there were Pootmanns in these towns. Voerde is in the northern part of the Old Dutch of Cleve.
From Familysearch.org., we find that Gordt [Gerrit] Pootman was baptized at the Freimersheim Church, which is on the Rhine River just above Duisburg. Gordt Pootman seems have lived at Goetterswickerhamm.
There were also a few Pootmans or Poortmans who lived in East Flanders or Belgium near Aarschott
Pootman / PostmanThe immigrant ancestor of the American Putman family was Johannes Pootman -- 1645-1690. The name Pootman comes from Poortman meaning Gateman to a Castle. The German word "porto" means postage. Norwegian Immigrants in New York, 1630-1674, says that name Putman was originally Postman. In Dutch, a messenger is a "bode", and in German he was called a "bote". The root is the Dutch word "bod", which means to bid, or command, from which we get English bode. In Sweden, a porter is called a "stadsbud". A few Dutch-American Pootman's, or Putman's, who attended the German Lutheran Church of Herkimer County, New York, in the 1800's, spelled their name Bodman and Bottman.
Alkmaar, North HollandThe Dutch Mohawk Valley Putman family originally spelled their name Pootman. On the Vedder and Groat family websites our early surname is spelled Poetman. I have not found any reference in early records in which the Pootman family name was spelled Poutman except in the work of Eben Putnamm of New England. The name Pootman is pronounce like Boatman. At Google.com, if you type in the words "pootman" and "holland", a listing for the Pootman, or Poeytman/Poitman, family, of North Holland, may come up. This Pootman family was recorded in the church inventory of the 1400's and 1500's in Alkmaar, North Holland.
Poentic Kill: Putman CreekWest of Schenectady, New York, runs Putnam Road where the children of Johannes and Cornelia Pootman first received grants of land from Queen Ann about 1710. Putnam Road runs along Poentic Creek. Putnam Road was "The Road to Mohawk Country" and ran a mile or so south of the Mohawk River. Poentic Creek may have been an Indian name for the Pootman family, which was also known as Poetman. The Putman family was known in the 1600's and early 1700's as the Pootman family. During the late 1700's, the name was changed to Pottman and Potman and on at least one occasion Puttman. It was not until the American Revolutionary War, 1776, that the family began using the English rendition Putman. Some Pootmans' today also use the spelling Putnam.
My Putnam FamilyAccording to my YDNA test, the Putman family, Tuscola County, MI, to which I belong descends from Johannes Pootman. I once asked my father, "From where did our family come?" He said that his father Claude told him we were Scottish or Dutch. From my research, it appears that Claude's mother was of Scottish ancestry and his father was of Dutch ancestry. The census taker in 1880 indicated that my Great Grandfather William C. Putman was born in New York and that his parents were born in New Jersey, so it appears my family descends from Johannes and Cornelia Pootman's son David Pottman of Potterstown, NJ. David was born in the 1680's and died in 1761. David Pottman may also have been known as Portman and likely had sons John Putman and Victor Pottman. It appears John Putman was associated with the Swayze and Hopkins families of Hopkins Corner, NJ, which is near Hamburg. John apparently had a son also named John Putman [II] who lived near Hamburg [Hardyston] during the 1793 New Jersey Military Census. John Putman [II] of Hardyston, New Jersey, married Sina and had son John [III] who married Jane Stull. The later two and their children removed to Schuyler County, New York, just below Porters Corners. Victor Pottman likely had sons John V. Pottman and Peter V. Potman and lived in the area likely just south of Portland, Pennsylvania along the west bank of the Delaware River. Victor Pottman may have removed to Pleasant Grover, NJ, during the French and Indian War. John Davidse Putnam's daughter Elizabeth who married Samuel Swayze had a child born it appears in Pleasant Grover, too. John V. Pottman remained near Portland, Pennsylvania, until about 1790 when he removed to Luzerne County. In 1810, John and his son Peter were listed in the census of Niagara County, New York. Peter V. Putman [Potman] in 1793 lived likely north of Bevens, New Jersey, opposite Dingman's Ferry, Pennsylvania. Peter V. Putman and his children before 1810 removed to Seneca County, New York, where his son John Putman probably met and married Sarah "Sally" Martin. The Putman's then moved again west of Porter's Corner, Yates County, New York, where Peter's sons Victor, John, and Peter, Jr., were listed in the Wayne, Steuben County Census of 1820. Great Grandfather William C. Putman came to Wells, Tuscola County, MI, in the mid-1850's when the Thumb of Michigan at the time was the world's lumbering capital. William probably came from Delhi, Ontario, Canada, where his family worked in the lumber woods. William C. Putman was born in 1834 likely in Wayne, Steuben County, New York, and removed with this parent John and Sarah Putman to Delhi, Ontario, and finally settled with the Chambers family in Tuscola, Michigan. William C. Putman had worked on the Welland Canal, Ontario, probably as a stone mason before coming to Michigan. For a witness to the purchase of property in Michigan, William C. Putman used Abel Eveland who lived just south of Porter's Corners, New York, in Bradford. Abel had been the guardian to Francis Marion Goldry a descendant of David Pottman of Potterstown, New Jersey. David Potman's daughter Sophia, or Fyke, married Thomas Auten, and they had a daughter, Helena, who married Oliver Goltry. Abel Eveland had a daughter Mary who married a grandson of John Putman and Jane Stoll. Abel also had a son who married Harriet Stoll who was it appears was a close related of Jane Stoll. After William C. Putman died in 1893, his widow Mary Chambers Putman married Frank Inscho whose mother was a sister of Able Eveland's wife. William C. Putman and Mary Chambers had a number of children including my grandfather Claude A. Putman.
The Pootmans: The Chattii, Batavii, and SaliiOur early Pootman ancestor was a member it appears of a Germanic tribe of Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, or Northwest Germany. Perhaps, he was a member of the Chatti, Batavii, or Salii.The Batavii were originally part of the Chatti tribe. The Batavii migrated between 100 BC and 50 BC from North Hessen to the island now called Betuwe, which was between the Waal and Rhine Rivers in the Roman province of Lower Germany now called South Holland and North Brabant. The Batavii were excellent horsemen. The Batavii tribe was mentioned in The Notitia Dignitatum of the 5th Century AD. The Batavians revolted in 69 AD under the Batavian leader called Gaius, or Claudius, Julius Civilis near the border between Germany and the Netherlands, which today is the city of Nijmegen. In Roman times the stronghold was called Noviomagus Batavodurum from which the name Nijmegan is derived. The Batavians were only part of the ancestry of the Dutch people, who were reportedly formed together from the Batavians, Frisians, Franks, and Saxons. The Batavians were mentioned by Julius Caesur in his Commentarii de Bello Gallico [Commentary on the Belgic Wars]. Caesur indicated the Batavii were living on an island in the Rhine River where it splits with one arm being the Waal and the other the Old Rhine. This high bank of the Waal offered an unimpeded view far into Germania Transrhenanum [Germania Beyond the Rhine]. The site was recognized first by Drusus who built a fortress, or castra, and a headquarters, or praetorium. The headquarters was used until the Batavian revolt. The Batavii lived in small villages made up of 6 to 12 houses in the fertile lands between the rivers. They were farmers and cattle-raisers and were also equestrians. At what is now Nijmegen a Roman administrative center was built called Oppidum Batavorum. Oppidum meant fortified warehouse. Here the tribe's treasures were stored. This centre was destroyed in the Batavian Revolt. The Batavians were still mentioned in 355 during the reign of Constantius II. Their island was then dominated by the Salii a Frankish tribe that had sought Roman protection on the island in 297 AD after having been expelled from their own country by the Saxons. Constantius Gallus added inhabitants of Batavia to his legions. It is assumed the Batavii merged with the Salii shortly before or after, and after having been expelled by another tribe, perhaps the Chamavi after 358 AD, they shared a migration to Toxandria, which today is called Brabant. The Chattae or Chatti tribe occupied today's central and northern Hesse region. It is thought that the name Hesse comes from this tribe. The Chatti also occupied parts of Lower Saxony and were the mother tribe of the Batavii, or Batavians, who left the Chatti tribe after a quarrel. The Chatti were one of the tribes that banded to together to defeat Varrus’ legions at the Herrmannschlacht in 9 AD, which kept Rome out of Germany. Later, the Chatti were incorporated into the Franks. The Salii were, it appears also called the Sicambri. The name meant "those who lived near the [salt] sea". The Salian Franks or Salii were a subgroup of the early Franks who originally lived north of the limes [border region] in the coastal area above the Rhine River in northern Netherlands. The Merovingian kings were Salians one of whose descendants was Charlemagne. From the 3rd century on, the Salian Franks appear in records as warlike Germanic people and pirates and as allies of the Romans. They were the first Germanic tribe from beyond the limes that settled permanently on Roman land. The Salians fully adopted the Frankish identity and ceased to appear by their original name from the 5th century onward when they evolved into the Franks before the Ripuarian Franks were mentioned. The Riparian Kings were the Kings of Cologne, Germany. Clovis the Riparian was as his name implies a Riparian. The name Riparian comes from the Latin word "ripa" meaning river bank. The Riparians were the people of the Banks of the Rhine River. I think it is interesting that the YDNA of the Pootman family is close to the YDNA of the Selinger and Franck families. Perhaps, it is just a coincidence:
Salland is a historical region in the west and north of the Dutch province of Overijssel through which the Ijssel River runs. The Ijssel was named for the Sali People so it seems. It is likely that the Salian Franks originated from Salland. Pootman in BelgiumHere the name often means Portman or GatemanAn email correspondent from Europe told me that the Pootman family name means Portman . . . or a person who keeps guard at a gate or port. Many of the Pootmann's of the area near Duisburg, Germany, near the Belgium border in the early records of the 1600's also used the name Poortmann. When you check the internet for early Pootmann, the names Poortman and Pootman are used interchangeably in these places. The "r" in Poortman was apparently dropped. Other names similar to Poortman in Dutch are De Poorter and De Pooter . . . and Van Der Poorten and Van Der Pooten. However, the former names may mean a citizen of a burg or city and not gateman. Information on the Internet indicates in Professor Debrabandere book of Belgium names the names Potmans and Pothman are also variants of Poortman. Use of these names goes back to about the year 1200 AD. References to the name Pootman in American indicate that both the meanings Portman and Poolman may be appropriate the first meaning gateman and the later meaning man at the well, marsh, or pool.
This is the gate or port of Diest, Brabant. At a similar gate, a Poortman or Pootman would have worked.
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