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I appreciate everyone supplying so much information on the Shreve family. It is so interesting. I just want to share something additional. It is actually "non-information". I recently visited friends in the Netherlands (Holland), and while there spent just a little time looking through some archives in Amsterdam. It was too hard for me to do any research, as everything is in Dutch...my friend did the deciphering for me. I left with no information at all.
However, I did leave my friend some information as I had copied it from these Shreve sites, notes, etc. I gave my friend the name Oara Oara and the repeated history of her marriage to a Shreve (Sheriff, et al). I also gave my friend the name of Sarah Areson.
Firstly, my friend and some other workers in the Amsterdam archives said that Oara is not a Dutch name. It could have been any deviation of that spelling, such as: Aara, etc. They also said that Areson was probably not spelled exactly that way either, and it could have been Aareson, or some other format.
However, my friend did present the information to some Dutch researchers. It appears as though my friend may have mixed up the Oara name with the Areson name, as the researcher checked on a wealthy merchant by the name of Areson. The result of the checking is still the same: there is nothing to report.
I just thought I would share this with you all, in case this will help point someone in a better direction.
The following is the report as translated and written by my Dutch friend:
"I have translated the answer I got from the archive of Amsterdam. Disappointing I guess, but we are not leaving it by this. I am still looking and am going to look if anybody wants to help me out. It could be that maby this whole story of Amsterdam is about another city around Amsterdam.. just my idea... Saskia"
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"Dear Mrs. de Vries.
Unfortunately I can't help you out.
The names Areson and/or Oara/Orrest do not appear in any of our baptist, marriage or funeral registers.
I do have a few comments on your beautifull story though:
1. If Direck Areson was a quaker, he had a terrible hard time in Amsterdam. This could be the problem too. Quakers were against everything the government did or said, they refused to marry for the dutch laws, did not baptise their childern in any official church, etc etc. His name is not listed in the standard register of the Amsterdam Quaker community, neither is the name Oara/Orrest.
2. Amsterdam numbered their houses since 1734. The question is, hów the mentioned house of the widdow orrest, could have the number 18_ in 1680 already. Also in that time there were no houses with 5 floors, only maby the city hall on Damsquare.
3. Also the documents states about shares that were made out for 3 cents a piece ? Very unlikely, as that would have costs way more for paper. The printing itself was also too expensive.
4.In the year of 1674 the dutch government made a tax law in which it said that whealthy people should pay an extra tax, to compensate the loss of the year 1672. Only rich people paid the tax. If the widow of Oara/Orrest was owner of buildings in amsterdam, she must have paied these taxes, and she should be in these documents made of these special taxes. Her name Orrest or any other combination of letters, neither the name Areson or any other combination is mentioned in this register.
As you can see, a lot of things that are not clear. It will be very difficult, even impossible to find anything.
Yours truly,
Harmen Snel,
Genealogist archive of Amsterdam"
Just thought you might enjoy some of the facts presented by the archive researcher.
Hope you all have a great holiday, and keep up the Shreve dialog; I'm lovin' it!
Paula H. (Shreve on my mother's side)
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