Cornelius Bom

Biography

https://edmondcasteel.wordpress.com/edmond-duchastel/christian-bom/

Shortly after his first rumored arrival in Philadelphia, Captain Edmond du Chastel married Christian Bom the step-daughter of Councilman and local brewer Anthony Morris. The wedding took place on May 1, 1693 at the home of her older half sister Weyneti Van Sanen who had married businessman and baker John Duplouvys.
Due to the fact that Edmond was not a Quaker, the ceremony required twelve witnesses and two justices to be present. John Holme and John Farmer served as the justices, while Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Paschall, Joshua Carpenter, councilman Jasper Yeates, and Edmond’s friends James Miller, and Charles Goss as well as Christian’s brothers Cornelis and Abraham, and stepfather Anthony Morris attended as witnesses. Thirty guests in all signed their wedding certificate front and back according to the copy transcribed in the Marriage Register of Pennsylvania.

Christian was the daughter of Cornelius Bom, Senior. He and his wife, Agnes, and their children came from the Netherlands to Pennsylvania, in 1683. Christian was probably the first born child of the union of Agnes and Conelius, though Agnes had an older daughter by a previous marriage. Their son, Cornelius Jr., was baptized on 9 July 1679, in Mennonite Parish, Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands. If Christian was born after Cornelius, she would have only been thirteen years old or less when she married Edmond.

Cornelius Bom probably died in 1689. His will was translated from its original Dutch and recorded early that year. On February 4 1689, he was included in the land allocations for Germantown. Therefore, he must have died shortly after this, since his widow and Anthony Morris declared their intentions to marry at the Quaker Monthly Meeting held on August 25, 1689.

Cornelis Bom, a Mennonite baker of Haarlem, Holland, immigrated to Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1683, and died there about January 1689. In a letter written in late 1684 he reported that he owned one "negro" slave. Cornelis Bom van Cranenburch, who in 1632 was a preacher of the Flemish Mennonite congregation at Schiedam, Dutch province of South Holland, and concerning whom some documents are found in the Amsterdam Archives, was not the same person as the emigrant of 1683. He may have been a relative.

Agnes was the widow of Cornelius Bom and had been married three times previously when she married Anthony Morris as his second wife.

https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/cornelius-bom-24-y91tkw

Born in Holland, Reusel-de Mierden, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands on baptized 02 Apr 1646 to Anders Svensson Bonde and Anna Davida Anderson. Cornelius Bom married Agnes Moye and had 7 children. He passed away on Jan 1689 in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

References

• Zijpp, Nanne van der and Samuel J. Steiner. "Bom, Cornelis (d. 1689)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. September 2009. Web. 28 Jan 2021. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Bom,_Cornelis_(d._1689)&oldid=165650.