Marriage records, Kakiat (West New Hempstead) Reformed church, 1774 to 1898
A summary of a long transcription of one congregation's marriage register.
| Place | Kakiat, also called West New Hempstead, Rockland County, New York |
| Congregation | Reformed Dutch church, organised in 1774, locally called the Brick Church |
| Period | Marriage entries from 1793 to 1898; the congregation itself dates from 1774 |
| Entries | About 970 numbered marriage records, with witnesses named in about 90 |
| Sources | An early-1900s published translation of the church registers, cross-checked against a church history published in 2000 |
The previous page set the register out in three parts: marriages performed by the congregation's first minister (from 1793), those of the second minister (from 1809), and a later section of official marriage records. The second part also reaches the period after about 1822, when a group of members left to found a separate congregation, later in Monsey.
Each entry gave a record number, the two people married, the date and, in later years, where each lived: Kakiat, Ramapo, Clarkstown, Haverstraw and other places nearby. Some entries listed witnesses. The compiler of the previous page merged the two sources, marked where they agreed or differed, and added notes on doubtful readings; that editing is not reproduced here.
The set was useful for tracing marriages in the Dutch settler communities of Rockland County and the adjoining part of New Jersey, where the surnames are mostly Dutch with English and other names appearing over time.