Bible Records of Wootan/Young/Collins

Bible Records of Wootan/Young/Collins Family Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Ruby Collins January 1999

Susan Wootan married Daniel Young. Eliza Jane Wootan married Jean
Baptiste Bertel. This family lived in New Orleans, Louisiana.

BIBLE ENTRIES

Susan Wootan was born 18 Jan 182_. (edge of page flaked off.)

Middleton Mosly Wootan born February the 10th 1824.

Eliza Jane Wootan born October the 2nd 1825.

Daniel Washington Young born 23 March 1837.

Ann Elizabeth Young born 1st August 1842.

John Henry Young born 12th Februrary 1844.

Emile Bertel was born 30th August 1844.

Mary Jane Young was born 12 November 1845.

Emily Bertel was born on the 30th Dec 1847.

Wm. Middleton Young was born 11th Oct 1849.

Clara Bertel was born 23rd Oct 1850.

Louisa Bertel born 7 March 1853.

Earnest William Bertel Born June 15th 1855.

Julie Cora Bertel born September 27th 18?? (probably 1857; some of the paper has flaked away.)

Ella Lula Bertel born September 4th 1859.

Frederic Walter Bertel born February 21st 1861

Daniel Clay Wootan Born June 5, 1852.

Elizabeth Emily Wootan born August 28th 1854.

Clara Smyth Wootan Born Sept 1st, 1856.

Isabella Robinson Wootan Born Oct 8th 1858.

Charles Rolfe Wootan Born Dec. 25th 1862

Rebecca Giles Wootan Born June 2nd 1866.

Lorena Louisa Wootan born February 12th, 1868.

Jessie Amanda Collins born April 4th 1864.

John Young Collins Born December 28th, 1865.

Edward Collins Born September 27th 1867.

James Warren Young Born Febuary 10th, 1869.

Anna Lelia Collins Born 25th September 1869.

Jessie Young (Dunn) Born October 28th 1870

Ida Elizabeth Dunn) Born Sept 22nd 1871.

Daniel Wilson Collins Born Sept 7th 1871.

William David Young Born Sept 18th 1871.

Ida Josephine Wootan. Born March 1st 1872.

Carrie Susanne Dunn born October 1872.

Bertel Harrison Collins. born August 4th 1873.

Louis Collins born October 10th 1874.

This Wootan Bible evidently belonged to Susan Wootan. It was "translated out of THE ORIGINAL TONGUES; and with THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED. The Bible was printed and published by T. & W. Mercein, No. 95 Gold Street, New York, 1816." On the page opposite Genesis 1: "This first American stereotype Bible has been copied from the Edinburgh edition printed under the revision of the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, and carefully compared with the Cambridge, Oxford, Hartford, and New-York editions.
D. & G. Bruce. New-York, June, 1815."

The pages are extremely fragile, yellow, and flaking. Making copies is out of the question. On the inside blank pages are the birth records. Some of the entries are written with the beautiful old-style calligraphy in brown ink. The ink has eaten away the paper in spots and an outline of the letters remain. The last entry in the book is the birth of Louis Collins.