@Kathy4959

The certificate is made 29 may 1800, and the declaration of the birth is done by the midwife, Maria Elisabeth Smets,..etc, who declares that 'in her presence' at 12 hr noon,a child is born,at the adress, N Rapenburgstraat 184; from Cornelia Bekker, and given the name of Cornelia...then two witnesses agree and co-sign the certif along with the legal representative (signature).

The only interesting part, is the annotation in the left hand corner above , and this is an annotation made later on,saying..."this child is by legal marriage, done here by Ambros Sieben and Cornelia Bekker, recognised as from their both on date of 15 January 1851.

I tried to locate the birthcertificate of Ambrosius, in the stash of Fam/search here, but altough they have Nackenheim in their catalogue, it is a restricted fold, viewing availiable only at a fam/center on desk.

So probably as a seaman, Ambros was absent for a long period of time ,which was very common,..also, the midwife testifies when the man is absent or unknown.

I would suggest another 'sense',..for Deserted from his ship, as no annotation to that remark is to be found in the censusdocument,and would this have been a military desertion,...he would have been arrested anyway,so he probably left his ship without permission, not to return,the way left the wife behind to sail Australia , en left her behind.So probably not a military desertion,anyway, i did not find any conviction.