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“Martine” and her “father” Marcel MARLIER

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Table of Contents Martine lost her father Inside Cover Books in Review p3 The Belgian Emigrants to Taos, Central Missouri p4 The Vandervelpen – Damas Case p16 Belgians on the WWI Draft Cards p18 Pennsylvania and West Virginia Obituaries p20 Who was Emile Hubert HOYAUX? p22 Belgians in 1906 Alberta p26 Canadian Obituaries p27 Belgians on the 1900 Census: Cook Co, IL – Chicago p29 Researching Online: Internet Links of Interest p32 Index p33

Word reached me through a friend that Martine lost her father this past January. It seems silly that we should speak of Martine as though she were a real person but many of us, as Belgian

children who grew up reading the books that told her adventures on the farm or taking her first airplane ride, or adjusting to the arrival of a baby etc. She was born in 1954 from a story by Gilbert DELAHAYE and the pencil of Marcel MARLIER. He drew his inspiration from a long ago neighbor girl named Françoise, whom he could see through his window when he was 10 years old. He sold 100 million albums, translated into 36 languages. Martine is known under several names: Anita, Martita, Tini, Mimi, Matynka, Cristina, Debbie… He always loved drawing and learned as a child with the help of a family friend, Albert MERCIER, to appreciate the poetry and the beauty of colors. He said in an interview that he could draw 18 hours a day non-stop and sometimes he would go 2 or 3 days without sleep just so he could finish an album. He published one new album a year for the past 60 years and was working on the release of “Martine and the mysterious Prince” that took place in Venice – story his son wrote.

Marcel MARLIER passed away quietly on January 18th, 2011 at the age of 80.

He leaves Martine an orphan. The beauty of his work will live on however and will surely continue to be appreciated through the decades ahead. Martine is timeless in spite of her critics. She has become a children’s literary classic.

Thank You Mr. MARLIER for giving her to us!

Dear Members,

I have a real pet peeve that I would like to share with you. Since 1998, The Belgian Researchers has been headquartered in Peru, Indiana and yet, more times than I care to tell you, people have contacted Pierre and Leen Inghels in Oregon with requests for help or for membership. Mind you this is not even their current address any more. They have not lived in LaGrande since sometimes in the 80s if I remember well… Books and websites continue to publish this erroneous information in spite of my writing them, calling them, emailing them. It seems it is not important enough for them to fix. In the past 10 minutes, I have found two sites with the exact same quote: I would sure appreciate your help in correcting this. But then again what’s the point? !!! I can’t help wonder how many researchers get lost and disappointed too not to get responses since we sure can’t answer what we don’t get... )= So, here is our website address: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~inbr/index.html And mailing address: The Belgian Researchers 495 East 5th Street Peru IN 46970 (765)-473-5667 official email: tbr2008@live.com THANK YOU!!!

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Retrouver ses Ancestres Belges (Finding your Belgian Ancestors)

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Father Helias d'Huddeghem

The Belgian Emigrants to Taos, Central Missouri

By Guy Gallez When Harrville was not yet Taos.

A Jesuit priest, Father Ferdinand Benoit Marie Guislain Helias d’Huddeghem1 came to the United States in 1833. He lived successively in Georgetown, White Marsh, Conewago, Pa. (1834-1835. In 1835 he went to St. Louis in Missouri by the Alleghenies, Pittsburgh and Louisville.

He was the first Catholic priest to visit, in 1838, the German settlements in Central Missouri along the Osage river. Soon after his arrival, he laid out the town of Westphalia around a new log church that he dedicated to St. Joseph. He was also the first Belgian to settle in the area. In 1840 he bought ten acres of land in Cole County from the Harr family and built a log church dedicated to Saint Francis Xavier. Soon a village, which was first named Haarville, for Henry and Gertrude Haar, the first settlers, grew around the church. But after some soldiers who had fought in the Battle of Taos and Sacramento, came back from the war with Mexico, the town was forever referred to as Taos. Two other institutions which Father Helias occupied himself became Richfountain (1842) on the Gasconade and Looscreek (1843), near Linn, Osage County. Each year, Father Helias visited eleven counties: Franklin, Gasconade, Osage, Cole, Moniteau, Cooper, Warren, Montgomery, Callaway, Boone and Howard. In 1844 the building of a more permanent church made of stone was started, which was dedicated the following year. Father Helias' mother in Belgium paid for most of the cost of its construction2. In late 1846, he moved to Harrville, near Jefferson City, and the village became the center of main Catholic colonies.

The second Belgian to visit Harrville was Auguste-Gabriel Van Der Straeten-Ponthoz born Ponthoz near Clavier, Liege December 14, 1813. A diplomat, he was first secretary of the Belgian Legation in Washington. He was sent on a voyage of exploration to the United States to study the possibilities of emigration, and expansion of trade with Belgium. The report he made in 1845 was published under the title: Research on the situation of immigrants to the United States of North America. He

described Harrville as follows: « This village, founded by forty families from German provinces, is the center of a town of 400 immigrants from the same country. The situation is six miles of Lisleton. There is no bilious fever as a rule. The houses are better than in other places in Missouri. All Company has good appearance. A Belgian missionary resides in Harrville, whose inhabitants are Catholic. The church is of stone. It is 60 feet long by 30 wide. The first emigrants arrived in 1836. The locality is more open and the soil is more productive than on the other side of the Osage River. According to estimations made by the missionary, based on what is happening in other countries, an emigrant may built a house for 15 dollars, a 40-acre lot cost 50 dollars, two oxen worth 16 dollars, and a cow 6, with her calf. The price of cattle is much lower in Missouri than Wisconsin, the difference is one-third. Two hundred dollars is enough for an immigrant to settle in the middle of the town of Harrville.».

In 1847, the projects of sending Belgians in America came to fruition. The government encouraged part of the population to emigrate to alleviate the misery people lived at that time of great crisis. Projects were built by the government to create colonies in the States but there were also individual grant-funded projects. Prime Minister Bartholomeus de Theux de Meylandt had an outspoken preference for trying his luck in Missouri3. His older brother, Theodore, worked as a missionary in the area. As oldest son,

Theodore would have inherited the title of count from his father. However he chose to be a missionary and passed the title on to his brother Bartholomeus. Theodore de Theux de Meylandt arrived in 1816 in the United States. He studied for eight years at the university of Maryland, before moving to Florissant near Saint-Louis in 1825. The letters he wrote home must have had an influence on Bartholomeus’ preference to set up a colony in that region. His brother passed away on the 28th of February 1846. It is plausible to think that the minister wanted to found a colony in that region to honor his brother. De Theux brought his project for a site in Missouri to the attention of our Minister Resident at Washington. He based it on the Vanderstraeten-Ponthoz’s report. On the 12th of August 1847 Adolphe Deschamps, Minister of Foreign Affairs sent his instructions to Washington. That same day the government fell. These plans would take a different shape under the government that followed, but some men were already on their way to Harrville, unaware of these developments.

1 http://www.colecohistsoc.org/bios/bio_h.html 2 http://www.emslanders.com/cole_co_st_fx_parish.htm 3 The emigration policy of the Belgian government from Belgium to the U.S. through the port of Antwerp 1842-1914 by Torten Feys, Gent university licentiate thesis for obtaining a master in History, 2002-2003

The 1844 Church, The current one was built almost 10 years

after the death of Father Helias.

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A project of emigration.

Eecloo, April 16, 1847 Letter to the Minister of Foreign Affairs

The undersigned Pierre Dirckx, from Eecloo, without particular trade, intending to establish an agricultural colony in Wisconsin, United States of America, ask from you, for him and his compatriots engaged in his service, to provide him with a recommendation for people responsible in defending the interests of Belgium in the United States. This recommendation, Sir, in the absence of a Belgian care company, would be particularly helpful to their arrival in New York to avoid them being the target of rogues who take advantage of the inexperience and good faith of the emigrants and also for them to obtain information on the accommodations most favorable, to the places most favorable to their establishment, the modes of transportation most advantageous to carry them in their places of destination etc.. He also takes the respectful liberty, Sir, to tell you that, in case of success of this company, these countries so favored by nature, where already lives many families from Zealand, could offer a refuge to our unfortunate Flemish people and in the future, perhaps before many years, this colony of Belgians, serving as a kind of agent for our houses of Commerce, could help open up

our country with these so wealthy countries, a very advantageous trade relation.

In support of this, he quotes the opinion of Mr. Baron Vanderstraeten Ponthoz, which in its report on emigration to the United States establishes the extension of trade with Germany through their emigrants in this country. An export company was recently formed in Belgium. Perhaps, Sir, will you agree, that the undersigned , supplied with some instructions and samples of various articles with their prices, could at least provide the government with valuable reports, in which case Mr. the Minister, he would be happy to be honored by receiving such orders and can be useful to the countrymen he leaves for ever.

Awaiting, Sir, a favorable response from you before April 26, when I should be at Rotterdam to board on the 1 or May 2, I'm calling to your respect etc ... Your humble servant, Dirckx. (enclosed, a note of recommendation by the District Commissioner of Eecloo)

On April 22,a letter was sent by the Minister to Beaulieu in Washington: "... Peter Dirckx Eecloo goes to the U.S. with a number of our compatriots with the aim of forming an agricultural colony in the Wisconsin ... and asks to help him".

The ship Henrietta Clasina from Rotterdam arrived at Baltimore about July 27, 1847, with 106 emigrants from Baden, Wurtemberg and Hessia. The last of them were registered as coming from « Sealand » (Zeeland).

91 Francis Wille 48 M Farmer 92 Petrus Wille 22 M 93 Bernardina Wille 20 F 94 Rosalia Wille 18 F 95 Hisete Wille 16 F 96 Bernardus Wille 11 M 97 Nathalia Wille 10 F 98 Pieter Jacobus Dierckx 18 M Farmer 99 Petrus Dierckx 20 M Farmer 100 Johannes Sternes 23 M Carpenter 101 Eduard Van Poorn 26 M Miller 102 Bernardus Gotte 24 M Farmer 103 Carl Beckaert 40 M Farmer 104 Peterus H de Heuvel 24 M Taylor 105 Francis Bernard Goosens 25 M Wooden shoemaker106 Joh. Cornelis Olderbeck 44 M Labourer 107 A. Certfriend 26 M Farmer

Armed with letters of recommendations from the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Peter Dirckx met Napoleon Alcindor, baron de Beaulieu4, Belgian Minister at Washington. He received from him letters of recommendations, not for Wisconsin, but for Harrville Missouri. Father Helias was delighted with the arrival of these Belgians « They are good Catholics » he wrote « and

4 born at Namur, 21 May 1805, "Ministre resident" at Washington from 1845 to 1849, died on 11 Oct. 1871 in London

Adolphe Dechamps Minister of Foreign Affairs

1846-1847

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always ready to render me a service. Pierre Dirckx was a « constant visitor at the presbytery and shows me every attention. He just lost his companion and close friend, a great young man from Eecloo. A disease that first appeared being not serious, won in 8 days. A good and pious woman from Brabant, Mrs Veulemans treated him night and day with the dedication of a mother. This poor child died in my arms, perfectly prepared, even resigned and happy. I did celebrate her funeral with all possible pomp, and on this occasion I preached my first sermon in Flemish.»

Father Helias also wrote some comments on the other settlers « Pierre Dirckx operates with his partner, Mr. Charles Beckaert owns a flourishing farm, and it is fine revenue. Their servants Edward Van Voeren, Francois Steippens Francis Goessens, etc.. are mostly Belgian.

These young people know all useful occupations, could not be more lucrative in those countries recently opened to civilization. Francois Goessens is an excellent maker of wooden shoes. People from twenty miles around come to fit themselves at his shop. I have known him to sell as many as five hundred sabots in a single day. In truth, it's a nice trade, because wood does not cost anything or almost nothing here. »

In a letter dated December 5, 1847, the missionary gave new details on the Belgian colony « So far our countrymen have escaped the bilious fevers of the country, a kind of fever like in the Belgian Polders, but more intense and that hurts more. Belgian farmers stand in Missouri like everywhere else in their industry, their spirit of order, perseverance, love of work and unparalleled cleanliness. Their settlements thrive quickly and could serve as model farms to emigrants. When I ask if they like our flamingos here, they say "they are as happy as King Leopold on the throne."

It's not easy to find trace of those people. The 1850 census gives almost nothing. A Theresa Veulemans lived in Cooper County with her family in the area travelled by Father Helias. Some sources put the Belgians as numerous as fifty people, others says 20. The Henrietta Clasina put them back at ten or maybe more if I add the Wille family. But, I have been unable to find any trace of them in the States.

Pierre Dirckx acted as the agent of the colony as proposed and sent two reports to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belgium in 1848 and 1849. First report, received in Belgium in July 1848

By letter dated April 16, 1847, dated Eccloo in Flanders and countersigned by the District Commissioner, I took the respectful liberty to announce to Mr. the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belgium my intention to emigrate to the United States of North America, with a number of my countrymen urging Mr. the Minister to give letters of recommendation for the people representing Belgium and protecting our interests in those countries. In the last paragraph of my letter, I allowed myself to express the wish that our business in those so rich countries could be of some use to our unhappy country in preparing a place of refuge for those of our compatriots who would follow us, or by facilitating trade relations through the export company I told you about, for example.

Mr. the Minister had the extreme kindness to provide me with two letters of recommendation, the first for Mr Beaulieu, Minister Resident in Washington, the other for Mr. Moxhet, Consul General of Belgium in New York, but I could make use only of the first. Mr. Minister, in his letter above referred to, having said that it would welcome any communication to him so he would know the outcome of our business. I have the honor, Sir, to give you this knowledge of our current position. But first, I thank Mr. the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Mr. Beaulieu especially, who received us well and provided us in turn with letters of recommendation that gave us the protection and support of many people on our way here, even the one of the President of the United States. Our thanks also to Father Ferdinand Helias d’Huddeghem a pastor in this country, a native of Ghent, which, better than support and protection, gave us a fatherly welcome.

The Flemish Farm Colony, Mr. Minister, is established, not in Wisconsin, where long winters and lack of communication make the position less advantageous, but in Missouri, seven miles (2 Belgian miles) only to Jefferson City, Capital of this state in the "garden of the West", as it is called. The surface of the land is less equal than in Flanders, broken by hillock but the valleys and flat lands are extremely fertile and we can say without exaggeration that the lands near the shores of rivers, rivers and streams that intersect these countries are the richest you can find on this globe. The country is well wooded, full of excellent water sources. The market is especially provisioned with horses, cattle, swine and sheep. Grains of any description, hemp and tobacco are also grown for export. The country also abounds in lead mines, iron and other minerals. The millstones built here are the best of the United States. We also have in this vicinity, mills of all kinds powered by steam, wind and water or pulled by oxen or horses, as well as breweries and distilleries.

The vines and fruit trees of all kinds come here at will and their fruits are more plentiful and better than in Europe. The high fertility of the soil and the simplicity of farming processes, are doing the working capital the most significant thing, rending superfluous fertilizers or expensive paraphernalia. An emigrant may have his house built here and in order for $ 15, two oxen

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worth $ 16, 25 and a horse a cow with her calf $ 6. The value of cleared land varies with its improvement, quality, and buildings that are built on it. You can buy 40 acres of pristine land at $ 50, and there are still around 80.000 to 100.000 acre to sell around Jefferson City. The acre will yield an average of 20 bushels of wheat, 50 buckwheat, 40 corn and 1500 pounds of tobacco. The travel expenses paid, two hundred dollars and a lot of work are enough to settle. There is, in rule, no bilious fever. The state of health of the colony was always excellent. The population increases in a manner unheard of. My companions and I have already opened a large resort, and I can assure you, without flattering ourselves, that our plantations can already serve as models for newcomers. I've noticed that Jefferson city, seat of government and legislature of that State, is only two Belgian miles from here, and what is better still, it is close to the Missouri and the Osage, two navigable rivers, traversed daily by many steamboats, and other rivers and streams facilitate extraordinarily trade. The settlers live free and independent here happy and contented, as king Leopold, as they say.

The 16th section of each township was allocated by an act of Congress to help public education. For the benefit of the colony, the 16th sections, not only here are very fertile but excessive in value due to their location on the Missouri and the confluence of the Osage. Helias d’Hudeghem, a native of Ghent, has already built four large and large churches, two stone and two of wood, which form different parishes distant from 2 to 2 miles apart. Having landed in Baltimore we had to travel overland and follow the Ohio valley. This is the most dangerous road, the more difficult and the most expensive. It is infinitely better to land at New Orleans, avoiding however, due to yellow fever, August, September and October. Nothing is more advantageous in respect to health and interests, as doing no stop or halt, from boarding to destination. One could virtually coming from the port of Antwerp or Ostend to Jefferson City without touching the ground. Spring is the favorable time for leaving so as to arrive here before May.

We found here a well-being life with good perspectives and, more than any real independence, a true freedom! Our compatriots who would follow us will find more, a fraternal welcome home from their former countrymen, eager to help and advice them.

If the Belgian Government, Mr. Minister, was of the opinion that I could personally be useful here to serve as an intermediary trusted person for bonding commercial relationships it will be with great pleasure that I’ll answer these views with all haste..

Accept, Mr. Minister, the assurances of my highest esteem.

This report, shortened, was published in Belgian newspapers of the time.

What Pierre Dirckx was not aware of was the change of policy in Belgium with the change of government. The new government, led by the new First Minister Charles Rogier would take on other projects. Rogier asked the opinion of Beaulieu upon where Belgian colonies could develop in gathering the “beggars and paupers” from Belgium. The basis was building a well prepared project with well defined goals and supervised by people dedicated to that task. It also asked for writing a contract with constraints for the two parties, the contractor being wealthy and competent enough to support the charge and supervise the settlement of the immigrants as long as

needed, and for the Belgian government to pay him for the expenses incurred. Beaulieu listed three possibilities: a new colony in Missouri, one in West-Virginia or a project in Elk County, Pennsylvania.

For sure, the already established project of Pierre Dirckx was not overlooked after his second report of the situation of his Taos colony, but it had better-suited competitors, or rather better introduced politically, to handle the task. And De Theux, now in the opposition, was not there for support. Maybe, it was a lost opportunity, as the other attempts would fail miserably, but that’s another story. True to his word, Pierre Dirckx sent a second report the following year; it would be received May 24, 1849 in Belgium. And like the first one, it was received by Constant Ernest d’Hoffschmidt de Resteigne, now Minister of Foreign Affairs.

That report was, like the first, an enumeration of all the qualities of the Cole County are. All mineral, vegetal and animal resources were here listed. I’ll cut it short and only retain the information concerning the settlers and the possibilities of Belgian immigration.

Pierre Dirckx built a one-and-a-half-story log house near the presbytery, to which he later added a stone wing. This farmhouse had traditional Belgian details such as three-paneled doors of walnut and a high mantel shelf in the kitchen with bold moldings.

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Duc de Brabant Ferdinand E Helias 55 M Clergyman (R. C.) Belgium Peter Sibo 7 M Belgium ?

The second report, 1849

Sir, Your Excellency by a letter of April 22, 1847, has had the extreme kindness to inform me of the desire to receive all communications by which I can make him understand the outcome of our agricultural Belgian colony, established seven miles from Jefferson City, Missouri in the United States of Northern America, where I have since settled. I take the freedom to respectfully report my patient investigations on long trips and serious studies on the inexhaustible resources of our new home.

First, I can now understand without the slightest illusion, with knowledge and without exaggeration, with all the truth that the Minister is entitled to expect from me that it's not without merit that the State of Missouri is called, the Garden of the west… The salubrious climate left me and my traveling companions to enjoy an unalterable health, even at the peak of the working season and during the least favorable ones of the year. I let you conclude, Sir, if this country wouldn’t be inappropriate for many of our poor countrymen forced to emigrate because of poverty and of the stagnation of Belgian industry…

We live here alone and almost without charges or contributions. The patent, the taxes are so low, they do not deserve to be mentioned. Recruitment for the national militia is free, enlisting in war is optional. If necessary, the generosity of the country to reward military service provides more combatants than it may need…

The Osage River has its confluence in Missouri, three miles from our Belgian colony and is navigable by steamboat or other boat, to a range of 240 miles. The government has allocated a very large sum and Public Works now operate a very extensive project to improve navigation...

Concerning the chances of emigration, if the Belgian government still wants to try on a trial basis, under his leadership and his security, I can assure your Excellency, according to my information, not given for the purpose of delusion, but in a spirit of truth, that our country is more fitted than any other for the experience. First I demonstrated that there are here inexhaustible resources, then climate and health are similar to the Belgium ones. It is therefore obvious that our poor but industrious fellow, if preparations are wisely designed and managed, will infallibly find within these fertile and healthy ranges, and in a short time, a happy and prosperous situation. But to avoid that these poor narrow-minded emigrants, without foresight and knowledge of languages and places when they arrive would be deceived and lost in the desert, homeless, and destitute of everything; you absolutely have to take in charge their baggage, provisions, etc.. in a word of all of their transportation from the starting place of emigration, and give them in advance land where to build a crude wooden shack, give them some farm implements, livestock, livelihoods until they might suffice to themselves. For physicians, pharmacies, Minister of Worship, Schoolmaster, we can find them here, which will know both languages, laws, customs, and necessities of this country.

Approximate freight from Antwerp to New Orleans is 90 to 110 francs5, including food. From New Orleans to St. Louis from 20 to 40 francs, and St. Louis to Jefferson City from July to October 7 to 10 francs..., The money should be deposited with the Belgian Minister to Washington DC where the agent would go if needed and would report its expenses, etc..

If the Government, Sir, believes that I could personally be of some use in this honorable and important undertaking, or in any other business relationship between the two countries, it is with great pleasure that I would respond to his orders. Accept the assurances of my profound respect, your humble and obedient servant, Your Excellency, Pierre Dirckx

That report was not overlooked, and the in 1849, the consul general in New York was made responsible for making a report on the Flemish colony of Jefferson City. His answer, accompanied by a letter from the mayor6 of Jefferson City and of a notice of the English engineer J. Johnson concerning the Missouri resources was transmitted to the Home Secretary. But nothing came out from the Peter Dirckx reports. Sometime in 1849/1850 Pierre Dirckx was back in Belgium. That’s why his name doesn’t appear on the 1850 US census. But the names of his followers are also missing. Back in Belgium with him? I don’t know, but only a few of those names will appear in the following American censuses: Charles Beckaert and Francis Goessens appear in the 1880 census as neighbors to Dirckx.

The Cole county 1850 census list only 2 Belgians, Father Helias and a boy living with him. I found nothing concerning Peter Sibo. No Sibo family. A Sibley family was living in Clark and a Sibson one in Cooper, none of them Belgians:

Note that the 1870 census lists a Peter Sambeum living with Father Helias.

5 5 francs ~ 1 $ 6 Jefferson T. Rogers from 1847 to 1850

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Peter Dirckx and Helena Bekel History of St. Francis Xavier Church, Taos,

Missouri, Illustrated, 1838-1988

Peter Dirckx was once again on his way to the States On September 13th, 1850, arriving in New Orleans on ship Duc de Brabant April 4, 1851. All the passengers are listed as coming from Germany but others have names « sounding » Flemish : Van Halle, Wittemans, Van Kerckhove, Van Northegem, Van de Walle. I have been unable to find trace of those people except for one in first cabin : Edward de Grendele.

Edward De Grendele was born april 5th 1829 at Eecloo as son of Jacobus (+1847) and Sophie Jehanne Buyck (+1832). His father was a lawyer (Avoué) at Eeklo, Jacobus father was the former Mayor of Breskens. Peter's sister Marie Sylvia born at Diksmuide May 24th 1821was married to Edward De Grendele, one child Henry Edward born on july 15th 1849. Marie Sylvia died shortly after, on November 2, 1849. So, Peter Dirckx

and Edward De Grendele were brother in laws.

On June 22, 1852, Peter Dirckx married Anna Helena Bekel. She was born in Hanover, Germany at Gross Hesepe on November 20, 1833. She emigrated with her parents and siblings in 1842 and married Peter Dirckx in 1852 in Taos, Cole County, MO. She was postmistress at Taos since 1851 and retained the post almost all her life except for two year during the Civil War. They had eleven children, ten living (one child died an infant): 1 Henry James DIRCKX born ca 1853, MO / died 1910 2 Charles L. DIRCKX born 1857, MO 3 Peter J. DIRCKX born 28 Aug 1859 / died 21 Oct 19357 4 Clement A. DIRCKX born May 14 1862 / died March 26, 1940.8 5 Emil Joseph DIRCKX born August 8, 1864 / died December 22, 1945 6 August Victor DIRCKX born 1866 / died 1907 7 Ottilia Marie DIRCKX born January 20, 1868 8 Sophia C. DIRCKX born 1872 9 Joseph Frederick DIRCKX born 1873 10 Frank Gustave DIRCKX born March 30, 1875/ died March 30, 1952

The cholera epidemic of 1853 made many orphans, children generally of recent emigrants, and losing their father and mother had been deprived of the only parents they had in America. Unable for the most part, because of their young age, to earn a living for their work, without resources, without protection, without support, suffered a most frightful misery which threatened their lives, to say nothing of the perils they endured.

During that period, the State of Missouri only had few orphanages. Father Hélias, intending to get charitable people excited about taking in these poor orphans, decided to lead by example and adopted, with the approval of his superiors, a young Belgian orphan named Pierre Labat. He was very preoccupied with his protégé’s future and sometimes wondered what would become of the boy should he pass away. The paternal concern of the missionary found a voice in this letter where he tries to interest his family about Pierre Labat’s fate.

"The cholera orphaned a young Belgian boy from the region of Eecloo. I am his tutor, and the little Pierre has become my adopted son. If God called me back to Him, this orphan could most certainly be pitied; he owns nothing here anymore than he does in Belgium, I think. But “Deus providebit”, I count on Providence. "I would recommend this child to you in the event of my death. From Heaven, if God allows me there, I would consider anything you could do for him as though you had done it to me. God himself would reward you, in my name and repay the debt of my gratitude. "My young companion is only 9 years old; he finds a thousand ways to help me out and his naïveté lifts my spirits. I find him bright and open-minded; we might make him into one of Grétry’s disciples, as he promises a remarkable talent for music." 7 Post Tribune, Jefferson City, MO Tuesday October 22, 1935: Well Known Cole Man Dead At Home In Taos, Peter J. Dircks, brother of Clem Dircks, former county clerk died at his home in Taos yesterday following an illness of several months, He was 76 years of age. Dirckx member of a well-known Cole county family had been in a critical condition for the last week. He was born in Taos August 28, 1859. His parents were Mr and Mrs Peter J Dirckx pioneer residents of the community. With the exception of two years in Davenport, Iowa he had spent his life in the Taos neighborhood. For many years he conducted a shoe repair shop in Taos. He is survived by three brothers Clem and Emil of Jefferson City and Frank of Taos, and a sister Mrs. A. H. Steve of Jefferson City. Funeral services will be held at Taos tomorrow morning from the St. Xavier church. Burial will be in the Catholic Cemetery at Taos. 8 Daily Capital News, Jefferson City, MO TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1940: DIRCKX, Clem A.-Died at his home, 325 Ash Street, Thursday, March 21, 1940, at the age of 73 years. Funeral services will be held Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock, from the Immaculate Conception Church. Rev. J. B. Pleus officiating. Burial in Riverview Cemetery. TANNER FUNERAL HOME.http://www.colecohistsoc.org/earlyresidents.html

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Pierre Labat lived several years the rectory of Taos, and when his age allowed him to perform a job, it was still a missionary who undertook to procure him.

The Civil War 1861-1865 The life of Father Helias was in danger, he had to keep hidden during the Civil War. He was accused of trying to separate the people of Taos from the Union cause. They used their home as a refuge for rebels and an arsenal where the priest had amassed weapons, gunpowder and other ammunition. Military leaders in the neighborhood sent a patrol to search the rectory and church. In summer 1861, Father Helias was named as a suspect in harboring soldiers and five times a few weeks, the rectory was visited by the troops. On the advice of his friends, he fled to New Whestphalia and then with friends, the Forth family, in a remote area. In his absence, his house was plundered, but in September, J. Davis, commander of the Home Guards, assured that orders had been given for his protection, and Father Helias returned to Taos. Shortly after his return, his house was looted again. Armed men entered his home one night, broke everything they could not take away and left him with only his bed and his books. Thereafter, and until the end of the war, trouble subsided.

Mr. Dierckx met with heavy financial losses during the Civil War and suffered many hardships; all the corn in his fields was taken by Union soldiers (about 500 bushels, worth $1.25 per bushel), his fine mare also, which was returned after the war. In July, 1867, his barn was destroyed by fire, burning all his wheat, four horses and a good mule; the wheat being worth about $3.00 per bushel and flour worth $9.00 per 100 pounds. During the war he retired from commercial business, and did not resume until the above mentioned fire occurred, when he engaged again merchandising, from which he retired and return to farming, his favorite pursuit, in which he continued until his death.9

Father Helias died at age 78 on August 11, 1874, at Taos, poor and alone at his simple country rectory. It had been 78 years and eight days since his birth in Belgium. He was found lying in the yard near the church - a stroke had ended his life. He was buried in the little cemetery in Taos where he remained until 1964. On February 29 of that year, he was moved to St. Francis Xavier Church.

On the shrine/tomb of Father Helias, located inside Taos St. Francis Xavier Church10, are the following words. Flanders was my cradle; France instructed me; Italy, Germany and Switzerland sheltered me. After many ventures and labors on land and sea, God settled me in Missouri. The foundations of Westphalia were laid by me and seven churches were founded by me to the greater glory of God.

Peter Dirckx died on April 20, 1886 at the age of 57 years and 15 days. Helen Dirckx died August 23, 1924.

Belgians in the 1860 Census, Missouri, Cole County Liberty Felix Cutter 40 M Farmer Belgium Mary Cutter 18 F Germany Joseph Eke 60 M 700 200 Germany Mary Eke 50 F Germany Chas Baker 55 M 1000 Belgium Fatherland Helius 65 M Catholic Priest 4000 500 Belgium Peter Sambeum 14 M Student Belgium Peter G Dericks 30 M Merchant 5000 700 Belgium Anna H Dericks 23 F Germany Mary J Dericks 7 F Missouri Chas L Dericks 3 M Missouri Peter J Dericks 9/12 M Missouri Wilhelm Beckel 56 F Dom Germany Margaret Beckel 21 F Dom Germany Francis Olderwerld 26 M Laborer Belgium Fred Lildprop 16 M laborer Indiana Hato Hughtinger 36 M Physician 50 Germany Richd Fondollar 75 M Farmer 800 150 Belgium Theresa Fondollar 40 F Belgium Joe Frazier 36 M Belgium

9 The Illustrated Sketch Book and Directory of Jefferson City and Cole County, 1900 10 http://members.socket.net/~sfxschool/helias_museum.html - Helias Museum - you can schedule visits

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Jefferson City John B Pondrum 32 M Physician and Druggist 500 200 Belgium

Mary Pondrum 21 F France

Joseph Pondrum 2 M Missouri

Jno Pondrum 9/12 M Missouri

Joseph Mooney 28 M Laborer R Rd 50 Belgium

Mary Mooney 24 F Belgium

Clementine Mooney 2 F Tennessee

Jack Mooney 10/12 M Missouri

Jerre Clemens 30 M Laborer 500 Belgium

Anna Clemens 26 F Belgium

Leopold Clemens 3 M Pennsylvania

N Martingry 24 M Clerk Belgium

Belgians in the 1870 Census, Missouri, Cole County Jefferson City Jacquet Jacob 37 M Teamster 1500 500 Belgium Jacquet Elizabeth 25 F Keeping House Holland Jacquet Sophia 15 F Domestic Servant Belgium Jacquet Andred 12 M Pennsylvania Jacquet Leopold 10 M Missouri Jacquet Julia 9 F Missouri Jacquet Margret 5 F Missouri Pondrom John B 45 M Physician 5000 400 Belgium Pondrom Mary E 33 F Keeping House France Pondrom Joseph M 12 M Missouri Pondrom John B 10 M Missouri Pondrom Henry 8 M Missouri Pondrom Mary 6 F Missouri Pondrom Andrew 4 M Missouri Pondrom Adele 2 F Missouri Pondrom Walter 2/12 M Missouri Cramer Peter 21 M Domestic Servant Prussia Cigrand Peter 35 M Blacksmith 500 Belgium Cigrand Lenna 35 F Keeping House Prussia Cigrand Mary 12 F Missouri Cigrand Frank 9 M Missouri Cigrand Ferdinand 7 F Missouri Cigrand Tillie 5 F Missouri Cigrand Jacob 2 M Missouri

Liberty Twp (Taos) Dircks Peter J 41 M Merchant 4600 3000 Belgium Dircks Annie 34 F Keeping House Prussia Dircks Henry 17 M Missouri Dircks Charles 13 M Missouri Dircks Peter 10 M Missouri Dircks Clemens 8 M Missouri Dircks Emil 6 M Missouri Dircks August 4 M Missouri Dircks Emelie 2 F Missouri Beckle Wilhelmine 67 F Prussia Beckle Margareth 30 F Prussia De Grandel Henry 20 M Clerking Belgium Loeten Edward 37 M Wagon Maker 300 Belgium Loeten Elizabeth 27 F Keeping House 450 Belgium Goosens Frank 48 M Laborer Belgium

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Belgians in the 1880 Census, Missouri, Cole County Jefferson City Wegman Rosalia f 52 keeping house Belgium Belgium Belgium Wegman Maria Agnes f 25 daughter dresmaking Missouri Belgium Prussia Wegman Peter F m 23 son printer Missouri Prussia Belgium Wegman John F m 30 son school teacher Missouri Prussia Belgium Wegman Henry M m 20 son laborer Missouri Prussia Belgium

Jefferson Township Maynes Jacob m 44 retired merchant Belgium Holland Holland Maynes Margaret f 43 wife keeping house Belgium Holland Holland Maynes Peter m 7 son Missouri Belgium Belgium Maynes Emma f 3 daughter Missouri Belgium Belgium De Brook Chas m 57 farmer Belgium Belgium Belgium De Brook Ellen f 45 wife keeping house Hanover Hanover Hanover De Brook Henry m 17 son working on farm Missouri Belgium Hanover De Brook Edward m 15 son Missouri Belgium Hanover De Brook Theresa f 12 daughter Kansas Belgium Hanover De Brook Hubert m 9 son Kansas Belgium Hanover De Brook Francis m 4 son Missouri Belgium Hanover De Brook Elizabeth f 1 daughter Missouri Belgium Hanover Declark Cis m 45 boarder laborer Belgium Belgium Belgium

Liberty Twp Dirckx Peter J m 51 retail grocer Belgium Holland Belgium Dirckx Anna Helena f 46 wife keeping house Prussia Prussia Prussia Dirckx Henry Jos m 27 son Missouri Belgium Prussia Dirckx Chas L m 23 son clerk on store Missouri Belgium Prussia Dirckx Peter J Jr m 21 son at home Missouri Belgium Prussia Dirckx Clemense A m 19 son at home Missouri Belgium Prussia Dirckx Emile Jos m 17 son at home Missouri Belgium Prussia Dirckx Aug Victor m 14 son at home Missouri Belgium Prussia Dirckx Olilia M f 11 daughter at home Missouri Belgium Prussia Dirckx Sophia C f 8 daughter at home Missouri Belgium Prussia Dirckx Joseph F m 7 son at home Missouri Belgium Prussia Dirckx Frk G m 5 son at home Missouri Belgium Prussia Beckaert Chas L m 73 farmer Belgium Belgium Holland Beckaert Maria A f 75 wife keeping house Bavaria Bavaria Bavaria Lootens Edward m 48 wagon maker Belgium Belgium Belgium Lootens Philimina f 38 wife keeping house Belgium Belgium Belgium Lootens Frank X m 9 son Missouri Belgium Belgium Lootens Jno m 8 son Missouri Belgium Belgium Lootens Jos B m 4 son Missouri Belgium Belgium Lootens Clemence H m 3 son Missouri Belgium Belgium Lootens Peter m 2 son Missouri Belgium Belgium De Nefve Jno m 60 farmer Belgium Belgium Belgium De Nefve Theresa f 61 wife keeping house Belgium Belgium Belgium De Birdt Marie f 49 Belgium Belgium Belgium De Birdt Ferdinand m 27 farmer Holland Belgium Belgium De Birdt Carolina f 22 wife keeping house Missouri Switzerland Switzerland De Birdt William m 3 son Missouri Holland Missouri De Birdt Frank m 1 son Missouri Holland Missouri Goossens Frank m 59 wooden shoe-maker Belgium Belgium Belgium Dycke Jacob m 39 farmer Holland Holland Holland Dycke Louisa f 30 wife keeping house Holland Belgium Holland Dycke Frank m 6 son Missouri Holland Holland Dycke Emma f 2 daughter Missouri Holland Holland De Broeck Ben m 19 laborer Missouri Belgium Prussia Hoelscher Joseph m 27 farmer Missouri Prussia Prussia Hoelscher Rosaline f 23 wife keeping house Holland Belgium Belgium Hoelscher Frank m 3 son Missouri Missouri Holland Hoelscher Anna f 6m. daughter Missouri Missouri Holland Hoelscher Margeret f 14 Missouri Prussia Prussia De Nefve Peter m 56 Belgium Belgium Belgium

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Roerk Bernard m 41 Belgium Belgium Belgium Roerk Addelaïd f 22 wife keeping house Belgium Belgium Belgium Verslues Henry M m 44 farmer Belgium Belgium Belgium Verslues Thersia f 40 wife keeping house Prussia Belgium Prussia Verslues Catherine f 11 daughter Missouri Belgium Prussia Verslues John F m 10 son Missouri Belgium Prussia Verslues Christina f 8 daughter Missouri Belgium Prussia Verslues Hermanu m 3 son Missouri Belgium Prussia Verslues Mary f 4

m. daughter Missouri Belgium Prussia

Mayeus Jno m 58 farmer Holland Belgium Holland Mayeus Margeret f 47 wife keeping house Holland Prussia Prussia Mayeus Hermann m 22 son at home Missouri Holland Holland Mayeus Sophie f 20 daughter at home Missouri Holland Holland Mayeus John F m 17 son at home Missouri Holland Holland Mayeus Theresia f 13 daughter at home Missouri Holland Holland Mayeus Elizabeth f 12 daughter Missouri Holland Holland Mayeus Carolina f 12 daughter Missouri Holland Holland Mayeus Catherine f 9 daughter Missouri Holland Holland

Osage Twp Stockman C L m 58 farmer Belgium Belgium France Stockman Mary f 46 wife keeping house Prussia Prussia Prussia Stockman Chas L jr m 19 son working on farm Missouri Belgium Prussia Stockman Frank A m 10 son at home Missouri Belgium Prussia Stockman May f 16 daughter at home Missouri Belgium Prussia Stockman Annie f 13 daughter at home Missouri Belgium Prussia Stockman Elizabeth M f 5 daughter at home Missouri Belgium Prussia

Jacob Mayens was born in Belgium, all ancestors were Belgians, but the family moved to Ijzendijke, which is just across the border here. So listed as Dutch, but in the census of 1880 you will find them as parents born in Belgium. He is the enterprising proprietor of a grocery situated on East High Street, in the limits of Jefferson City, where he established his business in 1885. He carries a full line of groceries and makes a specialty of country produce of all kinds, supplying a large patronage. He is an old resident of Cole County, having first located in the county in 1854 with his parents, who were natives of Belgium, and came to America when our subject was but eleven years of age. The latter was reared on a farm in Cole County, and at the age of twenty-five left his home and accepted a position in the depot at Osage City. This was in the year 1859, and he made his home in Osage City for the following twenty-five years, seventeen years of that time being engaged in the mercantile business. In 1873 he removed to Jefferson City, where he later established his present business and has ever since lived. Mr. Mayens married in 1861, Margaret De Cotes, a native of Prussia, and their union has been blessed with two children, both at home, Peter and Emma. Mr. Mayens is a member of the Catholic Church and his wife of the Lutheran. He served in the Home Guards during the late war.

Peter C. Mayens Around 1885 Jacob Mayens established a grocery at 910 East High Street in what was then suburban Jefferson City. Peter, then a lad of thirteen, began helping his father in the store. The store remained in business at this location for thirty-six years until Peter C. Mayens erected a large new modern store. Jacob Mayens in 1854 came to Cole County with his parents who were natives of Belgium. He was then eleven years old. For five years he lived with his parents on their Cole County farm, then in 1859 he became station agent at Osage City where he remained twenty-four years. For the last seventeen years of this time he was in the mercantile business. Later he came to Jefferson City where he opened his grocery. Jacob Mayens was married to Margaret Koehler, who came to America at about the age of five. He died in 1913, his wife in 1903. Peter C. Mayens was born at Osage City in 1872. Most of his life was spent in Jefferson City. He assisted his father while the latter was active in business, later assuming personal charge. He was married to Margaret Beck, a native of this city of a pioneer family, who died within a year, leaving a daughter. Ten years he married another Margaret Beck, a distant relative of his first wife. Five children were born to this marriage: Constance; Janet, who married Rev. Oscar L. Mueller; Katherine and June who lived in Scott City, Kansas; Margaret married Dr. Arnold Cook, a St. Louis physician; Wilbur was with the Heinz Pickling Company in St. Louis; Imogene graduated from Winfield College, Winfield, Kansas.

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Belgians in the 1900 Census, Missouri, Cole County district 34, Jefferson Boharb John prisoner Feb 1843 Belgium Belgium Belgium 1870

district 36, Jefferson Eveler Mary head Sept 1856 Missouri Germany Germany Eveler Noah son Aug 1882 Missouri Missouri Missouri Wegmaun Rosaline Wegmaun m-in-law Sep 1829 Belgium Belgium Belgium 1839 Wegmaun Henry Wegmaun brother Jul 1859 Missouri Germany Belgium

District 37, Liberty Pycke Jacob Feb 1841 Netherland Netherland Netherland 1870 Pycke Luise Aug 1850 Netherland Belgium Netherland 1868 Pycke George June 1880 Missouri Netherland Netherland Pycke Joseph Nov 1882 Missouri Netherland Netherland Pycke Mary Jan 1885 Missouri Netherland Netherland Pycke Herman Sept 1892 Missouri Netherland Netherland Pycke Adolph Jan 1897 Missouri Netherland Netherland Looten Frank Dec 1870 Missouri Belgium Belgium Looten Christina Oct 1871 Missouri Germany Germany Looten Victoria June 1897 Missouri Missouri Missouri Looten Leonard Janv 1898 Missouri Missouri Missouri Verplase John Feb 1848 Belgium Belgium Belgium 1887 Verplase Beatresa Feb 1837 Belgium Belgium Belgium 1887 Verplase Louis Aug 1880 Netherland Belgium Belgium 1887 Maeyens Herman head Jul 1860 Missouri Belgium Germany De Longe Katie servant Nov 1878 Missouri Belgium Missouri De Bruck Frank Aug 1873 Missouri Missouri Missouri De Bruck Gertrude Aug 1873 Missouri Belgium Germany De Bruck Lucia Mar 1899 Missouri Missouri Missouri Verslues Thresia widow Aug 1842 Germany Germany Germany 1853 Verslues Herman Jan 1877 Missouri Belgium Germany Verslues Mary Jan 1880 Missouri Belgium Germany Verslues Lizzie Dec 1884 Missouri Belgium Germany Van Loo John Mar 1866 Belgium Belgium Belgium 1882 Van Loo Lena Nov 1865 Missouri Germany Germany Van Loo Sophia Dec 1889 Missouri Belgium Missouri Van Loo Ida Sep 1892 Missouri Belgium Missouri Van Loo Emil B Dec 1894 Missouri Belgium Missouri Van Loo Kenanus E Jan 1897 Missouri Belgium Missouri Van Loo Emma K Nov 1899 Missouri Belgium Missouri Looten Peter May 1879 Missouri Belgium Belgium Looten Eduard Oct 1832 Belgium Belgium Belgium 1868 Looten Philomena Apr 1842 Belgium Belgium Belgium 1868 Looten Alphonse Sep 1881 Missouri Belgium Belgium Looten Sophia Sep 1883 Missouri Belgium Belgium De Neve John boarder Jun 1820 Belgium Belgium Belgium 1850 Schaenen Frank Feb 1868 Missouri Germany Germany Schaenen Tillie Jun 1869 Missouri Belgium Germany Schaenen Anthonella Febr 1893 Missouri Missouri Missouri Schaenen Alma May 1895 Missouri Missouri Missouri Schaenen Frank Apr 1897 Missouri Missouri Missouri Schaenen Clerence janv-00 Missouri Missouri Missouri De Brine John Feb 1843 Belgium Belgium Belgium 1848 De Brine Lena Aug 1864 Missouri Germany Germany De Brine John V Sep 1875 Missouri Belgium Missouri De Brine Lizzie Jan 1884 Missouri Belgium Missouri De Brine Joseph Nov 1886 Missouri Belgium Missouri De Brine Charly Nov 1889 Missouri Belgium Missouri Hillen William Jul 1851 Missouri Germany Belgium Hillen Sophie Mar 1852 Germany Germany Germany 1858 Hillen Katharina Dec 1881 Missouri Missouri Germany Bellman Theodore may 1857 Missouri Germany Germany Bellman Katharina Nov 1861 Missouri Belgium Germany

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Bellman Sophie Dec 1887 Missouri Missouri Missouri Bellman Louis July 1889 Missouri Missouri Missouri Bellman Lizzie Dec 1891 Missouri Missouri Missouri Bellman John Mar 1893 Missouri Missouri Missouri Bellman Anton June 1895 Missouri Missouri Missouri Bellman Andrew Nov 1897 Missouri Missouri Missouri Dirckx Annie H Nov 1833 Germany Germany Germany Dirckx Peter J Aug 1859 Missouri Belgium Germany Dirckx Joseph Jan 1873 Missouri Belgium Germany Dirckx Frank Mar 1875 Missouri Belgium Germany Bekel Margaretha Apr. 1837 Germany Germany Germany Dirckx Charles L Jun 1857 Missouri Belgium Germany Dirckx Lena Nov 1866 Missouri Missouri Missouri Dirckx Edwin Nov 1888 Missouri Missouri Missouri Dirckx Alma Oct 1890 Missouri Missouri Missouri Dirckx Lizzie June 1894 Missouri Missouri Missouri Dirckx Rudolph July 1898 Missouri Missouri Missouri Dirckx Katharina May 1861 Missouri England Germany Dirckx Hilda Nov 1885 Missouri Missouri Missouri Haywood Katharina Nov 1828 Germany Germany Germany Steve Anton Aug 1870 Missouri Germany Germany Steve Sophie Apr 1871 Missouri Belgium Germany (Dirckx)Dirckx August Oct 1868 Missouri Belgium Germany Dirckx Lizzie Jan 1871 Missouri Germany Missouri Dirckx Elmer Mar 1900 Missouri Missouri Missouri

district 42, Osage Randehan Edward Oct 1861 Belgium Belgium Belgium 1888 Randehan Lena M Jul 1866 Missouri Germany Germany De Brook Edward Oct 1864 Missouri Belgium Belgium De Brook Annie E Aug 1864 Missouri Ohio Missouri De Brook Louis C Oct 1886 Missouri Missouri Missouri De Brook Leo G Oct 1886 Missouri Missouri Missouri De Brook Lucy J Nov 1888 Missouri Missouri Missouri De Brook Elonora C Dec 1891 Missouri Missouri Missouri De Brook Eda L Aug 1894 Missouri Missouri Missouri De Brook Manie C Dec 1896 Missouri Missouri Missouri

Missouri State Archives: Naturalization Records, 1816 – 1955 for Belgians in Cole County

Name Year of Record

L???, Edward 1871

Moera??, Peter 1872

De Budt, Ferdinand 1874

De Neff, Peter 1876

Roels, B. 1881

Von Luh, Peter 1884

Name Year of Record

deWestblaw, John 1887

Renterghem, Peter 1888

Renterghem, Edward 1889

Von Kerckhove, Livinus 1908

Van Oest, Peter 1910

Van Loo, John 1918

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From the newspapers: The Vandervelpen-Damas Case.

By Micheline Gaudette

In February 1877, The New York Times11 and The Daily Evening Bulletin12 reported that a Belgian couple, Jean Baptiste Henri Vandervelpen and his wife Jeannette Damas, had been arrested for a forgery committed in Belgium prior to their emigration to the US. The couple had settled in Goshen, Indiana, where Jean Baptiste’s musical talents and his wife’s charming ways had been instrumental in their successful integration in that community. All this came to an abrupt end when an agent of the Belgian Government came calling with a warrant for their arrest and deportation back to Belgium. The Goshen people were appalled and vigorously came to the couple’s defense. To no avail, they were charged and arrested for forgery with intent to defraud the estate of the Baron Herman de Pasquet d’Acos of Bothey, Belgium, who had previously employed them as “domestics”. Jean Baptiste and Jeannette were taken prisoners to New York where it was determined that the extradition treaty between the US and Belgium applied to their case and the couple should be deported.

Actually, there are doubts that the deportation ever took place because the 1880 US census13 lists J.B. Vandervelpen as professor of music with his wife and their son Arthur still living in Goshen, Indiana…

The forged (?) papers supposedly signed by Baron de Pasquet d’Acos on 29th of August, 1862 in Bothey, Belgium, stated that a gift of 500,000 francs, was to be paid to Miss Jeannette Damas, after the death of the baron. These papers were filed and recorded in the office of the Clerk of the City of Brussels after the death of the baron (1870) by Jean-Baptiste Vandervelpen and Jeannette Damas, who proceeded to sue the baron’s estate for their share. They lost their case in the Namur court against the baron’s heirs and were found guilty of having forged these papers.

It wasn’t the first time they had encountered problems with the law in regards to the baron. In 1863, they were charged with stealing Spanish bonds from him, they claimed that these bonds were a gift from the baron. Even their attorney handling the sale of these bonds was in trouble because he refused to return the money to anyone but the Vandervelpen-Damas couple. The case was settled and the proceeds from the sale were returned to the baron or his estate.14

The above listed newspapers had implied in their articles that Jean-Baptiste Vandervelpen and Jeannette Damas had been employed as domestics by the Baron Pasquet d’Acos who grew fond of Jeannette Damas, a well-educated, well-mannered young lady. There are doubts that a well-educated, well-mannered young lady would have worked as a domestic, there are doubts that a domestic would have easy access to bonds and letterheads and everything else needed for forgery. The same goes for Jean Baptiste Vandervelpen, a musician/professor who later in life authored the textbook “Harmony and Thorough Bass Complete; Teacher’s supplement (1909)” (still available – Amazon) We can even assume they knew English before coming to America, this would account for having integrated so well and in such a short time, in the Goshen society. There must be another story under all that, were there unacknowledged blood ties between the Baron and the Vandervelpen-Damas couple? For it seems they felt entitled to some of his immense fortune. Or did the Baron make promises to them, and later rescinded them? It’s possible.

A little note about the Baron Herman Pasquet d’Acos, he came from a family of very successful master glassmakers who were ennobled. He was born on 2 April 1784 15(Namur???), the only son of Francois Henri Joseph de Pasquet, Lord of Acos and Archennes, and Marie Constance de Colnet. He held various offices under the various administrations governing Belgium at that time and became the burgomaster of Bothey where he resided until his death in 1870. 1617 He was very wealthy and perhaps a little eccentric. No mention of having been married or having children was found. He is buried in Bothey alongside his mother and his de Colnet grand-parents.

There is a lapse of time between 1880 and 1900 where very little can be found on the Vandervelpen-Damas couple. But the 1900 US census18 shows that Jean Baptiste Vandervelpen was a widower living with his son Arthur in Detroit, Michigan. Arthur was a successful physician and pharmacist in that city, he was married and had a daughter Jeannette (who became an accomplished pianist and married in the Canadian Reaume family).

11 The New York Times; Feb. 10, 1877, p. 10 An extensive Belgian Forgery. 12 The Daily Evening Bulletin, (San Francisco, CA) February 16, 1877, Issue 111; col E. A Forged Marriage Gift for Five Hundred Thousand Francs – Flight and Arrest of the Fugitives. 13 1880 US Census, Goshen, Indiana (Ancestry) 14 Pasicrisie Belge, Recueil General de la Juriprudence, Cours de Belgique Iieme partie, 1868, p. 383. 15 http://evrard.webou.net/dat48.htm - 2/3rd down the webpage - do a search to find it easier 16 Bulletin de l’Institut Archeologique Liegeois, Vo. 12, 1874, p. 378 17 La Belgique Heraldique, Tome VIII, 1866, p. 283 18 1900 US Census, Michigan, Detroit (Ancestry)

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It’s from Arthur’s passport application19 that we can learn a little bit more about the family. Arthur was born 22 Sept. 1863 in Martelange, Belgium, emigrated June 2, 1876 with his parents, on the SS Denmark from London.

The SS Denmark passenger list doesn’t show a VANDERVELPEN family, but a closer look finds a JB MAYERNS, his wife Jeanne and their son Arthur who could very well be the VANDERVELPEN family. Jean-Baptiste Vandervelpen died before 192020, his son Arthur died on October 5, 193121.

Was the Vandervelpen-Damas couple really guilty of thievery and forgery in Belgium? Regardless of the answer, one thing is certain; in the United States they were outstanding citizens.

19 Passport Application (Ancestry) 20 1920 US Census, Michigan, Detroit (Ancestry) 21 JAMA, Nov. 7, 1931

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Belgians on the WWI Draft Cards

Connecticutt Name Birth Date Birthplace Registration Place (City, County, State) Godschalk, John Richard 12 Jan 1888 Antwerp, Belgium Bridgeport, Fairfield, CT Premereur, Alfonse 2 Oct 1891 Antwerp, Belgium Bridgeport, Fairfield, CT Kraus, Cajetan J 25 Mar 1888 Antwerp, Belgium Bridgeport, Fairfield, CT Gerion, Fred 28 Feb 1896 Stivalo, Belgium Bridgeport, Fairfield, CT Waegemans, Alphonse 25 Dec 1889 St Nicholas, Belgium Bridgeport, Fairfield, CT Gernaey, Jules 1 Jul 1887 Courtrai, Belgium Bridgeport, Fairfield, CT Goetz, Jerome 13 Jul 1896 Villers-la-Loue(?), Belgium Bethel, Fairfield, CT Arlequeeun, Armond Joseph 16 Jan 1892 Ghent, Belgium Stratford, Fairfield, CT Demyttenaere, Jules Alphonse 23 Jun 1886 Menie(?), West Flanders, Belgium Westport, Fairfield, CT Dambois, Maurice 30 Mar 1889 Liege, Liege, Belgium Norwalk, Fairfield, CT Isselee, Charles Adolf 25 Feb 1889 Bruges, West Flanders, Belgium Stamford, Fairfield, CT Van De Putte, Walter 23 Dec 1889 Aerschot, Belgium Norwalk, Fairfield, CT Michel, Arthur Louis George 2 Oct 1891 Antwerp, Belgium Greenwich, Fairfield, CT Peyes/Peys, John 12 Feb 1891 Antwerp, Belgium Greenwich, Fairfield, CT Welvaert, Ben 25 Jan 1892 Evergem, Belgium 1st, Fairfield, CT Storm, Edward 19 Sep 1888 Brussel, Belgium Stamford, Fairfield, CT Vereecken, Gustaf 24 Dec 1894 St GillisWaas, OostVlanderen, Belgium Stamford, Fairfield, CT Deconinck, Frank Alexander 9 Mar 1889 Westoutre, West Flanders, Belgium Hartford, Hartford, CT De Cortes, Hilaire Victor 25 Oct 1886 Hal, Belgium Hartford, Hartford, CT Piquet, John Baptiste 21 Oct 1889 Herstal nem(?), Liege, Belgium Hartford, Hartford, CT Withney, Charles 26 Feb 1888 Charleroy, Belgium Hartford, Hartford, CT Gutchoen, Jack 6 Oct 1895 Antwerp, Belgium Hartford, Hartford, CT Van Oudenhove, Oscar 22 Jun 1888 Maerbeeke, East Flanders, Belgium Hartford, Hartford, CT Milne, Adolph 27 Feb 1892 Antwerp, Belgium Hartford, Hartford, CT Vande Putte, Emile Oscar 22 Oct 1887 Alost, Flanders, Belgium Hartford, Hartford, CT De Backer, Henry Victor 30 Dec 1895 Ghent, Belgium Hartford, CT Berckmoes, Isidoor 13 Sep 1889 Zale, East Flanders, Belgium Southington, Hartford, CT Rombout, Michael 23 Jun 1888 Cele, Oost Vlaanderen, Belgium Southington, Hartford, CT Westelink, Peter 26 Apr 1889 Zale, East Flanders, Belgium Southington, Hartford, CT Cornille, Oscar 23 Mar 1887 Coxyde, Belgium Hartford, CT De Middelaer, Leopold 1 Mar 1890 St Nicolas, East Flanders, Belgium Enfield, Hartford, CT De Meddelaer, Fred 23 Jun 1886 St Nicklaes, Belgium Enfield, Hartford, CT Borman, James Anthony 18 May 1888 Brussel, Belgium New Haven, New Haven, CT Paredaens, Jules 14 Jan 1893 Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium New Haven, New Haven, CT Brant, Joseph D 18 Aug 1889 St Nicholas, East Flanders, Belgium New Haven, New Haven, CT Lauwers, Albert 21 Mar 1890 Borghout, Antwerp, Belgium New Haven, New Haven, CT Van Overloop, Alphonsus Lodevicus 26 Mar 1892 St Nicholas, Wass ?, Belgium New Haven, New Haven, CT Driessen, Jacobus Jr. 11 Aug 1888 Antwerp, Belgium New Haven, New Haven, CT Premereur, Edward 28 Dec 1887 Antwerp, Belgium New Haven, New Haven, CT Tytgat, Theophile 12 May 1887 Heverlee, East Flanders, Belgium New Haven, New Haven, CT Giles, Joseph 1 Oct 1888 Antwerp, Belgium New Haven, New Haven, CT Vets, Philip Louis 17 Feb 1888 Antwerp, Belgium New Haven, New Haven, CT Baron, Frank Joseph 16 Feb 1889 Brussel, Belgium New Haven, New Haven, CT Carpenter, Victor 2 Jun 1894 Antwerp, Belgium New Haven, New Haven, CT Van Der Maeln, Arthur 19 Apr 1891 Gremont (?), East Flanders, Belgium New Haven, New Haven, CT Van Egghen, Charles 29 Sep 1896 St Nicholas, East Flanders, Belgium New Haven, CT Van Steenbergen, Emil 4 Nov 1890 Antwerp, Belgium New Haven, CT Lemoine, George Adolph 11 Jul 1887 Brussel, Belgium Meriden, New Haven, CT Berckmoes, Maurice 5 Sep 1887 Zele, East Flanders, Belgium Cheshire, New Haven, CT Deconinck, George Henry 27 Dec 1887 Westouter, West Flanders, Belgium Waterbury, New Haven, CT De Graeve, Domin 5 Oct 1893 Berlanne, Belgium Waterbury, New Haven, CT Lanko, William Phillip 23 Aug 1889 Antwerp, Belgium Waterbury, New Haven, CT Van Den Berghe, Tone 21 Jun 1890 Sint Niclaus, Waas, Belgium Waterbury, New Haven, CT

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Collinet, Gerard Joseph 9 Jun 1887 Saive(?), Belgium New London, CT De Sutter, Frank 22 Oct 1882 Ghent, Belgium Norwich, New London, CT Bowett, George 24 Jul 1894 Belgium Windham, CT Devillez, Leon Joseph 4 Nov 1893 Martick, R.V(?), Belgium Brooklyn, Windham, CT Vanderlinden, Remy 27 Sep 1886 Renaix, Belgium Plainfield, Windham, CT Vangermeersch, Leopold 10 Jul 1890 Renaix, Belgium Plainfield, Windham, CT

Alabama Billy, Julius Lucien 11 Nov 1886 Belgium Baldwin, AL Bosch, Jules 9 Nov 1896 Langemark, Belgium Bibb, AL De Vriendt, Alois 21 Aug 1887 Belgium Bibb, AL DeRoy, Amos 20 Nov 1895 Belgium Birmingham, Jefferson, AL

Alaska Becquert, Omer 1 Oct 1892 Wernie(?), Belgium Juneau, First Judicial District, AK Beekerat, Omer 6 Aug 1889 Verviers, Belgium Cordova, Third Judicial District, AK Cobbaert, Rene 21 Oct 1890 Denderhautem, Belgium Douglas, Juneau, AK Cottenie, Gustav 15 Oct 1893 Meulebeke, Belgium Douglas, Juneau, AK De Meerleer, Paul 25 Dec 1890 Alost, Belgium Juneau, First Judicial District, AK DeGroote, Emil 29 Mar 1890 Isent(?), Belgium Sitka, First Judicial District, AK Deloore, Walter 10 Sep 1887 Kent, Belgium Juneau, First Judicial District, AK Depraetere, Joseph 9 May 1889 Heule, Belgium Douglas, Juneau, AK Desemplain, Emil 17 Aug 1891 Molenbeek, Belgium Sitka, First Judicial District, AK Diricks, Florent 12 Jan 1891 Bouganete Eantlonen(?), Belgium Sitka, First Judicial District, AK Helster, Joeseph D 15 Mar 1892 Meulebeke, Belgium Douglas, Juneau, AK Kindt, Ernest 14 Jun 1891 Ichteghem, Belgium Anchorage, 3rd Judicial District, AK Lamots, Albert 28 Sep 1886 Staden, West Flanders, Belgium Nenana, Fourth Judicial District, AK Libbrecht, Honore 7 Sep 1894 Meulebeke, Belgium Douglas, Juneau, AK Rogers, August 9 Jan 1887 Ecclo, Belgium Juneau, First Judicial District, AK Sabbe, Hector 20 Nov 1888 Ingohm-art (?), Belgium Anchorage, 3rd Judicial District, AK Schuttyser, Paul 3 Aug 1888 Denderhautem, Belgium Juneau, First Judicial District, AK Stembrouck, Louis 31 May 1892 Dudceele (?), Belgium McCarthy, 3rd Judicial District, AK Stragier, Henry 27 Aug 1887 Moorseede, Belgium Douglas, Juneau, AK Syes, Louis 3 Oct 1890 Knocke, Belgium Douglas, Juneau, AK Therry, Albert 5 Nov 1890 Sheir-s (?), Belgium Douglas, Juneau, AK Vanden Wyer, Hubert A 14 Dec 1893 Brussels, Belgium Douglas, Juneau, AK Vandenabeele, Alfred 11 Apr 1892 Molenbeek, Belgium Juneau, First Judicial District, AK Vandenabeele, Hector Rene 18 Sep 1887 Meulebeke, Belgium Douglas, Juneau, AK Vanhuylenbroeck, Remi Alfons 25 Aug 1891 Malbrick (?), Belgium Douglas, Juneau, AK Vanhuylenbroeck, Rene 29 Jul 1889 Malbuck (?), Belgium Douglas, Juneau, AK Windels, Achiel 15 Apr 1892 Oustrosbek, Belgium Juneau, First Judicial District, AK

Kentucky Depuydt, Victor 4 Mar 1888 Lichtevelde, Belgium Nelson, KY Deschamps, L F 18 Jul 1891 Liege, Belgium Harlan, KY Gerin, Jule 22 Aug 1895 Belgium Letcher, KY Shoufield, William Maurice 6 Oct 1887 Antwerp, Belgium Louisville, Jefferson, KY Tailleart, Richard 15 Feb 1891 Flanders;Belgium Laurel, KY

Mississippi Puyper, R E 12 Aug 1889 Belgium Pearl River, MS Reuter, Carl 26 Mar 1887 Huy, Belgium Lauderdale, MS Verelst, Jules Jean Bernard 8 Mar 1891 Capelle au Bois, Belgium Harrison, MS

Virginia Debaere, Peter 24y old Belgium Feys, Francois 1 Apr 1895 Boom, Belgium Norfolk, Norfolk (Independent City), VA Germey, Floris Albert 23 Aug 1894 Belgium Henrico, VA

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Pennsylvania and West Virginia Obituaries Extracted for the PA-SW-OBITS list of Rootsweb,

by Victoria Hospodar Valentine

Augustine VAN GOETHEN, 68, of 211 Crest Ave., Charleroi, died at 10am yesterday. Mr. Van Goethen, who came to Charleroi 42 years ago from Canada, was a retired employee of West Penn Power Co. and a member of St Jerome’s Roman Catholic church, Second St. French Club and Eighth St Belgium Club, all of Charleroi. He was born in Belgium, April 16, 1898, the son of the late Alfonso and Alice (LE BONE) VAN GOETHEN. Surviving are his widow, Margaret E; a daughter, Mrs. Alice E SINKIEWICH of Charleroi; one brother, Alfonso of Charleroi; two grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Friends are being received at the Francis C Slezak Funeral Home, Charleroi, from 2 to 5 and 7 to 10pm. The Valley Independent, 21 Jun 1966, Monessen, PA

John Joseph BEERENS, 88, of Charleroi, RD1, died yesterday at 7:45pm in Haven Crest Nursing and Convalescent Home, Monongahela RD. Mr. BEERENS, a retired farmer, was a charter member of Fallowfield Grange and belonged to BPO Elks at Charleroi. He was born in Belgium on Nov 18, 1877. Preceding him in death were his wife, Mary (MELENYZER) BEERENS, and a son, Joseph A BEERENS. He is survived by one son, Charles A of Charleroi RD1, with whom he made his home, and four grandchildren. Friends will be received at the Edwin Melenyzer Funeral Home, Monessen, after 7pm today and thereafter from 1 to 5 and 7 to 10pm The Valley Independent, 18 Oct 1966, Monessen, PA

Mrs. Irene REYNARD, 75, of 789 East Main St., Monongahela, died at 1:11pm yesterday in Monongahela Memorial Hospital after an illness of one year. Born in Belgium on Dec 4, 1890, she was the daughter of the late Martin and Adele MICHAUX. Mrs. REYNARD had lived in the Monongahela area 50 years. Surviving are her husband Robert E; a son, Oliver H., of Cleveland, Ohio; one daughter, Mrs. Ruth Ann GREDAN of Monongahela; six grandchildren. Friends will be received after 7pm today at the L M Frye Funeral Home, Monongahela. The Valley Independent, 17 Nov 1966, Monessen, PA

Ernest REUKENS, 79, of Main St., New Eagle, died today at 6am in his home after a lingering illness of two years. He was born Dec 22, 1887 in Belgium. Mr. REUKENS had resided in New Eagle for 35 years. A retired mine worker, he belonged to St Paul’s Episcopal Church, Monongahela and United Mine Workers Local 2244. Survivors are his widow, Mrs. Alice REUKENS; one brother Earl, of Coyle-Curtin Road; four sisters, Mrs. Mary DELESTINE of Charleroi, Mrs. Amelia GEERS of Coyle-Curtin Road. Florida Blangger of Coyle-Curtin Road and Victoria Cratty of Florida; and a niece, Mrs. Grant (Mae) COOPER of Monongahela. Friends are being received at the LM Frye Funeral Home, Monongahela. The Valley Independent, 16 Feb 1967, Monessen, PA

Mrs. Marie Q ANDREOLA, 71, of 704 Washington Ave., Charleroi, died Saturday at 11:30pm in Charleroi-Monessen Hospital. Mrs. Andreola was a member of the Presbyterian Church of Charleroi. Born in Charleroi, Belgium, on Dec 20, 1895, she came to Charleroi, Pa. 58 years ago, from Belgium. She is survived by her husband, Romeo; two sons, Edmund Cline of Trafford and William Cline of Canton, Ohio; a daughter, Mrs. Edward (Judy) Ack of Eldora, eleven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Friends are being received at the Francis C Slezak Funeral Home in Charleroi. The Valley Independent, 6 March 1967, Monessen, PA

Haircuts go Up In Monessen Oct 5Monessen Barbers Local 883 announced today that, effective Oct 5, the price of haircuts will be increased 25 cents for both adults and children. The increase means adults will pay $2 for a haircut and children, up to and including high school age, $1.75. Prices for other services will remain the same, Albert J SALVINO, local president, said. Local 883 represents 16 barber shops employing 25 barbers in Monessen only. Most other barber shops in the area are represented by Mon Valley District Barbers Local 616 with 80 employees. This local’s top price at present is $1.75. It was learned this morning that Local 616 has a regular meeting scheduled for Oct. 15, at which time it is expected to decide if prices will be increased. Salvino said Local 883’2 increase in price will be the first since Oct 1, 1957. He attributed the rate raise to the “constant” increase in the price of living and also a ‘compulsory pension program of the Journeymen Barbers, Hairdressers, Cosmetologists and Proprietors, International Union of America. Under the pension program, a member is required to pay $5 per month and must have paid for five full years before receiving benefits. For example, a member 60y of age must make payments for five years and then at the age of 65 will be eligible to receive $25 per month. After that, he will receive an additional $5 per month for every five years after the first five years. Besides Alvino, other officers of the local are Patsy Del Verm, vice President; Charles Altomari. Secretary-treasurer, and Fred ALESSIO, recording secretary. – The Valley Independent – 20 Sep 1965, Monessen, PA

Mining Law For the violation of the mining laws in not having danger boards placed, Saul PECK, pit boss of Cherry Valley mine No. 3 of the Pittsburg and Erie Coal Company, was arrested Saturday and given a hearing before Squire COCHRAN of McDonald. He was held for court on the charge. The prosecution was made by the miners' union. It is alleged that since the opening of the No. 3 mine PECK sent in thirty-seven men before a mine inspector had ever been in the mine and also before danger boards had been placed throughout the mine. It is alleged that the lives of the thirty-seven miners were endangered by going into this mine before the inspectors had made an examination and before the danger boards had been placed. March 13, 1909 - McDonald PA Outlook

Mrs. Joseph PORIGNEAUX, of Meadow Avenue, returned to her home yesterday from Cleveland, Ohio where she has been the guest of her daughter Mrs. Arthurine Alberts and Mrs. Steve Mayernick, for the past two weeks. While there she attended the commencement exercises of one off the city high Schools, her granddaughter, Miss Dorothy CUPP, formerly of here being a member of the graduating class - The Charleroi Mail, 10 Feb 1930

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Mrs. Albertine (Alexander) DEBOE, 82, of 217 Oakland Ave., Charleroi, died this morning at 2:35am in Brownsville General Hospital, after a brief illness. Mrs. DeBoe was born in Luxemburg, Belgium, Feb 20, 1885. She came to Charleroi in 1892 from Somar, Belgium. Surviving are her husband, Frank, a sister, Mrs. Anson D Crabb, Charleroi, tomorrow from noon until 5pm and from 7 to 10pm and on Monday from 2 to 5 and 7 to 10pm. The Valley Independent, 22 Apr 1967, Monessen, PA

August LECLAIR, 79, of 301 Third St., Charleroi, died suddenly at his home about 1am today. A World War I veteran, he was a member of St. Jerome Roman Catholic Church, American Legion Post 22, BPO Elks, all of Charleroi and Fraternal Order of Eagles, Charleroi Aerie. Mr. LeClair was a retired employee of the Allenport plant of Pittsburgh Steel CO. Born in Belgium on July 7, 1888, he spent most of his life in Charleroi. Surviving are his widow, Julia; three brothers, Arthur of Donora, Joseph of Speers and Paul of Charleroi RD; four sisters, Mrs. Sam Allen of Donora, Mrs. Victoria Henry of Charleroi, Mrs. Catherine George of Donora and Mrs. Gustine Crow in Florida. Friends will be received at the Francis C Slezak Funeral Home, Charleroi, after 7pm tomorrow. - The Valley Independent, 29 Aug 1967, Monessen, PA

Mrs. Odile S PLANTS of 807 Oakland Ave., Charleroi, was dead on arrival yesterday, her 65th birthday anniversary, at 4:25pm in Charleroi-Monessen Hospital. Born in Belgium on Aug 30, 1902, she was a daughter of the late Edward and Gertrude ZWAKHOVEN PAUWELS. She was a member of Christ Lutheran Church, Charleroi, the LCW of the church and the Good Neighbors Club, Charleroi. Surviving are her husband, Allie H; two daughters, Mrs. Edward (Marjorie) Brandenburg of Charleroi and Shirley PLANTS HENRY of Pittsburgh; three sisters, Mrs. Joei Berton of Monongahela, Mrs. Tony Costello and Mrs. Walter Behrendt of Charleroi; one grandson. Friends are being received at the Harold L Schrock Funeral Home, Charleroi from 2 to 5 and 7 to 10pm. – The Valley Independent, 31 Aug 1967, Monessen, PA

Fernand (Frank) L DUPONT, 81, of 568 Isabella Ave., North Charleroi, died Sunday in Wichita, Kan., where he had been about two months staying with his son, Charles. Mr. DUPONT, a retired motorman from Pittsburgh Railways, was a member of Loyal Order of Moose, Charleroi and Amalgamated Transit Union, Division 85. He came to the Valley area at the age of 12. Mr. Dupont was born May 22, 1886 in Roux, Belgium. Surviving are another son, Frank of Warren, Michigan; a brother, Camil of Canton, Ohio; four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Friends will be received after 7pm today at the Francis C Slezak Funeral Home, Charleroi, and thereafter from 2 to 5 and 7 to 10pm. The Valley Independent, 12 Sep 1967, Monessen, PA

Mrs. Emilie ROMAINVILLE DONKERS, 86, of 424 Cross St., Brownsville, died last night in Brownsville General Hospital. Born in Belgium on March 9, 1881, she was a daughter of the late Desire and Céline Denise ROMAINVILLE. Mrs. DONKERS was a member of St Thomas Aquinas Roman Catholic Church of California, PA. She is survived by a son, Joseph DONKERS Jr. of Brownsville; five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Preceding her in death were her husband, Joseph Sr., a son Charles and a daughter, Mrs. Madeline SECHEZ. Friends will be received at the Caleffie and Greenlief Funeral Home, California, after 7pm today. - The Valley Independent, 6 Oct 1967, Monessen, PA

Jean MELARD, 63, of 838 Crest Ave., Charleroi, died of a heart attack at his home yesterday at 3:30pm. Born in Liege, Belgium on June 4, 1904, he was a son of the late Lambert and Marie JUGGHEN MELARD. Mr. Melard, a retired laborer, was a member of the Congregational United Church of Christ, Italia Unita Lodge and Teamsters Local 872, all of Charleroi. A World War II veteran, he had served with the US Army. Mr. Melard came to Charleroi in 1919 from Liege. Surviving is his widow, Mary SEMENTUH MELARD. Friends will be received at the Michael A Melinchak Funeral Home, Charleroi, after 7pm today and from 2 to 5 and 7 to 10pm tomorrow. - The Valley Independent, 21 March 1968, Monessen, PA

Aime A DELESTIENNE, 75, of 531 Center Ave., North Charleroi, died today at 1am in Charleroi-Monessen Hospital after an illness of one month. Born in Belgium on March 1, 1893, he was a son of the late Francois and Josephine ROOSLEERS DELESTIENNE. A veteran of World War I, Mr. Delestienne was a retired employee of the Charleroi plant of Corning Glass Works. He had lived in North Charleroi 60 years. Surviving are his widow, Mary Louise REUCKENS DELESTIENNE; three sons, Ernest VERCAMEN and Paul VERCAMEN and Lawrence DELESTIENNE, all of Charleroi; two daughter, Mrs. John (Irene) Salaskie, both of Monongahela; a brother, Herman and a sister Mrs. Eva VANDROME, both in Michigan; fifteen grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren. Friends will be received at the Francis C SLEZAK Funeral Home, Charleroi, from 7 to 10pm today and from 2 to 5 and 7 to 10pm tomorrow. - The Valley Independent, 7 Aug 1968, Monessen, PA

Rudolph SECHEZ, 73, of 603 Third St., Charleroi, died Saturday at 4:25pm in Charleroi-Monessen Hospital. Born in Charleroi, Belgium, March 6, 1895 he was a son of the late Remy and Clara FRERE SECHEZ Sr. Mr. SECHEZ was a member of American Legion Post 22, La Mutuelle Society and Belgium Club, all of Charleroi. A veteran of World War I, having served with the US forces overseas, Mr. SECHEZ was a retired employee of the Allenport plant of Pittsburgh Steel Co. Surviving are his widow, Angel BLONDIAUX SECHEZ; two sons, Albert G at home and Herman G of Erie; two brothers, Remy of Charleroi and Edmund of Stockdale; a sister, Mrs. Earl HILDEBRAND of Charleroi; sic grandchildren and one great-grandson. Friends are being received at the Harold L Schrock Funeral Home, Charleroi, from 2 to 5 and 7 to 10pm The Valley Independent, 2 Dec 1968, Monessen, PA

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From April 11, 1913- McDonald PA Record

Who was Emile Hubert HOYAUX ?

By Regine Brindle

I keep certain things on hold that members sent me to use as fillers for a future issue of Belgian Laces and as I was tying up loose ends I came across the picture of a violinist born of Belgian parents in Pennsylvania. Since the web is growing and making more and more information readily available online, I decided to do a quick search and there were some hits. The most intriguing was posted by someone who added a comment to the online version of the picture.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~florian/o_f2/mcdonald-pa_2/photos15-news/hoyaux-emile-mcdonald-pa-4-11-1913.htm

I became more and more curious, so I sent an email to the author of the post hoping she would give me more about this young man but I never heard back. So I made my way into Ancestry.com and the old newspapers and found quite a bit of information but I am left with yet more questions than I have answers…

Emile Hubert HOYAUX was an appreciated talented musician who not only taught music at the “Butler School of Music”, but led the local symphony orchestra. He advertised his business in the newspaper and might have stretched the truth a bit maybe to surround himself

with mystery. Who knows? In one of these he is said to have been born abroad but I have found that he was born in this country although of Belgian parents. He and his mother took several trips over to Europe. He gave concerts that the public really enjoyed. He also played at special events such as weddings etc. The newspapers have many entries of programs and reports on the performances. What I didn’t expect was to have him mixed up in a kidnapping.

It seems Emile was not as proficient at love as he was at playing the violin. He first married Hazel McGinnis, of Pittsburgh on July 6th, 1916 but they separated on August 23rd, 1916 and he charged her with “cruel and intolerable treatment” and he apparently suffered a nervous breakdown. Maybe Emile had another breakdown in February 1930, after his second wife, Vivian took their 4 year old son, Baron Emmanuel HOYAUX and returned to her native home in Atlanta, Georgia.

The Augusta Chronicle (Augusta, GA) of August 20, 1928 explains how a plot to kidnap a little boy was discovered. Emile Hoyaux had sent a telegram from Winston-Salem to A C JOHNSON, a local Augusta aviator, inquiring about flying two passengers from Augusta to Winston-Salem. It didn’t take long for him to feel like there was something not right about the whole situation so after having the flight plans were changed twice he decided to simply tell Mr. Hoyaux that the weather did not permit departure. In the meantime the young man, Joe VINSON, who was supposed to do the actual kidnapping got caught and confessed. Emile Hoyaux had hired Joe a week earlier with orders to kidnap the child. He had given him $7 to pay for a taxi to ensure he had enough to get the child to the airfield and hop on the plane with him to Winston-Salem. For whatever reason Joe VINSON had not been able to do the job.

I don’t know what happened to Joe Vinson after this but it seems the whole thing more or less went away quietly, until Vivian was called back to McDonald, Pennsylvania for the funeral of an uncle and returned with the little boy. Big mistake! It seems after the funeral Emile blackened one of her eyes when he threw her out on the street while refusing to return their son into her custody. Vivian immediately filed a complaint with Alderman Cummins but Emile disappeared with the boy. Again the newspapers do not give any more information and we are left to wonder how and when the boy was returned. In any case, Vivian turned on her mother-in-law, Philomene HOYAUX, and accused her of being instrumental to the kidnapping. Philomene was 71years old at the time yet this didn’t deter the police who summarily arrested her and held under bond in Washington, PA. Court records might be able to give us more but I have no access to those so I have to once again leave you in mid-air from this point until 20 months later.

The Dec 19, 1931 Augusta Chronicle reports that Judge Franklin has upheld the couple’s divorce, which had been granted in November 1928. He awarded custody to the mother, Vivian who had by then remarried. He also pronounced that the child’s name would remain HOYAUX and that although the father would have to be supervised he could see his child according to a pre-arranged schedule. Baron was however not living with his mother and step-father. He was staying with the BRINCKLEYs. Nothing more on this and I cannot seem to find Baron anywhere in the census.

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Emile Hubert HOYAUX is not the only one who leaves me with more questions. His father, Emile (Sr.) is equally mysterious as you will see below. I turned to the Registres d’Etat Civil online to see if I could learn more about his family and pulled up enough to enable a link with someone else’s research on Geneanet.org. Here are the results.

Charles HOYAUX, b in Thuin – d 23 Jan 1848, Thuin, aged 49y 5m3d, son of Adrienne HOYAUX,( died 27 Aug 1830, Thuin, 70y old - b 3 May 1760, Leval Trahegnies, daughter of Jean Joseph HOYAUX and Jeanne Joseph BEAUTRIX) married 14 Sept 1826 in Thuin to Marie Therese CHARTIER, 24y in 1826, daughter of Pierre Chartier and Marie Augustine Joseph LAURENT . Children of Charles HOYAUX and Marie Therese CHARTIER

1. Desire Hubert HOYAUX born 11 Oct 1826, Thuin, son of Charles and Marie Therese CHARTIER Married 24 Jul 1858 in Thuin to Antoinette BRICLET born in Biesmes-sous-Thuin, 15 Feb 1834, daughter of Nicolas BRICLET(voiturier ) and Petronille Celestine TREIGNEE (not TRAINEE as found on her birth record – funny enough she signed TRAGNEE)

2. Marie Therese HOYAUX, 15 March 1829 3. Hubert Joseph HOYAUX, 29 March 1831 (see below) 4. Alexandre Hubert HOYAUX, 6 August 1834 5. Adolphine Ferdinande HOYAUX, 22 Feb 1836 6. Emile HOYAUX, b. 2 Sep 1839, Thuin married on 30 May 1865, Thuin to Mathurine Charlotte DAMEE, b. in

Amfroipret, Nord, France, 22 May 1834, daughter of Juvenal DAMEE and Marie Joseph MARBAIS 7. Sylvie HOYAUX, b 13 Dec 1841 (image 1001) in Thuin, married on 26 Sep 1868, Thuin to

Emile Jh MICHOT (b 9 Sep 1835, son of Felicien Joseph Honore MICHOT, carpenter, and of Emerande DIAUX?

8. Camille HOYAUX, b. 13 Dec 1841 (image 1001) - son

Hubert Joseph HOYAUX (day laborer b. in Thuin 29 March 1831 – d in Waudrez – not Thuin like the obituary states- on 29 July 1897) son of Charles HOYAUX (d. Thuin on 23 Jan 1848) and Marie Therese CHARTIER married in Thuin on 25 February 1854 (record#3) to Pauline BURY (b. in Thuin 27 Nov 1824 – d. 28 Feb 1881, Thuin) daughter of Jean Baptiste Francois Joseph BURY and Nathalie Desiree Joseph ARTILLON (d. in Thuin on 10 July 1834, 36y 7m born in Gozee, daughter of Pierre ARTILLON and Jeanne Josephe WANNUFFELL) Children:

1. Abel Jean Baptiste HOYAUX, b in Thuin 28 Oct 1852 2. Emile Hubert HOYAUX, born 26 March 1855, Thuin, Hainaut, Belgium -

He first married on 7 Jun 1876, Thuin, to Maria DELSART, b Berlaimont, Nord, France on 31st January 1857, daughter of Teophile Joseph DELSART (d. Feignies, Nord, France 16 Aug 1867) and Angelique GRUMELART. By this they legitimized their daughter

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o Pauline Marie HOYAUX, b 2 April 1876 in Maubeuge, Nord, France. (she appears under HOYAUX not DELSART as stated in the marriage record)

Had Emile HOYAUX, Sr. suffered a great loss that caused him to just leave Europe and his first family behind? Did he suffer from depression like his son eventually did? I never found a death certificate for his first wife and the ten-year tables that are online in France for the Nord Departement do not give me enough information to confirm. Emile Hubert HOYAUX (Sr.) emigrated to the US in 1885 and appears on the 1900, 1910 and 1920 US census, as having married Philomene (LAIRESSE), who emigrated with him from Belgium, sometimes about

1891-1892. There is however a strange thing here as I found another marriage record for them (with “DO NOT PUBLISH” written across it), this time in Brooke Co., West Virginia, dated 30 July 1920. Had they lost their marriage certificate? Or had they never actually gotten married officially? I can’t seem to be able to find out. In any case, it was a second marriage for both of them. Philomene died in 1945. She is buried alongside Emile Sr. who died December 9th, 1929 in Pittsburgh, PA. They had but one son together: “our” violinist,

o Emile Hubert HOYAUX, b. on 15 May 1893 in PA – died in November 1979 in Atlanta, GA. On July 6th, 1916 Emile married Hazel McGinnis.22 She was the daughter of Joseph McGinnis and Elizabeth McClure. The marriage may have been in name only as they separated on August 23rd, 1916. Maybe they married to give a name to a child born to them earlier that April:

1. Hubert E HOYAUX, b. 2 Apr 1916. He died in January 1983. He married Beverly Bittner (b, 7 Jan 1918 – d. 5 Jan 2004), the daughter of Edward Bittner and Charlotte Grove. They ran the “Hazel Hoyaux Beauty Salon” on West High Street, in Carlisle, PA. One son was born from this union:

Gary L HOYAUX Emile Hubert HOYAUX then married Vivian (?) and to them was born the little boy who became the subject of this terrible tug-of –war that led to the kidnappings:

2. Baron Emmanuel HOYAUX, born in 1925 Vivian remarried after their divorce in November 1928 and tried to have her child’s last name changed. They moved to Georgia and it seems like Emile decided to follow them as that is where he died but I find nothing more on any members of their family.

3. Aline Josephine HOYAUX, born 2 August 1857, Thuin, Hainaut, Belgium married Emile Joseph LAMBERT, (#6) on 14 Feb 1876 in Thuin, son of Jean Joseph LAMBERT d. Cortil-Wodon, 13 mars 1862) and Angelique WILMOTTE (d. Cortil-Wodon, 30 May 1855), grandson of Jean-Pierre Wilmotte (d Cortil-Wodon 25 Pluviose An 12 ie 15 Fev 1804) and of Marie Catherine Moreau on his mother’s side.

4. Rosa Marie HOYAUX, born 6 May 1869, Thuin (image 132/547 – record #54) 5. Sylvie Marie HOYAUX born in Gozee, 13 Dec 1861 married Nicolas Alexandre HAUMONT (b 27 may 1858,

Mesbach Biebrich, Prussia, son of Pierre Alexandre HAUMONT and Adelaide DECHY (#11) on 8 April 1882 in Thuin.

6. Hubert Desire HOYAUX, b 23 June 1864, Thuin (image 330/388 - record #66) 7. Cesar Hubert HOYAUX, #111 b. 21 Dec 1866, Thuin. (image 383/388) 8. Delphine Marie Joseph HOYAUX, b 25 Oct 1870, Thuin (image 186/547 - record#103)

married on 8 Nov 1890, Thuin. Omer DEHOMBREUX b Croix-lez-Rouveroy, 14 Oct 1865 (Theophile DEHOMBREUX/Veronique PIERART)

9. Marie HOYAUX, b 1 march 1873, Thuin (image 270/547 - record#25)

22 Philadelphia Inquirer, 16 Sep 1917

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Belgians in 1906 Alberta Collected by Régine Brindle

Name Relation Sex Status Age From Emigrated Sub District 6, Calgary, Alberta 1 1 Forckell, Alexandre Head M M 56 Belgium 1904 Oslotoks? 2 1 Forckell, Alice wife F M 51 France 1904 3 1 Forckell, Charles Son M S 24 England 1904 4 1 Forckell, John Son M S 14 France 1904 5 1 Forckell, Robt Son M S 8 Belgium 1904

35 9 Naessens, A Principal M S 42 Belgium 1883 Davisburg

35 10 Van Tighem, Jos Boarder M S 24 Belgium 1903 Oslotok? Sub District 7, Calgary, Alberta 34 25 Mallabrancke, Victor Servant M S 43 Belgium 1886 Calgary Sub District 9, Calgary, Alberta 9 Bousseman, Ma-- patient F S 28 Belgium 1903 Carbon 19 Seel, Paul patient M S 22 Belgium 1904 Carbon

34 Vandendale, C Head M S 43 Belgium 1903 Calgary Sub District 10, Calgary, Alberta 9 139 Petighem, Teague Boarder M S 24 Belgium 1902 Cochrane Sub District 11, Calgary, Alberta 4 77 Ranck, Geo Head M M 40 Belgium 1906 Cochrane 5 77 Ranck, Jane Wife F M 34 Belgium 1906 Cochrane 6 77 Ranck, Andrea daughter F S 14 Belgium 1906 Cochrane 7 77 Ranck, Georgette daughter F S 13 Belgium 1906 Cochrane 8 77 Ranck, Georgette Son M S 6 Belgium 1906 Cochrane

11 79 Baltus, Edouard Head M M 37 Belgium 1904 Cochrane 12 79 Baltus, Emily wife F M 21 Egypt 1905 Cochrane 13 79 Baltus, Edward son M S 2 Egypt 1905 Cochrane 14 79 Baltus, George son M S Alberta 1905 Cochrane 15 79 Baltus, Melanie daughter F S 9 Africa 1905 Cochrane 16 79 Dibele, Louise mother-in-law F W 37 Egypt 1905 Cochrane 17 79 Foubert, Emile Hired Man M S 26 Belgium 1904 Cochrane

21 81 Robinet, J B M S 52 Belgium 1903 Cochrane

31 86 Maron, Jules Head M M 38 Belgium 1892 Cochrane 32 86 Maron, Euphrosine Wife F M 29 Belgium 1901 Cochrane 33 86 Maron, Mary Daughter F S 5 Belgium 1901 Cochrane 34 86 Maron, Joseph Son M S 4 Alberta Cochrane 35 86 Maron, Madeleine Daughter F S January Alberta Cochrane

1 88 Floiner, Nick Brick Maker M M 22 Belgium 1902 6 88 Panier, Albert Brick Maker M S 26 Belgium 1904

14 91 Vardon, Hypolite Head M M 62 Belgium 1899 15 91 Verdon, Henry Son M S 28 Belgium 1898

36 94 Meuffels, Chas Head M M 55 France 1906 37 94 Meuffels, Mary Wife F M 56 Belgium 1906 38 94 Meuffels, Marcel Son M S 22 Belgium 1906 39 94 Meuffels, Annie Daughter F S 14 Belgium 1906

38 31 Pirmez, Raoul Head M S 34 Belgium 1905 Calgary

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39 31 Roels, George Foreman M S 23 Belgium 1905 Calgary 40 31 Boursemaer, Gaston Hired Man M M 33 Belgium 1905 Calgary

16 99 Bodeux, Jos M S 27 Belgium 1901 Cochrane Sub District 12, Calgary, Alberta 24 33 Lufaeck, Baptiste Head M M 32 Belgium 1903 Canmore 25 33 Lufaeck, Manne Wife F M 32 Belgium 1903 Canmore 26 33 Lufaeck, Marrise Daughter F S 10 Belgium 1903 Canmore 27 33 Lufaeck, Peter Son M S 9 Belgium 1903 Canmore 28 33 Lufaeck, Augustes Daughter F S 6 Belgium 1903 Canmore 29 33 Lufaeck, Rachell Daughter F S 4 Belgium 1903 Canmore 30 33 Lufaeck, Frank Son M S 2 Alberta Canmore 31 33 Lufaeck, Emelia Daughter F S 1 Alberta Canmore 32 33 Lamolle, Jon Boarder M S 34 Belgium 1903 Canmore

20 31 Gosney, Polly Head F M 43 Belgium 1889 Canmore 21 31 Gosney, Eugene son M S 6 Alberta Canmore

38 Werotte, Lui Boarder M M 39 Belgium 1903 Exshaw?

19 132 Furs, Edmond cook M S 43 Belgium 1903 abt 1863

37 148 Michaud, Joseph Head M M 45 Belgium 1904 Canmore 38 148 Michaud, Marie Wife F M 41 Belgium 1904 Canmore Sub District 13, Calgary, Alberta 7 10 Mifet, Charles Head M M USA 1902 8 10 Mifet, Kathleen Wife F M 27 Belgium 1897 Sub District 15, Calgary, Alberta 10 307 Maden, Bernard Head M M 55 Ireland Lochand 11 307 Maden, Sara Wife F M 47 Belgium Lochand Sub District 17, Calgary, Alberta De Walle, Falle M S 30 Belgium 1903 Rawdonville Sub District 22, Calgary, Alberta 13 76 Shears, Victor Head M M 32 Belgium 1906 14 76 Shears, Catherina wife F M 26 USA 1906 15 76 Shears, Sofia daughter F S 6 USA 1906 16 76 Shears, Clara? daughter F S 3 USA 1906 17 76 Shears, Carl son M S 2 USA 1906 Sub District 26, Calgary, Alberta 10 18 Prince, John Head M M 44 USA 1888 Calgary 11 18 Prince, Mary Wife F M 33 Belgium 1889 Calgary 12 18 Prince, Margaret daughter F S 20-Dec-05 Alberta Calgary

30 29 Ingeveld, Manuel Boarder M S 26 Belgium 1905 Calgary

36 208 Peers, Thomas Head M M 43 USA Calgary 37 208 Peers, Anna Wife F M 40 Belgium 1888 Calgary 38 208 Peers, Thomas son M S 4 Alberta Calgary 39 208 Peers, Kathleen daughter F S 2 Alberta Calgary

1 407 Sidonie Nicaise maid F S 42 Belgium 1904 Calgary

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Canadian Obituaries Sent by Elaine Putnam, clipped from www.londonfreepress.com and www.cgi.bowesonline.com

At Lambton Meadowview Villa, Petrolia, on Sunday, November 25, 2007. Johannes (Joe) Van Wezel, of Petrolia in his 92nd year. Loving husband of the late Jill Van Wezel (2006). Survived by his daughters Ursula (Ken) Johnson of Petrolia, Marion Taylor of Whitehorse, Dorothy (Bill) Knight of Halifax, and Patricia (Ken) Christie of Petrolia. Opa to eight grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. At Joe's request there will be no visitation or service. Cremation has taken place. A sincere thank you to Dr. Butler and the staff and volunteers at Lambton Meadowview Villa for the care given to Joe. As expressions of sympathy, memorial donations may be made by cheque to the C.E.E. Hospital Foundation and may be arranged by calling the Needham-Jay Funeral Home, Petrolia at 519-88209199. Memories and condolences may be left on-line at www.needhamjay.com - THE LONDON FREE PRESS, London, Ontario - 27 Nov 2007

Kristin Kleuskens beloved daughter of Ron and Eileen Kleuskens of Lucknow on Saturday, December 29, 2008 (this should read 2007) at age 19. Loved by brother Josh, grandparents Maureen and Ted Hazelwood of London and Great-grandmother Eileen Pogson of London. Also cherished by several uncles, aunts, cousins and friends. Predeceased by paternal grandparents Opa Joe and Oma Nellie Kleuskens. Visitation at MacKenzie and McCreath Funeral Home, Lucknow Tuesday, January 1, 2007, 2-4 & 7-9 p.m. Funeral Mass from St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Kingsbridge, Hwy 21 Wednesday, January 2, 2008 at 11:00 a.m. Spring interment Greenhill cemetery, Lucknow. Donations appreciated to Diabetes Association. Onlin www.mackenzieandmccreath.com - THE LONDON FREE PRESS, London, Ontario - 31 Dec 2007

Kettle, Roger Andrew. A resident of Chatham, Roger Kettle died at Chatham-Kent Health Alliance on Tuesday December 18, 2007 at the age of 86. Born in Ghent, Belgium, son of the late Remi & Godelieve Kettle. Beloved husband of Lois (Hyatt) Kettle for 59 years. Loving father of Kathy Sweet & Alan Enser of Mission, B.C., Rev. Jim Kettle and his wife Maureen of Chatham. Cherished grandfather of Heather and Stephen Sweet, Anna Montgomery (Jason), Julie and Gary Kettle, Peter and Tim Hawryluk. Brother of the late Margaret Carroll (1991). Roger served overseas during WWII with the Canadian Army in Belgium and Holland. He retired from Daymond Aluminum, and was a member of St. Paul's Congregational Church. Family will receive friends at the McKinlay Funeral home, 459 St. Clair Street, Chatham, on Thursday 3:00 to 5:00 & 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Funeral Service will be held at St. Paul's Congregational Church, 450 Park Avenue Wet, on Friday, December 21, 2007 at 1:00 p.m. with Pastor Andrew Hawkins and Rev. Dr. Margaret Moriyama officiating. Interment Maple Leaf Cemetery, Chatham. In lieu of flowers, please consider donations to St. Paul's Congregational Church, Canadian Cancer Society, or foundation of Chatham-Kent Health Alliance. Online condolences may be left at www.mckinlayfuneralhome.com THE LONDON FREE PRESS, London, Ontario - 20 Dec 2007

Mrs. Albertina 'Mee' Lips nee Buyck, of Main Street, Delhi, passed away at the Norfolk General Hospital, Simcoe on Thursday, January 3, 2008, in her 82nd year. Member of St. John Brebeuf Catholic Women's League. Former Albertina Elodie Buyck. Beloved wife of William Lips. Loving mother of Monique DeCloedt (Roland), Delhi, and Kathy Stonkus (Ray), Langton. Cherished grandmother of seven grandchildren: Cherie Kochany (David), Melissa Malacize (Roger), Marcie Wright (John), Justin (Joel), Kristine, Andrew and Anette Stonkus. Great-grandmother of Hanna, Griffyn, Christian and Lucas. Dearest sister of Camiel, Loretta and Denise. Also survived by several nieces, nephews and in-laws. Friends called at the MURPHY FUNERAL HOME, Delhi, for visitation on Monday from 2:00 to 4:00 and 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. and for C.W.L. Prayers at 3:00 p.m. and Parish prayers at 7:30 p.m. A Funeral Mass was held at Our lady of LaSalette Roman Catholic Church, LaSalette, on Tuesday, January 8th at 10:00 a.m. with Rev. Fr. Chris Gevaert officiating. Interment in Delhi Cemetery. Donations to the Norfolk General Hospital Foundation or the Canadian Diabetes Association will be gratefully acknowledged by the family. - THE DELHI NEWS-RECORD, Delhi, Ontario - 9 Jan 2008

Peacefully at her residence, on Tuesday, January 1st, 2008, Cecile Maertens of Cambridge, formerly of London, in her 99th year. beloved aunt and great aunt to many nieces and nephews. Cherished Godmother of Sandra Maertens-Schembre, Frans Mestdagh, and Lucien Maertens. Predeceeased by her parents Hector and Irma Maertens. Also prececeased by her siblings Andre, Rachel, Urbain, Firmin, Henriette, Roger, Etienne, Gerard, Marguerite, Frans, Jeanne and Irene. The funeral service will be conducted in the Westview Funeral Chapel, 709 Wonderland Road North, on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 at 11:00 a.m. with visitation one hour prior to the service. Interment to follow at Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Those of you wishing to make a donation in memory of Cecile are asked to consider the Canadian Cancer Society or the Heart & Stroke Foundation. Online condolences may be sent to condolences@westviewfuneralchapel.com - The London Free Press, London, Ontario - 4 Jan 2008

Puyenbroek, Cornelia passed away at Chateau Gardens, Parkhill, on December 14, 2007 in her 85th year. Loving wife of the late Louie Puyenbroek, mother of Casey, beloved Oma to Hailey Broadbent and her husband Kevin, and Stacie Puyenbroek. great Oma to Tashy, Nate and Shiloh. Loving aunt to Corrie Huys, Annie Sneekes and families. Cremation has taken place. No service at the request of Cornelia. Our sincere appreciation to the staff at Chateau Gardens for the excellent care and compassion. THE LONDON FREE PRESS, London, Ontario - 15 Dec

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Peacefully, on Saturday, December 29, 2007, at Victoria Hospital, Jeanne Ida Schram passed away in her 73rd year. Loving mother of Geraldine, David, Barbara (Bob), Richard, Sandra, Martin, Jacqueline (Mark) and Carol (Mike). Dear grandma of Jason, Trevor, Courtney, Sean, Chelynne, Mykal, Erik, Kymberley, Logan, Noah and Nicholas and great-grandma of Ryan. A private family service will be held at a later date. In memory, donations to the Canadian Diabetes Association or the Canadian Cancer Society would be appreciated. Online condolences available at www.memorialfuneral.ca THE LONDON FREE PRESS, London, Ontario - 31 Dec 2007

Aarsen, Jean Marie - A resident of Wallaceburg, passed away peacefully at Fairfield Park on Thursday, January 10, 2007 in her 84th year. Jean is the daughter of the late Cyriel and Adronia (Demulleare) Seys. Beloved wife of the late Desere (Ray) Aarssen. Loving mother of William & Shirley Aarssen of Wallaceburg, Johanna Dawdy of Chatham, Art & Rose Aarssen of Moncton, Sally & Gary Lucier of Wallaceburg, Robert & Karen of Wallaceburg and the late Raymond (Radio Ray). Mother-in-law of Janice Aarssen of Wallceburg. Dear grandmother of 15 grandchildren and 29 great grandchildren. sister of Albert Seys of Chatham, Annie van Dommelin of Chatham, Margaret Cogghe of Wallaceburg and the late Emiel Seys, Joe Seys, Madelene Punnewaert, Mary Lauwereys Bertha Aarssen, Veronica Turner and Clara Turner. Friends may call at the HAYCOCK CAVANAGH FUNERAL HOME, 408 Nelson Street in Wallaceburg from 2-4 & 7-9 p.m. on Monday. The funeral service will be conducted by Fr. Greg Bonin at the funeral home on Tuesday, January 15, at 11 a.m. The interment will follow at Riverview Cemetery. If desired, remembrances to Fairfield Memorial Garden or Parkinson Society may be left at the funeral home 519-627-3231. Online condolences may be sent to jaarsen@cava;naghfuneralhome.ca The Chatham Daily News, Chatham, Ontario - 12 Jan 2008

Crombez, John Joseph - Passed away in Chatham at the Copper Terrace Long Term Care Facility on Thursday January 10, 2008. John was born in Harwich Township 73 years ago to his parents Marie (Mispelen) and Alphonse Crombez. Predeceased by his wife Brenda (Butler), John is survived by his children Cindy and Rick Smolders of Blenheim, Shelley and Bruce Gardner of Ajax, Tracey and Tom Horton of Blenheim, John Crombez and Kim Babo of Chatham, Connie and Martial Lavoie of Chatham, and Paul Crombez of London. Missing their grandfather and Great Grandfather are Larry Jr., Terry, Paige,Cody, Mike, Dwane, Craig, Scott, Jason, Sharron, Terri-Lynn, Jennifer, Chad, Tyler, Aaron, Chris, Justin, April, Paul Jr., Xander, Kayla. Also surviving is John's sister Rosa VanDeWawer of Ridgetown. John is predeceased by his son Larry Crombez, a granddaughter Jessie and by two sisters Mona and Jean and two brothers Roger and Mike. John was proud of his Belgium ancestry and was a faithful member and past president of the Canadian Belgium Dutch Club in Chatham. He was also a member of the Chatham Moose Lodge and coached slo-pitch for many years. Friends are invited to attend visitation at the funeral home, 60 Stanley Street, Blenheim on Sunday January 13, 2008 from 2:00-4:00 & 7:00-9:00 p.m. A funeral Mass celebrated by Rev. Fr. Paul Duplessie will be held at St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Blenheim on Monday January 14, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. Friends wishing to honour John's life with a memorial donation are asked to consider either the Alzheimer's Society or Copper Terrace Long Term Care Facility. Donations by debit, credit card, cash or cheque, may be made by contacting the funeral home. Online condolences and donations may be left at www.blenheimcommunityfuneralhome.com BLENHEIM COMMUNITY FUNERAL HOME 60 Street, Blenheim, Ontario 519-676-9200 The Chatham Daily News, Chatham, Ontario - 12 Jan 2008

Deketelaere, Roy - At his residence, Chatham, on Monday, January 14, 2008, Roy Deketelaere, age 58 of Chatham. Born in Chatham on March 29, 1949 he was son of the late Bertha Blondia and Maurice Deketelaere. He will be sadly missed by his many cousins. Friends and relatives may call at the Funeral Home 156 William St. S. Chatham from 10 until service time on Friday. Funeral Service will be conducted in THE HINNIGAN-PESESKI CHAPEL, on Friday January 18, 2008 at 11:00 am with Fr. Dennis Wilhelm of St. Joseph's Church, officiating. Burial will take place in St. Anthony's Cemetery, Chatham. Donations to Community Living would be appreciated. Online condolences welcomed at www.peseski.com The Hinnegan-Peseski Funeral Home and Chapel 519-352-5120 – The Chatham Daily News, Chatham, Ontario - 16 Jan 2008

Peacefully at London Health Sciences Centre, Victoria Hospital on Monday, December 17, 2007 Daniel Oscar Vanhie in his 82nd year. Beloved husband of the late Margaret Mary Vanhie (2001). Loving father of Pauline and Roy Phillips, Elaine Vanhie, Frank and Dawn Vanhie, Mark and Dianne Vanhie, and Carol Vanhie. Predeceased by his daughter Linda (1952). Dear grandfather of Emily and Ian Phillips, Haley and Patrick Vanhie, Danielle, Alysia, Jenalle and Karlee Vanhie. Dear brother of Mary Moser and brother-in-law of Rose and her husband Bill Anglin, Pat and his wife Joyce Marrinan, Katherine Marrinan and Marie Marrinan. Predeceased by his parents Jules and Martha Vanhie, his brother George and his wife Bertha and brother-in-law Jim McCarthy, John Moser, Bill Marrinan and Jim Marrinan. Visitors will be received at John T. Donohue Funeral Home, 362 Waterloo Street at King Street, on Thursday from 1-4 and 7-9 o'clock. Funeral Mass at St. Justin's Church, 855 Jalna Blvd, on Friday morning at 10 o'clock. Interment in St. Peter's Cemetery. Prayers Thursday afternoon 3 o'clock. Donations to the Heart & Stroke Foundation, London Regional Cancer Program c/o L.H.S.F. or a favourite charity would be appreciated. - THE LONDON FREE PRESS, London, Ontario - 19 December 2007

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Belgians in the 1900 US Census: Cook County, IL (ctd) By Chuck VandenEeden

Chicago Ward 23 Name Relation Sex Birthdate Status BirthPlace/Father/Mother Emig./Nat. Occupation Venderlick, Joseph Head m Mar 1865 m-14 Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1890 pa tanner, Chicago Venderlick, Leonia Wife f Nov 1866 m-14 [10/4] Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1892 Venderlick, Fedelia Son m Aug 1887 s Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1892 school Venderlick, Mary Daughter f Sep 1888 s Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1892 school Venderlick, Charlie Son m Nov 1889 s Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1892 school Venderlick, Selina daughter f Nov 1897 s Illinois/Belgium/Belgium 1899 al day laborer, Chicago Vanneigebun, Chas Head m Mar 1855 m-6 Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1899 Vanneigebun, Josephine Wife f Jan 1874 m-6[4/4] Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1899 Vanneigebum, Joseph Son m Jul 1895 s Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1899 Vannigebun, Mary Daughter f Sep 1896 s Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1899 Vanneigebun, Francis Son m Jn 1898 s Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1899 Vanneigebun, Maggie Daughter f Sep 1899 s Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1899 Hoefman, Fredrika Mother f Oct 1823 wd?[4/4] Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1899 Standaert, Prosper Head m Jan 1875 m-2 Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1890 al packer/flour, Chicago Standaert, Lizzie Wife f Jan 1888 m-2[1/1] Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1892 Standaert, Richard son m Jul 1899 s Illinois/Belgium/Belgium Desherow, Joseph Head m apr 1850 m-26 Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1855 na stone cutter, Chicago Desherow, Maggie Wife f May 1850 m-26[6/5] Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1856 Descherow, Henry son m Feb 1881 s Illinois/Belgium/Belgium teamster Descherow, Arthur son m Aug 1884 s Illinois/Belgium/Belgium clerk Descherow, Libbie daughter f Jul 1886 s Illinois/Belgium/Belgium school Descherow, Lewis son m Aug 1888 s Illinois/Belgium/Belgium school Descherow, Eddie son m Sep 1889 s Illinois/Belgium/Belgium school Desherow, Lewis Head m Feb 1840 m-36 Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1855 na painter, Chicago Desherow, Louisa Wife f Sep 1842 m-36[12/7]Sweden/Sweden/Sweden 1860 Descherow, Edna Daughter f Feb 1879 s Illinois/Belgium/Sweden Descherow, Mable daughter f Dec 1884 s Illinois/Belgium/Sweden Pauwell, Lewis Head m Jan 1858 m-14 Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1880na RR car cleaner, Chicago Pauwell, Emily Wife f Aug 1863 m-14[8/7] Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1884 Pauwell, Joseph son m Mar 1886 s Illinois/Belgium/Belgium school Pauwell, Emma daughter f Aug 1888 s Illinois/Belgium/Belgium school Pauwell, Lena daughter f Jun 1890 s Illinois/Belgium/Belgium school Pauwell, Mary daughter f Apr 1892 s Illinois/Belgium/Belgium school Pauwell, William son m Mar 1894 s Illinois/Belgium/Belgium Pauwell, Florence daughter f Dec 1895 s Illinois/Belgium/Belgium Pauwell, Emily daughter f Mar 1899 s Illinois/Belgium/Belgium Byrne, Andrew Head m May 1860 m-10 Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1885pa RR car cleaner, Chicago Byrne, Rosa Wife Jan 1868 m-10[4/4] Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1887 Byrne, Augusta daughter f Jul 1891 s Illinois/Belgium/Belgium school Byrne, Emma daughter f May 1897 s Illinois/Belgium/Belgium Byrne, Joseph son m Oct 1898 s Illinois/Belgium/Belgium Byrne, Charles son m Dec 1899 s Illinois/Belgium/Belgium Vintenten, Joseph Boarder m Mar 1876 s Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1890 pa day laborer, Chicago Diennekx, Louis Boarder m Apr 1876 s Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1890 pa day laborer, Chicago Dumolm, Charles Head m Mar 1850 wd?[8/4] Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1872 na RR laborer, Chicago Dumolm, Nellie daughter f Dec 1876 s Illinois/Belgium/Belgium clerk/office Dumolm, Henry son m Aug 1880 s Illinois/Belgium/Belgium day laborer, Chicago Dumolm, Florentine daughter f Sep 1891 s Illinois/Belgium/Belgium school Williamson, George Boarder m Mar 1857 s Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1880na peddler/notions, Chicag Dewolf, Edward Head m Mar 1865 m-10 Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1889 na packer/flour, Chicago Dewolf, Rosa Wife f Apr 1870 m-10 [3/3] Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1890 Dewolf, Lewis son m Jun 1892 s Michigan/Belgium/Belgium school Dewolf, Mary daughter f Mar 1894 s Michigan/Belgium/Belgium Dewolf, Peter son m Oct 1899 s Illinois/Belgium/Belgium Dewolf, Lewis Boarder m May 1857 s Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1888 na news delivery Goodsnover, Theresa Head f Oct 1838 wd?[11/8] Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1887 na N. G. Goodsnover, Frank son m Nov 1861 s Illinois/Belgium/Belgium machinist, Chicago

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Goodsnover, Theresa daughter f Oct 1876 s Illinois/Belgium/Belgium Goodsnover, Henry son m Jun 1885 s Illinois/Belgium/Belgium machinist, Chicago Goodsnover, Anna Daughter f Feb 1879 s Illinois/Belgium/Belgium tailoress Roels, Ferdinand Head m Jun 1847 wd-24 Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1880 na day laborer, Chicago Roels, August Son m Oct 1877 s Belgium/Belgium/Belgium ? day laborer, Chicago Roels, Salina daughter f Aug 1882 s Illinois/Belgium/Belgium Roels, Mary daughter f Sep 1887 s Illinois/Belgium/Belgium school VanWazer, Frank Head m Mar 1843 m-32 Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1850 ? machinist, Chicago VanWazer, Agnes wife f Jan 1850 m-32[11/9] Illinois/Germany/Germany VanWazer, Jennie Daughter f Jun 1887 s Illinois/Belgium/Illinois school VanWazer, Mary Daughter f Mar 1888 s Illinois/Belgium/Illinois school VanWazer, Annie daughter f May 1891 s Illinois/Belgium/Illinois school Clair, William Head m Mar 1855 m-8 France/Belgium/Belgium 1887 na RR worker, Chicago Clair, Mary Wife f Sep 1845 m-8[11/3] ? Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1887 Clair, Fredrick son m Mar 1880 s France/France/Belgium 1887 factory hand Clair, Florence Daughter f Mar 1884 s France/France/Belgium 1887 stove factory hand Clair, Mary daughter f Jun 1887 s Michigan/France/Belgium Detaen, Charles Boarder m Feb 1860 s Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1888 pa janitor, Chicago Coussemeut, Theophil Head m Nov 1858 m-18 Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1893 na RR worker, Chicago Coussemeut, Alice Wife f Oct 1860 m-18[5/2] Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1893 Coussemeut, Virginia Daughter f Sep 1886 s Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1893 school Coussemeut, Minnie Daughter f Nov 1889 s Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1893 school VanGoethen, John Lodger m Oct 1869 s Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1890 na RR worker, Chicago Blanch, August Lodger m Nov 1854 s Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1882 na RR worker, Chicago DeGroote, Frank Head m Jan 1850 wd? Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1876 na landlord, Chicago Vanleoe, Peter Boarder m Mar 1844 s Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1892 na RR worker, Chicago Stain, Julius Boarder m May 1862 s Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1893 na farm lalorer Verhelle, William Boarder m Apr 1856 s Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1893 na day laborer, Chicago Verhelle, August Head m Jan 1850 m-16 Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1885 na peddler, Chicago Verhelle, Emma Wife f Apr 1867 m-16[8/6] Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1885 Verhelle, Lena daughter f Sep 1886 s Illinois/Belgium/Belgium school Verhelle, Hortense daughter f Jun 1889 s Illinois/Belgium/Belgium school Verhelle, Octavia daughter f Nov 1893 s Illinois/Belgium/Belgium Verhelle, Emmerence daughter f Jul 1896 s Illinois/Belgium/Belgium Brulee, Basil Boarder m Jun 1871 s Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1895 al day laborer, Chicago Johnson, Charles Head m Jul 1871 m-1 Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1893 al RR worker, Chicago Johnson, Mary Wife f Nov 1882 m-1[0/0] Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1885 Vanguter, Louis Head m Nov 1873 m-3 Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1893 al fireman/marine Vanguter, Augusta Wife f Jul 1860 m-3[9/2] Belgium/?/? 1890 Clark, Adolph Step Son m Mar 1882 s Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1890 foundry laborer Clark, Emma Step Daughter f Apr 1890 s Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1890 school Hays, Fred Head m Mar 1860 m-11 Belgium/Belgium/Belgium1883na provisions dealer, Chicago Hays, Lena Wife f Jan 1871 m-11[2/2] Belgium/Belgium/Belgium ? Hays, Edward son m Feb 1892 s Illinois/Belgium/Belgium school Hays, Mary daughter f Jun 1897 s Illinois/Belgium/Belgium Dericks, Florentine Inmate f Jul 188 s Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1875 at House of Good Shepherd Bisson, And Head m Jan 1832 m-30 Canada/Canada/Canada 1848 na silver plater, Chicago Bisson, Louisa Wife f Jan 1849 m-30[14/?] Belgium/France/France 1857 Riverston, Gustavus Head m Sep 1839 wd-10? Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1860na music teacher, Chicago Riverston, Teckla daughter f Mar 1872 s Illinois/Belgium/Belgium Dhooghe, Charlie Head m Jan 1861 m-10 Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1888 al laborer, Chicago Dhooghe, Clerisse Wife f Feb 1872 m-10[5/4] Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1889 Dhooghe, Alice daughter f Apr 1892 s Illinois/Belgium/Belgium Dhooghe, Henry son m May 1894 s Illinois/Belgium/Belgium Dhooghe, Florence Daughter f Aug 1897 s Illinois/Belgium/Belgium Dhooghe, Karmieal son m Aug 1897 s Illinois/Belgium/Belgium Stadaert, Henry Boarder m Feb 1851 s Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1887 pa day laborer, Chicago Pardon, Phillip Head m Sep 1852 m-11 Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1859 na trunk maker, Chicago Pardon, Kate wife f May 1866 m-11[1/1] Ohio/Penn./Penn. Pardon, Edmund son m Mar 1875 s Illinois/Belgium/illinois laborer Pardon, Joseph son m Jul 1879 s Illinois/Belgium/illinois printing Pardon, Allen son m May 1895 s Illinois/Belgium/Ohio school Desplanter, Emil Head m May 1853 m-22 Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1889 na peddler, Chicago

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Desplanter, Clemence Wife f Nov 1857 m-22[6/5] Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1890 Desplanter, Morris Son m May 1879 s Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1890 foreman/bicycle factory Desplanter, Arthur Son m Oct 1880 s Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1890 machinist, Chicago Desplanter, Earnest Son m Jul 1884 s Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1890 school Desplanter, Frank Son m Oct 1886 s Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1890 school Desplanter, Marie Daughter f Mar 1889 s Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1890 school Martins, Julius Boarder m Jan 1864 wd? Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1891 pa night watchman Dubois, Leopold Head m Dec 1857 m-10 Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1882 na mirror polisher, Chicago Dubois, Mary wife f Nov 1870 m-10[6/3] Illinois/Scotland/Ireland Dubois, Edward J son m Mar 1893 s Illinois/Belgium/Illinois Dubois, Robert son m Aug 1895 s Illinois/Belgium/Illinois Dubois, Sarah J daughter f Jul 1897 s Illinois/Belgium/Illinois DeGroote, Constantine Head m Apr 1832 wd? Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1859 na expressman, Chicago DeGroote, Emilie daughter f Feb 1866 s Illinois/Belgium/Canada DeGroote, Louise daughter f Sep 1874 s Illinois/Belgium/Canada Chicago Ward 24 Henrotin, Charles Head m Apr 1843 m-31 Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1848 na banker, Chicago Henrotin, Ellen M wife f Jul 1847 m-31 [3/3] Maine/Maine/Maine Henrotin, Edward W son m Aug 1871 s Illinois/Belgium/Maine stock ? Henrotin, Charles son m Mar 1876 s Illinois/Belgium/Maine ? Henrotin, Morris son m Sep 1882 s Illinois/Belgium/Maine school Vermeren, Cyrille Head m Jul 1864 m-4 Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1893unk specialist/eye/ear, Chicago Vermeren, Clara Wife f Jun 1870 m-4[0/0] Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1896 Diehl, George F Roomer m Jan 1882 s Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1885 unk shoe clerk, Chicago Baccus, Victor Boarder m Aug 1870 s Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1889 na surgeon, Chicago Henrotin, Farmond Head m Sep 1849 m-27 Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1858 unk physician, Chicago Henrotin, Emily wife f May 1850 m-27[0/0] Illinois/Denmark/Switzerland Caubert, Eugene Head m pr 1851 m-11 France/France/France 1876 na importer, Chicago Caubert, Marie Wife f Apr 1855 m-11[0/0] Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1889 Schmitt, Henry Head m Dec1849 m-18 Luxembourg/Luxmbrg/Luxmbrg 1867na oiler, Chicago Schmitt, Mary Wife f Apr 1849 m-18 [2/1] Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1863 Schmitt, Cornelia Daughter f Jun 1884 s Illinois/Luxembourg/Belgium school Godefrin, Lousie Partner f Oct 1871 s Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1893 ? nurse, Chicago Hurlbut, Frank Roomer m Aug 1872 m-1 Belgium/Conn./England 1874 Cit. engineer, Chicago Hurlbut, Rosina Roomer f Dec 1874 m-1[0/0] New York/France/New York Debyrne, Hypolite Roomer m Apr 1855 m-14 Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1876 na clerk, Chicago Debyrne, Ella Roomer f Jun 1865 m-14[0/0] New Jersey/New Jersey/New Jersey Binheim, Magnus Head m May 1837 m-15 Sweden/Sweden/Sweden 1897 al janitor, Chicago Binheim, Rosalie Wife f Apr 1855 m-15[1/1] Belgium/Belgium/Belgium unk. Breit, Anna Head f Aug 1849 wd-?[3/0] Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1855 N. G., Chicago Evvvard, Victor Lodger m Sep 1836 s Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1870 na bank clerk, Chicago Macnab-Blankenberg, ? Boarder m Jul 1829 wd? Belgium/Scotland/England 1881 na bookkeeper, Chicago Goldard, Herman Roomer m Jul 1865 m-11 New Jersey/New Jersey/New Jersey cigar maker, Chicago Goldard, Rosie Roomer f Mar 1870 m-11[0/0] Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1882 none listed Ooghe, Richard Servant m Apr 1862 m-11 Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1888 na domestic, Chicago Ooghe, Julia Servant m Jan 1863 m-11[2/0] Germany/Germany/Germany 1888 domestic Gorris, Julia Head f Aug 1847 wd?[5/4] Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1880 N. G., Chicago Gorris, Frank son m Apr 1879 s Illinois/Belgium/Belgium shipping clerk Gorris, Maggie daughter f Oct 1880 s Illinois/Belgium/Belgium Swarth, Martha Lodger f Jun 1875 s Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1888 none listed Tell, Lulu Lodger f Sep 1875 wd? Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1884 store cashier, Chicago DePondrom, Edward Head m May 1860 s Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1870 na physician, Chicago Bartelli, George Lodger m Jan 1884 s Belgium/Belgium/Belgium 1897 al actor, Chicago

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Researching Online: Internet Links of Interest Free access Site containing Digital images: http://actes.marche.be All you are required to do is ask for a login. There is a total of 96044 records from the following towns/villages: Aye, Champlon, Grimbiémont, Hargimont, Hollogne, Humain, Lignières, Marche, Marloie, On, Roy, Verdenne, and Waha. As you can see by the picture, you can narrow your search down to a ‘commune’ (town), type of document (Deaths, Marriages, Births), and/or even type in a surname. My search for the surname DUPONT returned 102 results from among all three types of records. The records can be downloaded in .TIF format. By the way, if you are looking for a great little picture program, you might want to

download the free IRFANVIEW from www.irfanview.com. It opens all sorts of picture file extensions you may not know what to do with. The product found on this site is impeccable! KUDOS to “Wallonia asbl” - http://www.wallonia-asbl.be/ - for taking on this huge task to make records available online and thank you to the communities who gave them permission to do this work!

Note that this is the birth record of Marie- Josephine REMACLE, on 8 Nov 1878 at Humain, daughter of Hubert REMACLE and Pauline DUPONT

To make this possible, after they obtained permission from the local authorities, they had to proceed in several stages:

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Aarssen, Jean Marie p28 Alcindor, Napoleon p5 Andreola, Marie Q p20 Arlequeeun, Armond Joseph p18 Artillon, Nathalie Desiree Joseph p23 Artillon, Pierre p23 Baccus, Victor p31 Baker, Chas p10 Baltus, Edouard p25 Baltus, Edward p25 Baltus, Emily p25 Baltus, George p25 Baltus, Melanie p25 Baron, Frank Joseph p18 Bartelli, George p31 Beautrix, Jean Joseph p23 Beckaert, Carl p5 Beckaert, Charles p6, 8 Beckaert, Chas L p12 Beckaert, Maria A p12 Beckel, Margaret p10 Beckel, Wilhelm p10 Beckle, Margareth p11 Beckle, Wilhelmine p11 Becquert, Omer p19 Beekerat, Omer p19 Beerens, John Joseph p20 Bekel, Anna Helena p8 Bekel, Margaretha p15 Bellman, Andrew p15 Bellman, Anton p15 Bellman, John p15 Bellman, Katharina p14 Bellman, Lizzie p15 Bellman, Louis p15 Bellman, Sophie p15 Bellman, Theodore p14 Berckmoes, Isidoor p18 Berckmoes, Maurice p18 Billy, Julius Lucien p19 Binheim, Magnus p31 Binheim, Rosalie p31 Bisson, And p30 Bisson, Louisa p30 Blanch, August p30 Blondia, Bertha p28 Bodeux, Jos p26 Boharb, John p14 Borman, James Anthony p18 Bosch, Jules p19 Boursemaer, Gaston p26 Bousseman, Ma-- p25 Bowett, George p19 Brant, Joseph D p18 Breit, Anna p31 Briclet, Antoinette p23 Briclet, Nicolas p23 Brulee, Basil p30 Bury, J Bpt Franc Joseph p23 Bury, Pauline p23 Buyck, Albertina "Mee" Lips p27

Buyck, Sophie Jehanne p8 Byrne, Andrew p29 Byrne, Augusta p29 Byrne, Charles p29 Byrne, Emma p29 Byrne, Joseph p29 Byrne, Rosa p29 Carpenter, Victor p18 Caubert, Eugene p31 Caubert, Marie p31 Certfriend, A. p5 Chartier, Marie Therese p23 Chartier, Pierre p23 Cigrand, Ferdinand p11 Cigrand, Frank p11 Cigrand, Jacob p11 Cigrand, Lenna p11 Cigrand, Mary p11 Cigrand, Peter p11 Cigrand, Tillie p11 Clair, Florence p30 Clair, Fredrick p30 Clair, Mary p30 Clair, William p30 Clark, Adolph p30 Clark, Emma p30 Clemens, Anna p11 Clemens, Jerre p11 Clemens, Leopold p11 Cobbaert, Rene p19 Collinet, Gerard Joseph p19 Cornille, Oscar p18 Cottenie, Gustav p19 Coussemeut, Alice p30 Coussemeut, Minnie p30 Coussemeut, Theophil p30 Coussemeut, Virginia p30 Cramer, Peter p11 Crombez, Alphonse p28 Crombez, John Joseph p28 Cutter, Felix p10 Cutter, Mary p10 Damas, Jeanmette p16 Dambois, Maurice p18 Damee, Juvenal p23 Damee, Maturine Charlotte p23 De Backer, Henry Victor p18 De Birdt, Carolina p12 De Birdt, Ferdinand p12 De Birdt, Frank p12 De Birdt, Marie p12 De Birdt, William p12 De Brine, Charly p14 De Brine, John p14 De Brine, John V p14 De Brine, Joseph p14 De Brine, Lena p14 De Brine, Lizzie p14 De Broeck, Ben p12 De Brook, Annie E p15 De Brook, Chas p12

De Brook, Eda L p15 De Brook, Edward p12, 15 De Brook, Elizabeth p12 De Brook, Ellen p12 De Brook, Elonora C p15 De Brook, Francis p12 De Brook, Henry p12 De Brook, Hubert p12 De Brook, Leo G p15 De Brook, Louis C p15 De Brook, Lucy J p15 De Brook, Manie C p15 De Brook, Theresa p12 De Bruck, Frank p14 De Bruck, Gertrude p14 De Bruck, Lucia p14 De Budt, Ferdinand p15 de Colnet, Marie Constance p16 De Cortes, Hilaire Victor p18 De Graeve, Domin p18 De Grandel, Henry p11 De Grendele, Edward p8 De Grendele, Jacobus p8 de Heuvel, Peterus H p5 De Longe, Katie p14 De Meddelaer, Fred p18 De Meerleer, Paul p19 De Middelaer, Leopold p18 De Neff, Peter p15 De Nefve, Jno p12 De Nefve, Peter p12 De Nefve, Theresa p12 De Neve, John p14 de Pasquet, Francois Henri Joseph p16 De Sutter, Frank p19 de Theux de Meylandt, Bartholomeus p4 De Vriendt, Alois p19 De Walle, Falle p26 Debaere, Peter p19 Deboe, Albertine p21 Debyrne, Ella p31 Debyrne, Hypolite p31 Declark, Cis p12 Deconinck, Frank Alexander p18 Deconinck, George Henry p18 DeGroote, Constantine p31 DeGroote, Emil p19 DeGroote, Emilie p31 DeGroote, Frank p30 DeGroote, Louise p31 Dehombreux, Theophile p24 Deketelaere, Maurice p28 Deketelaere, Roy p28 Delestienne, Aime A p21 Delhaye, Gilbert cover Deloore, Walter p19 Delsart, Maria p23 Delsart, Teophile Joseph p23 Demulleare, Adronia p28 Demyttenaere, Jules Alphonse p18

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DePondrom, Edward p31 Depraetere, Joseph p19 Depuydt, Victor p19 Dericks, Anna H p10 Dericks, Chas L p10 Dericks, Florentine p30 Dericks, Mary J p10 Dericks, Peter G p10 Dericks, Peter J p10 DeRoy, Amos p19 Deschamps, Adolphe p4 Deschamps, L F p19 Descherow, Arthur p29 Descherow, Eddie p29 Descherow, Edna p29 Descherow, Henry p29 Descherow, Lewis p29 Descherow, Libbie p29 Descherow, Mable p29 Desemplain, Emil p19 Desherow, Joseph p29 Desherow, Lewis p29 Desherow, Louisa p29 Desherow, Maggie p29 Desplanter, Arthur p31 Desplanter, Clemence p31 Desplanter, Earnest p31 Desplanter, Emil p31 Desplanter, Frank p31 Desplanter, Marie p31 Desplanter, Morris p31 Detaen, Charles p30 Devillez, Leon Joseph p19 deWestblaw, John p15 Dewolf, Edward p29 Dewolf, Lewis p29 Dewolf, Mary p29 Dewolf, Peter p29 Dewolf, Rosa p29 d'Hoffschmidt de Resteigne, Constant Ernest p7 Dhooghe, Alice p30 Dhooghe, Charlie p30 Dhooghe, Clerisse p30 Dhooghe, Florence p30 Dhooghe, Henry p30 Dhooghe, Karmieal p30 Diaux, Emerande p23 Dibele, Louise p25 Diehl, George F p31 Diennekx, Louis p29 Dierckx, Petrus p5 Dierckx, Pieter Jacobus p5 Dircks, Annie p11 Dircks, August p11 Dircks, Charles p11 Dircks, Clemens p11 Dircks, Emelie p11 Dircks, Emil p11 Dircks, Henry p11 Dircks, Peter p11

Dircks, Pierre p5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Dirckx, Alma p15 Dirckx, Anna Helena p12 Dirckx, Annie H p15 Dirckx, Aug Victor p12 Dirckx, August p15 Dirckx, Charles L p15 Dirckx, Chas L p12 Dirckx, Clemense A p12 Dirckx, Edwin p15 Dirckx, Elmer p15 Dirckx, Emile Jos p12 Dirckx, Frank p15 Dirckx, Frk G p12 Dirckx, Henry Jos p12 Dirckx, Hilda p15 Dirckx, Joseph p12, 15 Dirckx, Katharina p15 Dirckx, Lena p15 Dirckx, Lizzie p15 Dirckx, Olilia M p12 Dirckx, Peter J p12, 15 Dirckx, Rudolph p15 Dirckx, Sophia C p12 Diricks, Florent p19 Driessen, Jacobus Jr. p18 Dubois, Edward J p31 Dubois, Leopold p31 Dubois, Mary p31 Dubois, Robert p31 Dubois, Sarah J p31 Dumolm, Charles p29 Dumolm, Florentine p29 Dumolm, Henry p29 Dumolm, Nellie p29 Dupont, Fernand (Frank) p21 Dupont, Pauline p32 Dycke , Louisa p12 Dycke, Emma p12 Dycke, Frank p12 Dycke, Jacob p12 Eke, Joseph p10 Eke, Mary p10 Eveler, Mary p14 Eveler, Noah p14 Evvvard, Victor p31 Feys, Francois p19 Floiner, Nick p25 Fondollar, Richd p10 Fondollar, Theresa p10 Forckell, Alexandre p25 Forckell, Alice p25 Forckell, Charles p25 Forckell, John p25 Forckell, Robt p25 Foubert, Emile p25 Frazier, Joe p10 Furs, Edmond p26 Gerin, Jule p19 Gerion, Fred p18 Germey, Floris Albert p19

Gernaey, Jules p18 Giles, Joseph p18 Godefrin, Lousie p31 Godschalk, John Richard p18 Goessens, Francis p6 Goetz, Jerome p18 Goldard, Herman p31 Goldard, Rosie p31 Goodsnover, Anna p30 Goodsnover, Frank p30 Goodsnover, Henry p30 Goodsnover, Theresa p30 Goosens, Francis Bernard p5 Goosens, Frank p11, 12 Gorris, Frank p31 Gorris, Julia p31 Gorris, Maggie p31 Gosney, Eugene p26 Gosney, Polly p26 Gotte, Bernardus p5 Grumelart, Angelique p23 Gutchoen, Jack p18 Hays, Edward p30 Hays, Fred p30 Hays, Lena p30 Hays, Mary p30 Haywood, Katharina p15 Helias d'Huddeghem, Ferdinand p4, 6, 8 Helster, Joeseph D p19 Henrotin, Charles p31 Henrotin, Edward W p31 Henrotin, Ellen M p31 Henrotin, Emily p31 Henrotin, Farmond p31 Henrotin, Morris p31 Hillen, Katharina p14 Hillen, Sophie p14 Hillen, William p14 Hoefman, Fredrika p29 Hoelscher, Anna p12 Hoelscher, Frank p12 Hoelscher, Joseph p12 Hoelscher, Margeret p12 Hoelscher, Rosaline p12 Hoyaux, Abel Jean Baptiste p23 Hoyaux, Adolphine Ferdinande p23 Hoyaux, Adrienne p23 Hoyaux, Alexandre Hubert p23 Hoyaux, Aline Josephine p24 Hoyaux, Baron Emmanuel p22, 23, 24 Hoyaux, Camille p23 Hoyaux, Cesar p24 Hoyaux, Desire Hubert p23 Hoyaux, Emile p23 Hoyaux, Emile Hubert p22, 23 Hoyaux, Gary L p24 Hoyaux, Jean Joseph p23 Hoyaux, Marie p24 Hoyaux, Pauline Marie p24 Hoyaux, Philomene p22, 23 Hoyaux, Sylvie p23

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Hughtinger, Hato p10 Hurlbut, Frank p31 Hurlbut, Rosina p31 Ingeveld, Manuel p26 Isselee, Charles Adolf p18 Jacquet, Andred p11 Jacquet, Elizabeth p11 Jacquet, Jacob p11 Jacquet, Julia p11 Jacquet, Leopold p11 Jacquet, Margret p11 Jacquet, Sophia p11 Johnson, Charles p30 Johnson, Mary p30 Kettle, Roger Andrew p27 Kindt, Ernest p19 Kleuskens, Kristin p27 Koehler, Margaret p13 Kraus, Cajetan J p18 L???, Edward p15 Labat, Pierre p8 Lairesse, Philomene p24 Lambert, Emile Joseph p24 Lambert, Jean Joseph p24 Lamolle, Jon p26 Lamots, Albert p19 Lanko, William Phillip p18 Laurent, Marie Augustine Joseph p23 Lauwers, Albert p18 Leclair, August p21 Lemoine, George Adolph p18 Libbrecht, Honore p19 Lildprop, Fred p10 Lips, William p27 Loeten, Edward p11 Loeten, Elizabeth p11 Looten, Alphonse p14 Looten, Christina p14 Looten, Eduard p14 Looten, Frank p14 Looten, Leonard p14 Looten, Peter p14 Looten, Philomena p14 Looten, Sophia p14 Looten, Victoria p14 Lootens, Clemence H p12 Lootens, Edward p12 Lootens, Frank X p12 Lootens, Jno p12 Lootens, Jos B p12 Lootens, Peter p12 Lootens, Philimina p12 Lufaeck, Augustes p26 Lufaeck, Baptiste p26 Lufaeck, Emelia p26 Lufaeck, Frank p26 Lufaeck, Manne p26 Lufaeck, Marrise p26 Lufaeck, Peter p26 Lufaeck, Rachell p26 Macnab-Blankenberg, ? p31

Maden, Bernard p26 Maden, Sara p26 Maertens, Cecile p27 Maeyens, Herman p14 Mallabrancke, Victor p25 Marbais, Marie Joseph p23 Marlier, Marcel cover Maron, Euphrosine p25 Maron, Joseph p25 Maron, Jules p25 Maron, Madeleine p25 Maron, Mary p25 Martingry, p11 Martins, Julius p31 Mayens, Jacob p13 Mayens, Peter C p13 Mayeus, Carolina p13 Mayeus, Catherine p13 Mayeus, Elizabeth p13 Mayeus, Hermann p13 Mayeus, Jno p13 Mayeus, John F p13 Mayeus, Margeret p13 Mayeus, Sophie p13 Mayeus, Theresia p13 Maynes, Emma p12 Maynes, Jacob p12 Maynes, Margaret p12 Maynes, Peter p12 McClure, Elizabeth p24 McGinnis, Hazel p22, 23, 24 McGinnis, Joseph p24 Melard, Jean p21 Mercier, Albert cover Meuffels, Annie p25 Meuffels, Chas p25 Meuffels, Marcel p25 Meuffels, Mary p25 Michaud, Joseph p26 Michaud, Marie p26 Michel, Arthur Louis George p18 Michot, Felicien Joseph Honore p23 Mifet, Charles p26 Mifet, Kathleen p26 Milne, Adolph p18 Mispelen, Marie p28 Moera??, Peter p15 Mooney, Clementine p11 Mooney, Jack p11 Mooney, Joseph p11 Mooney, Mary p11 Moreau, Marie Catherine p24 Mueller, Oscar L p13 Naessens, A p25 Olderbeck, Joh. Cornelis p5 Olderwerld, Francis p10 Ooghe, Julia p31 Ooghe, Richard p31 Panier, Albert p25 Pardon, Allen p31 Pardon, Edmund p30

Pardon, Joseph p30 Pardon, Kate p30 Pardon, Phillip p30 Paredaens, Jules p18 Pauwell, Emily p29 Pauwell, Emma p29 Pauwell, Florence p29 Pauwell, Joseph p29 Pauwell, Lena p29 Pauwell, Lewis p29 Pauwell, Mary p29 Pauwell, William p29 Peck, Saul p20 Peers, Anna p26 Peers, Kathleen p26 Peers, Thomas p26 Petighem, Teague p25 Peyes/Peys, John p18 Pierart, Veronique p24 Piquet, John Baptiste p18 Pirmez, Raoul p25 Pirmez, Raoul p26 Plants, Odile S p21 Pondrom, Adele p11 Pondrom, Andrew p11 Pondrom, Henry p11 Pondrom, John B p11 Pondrom, Joseph M p11 Pondrom, Mary p11 Pondrom, Walter p11 Pondrum, Jno p11 Pondrum, John B p11 Pondrum, Joseph p11 Pondrum, Mary p11 Porigneaux, Joseph p20 Premereur, Alfonse p18 Premereur, Edward p18 Prince, John p26 Prince, Margaret p26 Prince, Mary p26 Puyenbroek, Cornelia p27 Puyenbroek, Louie p27 Puyper, R E p19 Pycke, Adolph p14 Pycke, George p14 Pycke, Herman p14 Pycke, Jacob p14 Pycke, Joseph p14 Pycke, Luise p14 Pycke, Mary p14 Ranck, Andrea p25 Ranck, Geo p25 Ranck, Georgette p25 Ranck, Jane p25 Randehan, Edward p15 Randehan, Lena M p15 Remacle, Marie-Josephine p32 Remacle, Hubert p32 Renterghem, Edward p15 Renterghem, Peter p15 Reukens, Ernest p20

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Reuter, Carl p19 Reynoard, Irene p20 Riverston, Gustavus p30 Riverston, Teckla p30 Robinet, J B p25 Roels, August p30 Roels, B. p15 Roels, Ferdinand p30 Roels, George p26 Roels, Mary p30 Roels, Salina p30 Roerk, Addelaïd p13 Roerk, Bernard p13 Rogers, August p19 Romainville Donkers, Emilie p21 Rombout, Michael p18 Sabbe, Hector p19 Sambeum, Peter p10 Schaenen, Alma p14 Schaenen, Anthonella p14 Schaenen, Clerence p14 Schaenen, Frank p14 Schaenen, Tillie p14 Schmitt, Cornelia p31 Schmitt, Henry p31 Schmitt, Mary p31 Schram. Jeanne Ida p28 Schuttyser, Paul p19 Sechez, Rudolph p21 Seel, Paul p25 Seys, Cyriel p28 Shears, Carl p26 Shears, Catherina p26 Shears, Clara? p26 Shears, Sofia p26 Shears, Victor p26 Shoufield, William Maurice p19 Sibo, Peter p8 Sidonie Nicaise p26 Stadaert, Henry p30 Stain, Julius p30 Standaert, Lizzie p29 Standaert, Prosper p29 Standaert, Richard p29 Steippens, Francois p6, 8 Stembrouck, Louis p19 Sternes, Johannes p5 Steve, Anton p15 Steve, Sophie p15 Stockman, Annie p13 Stockman, C L p13 Stockman, Chas L jr p13 Stockman, Elizabeth M p13 Stockman, Frank A p13 Stockman, Mary p13 Stockman, May p13 Storm, Edward p18 Stragier, Henry p19

Swarth, Martha p31 Syes, Louis p19 Tailleart, Richard p19 Tell, Lulu p31 Therry, Albert p19 Treignee, Petronille Celestine p23 Tytgat, Theophile p18 Van De Putte, Walter p18 Van Den Berghe, Tone p18 Van Der Maeln, Arthur p18 Van Der Straeten-Ponthoz, Auguste-Gabriel p4 Van Egghen, Charles p18 Van Goethen, Augustine p20 Van Loo, Emil B p14 Van Loo, Emma K p14 Van Loo, Ida p14 Van Loo, John p14, 15 Van Loo, Kenanus E p14 Van Loo, Lena p14 Van Loo, Sophia p14 Van Oest, Peter p15 Van Oudenhove, Oscar p18 Van Overloop, Alph. Lod. p18 Van Poorn, Eduard p5 Van Steenbergen, Emil p18 Van Tighem, Jos p25 Van Voeren, Edward p6 Van Wezel, Johannes p27 Vande Putte, Emile Oscar p18 Vanden Wyer, Hubert A p19 Vandenabeele, Alfred p19 Vandenabeele, Hector Rene p19 Vandendale, C p25 Vanderlinden, Remy p19 Vandervelpen, Jean Baptiste Henri p16 Vangermeersch, Leopold p19 VanGoethen, John p30 Vanguter, Augusta p30 Vanguter, Louis p30 Vanhie, Daniel Oscar p28 Vanhie, Margaret Mary p28 Vanhuylenbroeck, Remi Alfons p19 Vanhuylenbroeck, Rene p19 Vanleoe, Peter p30 Vanneigebum, Joseph p29 Vanneigebun, Chas p29 Vanneigebun, Francis p29 Vanneigebun, Josephine p29 Vanneigebun, Maggie p29 Vannigebun, Mary p29 VanWazer, Agnes p30 VanWazer, Annie p30 VanWazer, Frank p30 VanWazer, Jennie p30 VanWazer, Mary p30 Vardon, Hypolite p25 Venderlick, Charlie p29

Venderlick, Fedelia p29 Venderlick, Joseph p29 Venderlick, Leonia p29 Venderlick, Mary p29 Venderlick, Selina p29 Verdon, Henry p25 Vereecken, Gustaf p18 Verelst, Jules Jean Bernard p19 Verhelle, August p30 Verhelle, Emma p30 Verhelle, Emmerence p30 Verhelle, Hortense p30 Verhelle, Lena p30 Verhelle, Octavia p30 Verhelle, William p30 Vermeren, Clara p31 Vermeren, Cyrille p31 Verplase, Beatresa p14 Verplase, John p14 Verplase, Louis p14 Verslues, Catherine p13 Verslues, Christina p13 Verslues, Henry M p13 Verslues, Herman p14 Verslues, Hermanu p13 Verslues, John F p13 Verslues, Lizzie p14 Verslues, Mary p13, 14 Verslues, Thersia p13, 14 Vets, Philip Louis p18 Veulemans, Theresa p6 Vintenten, Joseph p29 Von Kerckhove, Livinus p15 Von Luh, Peter p15 Waegemans, Alphonse p18 Wannuffell, Jeanne Joseph p23 Wegman, Henry M p12 Wegman, John F p12 Wegman, Maria Agnes p12 Wegman, Peter F p12 Wegman, Rosalia p12 Wegmaun, Henry p14 Wegmaun, Rosaline p14 Welvaert, Ben p18 Werotte, Lui p26 Westelink, Peter p18 Wille, Bernardina p5 Wille, Bernardus p5 Wille, Francis p5 Wille, Hisete p5 Wille, Nathalia p5 Wille, Petrus p5 Wille, Rosalia p5 Williamson, George p29 Wilmotte, Angelique p24 Wilmotte, Jean Pierre p24 Windels, Achiel p19 Withney, Charles p18