Death certificate of Barbera Theresia van Cauwenberge, my 3rd great-grandmother. Her death was registered by her son-in-law Carel de Wandel (Carolus Franciscus de Wandel in full, husband of Bernardina Coppens) and someone I don’t know, Pieter Francies Heijndrickx. Strangely enough, the name on the death certificate was Maria Theresia, not Barbera Theresia as it should be. Did her family not know her name? It’s possible, in 1868 a granddaughter was named after her – Maria Theresia Barbera. That suggests that there was at...
read moreDeath certificate of Henricus Coppens, my 3rd great-grandfather: On the 25th of the Month December of the year 1852 in this municipality [Aardenburg], at 8 o’clock in the evening, passed away Henricus Coppens, 62, born in Moerkerke (Belgium), laboring man, resident of Aardenburg, spouse of Barbara Theresia van Cauwenberghe, laboring woman, resident of Aardenburg, and son of Josephus Coppens and Isabella Versluijs, spouses, both deceased in...
read moreThe third post in search of Levinus van Cauwenberge and Barbera Theresia Rombaut. So far I looked at records in Zeeuwen Gezocht (Zeelanders Wanted). Today I move to the scans of the Dutch civil registration on FamilySearch. Daughter Barbera Theresia van Cauwenberge married on 26 April 1820 in Aardenburg, to Henricus Coppens. She needed parental permission, or proof of the death of her parents. If I check the marriage supplements of this marriage I should find the supplied proof. And indeed, it has extracts of the death records of both Levinus...
read moreI will continue my search for Levinus van Cauwenberge and Barbera Theresia Rombaut. Last week I searched for Levinus van Cauwenberge in Zeeuwen Gezocht (Zeelanders Wanted). I continued searching this database, and expanded my search by trying a few spelling variants (obvious ones like Levinus/Livinus, Rombaut/Rombout, Barbera/Barbara, Cauwenberge/Cauwenberg). I quickly found this death record: Joannes Francies van Cauwenberge, son of Livinus van Cauwenberge and Barbara Theresia Rombout, died 16 June 1799 in Eede at the age of six weeks. So...
read moreNumbers 114 and 115 in my ahnentafel are Levinus van Cauwenberge and Barbera Theresia Rombaut. They are a dead end for now: I know the names of Levinus’ parents, but nothing more, and I know nothing about Barbera Theresia’s parents. And I know hardly anything about this couple themselves. They are not a brick wall, as there are still several research possibilities, but they are certainly a hard case. At least, they used to be, and I will investigate if they still are. Levinus van Cauwenberge and Barbera Theresia Rombaut lived on...
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