My paternal grandparents

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This is the best picture I have of my paternal grandparents and their surviving children, made on July 22 1939, the day my parents got married.


From left to right : Jef, my grandfather, Godelieve, my grandmother, Antoine, my father, Gabrielle.


Pieter Jozef Timmermans (Meerbeke August 18 1886 - Ninove December 4 1953) married Rosalia Margaretha Ravijst (Meerbeke March 20 1892 - Ghent December 2 1973).



They had the following children :

* Gabriella (Meerbeke 1912 - Meerbeke 1992) ;
* Petrus Joannes (Meerbeke 1913 - Gent 1980) ;
* Jozef (Meerbeke 1915 - Namur after 1994) ;
* Lodewijk Jozef Albert (Meerbeke 1916 - Meerbeke 1918) ;
* Godelieve (Meerbeke 1925 - Gent 1997) ;
* Antoine (Meerbeke 1928 - Ninove 1994) ;
* Etienne Theodore (Meerbeke 1939 : he died a couple of days after birth - the photo thus was made approximately 6 months after his death).

Pieter and Margaretha had12 grandchildren, of which I am the oldest.