Family events on July 4

On July 4 1692 Joannes Wynant passed away at Denderhoutem. He was an ancestor - six generations removed - of my great-grandmother Blondine Muylaert (Denderhoutem June 4 1849 - Pamel February 10 1942).

On July 4 1857 Amandus Neukermans passed away at Okegem, aged 33 years : he was born at Okegem on March 15 1824. On September 6 1849 he married Catherina Asselman (Okegem June 7 1823 - Okegem January 10 1892) . They had 5 children. Hermilianus, my great-grandfather (Okegem October 3 1855 - Okegem September 7 1932) was their fourth child : he never knew his father since he was less than two years old when his father died.

Amandus was a miller's man (molenaarsgast) and his wife never remarried. The couple lived on the Rattenberg where my grandfather eventually passed away. The property was then sold : it had probably been in the family since the Neukermans arrived in Okegem late in the XVIIth - early in the XVIIIth century.