July 5 1635

On July 5th 1635 Judocus De Winne died at Okegem. He was married to Passchasia Schets. Both were “buitenpoorters” of Geraardsbergen (Grammont). They had eight children and I descend from their son Petrus who died at Okegem on June 20 1640. These are important people in my genealogy : I descend from them in a number of ways.

Petrus De Winne married twice. He had eleven children, nine of which issued from his second marriage to Anna sConinckx who was probably born at Iddergem and died at Okegem on May 12 1646. I descend from two of their sons : Adrianus and Petrus (+ 1660).

I give the bare outlines :

1. Adrianus De Winne begot Joanna who became the mother of Anna Van den Waterloop (1662 – 1740).
--- Anna's daughter Anna Asselman (ca 1690 – 1784) became the mother of Joanna De Mol (1733 – 1784) who was the mother of Cornelius Van der Speeten (1772 – 1806). His daughter Alexandrina (1795 – 1831) mothered Catharina Asselman (1823 – 1892) who was the mother of my great-grandfather Hermilianus Neukermans (1855 – 1932).
--- Anna Van den Waterloop also had a son Joannes Asselman (1692 – 1732), the father of Petrus (1729 – 1792) , who was the father of Franciscus (1769 – 1865), father of Andreas (1795 – 1875) who was the father of Catharina Asselman (see before).

2. Petrus De Winne ( + 1660) fathered Reinier (ca 1634 – 1701), the father of Catharina De Winne (1661 - 1730). I descend from her daughters Anna (1691 – 1759) Straetman and Joanna Straetman (1697 – 1762).
--- Anna Straetman’s ’s son Petrus Asselman (1729 – 1792) was the father of Franciscus (1769 – 1875) - both are mentioned before.
--- Joanna Straetman’s son Petrus Van der Speeten (1733 – 1786) fathered Cornelius (1772 – 1806), who fathered Alexandrina (1795 – 1831). Alexandrina and her daughter Catharina Asselman have been named before.

I’m not sure the list is complete – it is an illustration of the intertwining of families in small villages in the 17th – 18th century and really needs a genealogical graph to be well presented, although I’m not quite sure that even a graph would be perfectly legible.

But I am totally sure about the fact that I could never have gotten this far with my research without the exceptional work of Dr Herman Van Isterdael “Families en Personen te Okegem (Ninove) 12e eeuw – 1900 en Impegem (Liedekerke) 17e eeuw – 1804” published by the VVF Aalst in 2003.