November 24 1741

Maximilaan Van Cauwelaert, born in Onze Lieve Vrouw Lombeek, died in Pamel on November 24 1741. He married Elisabeth Van Overstraeten (Sint Katharina Lombeek 1692 - Pamel 1741). They lived on the Ledeberg in Pamel. Maximiliaan became a meisenier in 1715.

Elisabeth married three times : Maximiliaan was her third husband with whom she had six children. She had six children with her second husband Adrianus De Vidts (Pamel 1688 - 1724) too. Adrianus was a meisenier from the second of the De Vidts families in Pamel.

Catharina Theresia (Pamel 1729 - 1805) was the third child of Elisabeth and Maximiliaan. She was the only (reported) meisenier among their children. She had two children with her first husband Judocus De Vidts (Pamel 1703 - 1750), meisenier in 1715, and thirteen with her second husband Joannes Josephus Kestens (Pamel 1719 - 1778).

Her son Petrus Joannes De Vidts (Pamel 1749 - 1793) was the father of Joannes Franciscus (Pamel 1784 - 1839) and the grandfather of Joannes (Pamel 1811 - 1881), whom we have met oftentimes before, including on "August 27 1881".

I repeat that Joannes was the father of Antonia, born in Pamel in 1840, my great-great-grandmother on my father's side and of Felix (Pamel 1853 - 1940), my great-grandfather on my mother's side.