March 23 1600

Willem Walravens died in St Pieters Leeuw, the cradle of the - to this day - very extended family. Guillam was an important man : in 1585 he rented three farms in Brukom. He married two or three times.

-- Fact : most of the following lines consists of the offspring of famous, generally well to do, farmer ("pachter") families in Flemish Brabant (the Pajottenland).

-- Fact : I descend from Willem Walravens in a couple of ways at least.

-- Fact : some of those lines are bluried, because I possess contradictory secondary sources.

Nicolaes Walravens (born ca 1570, died in Pamel 1642) was a son of Guillam and Joanna De Leeuw. He married Maria Eylenbosch.

Their son Nicolaus Walravens (Pamel ca 1610 - Gooik 1666) married Maria Evenepoel (born ca 1600, died in Gooik in 1671).


--- I descend from their daughter Anna (born in Meerbeke in 1636) who married Egidius Huylenbroeck. Thir son Adrianus Huylenbroeck (probably born in St Kwintens Lennik, died in Pamel in 1699) married Maria Schandevijl (Pamel 1655 - 1734).

They had a daughter Catharina Huylenbroeck (Pamel ca 1685 - 1751) who married Gasparus Van der Sleyen (Pamel ca 1685 - 1751).

We are in familiar territory here : see the post "January 22 1670" and many others.


--- I descend from their son or grandson Joannes Jacobus Walravens (born in Gooik in 1667). This is were various sources come in play, but the source listing him as their son has grown to have a "reputation" with me - I have found other errors and inconsistencies in other lines. And his date of birth too contradicts that hypothesis.

So - until further notice - I shall accept that the line was as follows. Nicolaus and Maria Evenepoel had a son Nicolaes (born in Meerbeke in 1638, murdered in Neigem in 1692) who married Magdalena De Ro (who died in Gooik in 1693). They had a son Joannes Jacobus, born in Gooik in 1667.

Joannes Jacobus married twice. With Maria Thienpont (Gooik 1661 - 1709) he had Maria Theresia Walravens (Gooik 1700 - 1750) who married Michael Galmaert (born in 1690, died in Gooik in 1786).

Familiar territory again : see "March 11 1786 " and many others.