May 12 1728

Leonardus (Lenaert) Van Cauwelaert, who had been born ca 1650, died in Sint Kwintens Lennik. He was married to Anna Van Laethem (ca 1650 - Sint Kwintens Lennik 1728).

Maximiliaan Van Cauwelaert was one of their six children. He was born in Onze Lieve Vrouw Lombeek and died in Pamel, Ledebergplaats, in 1741. He was the third husband of Elisabeth Van Overstraeten (Sinte Katharina Lombeek 1692 - Pamel 1741). She had no children that I know of with her first husband , had six children with her second husband, of another De Vidts branch, and six with Maximiliaan.

One of her daughters with Maximiliaan was Catharina Theresia Van Cauwelaert (Pamel 1729 - 1805) who married Adrianus De Vidts (Pamel 1703 - 1750) with whom she had two children. She had another 13 children with her second husband Joannes Josephus Kestens (Pamel 1718 - 1778).

The eldest of her fifteen children was Petrus Joannes De Vidts (Pamel 1749 - 1793), the grandfather of Joannes De Vidts (Pamel 1811 - 1881), an ancestor of my mother and of my father, as I have written several times before.