May 19 1802

Joannes Baptist Vlaeminck died in Massemen. He had been born in Melle on October 23 1741. He married Petronella Jacoba Leus.

Their son Paulus Franciscus (Massemen 1773 - Aalst 1819) became the first husband of Maria Anna Goossens (Denderhoutem 1774 - 1852) in 1805.

They were the parents of my great-great-grandmother Coleta Vlaeminck (Denderhoutem 1813 - 1891).

Throughout this blog I have taken some liberties with the spelling of the family names. The Vlaeminck family I report on is, more often that not, spelled Vlaminck. For the Ravijst family, the variations are "almost" endless ...