May 20 1834

Virginia Meganck was born in Nederhasselt, a daughter to (Joannes ?) Franciscus Meganck (Aspelare 1799 - Nederhasselt 1869) and to Regina (Victoria ?) Menschaert (Geraardsbergen 1792 - Nederhasselt 1859).

When Virginia married Petrus Josephus Goessens (Nederhasselt 1836 - 1928) in 1871, they already had three children. In total, they had seven children.

Their oldest child, Maria Elisabeth Goessens, was born in Brussels in 1862, married in Nederhasselt in 1883, and died in Meerbeke in 1934.

Maria Elisabeth and her husband Josephus Timmermans (Meerbeke 1858 - 1929) were my great-grandparents.

See also the posts : "May 4 1861", "March 22 1859" and "March 8 1862".

I still have some checking to do for the first names of Virginia's parents, and for their dates of birth. (Joannes ?) Franciscus was a miller's son (and a miller himself ?) and Regina (Victoria ?) was the daughter of a Menschaert-Menschaert marriage of apparently relatively well-to-do farmers.
I owe this information to the grandson of a sister of my great-grandmother Maria Elisabeth.