May 28 1663

Anna Sneppe was born in Ste Katharina Lombeek. According to one source, she may have been a daughter to Anthoon who died in 1668 and to Catharina De Raeymaecker, but I have reasons to doubt that.

Anna married Guillelmus Van Overstraeten (St Kwintens Lennik 1659 - Ste Katharina Lombeek 1731) and they had a daughter Elisabeth Van Overstraeten (Ste Katharina Lombeek 1692 - Pamel 1741). She married three times.

In 1713 she married Adrianus De Vidts (Pamel 1688 - 1724) with whom she had six children. In 1725 she married Maximiliaen Van Cauwelaert (born in Onze Lieve Vrouw Lombeek and who died in Pamel in 1741) with whom she had another six children.

Their daughter Catharina Theresia Van Cauwelaert (Pamel 1729 - 1805) first married Judocus De Vidts (Pamel 1703 - 1750) with whom she had two children. Then she married Joannes Josephus Kestens with whom she had thirteen children.

I descend from Catharina's oldest child Petrus Joannes De Vidts (Pamel 1749 - 1793) who had ten children wit Carolina Van der Straeten (Ternat ca 1753 - Pamel 1801). This couple lived and died in the Piezelstraat.

Their sixth child was Joannes Franciscus (Pamel 1784 - 18369) who married Maria Elisabeth Van Lierde (Pamel 1790 - 1838). They had eight children.

As stated oftentimes before, Joannes De Vidts (Pamel 1811 - 1881), my maternal great-great-grandfather and my paternal great-great-great-grandfather, was their second child.