June 29 1807

Elisabeth Baveghems, "rentenierster" and "meisenier" died in Pamel, where she had been born on September 7 1723. She was the second spouse of Gerardus Martinus Van Lierde, born before 1723 in Idegem, who died in Pamel in 1754.

Elisabeth and Gerardus Martinus married in 1743 and had seven children. Elisabeth remarried after the death of Gerardus Martinus in 1754.

This was a complicated web of households :

Franciscus Van Lierde who died in Pamel in 1741 had two sons and two daughters with Maria Mattens (born in Lennik, who died in Pamel in 1743) ;

Maria Mattens remarried Gerardus Martinus Van Lierde (cfr supra) : they had one daughter. Franciscus and Gerardus Martinus probably were related, but I have no proof of that supposition ;

Gerardus Martinus married Elisabeth Baveghems (cf supra) with whom he had two sons and five daughters ;

Elisabeth remarried Petrus Joannes De Kerpel (Pamel 1727 - 1792) with whom she had no more children.


All the children of these mariages were born between 1734 and 1754 and most probably lived together in the mill-house at a given point in time. It all turned around the windmill, which had to be kept working ...

Joannes Josephus Van Lierde (Pamel 1746 - 1811), the second son of Gerardus Martinus and Elisabeth, was a miller too. In 1782, he married Maria Josina Covens (Pamel 1759 - 1827), with whom he had eleven children.

Maria Elisabeth Van Lierde (Pamel 1791 - 1875), the fifth child, married Joannes Franciscus De Vidts (Pamel 1784 - 1839), an innkeeper. See also the post "June 19 1746".

They were the parents of my great-great-grandfather on my mother's side : Joannes De Vidts (Pamel 1811 - 1881) who, as written oftentimes before, was also my great-great-great-grandfather on my father's side.
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I found no decent translation of "rentenierster" - it is a woman of independent means. "Meisenier" has been explained before.

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