Cornelius Sterckx

See the post : "July 18 1719".

Cornelius Sterckx, a relatively well to do farmer - he had two maids - died in Kriebrug, Pamel, on July 18 1719. He was a son of Joannes Sterckx and Maria Cobbaert, who died in 1679.

In 1694 he married one of his maids, Elisabeth Van der Beeren, with whom he had two children :

- NN, a female deathborn, which was baptised at home in 1696 ;
- Joannes (Pamel 1698 - 1701).

Elisabeth died in 1708, and, slightly more than six months after her death, Cornelius remarried Maria Huylenbroeck (Pamel 1681 - 1713), a short marriage again. They had one child :

- Jan Baptist Sterckx (Pamel 1713, who lived for about ten days.

This time, Cornelius remarried after four months, in the year in which he lost his second wife and his third child. His third wife was Catharina Van Cauwelaert (until now I used the form Van Caulaert for her, but it is the same name).

They had four children :

- Nicolaes (Pamel 1714 - 1803) who married Catharina Susanna Van Tricht (Pamel 1725 - 1799) ; they are my ancestors.

- Maria (Pamel 1716 - 1778) who married twice.

- Elisabeth (Pamel 1717 - 1779) who married in Pamel.

- Barbara Magdalena (Pamel 1719 - 1763) who was mentally handicapped.

Now it was Cornelius's time to go. Catharina Van Cauwelaert married again, less than a year after his death, and had another four daughters with her second husband. She died in Pamel in 1751.