July 10 1697 (again)

See the post "July 10 1697" which I wrote last year. Catharina Gansemans died in Pamel of dysenteria. She had four children with her first husband, Cornelius Van Nieuwenhove, who died in Pamel in 1676, and one with her second husband, who survived her for many years.

In the "Gezinsreconstructie gemeente Pamel 1622 - 1799" there are four Gansemans households and three Van Nieuwenhove households, which may indicate that the roots of these families are to be found elsewhere. Van Nieuwenhove was not an unusual name in some of the neighbouring villages. In a more recent past - after the French revolution - there were more Gansemans households but no more Van Nieuwenhove households in Pamel.

The children of Cornelius and Catharina were :

-- Joannes, who died (young) in 1669 in Pamel ;
-- Maria, born in Pamel in 1660 ;
-- Catharina, my ancestor, born in Pamel in 1663, who married Petrus De Vidts (Pamel 1655 - 1726) in 1694. She died in 1743 in Pamel Kwinkeleer ;
-- Joanna, born in Pamel in 1666.

Three girls and one boy who died young. End of that line of Van Nieuwenhove's in Pamel.