Laurentius De Leeuw

See the post on "July 23 1728".

Laurentius De Leeuw was buried in Okegem. He probably lived most - if not all - of his life in Impegem, now a hamlet of Liederkerke, which was part of the Okegem parish at that time. He was over eigthy years old when he died. He was a son of Guilielmus De Leeuw and Judoca Van den Waterloop and married twice.

In 1669 he married Adriana Van Ginderdeuren and they had three children :

-- Passchasia (Okegem 1669 - 1688) ;
-- Guilelmus, born in Okegem in 1671 and who married twice ;
-- Joanna (born in Okegem in 1674) and who died in 1751, ca 80 years old. She never married.

In 1680 Laurentius married Catharina Reybosch, who died in 1700. They had seven children.

-- Elisabeth, born in 1681 ;
-- another Elisabeth, born in 1682 ;
-- Maria, born in 1686. She lived to be married ;
-- Gaspard, born in 1689, who married in Pamel and sired an extensive family ;
-- Jacoba, born in 1697. Her husband died in 1769 ;

-- Adriana, born in 1700, who died in 1745 "ca sixty years old" ??. She was buried a pauper ( by the "armentafel"). Adriana and her half-sister Joanna, continued to live together in the family home in the Kouterbaan, at least for some time. In 1736 - 1745 they were supported by the "armentafel". We also know that Adriana's house was repaired by the poor in 1741 - 1742. In those same years she received clothing from the poor. There is no mention of Joanna then. It is slightly ironic that their father had been an administrator of the "poor's table".

-- Catharina, who died in Okegem in 1757, and who married Egidius Vernaillen in Iddergem in 1716. Egidius died in Okegem in 1759. They are among my ancestors.

In 1678, Elisabeth Guldemont had a natural son. She named Laurentius De Leeuw as the natural father.