Joannes Baveghems

Joannes Baveghems was born in Meerbeke on August 7 1681. He was a son of Judocus and Josina Goutswilders and became a blacksmith. We have reported on him in previous posts, the last on July 3 1737, the day he died in Pamel.

In 1711 he married Joanna Maria De Vidts (Pamel 1683 - 1726) in Pamel and they had five children. The pair lived in Meerbeke until after the death of Joanna Maria's parents, when they moved to Pamel.

-- Josina was born in Meerbeke in 1712 and died in Pamel in 1800 - she was married ;
-- Maria Anna was born in Meerbeke in 1715 ;
-- Joannes, born in Meerbeke in 1718, died in Pamel Lombeekstraat in 1789. He married in Liedekerke ;
-- Elisabeth, Pamel 1721 - 1723 ;

-- and another Elisabeth, my ancestor ; she was born in Pamel in 1723, about eight months after the death of the first Elisabeth. In 1743 she became the second spouse of Gerardus Martinus Van Lierde (born in Idegem, and who died in Pamel in 1754). They married in Pamel. After his death she remarried and died herself in Pamel in 1807.