Joannes Beeckman

Joannes Beeckman died in Okegem on August 1 1632. See the post for that date. He married Francisca Waije. They became "buitenpoorters" of Aalst in 1602.

They had five recorded children, all born in Okegem :

-- Maria, born in 1603. In 1622 she married Judocus Vernaillen, sexton. Her husband died in 1652 ; she followed in 1663. They are among my ancestors ;

-- Jacobus, born in 1606 : he married Margareta Van den Waterloop ;
-- Joannes, born in 1609. He became a soldier and married in Brussels ;
-- Petrus, born in 1613. He was alive in Okegem in 1642 ;
-- Joanna, born in 1616.

Joannes held a fief of the Ninove castle (burcht). He herited this fief (two "dagwand") from his brother Jacob Beeckman, parish priest and dean of St Martin's church in Aalst.