A possible breakthrough

For years I have been trying to find where the first two Neukermans in Okegem came from. I was (and am) convinced that they were related, but I haven't yet fully clarified that link.

-- Andreas Neukermans (son of Judocus) married Barbara Van de Waterloop in Okegem in 1698.

-- Jacobus Neukermans, son of Petrus, married Maria De Winne in Okegem in 1717. They are my ancestors. Jacobus probably stranded in Okegem during a visit to Andreas and Barbara.

I have been looking a bit more closely at the data of Rik Van Hauwe (http://www.rikvanhauwe.be/) and am now almost satisfied that I have found the origins of Jacobus. I always considered the possibility that he might have been born in Denderwindeke - but up to now I had found no convincing link.

I am not fully certain still, but there is a lot of circumstantial evidence which makes me think that Jacobus Neuckermans was born in Denderwindeke in 1694.

Rik Van Hauwe has copied his birth i.e. baptism on "January 30 1694", but remarks that there must be an error in the records (he adds that it is not the only error in that period) because Nicolaas, an elder brother of Jacobus, was baptised on December 12 1693.

This Jacobus was a son of Petrus Neuckermans from Denderwindeke, who married Anna Vanden Haute. Petrus and Anna had six sons in Denderwindeke.

A Petrus Neuckermans and an Anna Vanden Haute were godparents of some of the children of Joannes Neukermans from Denderwindeke who married Joanna Asselman from Okegem. And Joanna's mother was Anna Van de Waterloop, a sister of Barbara Van de Waterloop who married Andreas Neuckermans.

The circumstantial evidence is mounting ... and keeps mounting when one looks at the godparents of the children of Jacobus and Maria De Winne.
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By the way, I descend from two of the children of Joannes Asselman and Anna Van de Waterloop.

In this article I have omitted most of the dates : it is complicated enough as it is !

I am expecting the publication of the second edition of "Families en Personen te Okegem ... " by Dr Herman Van Isterdael. He told me he has found an additional link for the earliest Neukermans in Okegem. I am curious to discover whether my hypothesis is the correct one ...

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The anti-Anonymous Watchman said...

Enough anonymous reactions. Better stop it.

Pablo Carpintero said...

A trusted reader warned me that this post had attracted 16 meaningless reactions. My thanks for this warning. I have cleared 15 of the sick reactions.

I shall never understand how people can get sick enough in their minds to mount this kind of "operations" !

I wrote this before and I repeat this here. It is only by pure luck, or through the intervention of trusted readers, that I discover this kind of sick b***s***.

If you see any of them, please warn me !

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