Showing posts with label De Schrevel. Show all posts
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Onze Lieve Vrouw Lichtmis

Morgen 2 februari is het feest van Onze Lieve Vrouw Lichtmis (de opdracht des Heren of Candlemas in het Engels) dat in vroegere jaren een belangrijke rol speelde in de liturgische kalender.

Weinig kerken zijn bij mijn weten aan O. L. V. Lichtmis gewijd. Toevallig lees ik dat een ervan de parochiekerk van het piepkleine Lieferinge (Ninove) is. Ik meldde vroeger al dat ik ook in Lieferinge een paar wortels heb, o.a. het echtpaar Philippe (de) Colins en Anne de Schrevel. Hun 18e eeuwse grafsteen bleef bewaard in de kerk.

Het wordt hoogtijd dat ik dat bezienswaardig kerkje eens bezoek. Tot nu toe is dat nog nooit gelukt : het is bijna altijd gesloten.

Lees : http://images.google.be/imgres?imgurl=http://www.info2you.be/i/16/01633-9400-lieferingen-onze-lieve-vrouw-lichtmis-kerk-03.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.info2you.be/pages/kerk_01633.htm&usg=__6ueLxh0Nd0Xkok0CJVwp9wUkYBE=&h=480&w=360&sz=46&hl=en&start=1&um=1&tbnid=CY1henb0di9pLM:&tbnh=129&tbnw=97&prev=/images%3Fq%3Donze%2Blieve%2Bvrouw%2Blichtmis%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive%26rlz%3D1T4GGLD_enBE309BE309%26sa%3DN.

Anna Maria (de) Colins

Anna Maria, the maternal grandmother of my great-grandfather Jozef Timmermans (Meerbeke 1858 - 1929) died in Lieferinge where she had been born on November 12 1784.

See the post on "July 11 1839" published last year.

Some more information from the (not always very legible) "Lieferinge gezinsreconstructies 1599 - 1833" by Edgard De Geyter.

Anna Maria was the second of five children born in Lieferinge of "Pro Dom Philippus Max. Ant. Sig. Cam (Hanno - Montana)(*)" who married Petronella Van den Houte in Lieferinge in 1781. Philippus died in Lieferinge in 1800 ; his wife died there in 1818.

I already wrote some articles about my branch of the Colins family, which lost its fortune late in the 18th century. Philippus (jr) was a son of the rather infamous Philippus (de) Colins, lord of Lieferinge and Heetvelde, who married Anna Maria de Schrevel, baronne de Callandt. The baroness died in 1747. Her husband died in 1777 and is buried in the church in Lieferinge.

But Petronella leads us once more to a De Vidts family. Her father was Petrus Van den Houte, "ex Marcke" and her mother Joanna De Vidts from Lieferinge.

Petrus was the son of another Petrus, who lived in Meerbeke. Joanna De Vidts was a daughter of Cornelius De Vidts (Lieferinge) and Van den Borre Joanna Elisabeth. I have no dates yet for these ancestors, but I assume that somewhere in a distant past there was a link between the De Vidts family in Lieferinge and the De Vidts family in Pamel. But the forementioned source yields no clue.

Back to the five (**) children of the unfortunate Philippus De Colins and Petronella Van den Houte :

-- Vincentius, born in Lieferinge in 1782. He died there in 1809.
-- Anna Maria, my ancestor.
-- Theresia Alexandrina Felicia, born in Lieferinge in 1787. She died there in 1800, three days before her father.
-- Albertus Maximilianus, born in Lieferinge in 1790.
-- Adriana Antonia, born in Lieferinge in 1794. She married in Gooik in 1823.

In 1811 Anna Marie De Colins married Philippus (Maximilianus Albertus) Van den Houte (Lieferinge 1779 - 1849). Philippus de Colins (jr), forementioned, was his godfather as well as his father in law, but died in 1800, years before his daughter's wedding.

Anna Maria De Colins and Philippus Van den Houte had five children I know of :

-- Adriana Josepha, born in Lieferinge in 1813.
-- Joanna Maximina, born in Lieferinge in 1814.
-- Jan Baptist, born in Lieferinge in 1816.
-- Maria Anna, born in Lieferinge in 1825. She was the second spouse of my great-great-grandfather Karel Timmermans (Meerbeke 1812 - 1883). She was my great-great-grandmother.
-- Maria Theresia, born in Lieferinge in 1828.

A lot more digging and study is required to get a clear overview of this intricate ragweb of relationships in and around Lieferinge in the17th, 18th and 19th century ...
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(*) Hanno-Montana or ex Hannomontana : from Hainaut. Philippus was born in Mons.
(**) In my own research I have a marriage - in 1821 - of Angeline, daughter of Philippus and Petronella, but without further data. Neither Angeline, nor her husband, nor the marriage are mentioned in the Gezinsreconstructies - an oversight ? But the Gezinsreconstructies do mention an Angelina Christina, godmother to a daughter of Adriana Antonia.

December 31 1723

Pierre Colins, lord (seigneur, heer) of Heetvelde and Thy passed away in Oetingen, probably in his manor (Waterkasteeltje). His family supplied the lords of Heetvelde from ca 1600 to 1780 when the "seigneurerie" was sold.

Through his marriage in 1703 with Jacoba van Leefdaal, who died in 1723, he also became lord of Lieferinge.

Their son Philippe Pierre Jacques married Marie Anne de Schrevel, baronne de Pallandt. He died on August 11 1777 and did not live to see the the final delapidation of the family's fortune, to which he had actively participated. I have described this eccentric individual before - see : "August 11 1777".

He was the grandfather of Anna Maria De Colins (Lieferinge 1780 - 1839), who was the maternal grandmother of my great-grandfather Josephus Timmermans (Meerbeke 1858 - 1929).

August 11 1777

Philippe Pierre Jacques Colins died on that day and was buried in the church at Lieferinge, where his tombstone reportedly can be seen to this day, although I haven't checked that yet.

According to local lore his tombstone was ready long before his death and was placed a couple of centimeters above the church floor, so that no one should ever step on it. Not exactly a sign of humility ... He married Marie Anne de Schrevel who died in 1747 and they had three children : Maximilien, Philippe and Marie Antoinette.

He was lord (heer, seigneur) of Lieferinge and Heetvelde and lived in the "Waterkasteeltje" in Oetingen. He was a knight of the "cour souveraine" of Hainaut and "gentilhomme à la noblesse du pays et comté du Hainaut".

He distributed his possessions among his three children in 1764, and by the later years of the Ancien Régime, they had blown it all. Local folklore still tell some stories about their extravagant, degenerate squanderings and their contempt for ordinary people. Some memories survived in my family too, although in family lore the miscreants incorrectly were named Timmermans, not Colins.

From what I learned about the last two generations at least, they were typical exemples of very minor nobility who misbehaved tragically. But they paid the price ...

I still have a lot of resarch to do on this branch of my ancestors, but Philippe Maximilien Sigmonde Cornille (De) Colins was born in Mons ca 1757 and died, probably pennyless, in Lieferinge ca 1800. He married Petronilla Van den Houte (who died in Lieferinge in 1818).

Their daughter Anna Maria (De) Colins (Lieferinge 1780 - 1839) married Philippus Van den Houte (Lieferinge 1779 - 1849), and their daughter Maria Anna Van den Houte (Lieferinge 1825 - Meerbeke) married my great-great-grandfather Charles Timmermans (Meerbeke 1812 - 1883). This link has been documented in the article "July 11 1839".