May 9 1639

On that date, Joanna died in Pamel. Her family name has not been recorded but may have been Sterckx. She married Joannes Van Tricht, whom we have met before : see the post "December 9 1623".

The Van Tricht family arrived in Pamel after the wars of religion and has been relatively well documented in the later generations, but some confusion in the earlier generations remains. Joannes Van Tricht died in Pamel in 1623.

The son of Joannes and Joanna, Renerius, died in Pamel in 1641. He married Maria Felix, who died in 1622, and then Maria Anna Elisabeth Van Snick, who died in Pamel in 1642. According to the records, Renerius had one son with Maria Felix and 4 daughters with Maria Anna Elisabeth Van Snick.

Up to now, I had Judocus Van Tricht (Pamel 1627 - 1678), farmer of the Withuis on the Kwinkeleer who married to Gerarda Lambeen, as their son and an ancestor of mine.

Judocus is an ancestor of mine, but his parents apparently were not Renerius and Maria Felix, but Henricus Remigius (Bartholomeus) Van Tricht and Margareta Gillis (who died in Pamel in 1668). Not much more is written about Henricus Remigius in the parish registers, but he must have been a contemporary of Renerius.

At least, that's what I read in the new "Gezinsreconstructie gemeente Pamel 1622 - 1799" by Rita Van Isveldt, who also was one of my earlier sources. Probably, the confusion will never be cleared up completely, as the parish registers clearly have some "holes" in them.

The line from Judocus and Gerarda has been documented in "December 2 1641" and other posts.

As a complement to this post, the earliest Van Tricht's mentioned in the parish registers were :

the forementioned Joannes, who died in 1623 ;
another Joannes, who died in 1632 ;
Renerius, only known child of Joannes, who died in 1641 ;
a Remigius, who died in 1665 and who may well have been "our" Henricus Remigius ;
"our" Henricus Remigius for whom no dates are given, but whose wife died in 1668.

The solution to the confusion may be found - if a solution there is - in other archived documents (staten van goed ? or other documents) or in the parish records of neighboring villages.

April 3 1627

Judocus Van Tricht was born in Pamel. He was a son of Renerius (Pamel ca 1590 - 1641) and - probably - Maria Felix, who died in Pamel in 1622. Renerius apparently married twice, but I have three names for two possible spouses, i.e. I have contradictory sources.

A couple of days ago, we remembered Judocus in a post on his birthday : "March 30 1678".

December 2 1641

Renerius Van Tricht died in Pamel. He had been born ca 1590. He is one of the figures for which I have very confusing data, including the name of his spouse(s).

His son Judocus lived in Pamel from 1627 to 1678. His mother was either Maria Felix or Margriet Gilleijns, named Gillisjans. According to one of my sources his brother Gillis was the father of the family branch in Lennik, and another brother Jan started the branch in Strijtem.

Adrianus (Pamel 1660 - 1722), a son of Judocus, was the father of Carolus (Pamel 1696 - 1775).
Adrianus became a meisenier in 1700, Carolus in 1751.

Carolus was the father of Catharina Suzanna (Pamel 1725 - 1799), the mother of Elisabeth Sterckx (Pamel 1754 - Okegem 1799) who married Josephus bijgenaamd Judocus Neukermans (Okegem 1736 - 1814).

They had seven children : my great-great-grandfather Amandus (Okegem 1824 - 1857) was the fifth.

I still wonder where the name Amandus came from (I haven't seen the baptismal records for nineteenth century Okegem, but I know of no one else in the family at that time with that name - and if Amandus appears "strange", what about the name of his son Hermilianus, my great-grandfather ?