Laurentius De Leeuw

See the post on "July 23 1728".

Laurentius De Leeuw was buried in Okegem. He probably lived most - if not all - of his life in Impegem, now a hamlet of Liederkerke, which was part of the Okegem parish at that time. He was over eigthy years old when he died. He was a son of Guilielmus De Leeuw and Judoca Van den Waterloop and married twice.

In 1669 he married Adriana Van Ginderdeuren and they had three children :

-- Passchasia (Okegem 1669 - 1688) ;
-- Guilelmus, born in Okegem in 1671 and who married twice ;
-- Joanna (born in Okegem in 1674) and who died in 1751, ca 80 years old. She never married.

In 1680 Laurentius married Catharina Reybosch, who died in 1700. They had seven children.

-- Elisabeth, born in 1681 ;
-- another Elisabeth, born in 1682 ;
-- Maria, born in 1686. She lived to be married ;
-- Gaspard, born in 1689, who married in Pamel and sired an extensive family ;
-- Jacoba, born in 1697. Her husband died in 1769 ;

-- Adriana, born in 1700, who died in 1745 "ca sixty years old" ??. She was buried a pauper ( by the "armentafel"). Adriana and her half-sister Joanna, continued to live together in the family home in the Kouterbaan, at least for some time. In 1736 - 1745 they were supported by the "armentafel". We also know that Adriana's house was repaired by the poor in 1741 - 1742. In those same years she received clothing from the poor. There is no mention of Joanna then. It is slightly ironic that their father had been an administrator of the "poor's table".

-- Catharina, who died in Okegem in 1757, and who married Egidius Vernaillen in Iddergem in 1716. Egidius died in Okegem in 1759. They are among my ancestors.

In 1678, Elisabeth Guldemont had a natural son. She named Laurentius De Leeuw as the natural father.

November 26 1700

Catharina Reybosch, who lived in Impegem with her husband Laurentius De Leeuw (Impegem ca 1644 - 1728), died on that date.

She was the second spouse of Laurentius, with whom she had 7 children. Laurentius had an additional three children from his first marriage.

Catharina De Leeuw who died in Okegem in 1757, a daughter of Catharina and Laurentius, married Egidius Vernaillen (Denderleeuw 1691 - Okegem 1759), with whom she had five children.

Joanna Vernaillen (Okegem 1725 - Pamel 1791) was their fourth child. She had five children with Ferdinandus Van der Sleyen (Pamel 1724 - 1810) ; Michael was their middle child.

Michael Van der Sleyen (Pamel 1758 - 1827) was the father of six, of which Maria Elisabeth Van der Sleyen (Pamel 1811 - 1860) was the youngest. She married Joannes De Vidts (Pamel 1811 - 1881) which I have named a number of times before.

For the latest mention : see " November 26 1673".

July 23 1728

On July 23 1728 Laurentius De Leeuw died at Impegem, where he had been born around 1644.
Apparently, Laurentius did not do too well although he had been an administrator of the "armentafel" in 1672. In 1683 he had a spot of trouble with the lady of Okegem who had a piece of land and meadow sold because he did not pay his rent. Between 1695 and 1722 he lost most of the land he worked on : the surface he tended fell from 172 roeden to 72.

Laurentius married twice and had three children with his first and seven with his second wife ; several of his children had to be assisted with parish funds. He also had a natural son.

His daughter Catharina, born from his second marriage with Catharina Reybosch (+ 1700) passed away at Okegem in 1757. She had married Egidius Vernaillen (Denderleeuw 1691 - Okegem 1759), and their daughter Joanna Vernaillen (Okegem 1725 - Pamel 1791) married Ferdinandus Van der Sleyen (Pamel 1724 - 1810). It is from this Ferdinand that our branch of the De Vidts family took the name "van Fernantes".

Joanna's son Michael Van der Sleyen (Pamel 1758 - 1827) married Petronella Van Eeckhoudt (Pamel 1771 - 1828). They were the parents of Maria Elisabeth Van der Sleyen (see my blog for July 22 1860), the mother my great-grandfather Felix De Vidts.