The Noë Family from the Meetjesland in Belgium
The NOË Family
from the Meetjesland
in Belgium
Welcome to this Website !
Alas ! How swift the moments fly !
How flash the years along !
Scarce here, yet gone already by,
The burden of a song,
See childhood, youth, and manhood pass,
And age with furrowed brow;
Time was—Time shall be—drain the glass—
But where in Time is now ?
John Quincy Adams, The Hour Glass
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Dear Cousin, dear Visitor, You may find here a very free translation with commentary of part of a book written in Dutch by Marijn Claeys and privately published in 1990. (Those of you who come here now and again, you can skip directly to the General Overview of our Noë family.) This book is all about the Noë family from the "Meetjesland". The Meetjesland is in Flanders, in Belgium between Brugge (Bruges), Ghent and the Dutch border. Part of the book only because it is not our intention to publish here a lot of information on living persons. Commentary because we'll try to expatiate on things which the book assumes the Flemish reader knows because he knows more about the region and he speaks the language. This site was first published on 6 December 2001 and on 12 January 2002 most of the genealogical information was here. And since the day the genealogy of the Noë's was here we have been busy adding other family trees and more about the history of our country and lots of pictures. You can check here for information on recent updates of this site. Please note: date formats throughout this work are day/month/year, the day before the month as is the habit in our country. Thank you for your visit. We hope you enjoy it. |
Grand Dieu, ce n'est pas une cause
Que j'attaque ou que je défend...
Ceci n'est pas autre chose
Que l'histoire d'un pauvr'enfant.
Hendrik Noë, the earliest ancestor we found
Or perhaps better start with the Introduction
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Here is a Table of Contents
Let's call the whole thing off ? Language problems and other questions
For the Overview click here For the index click here
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Part of a 1613 map of part of what is now our
Meetjesland Click here or on the picture for a bigger copy. |
The current background image was adapted from something Estelle Noë wrote to her brother Gerard in October 1923, when calligraphy was still considered important in school. Here you can admire an unretouched copy of her writing.
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