The Noë Family from the Meetjesland in Belgium
B VII b Francies Noë
fs Petrus Joannes and Carolina
Van Den Bossche
brother of Petrus (B VII a)
° Adegem 14/6/1828
x Oostwinkel 27/6/1861 Ursula Mussche
† Ursel 15/6/1873
When Petrus Noë
(B VII a) was almost three years old he received a brother called
Francies. Francies was barely 5 years old when he lost his mother.
He was brought up by his 2 elder sisters and later his stepmother.
He married Ursula Mussche who was born in Ursel on 16/2/1835, the daughter of Jan Baptist Mussche and Bernardina Ronse. Here (thanks i.a. to Sara Noe who lives in California) we have a copy of Ursula's birth certificate. She was a labourer. The couple first lived in Eeklo, then in Bellem and Ursel in the Vrekkem quarter but after the death of Francies in 1873 she moved to Kaprijke where she died at the Eindeke (Small End) quarter on 6/1/1903.
Ursula gave Francies seven children:
- Florence ° Eeklo 23/8/1862
She married in Eeklo on 26/11/1885 with Bruno Lippens who was born in Lembeke on 30/9/1848. He was a weaver. They first lived at the Balgerhoekstraat, 35 in Eeklo but on 3/6/1891 they moved to Adegem.
- Emma Maria ° Bellem 11/9/1864
She married in Kaprijke on 11/2/1886 with Joris Francies Roegiers. He was a labourer, born on 25/7/1847 in Lembeke, the son of Francies Roegiers and Victoria De Pape. In 1891 they lived at Vrombautstraat, 15 in Eeklo. And that is where Joris Francies died on 6/1/1898, mourned by 3 sons and 1 daughter.
In 1900 we find Emma at the Vrombautstraat, 42. She was then registered as a shopkeeper. She also brought up Edmond De Baets. He was the son of her younger sister who had died in 1904.
In 1912 she emigrated to New York with her stepson and daughter.
- Maria Josepha ° Bellem 25/4/1866
She married Leonardus De Baets who was 3 years her senior by whom she had one son Edmond. She died at the Eindeke quarter of Kaprijke on 29/11/1904 while Leonardus was in the USA.
- August ° Ursel 24/4/1868
He married in Kaprijke on 8/6/1898 with Marie Louise Van De Wattijne, the daughter of August Van De Wattijne and Rosalie Van Herreweghe. She was born in Kaprijke on 17/7/1871. She was a labourer.
On 2/4/1899 in Kaprijke she gave birth to a girl called Clara Maria.
She died at the Eindeken quarter of Kaprijke on 14/12/1901.
We had no idea what happened next to August (and his daughter).
We knew nothing about a letter dated July 28, 1989 from Mr. Robert J. Noe from Rock Island, Illinois addressed to the City Clerk of Ursel requesting a copy of August's birth certificate. The mayor, A. Schrans, sent the document less than two weeks later, on 8 August.
Then on 20 February 2007 we received an e-mail from Sara Noe, all the way from sunny California. In due course a copy of the birth certificates of August and of his mother Urusla Mussche as well as a copy of August's funeral card followed: he had passed away in Moline, Illinois on 17 June 1946.
- Petrus ° Ursel 10/1/1870
We don't know anything further about him.
- Jan Baptiste ° Ursel 12/3/1871
He never married. He died in the convent at Kaprijke on 27/6/1907.
- Marie Louise ° Ursel 6/1/1873
† Ursel 19/1/1873
