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The Noë Family from the Meetjesland in Belgium Deze blz in het NL

C VIII c       Emiel Noë

fs August and Justina De Decker

° Kluizen 11/7/1877
x Watervliet 27/4/1904 Irma De Bock
† Watervliet 4/11/1955

Emiel was the only son of August Noë and Justina De Decker.  He was only 3 years old when he moved with his parents and sisters to the polders in St.-Margriete.

Emiel Noë and Irma De Bock on their wedding day

Emiel and Irma on their wedding day.
Click here for the entire picture.

On 27 April 1904 he married Irma Victorine Melanie De Bock, the daughter of Charles Louis De Bock and Victorine De Neve.  She was born in Watervliet on 8 August 1880.  They took over from August on the farm and many years later they retired to Watervliet when their youngest son married and took over from them.

But long before that, on 30 May 1916, Emiel was sentenced to a fine of 3 Marks by the "Mobile Etappen Kommandantur" of the German Occupation forces for not delivering enough butter during the previous week ("... weil Sie in der letzten Woche zu wenig Butter geliefert haben").  On that day at least 26 other farmers from St.-Margriete were fined up to 15 Marks for the same offence.  Here with our thanks to Mr. Alex De Reu is the official document, the "Strafverfügung".

Estelle Noë Emiel Noë Willem Van Herreweghe Agnes Noë Maurice Noë Marie Van Damme Irma De Bock Gerard Noë Georgine Vandevelde

The family of Emiel Noë and Irma De Bock on the wedding day of Maurice

 From left
to right:
Estelle,
Emiel,
Willem,
Agnes,
Maurice,
Marie,
Irma,
Gerard
and Georgine.

They both died in Watervliet where they had retired, Irma first on 6/7/1951 and Emiel on 4/11/1955.

They had 4 children:

1.  Estelle Noë  ° St-Margriete 12/2/1906.
Estelle Noë She never married.  She took care of her parents in their old age but died before her father, on 14/3/1952.

Klik hier of op de foto voor een grotere versie.
 
2. Gerard Noë  ° St-Margriete 24/6/1907.
Gerard Noë He married Georgine Vandevelde in Knokke on 13/7/1935.  She was born in St.-Joris-aan-de-IJzer on 2/10/1912. She was the daughter of Cyriel Vandevelde and Alice Broucke.  Here we bring you a great photograph made on their wedding day.
Gerard was a pharmacist.  He had a dispensing chemist's (in American, a drugstore) in the center of Deinze where he was a very popular figure.
They had 4 sons and 3 daughters.  They have 22 grandchildren and since early May 2004 they also have 11 great-grandchildren.  One of their granddaughters married an American.  They live in the USA and now have a daughter of their own whose first name is Noe.  Gerard died on 7/3/1992 and Georgine passed away on 12/6/1994.
 
3. Maurice Noë  ° St-Margriete 3/4/1909
He took over the family farm shortly after WW II.  On 12 June 1945 in St.-Jan-in-Eremo he married Marie Van Damme, the daughter of Charles Van Damme and Hortensia Sturm.  Follow this link for a wedding picture.  One of her ancestors was Ambrosius De Clerck.
Maurice Noë Marie Van Damme

Maurice and Marie had 3 sons and 5 daughters.  Two of their 12 grandchildren are married and they have two great-grandchildren.  Maurice passed away in Ghent on 3 January 1981.
Their youngest son succeeded them on the family farm.  We translate here something about him and his wife from a really great website (in Dutch) www.Meetjesland.be :

The most meritorious Meetjeslander of 2004

An initiative organized in collaboration with the written and spoken press. The journalists of the region put forward suggestions for the Meetjeslander of the year and one of the 5 nominees for 2004 was the Noë family from St.-Margriete.
Here according to www.Meetjesland.be is why:
On the Livinius [sic] Farm in a historic building Carlos Noë and Sonja Sucaet have found a recipe for modern agriculture. They combine contemporary agriculture with bio-farming, education and social work. They bring children in contact with agriculture, with the region and with nature.  They give less privileged children the opportunity to help on the farm and thus to experience something interesting.

Besides restoring the historic buildings there is also room for a modern storehouse and this characterizes their work: they succeed in preserving that valuable dimension from the past while seeking in an innovative way for original solutions where these are required.

In 2004 they were praised for the construction of the watering pool as part of a project of the Regional Landscape Meetjesland and for housing Mondina, an education project for the young which meant their being recognized as an environment and nature education center.

On 22 September they were elected the East-Flemish Concerned Farmer 2004 by Wellbeing Support (Steunpunt Welzijn) and by the East-Flemish Rural Guilds.
The Livinus Farm is also home to the Mondina project, a non profit association whose purpose is to inform children on farming and in particular bio-farming.
 
4. Agnes Noë  ° St-Margriete 27/3/1911
Agnes Noë Willem Van Herreweghe
On 29 May 1941 she was married in St. Margriete to Willem Van Herreweghe, an arboriculturist.  He was born in Serskamp on 9/2/1911.
Wedding picture of Agnes Noë and Willem Van Herreweghe The wedding picture of Agnes and Willem.
Click here (or on the picture) for a larger copy.
Long before the days of easy mass tourism he travelled far and wide to promote and sell his products.  Willem and Agnes have 2 sons and 3 daughters who each have 3 children of their own.
Like Estelle, her sister, Agnes died fairly young, in Serskamp on 20 November 1959.  Willem remarried in Ghent on 24 December 1960 with Maria De Corte.  They have three children and three grandchildren.
Willem passed away on 1 April 2001.  But not only the family firm goes on.  His oldest son also grows great plants and successfully exports them to the four continents (http://www.jvh-nurseries.com).

 
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