Jacobus Francies Van Hootegem (VII)

The Van Hootegem / Van Ooteg(h)em family from St.-Laureins in the Meetjesland in Belgium

VII Jacobus Francies Van Hootegem

fs. Judocus Bernard (VI a) Van Hootegem and Angelina Mobelis

° Sint-Laureins 19.12.1821
x Sint-Laureins 1.8.1861 Marie Theresia Vanhulle
+ Sint-Laureins 16.6.1895

He was an innkeeper.

Marie Therese was the daughter of Ferdinand Van Hulle and Theresia Ryckaert. She was born in Sint-Laureins on 26.4.1840 and died there on 31.8.1908.

The children of Jacob Francies and Maria Theresia Van Hulle:

1.	Theresia Laurentia Vanhootegem ° 10.10.1861 Sint-Laureins Left for Sint-Amandsberg on 2.7.1879 One child:
		Marie Louise Vanhootegem ° Sint-Laureins 2.1.1884 + Sint-Laureins 22.4.1951 Married in Sint-Laureins on 17.11.1902 to André Vandevoorde who was born in Sint-Laureins on 12.2.1873 and died in Ghent on 30.7.1940. Children:
		-	Henri Joseph Vanhootegem ° Sint-Laureins 5.6.1902 Left for Eede which is just across the Belgian-Dutch border in Zeeland in 1923
		-	Maurice Marie Vandevoorde ° Sint-Laureins 5.5.1904 Left for Sint Kruis (Holy Cross) in Zeeland on 16.3.1921
		-	Leonie Angèle MarieVandevoorde ° Sint-Laureins 27.1.1908 Left for Ghent on 11.10.1933.
2.	Leonie Vanhootegem ° Sint-Laureins 17.9.1863 Left for Ghent on 27.5.1881.
3.	Henrica Vanhootegem ° Sint-Laureins 14.6.1866 + 16.3.1929 Sint-Laureins. Married in Sint-Laureins on 5.9.1893 to Petrus Vergauwe who was born in Sint-Laureins on 31.12.1846 and died there on 15.3.1927. He was the son of Charles Vergauwe and Marie Th. Staelens. Petrus was first married in Sint-Laureins on 13.4.1888 to Marie Sophie Declercq (who was born there on 7.12.1835 and who died there on 4.11.1892). Children:
	-	Emil Marie Vergauwe ° 17.1.1894 Sint-Laureins Left for Elsene (Ixelles) on 22.11.1919.
	-	Magdalena Marie Vergauwe ° Sint-Laureins 5.6.1897
	-	Georgius Leopoldus Vergauwe ° Sint-Laureins 4.9.1900 + Sint-Laureins 29.10.1955 Married in Sint-Laureins on 16.11.1927 to Germaine Schelstraete who was born in Sint-Laureins on 12.8.1902 and who died in Eeklo on 31.7.1999.
4.	Renilde Marie Vanhootegem ° 9.7.1867 Sint-Laureins Left for Ghent on 22.2.1883
5.	Prudentia Maria Vanhootegem ° Sint-Laureins 6.3.1870 Left for Ghent on 4.5.1888.
6.	Sophie Vanhootegem ° Sint-Laureins 31.8.1872 Sophie emigrated to the U.S.A. in 1900 with her daughter Augusta Emma Maria Vanhootegem born in Sint-Laureins on 20.1.1900. Here you may view a copy of the birth certificate of Sophie and here we have a copy of the birth certificate of her daughter Augusta. We don't know exactly where and when Sophie married August Noë nor where or when she passed away. But the funeral card of August tells us that when he died on 17 June 1946 he was the widower of Sophie Van Hootegem.
7.	Emma Maria Vanhootegem ° Sint-Laureins 13.5.1875 Left for Ghent on 16.11.1890.
8.	Natalie Rosalie Marie Vanhootegem ° Sint-Laureins 8.2.1878 + Sint-Laureins 2.4.1886
9.	Jules Vanhootegem ° Sint-Laureins 2.5.1879 x Kaprijke 26.4.1911 Leonie De Jaeger. Leonie was born in Kaprijke on 21.1.1877. He was for a while farmer in the Vlotweg 2 in Sint-Laureins (1910) but on 27.6.1910 they left for Leeuwergem. And on 27 December 1920 they left for the U.S.A. We know more about Julius and Leona as they were called in America thanks to the work of Judi Paustian McDowell, a Find-a-Grave volunteer who is married to a Van Hootegem descendant. Julius had been a resident of Moline for the last 31 years when he died in his home there on 15 February 1944 and Leona died at 2:15 in the morning in Moline Public Hospital on 10 Oct. 1951. The prayer cards of Julius and Leonie. They had three sons : - Edward Van Hootegem (° Kaprijke 3.3.1902) - Raymond VanHootegem and - Staff Sergeant Henry VanHootegem.
10.	Emile Vanhootegem ° Sint-Laureins 2.5.1879 Left for Leeuwergem on 29.11.1908.

Source:
«The Van Hootegem / Van Ooteg(h)em family
from St.-Laureins in the Meetjesland in Belgium»,
by Mr. Jozef Dobbelaere
with important additions by Mr. Aloïs van den Oever,
an article published in «De Levensboom» (The Tree of Life),
2007, 20th year, # 1.
De Levensboom is the quarterly periodical of the V.V.F. Meetjesland
(Flemish Association for Genealogy, Meetjesland Section).

The father of Jacobus Francies, Judocus Bernard (VI a) Van Hootegem

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