The Van Hootegem / Van Ooteg(h)em family from St. Laureins in East-Flanders, BelgiumDeze blz in het nederlands

VI     Peter Jacob Van Hootegem

fs. Jan Theodoor Van Ootegem and Maria Jacoba Plasschaert
 

° Sint-Laureins 23.11.1778
x Sint-Laureins 1.5.1806 Maria Car. Van de Velde
xx Adegem 9.5.1810 Joanna Bernardina Cockhuyt
xxx Maldegem 9.3.1821 Barbara Theresia Coene
† Eeklo 19.5.1850
 

He was a peasant.  His first wife, Maria Carolina Van de Velde was the daughter of Livien Van de Velde and Catharina Theresia Verwilst.  She was born in Lembeke around 1777.  She was a spinner.  She died in Sint-Laureins on 29.5.1809.

He then remarried in Adegem on 9.5.1810.  Joanna Bern. Cockhuyt, his second bride, was the daughter of Jan Frans Cockhuyt and Maria Cath. Crul.  She was born in Adegem on 18.1.1788.  She died in Eeklo on 14.12.1819.

He then married a third time, in Maldegem on 9.3.1821.  Barbara Theresia Coene was born there on 30.3.1798, the daughter of Joannes Coene and Isabella Blondeel.  She was already widowed for more than 10 years when on 31 August 1861 she left for Kruiningen and that's where she died on 5.5.1886 (88 years old).
Kruiningen is situated north of the Westerscheld and south of Yerseke.

The children of Petrus Jacobus and Maria Carolina Van de Velde :

  1. Joanna Marie Van Hootegem
    ° Sint-Laureins 28.1.1807 (or was it on 3.7.1807 ?)
    x Sint-Laureins 2/10/1832 Jacobus Verbaert (° 1805 - † 1838 in St. Laureins).
    She then married a second time. Her second husband was Pieter Joannes Van Daele who was born in Watervliet about 1813.  He passed away in Sint-Laureins on 24 September 1886.
     
  2. Charles Louis Van Hootegem
    ° Sint-Laureins 17.5.1809
    x Aardenburg 7.11.1848 Amelia Berckmoes.
    + Sint-Laureins 27.8.1882
     

Children of Petrus Jacobus and Joanna Bernardina Cockhuyt :

  1. Pierre Bernard Van Hootegem
    ° Sint-Laureins 8.3.1811
    † Eeklo 11.11.1811
     
  2. Jan Bernard Van Hootegem
    ° Eeklo 15.8.1812
    x Sint-Margriete with Christina Sekeet
    xx Sint-Laureins 7.12.1864 Maria Theresia Devlieger
     
  3. Petrus Joannes Van Hootegem
    ° Eeklo 18.4.1814
    † Brugge 3.4.1826
     
  4. Ferdinand Van Hootegem (VII)
    ° Eeklo 7.11.1815
    x Sint-Laureins 25.10.1854 Joanna Theresia Hoste (° Loppem 6.12.1824)
    † Sint-Laureins 19.1.1880.
    Theresia died after 1896.
     
  5. Pieter Joannes Van Hootegem (VII)
    ° Eeklo 23.2.1818
    x Eeklo 10.11.1842 Seraphina Accoe
    † Lembeke 15.6.1863.
     
  6. NN (stillborn)
    ° Eeklo 14.12.1819
    † Eeklo 14.12.1819
    Mother Joanna Bernardina Cockhuyt died on the same day following delivery of the baby.
     

The children of Petrus Jacobus and Barbara Theresia Coene :

  1. Jacob Frans Van Hootegem
    ° Eeklo 24.3.1822
    † Eeklo 22.2.1823
     
  2. Jacob Frans Van Hootegem
    farmer
    ° Eeklo 12.5.1823
    x Sijsele 30.11.1861 Brigitta Van Bellegem
    † Sint-Laureins 15.9.1890
    Brigitta was born in Sijsele around 1829.  She died in Sint-Laureins 17.8.1895
    Children : i.a.
    • Henricus Van Hootegem
      ° Eeklo 25.6.1862
      x Sint-Laureins 27.9.1895 Juliana Van Hecke (° Sint-Laureins 16.2.1877)
      Coal merchant and farmer
      Nearly all the members of this family left for Breteuil in France in 1919.
      Children of Henricus and Juliana Van Hecke :
      1. Petrus Henri Van Hootegem
        ° St-Laureins 1.3.1896
      2. Jules Van Hootegem
        ° St-Laureins 6.2.1897 + Beauvais 27.1.1992
      3. Eduard Van Hootegem
        ° St-Laureins 14.5.1898
      4. Emma Marie Van Hootegem
        ° St-Laureins 23.12.1899
        + Cannes, France 9/2/1994
      5. Helena Maria Van Hootegem
        ° St-Laureins 30.7.1901
      6. Auguste Joseph Van Hootegem
        ° St-Laureins 6.12.1902
      7. Marguerite Maria Van Hootegem
        ° St-Laureins 7.3.1904
      8. Prudent Gerardus Van Hootegem
        ° St-Laureins 20.6.1905
      9. René Joseph Van Hootegem
        ° St-Laureins 1.2.1907
      10. Germaine Marie Marguerite Van Hootegem
        ° St-Laureins 12.6.1908
      11. Raymond Aloïs Marie Van Hootegem
        ° St-Laureins 21.9.1909
      12. André Julien Van Hootegem
        ° St-Laureins 24.1.1912
        + Roye,Somme, France 23.3.1995
      13. Clara Maria Van Hootegem
        ° St-Laureins 7.12.1913
        x Gannes, Oise, France 12.9.1936 Marc Paul Dewael
      14. Louis Joseph Van Hootegem
        ° St-Laureins 20.2.1915 + Beauvais, Oise, France 25.9.1990
      15. Albert Jules Joseph Van Hootegem
        ° St-Laureins 22.11.1916
         
  3. Joseph Bernard Van Hootegem
    ° Eeklo 11.12.1825
    x Eeklo 21.4.1855 Pauline Joanna De Deckere
    † Kruiningen 13.4.1886.
    He was a farmer.
    Pauline was born in Middelburg on 18.3.1818; she died in Ghent on 23.12.1882.
    She was first married in Middelburg on 28.12.1840 to Desiderius De Bleecker.  He was born in Moerkerke on 15.2.1801.  Desiderius was first married to Ludovica Buysse.
    The children of Joseph Bernard Van Hootegem and Pauline De Deckere:
    • Mathilde Louisa Van Hootegem
      ° Aardenburg 11.2.1856
      † Kapelle 27.3.1857
    • Mathilde Louwiza Van Hootegem
      ° Biezelinge ??.5.1857
      † Kapelle 16.6.1857
       
  4. Sophie Van Hootegem
    ° Eeklo 26.5.1827
     
  5. Felix Guilielmus Van Hootegem
    ° Eeklo 13.4.1829
    x Eede 15.5.1861 Sabina Verbeke
    † Aardenburg 30.12.1908
     
  6. Marie Van Hootegem
    ° Eeklo 7.8.1830
    xx Kruiningen 1.5.1871 Joannes Van Loenhout
    † Wouw 22.12.1903
    Joannes was born in Wouw on 25.10.1824 and died there on 1.2.1882.
    Maria Antonia was first married to Jan Valkenburg (° around 1825), by whom she had a daughter called Hendrina born in Wouw on 9.1.1873.  She married again later with Cornelis Nelen.
    The one child of Marie Van Hootegem :
    Petrus Van Loenhout
    ° Wouw 1.11.1874
    x Bergen-op-Zoom 25.4.1904 to Elisabeth Uitdewilligen
     
  7. Pelagie Van Hootegem
    ° Eeklo 16.5.1832
    Nun.
     
  8. Ludovica Van Hootegem
    ° Eeklo 19.10.1833
    Left for Ghent on 8.1.1857.
     
  9. Amelia Victoria Van Hootegem
    ° Eeklo 23.2.1835
     
  10. Louis Van Hootegem
    ° Eeklo 1.2.1836
    x Sint-Laureins 2.4.1869 Sophia De Jaeger
    ° Sint-Laureins 10.10.1823
     
  11. Eduard Van Hootegem
    ° Eeklo 10.3.1838
    x Kapelle 11.2.1874 Christina De Bleecker
    † Kruiningen 21.3.1902
     
  12. Ivo Van Hootegem
    ° Eeklo 10.11.1839
    x Kloetinge 7.5.1873 Pieternella Konings
    † Ghent 7.3.1917
  13. Aloysius Van Hootegem
    ° Eeklo 18.6.1841
    † Eeklo 17.5.1842
     

* Many thanks to Mrs. M.C. Vandevelde who found their tombstone in the cemetery of Wulpen (north-east of Furnes).  She also referred us to a page and to the website of Mr. Ludwig Lauwereins where you can find out about Dionisia's 14 children.

Peter Jacob's father, Jan Theodoor Van Ootegem

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).		 Levensboom logo

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