Belgian Research

[vicky19]

Hi, Ive looked at the Belgian Archives and also Geneanet, Ancestry and Familysearch can I ask if anyone knows where else would be best to search online for a marriage in the Antwerpen area of Belgium c1890's. Many Thanks Vicky

[TreeSpirit]

Would you like to share the names (and other useful info) of the couple?

[jorose]

If you've looked at the named sources and haven't found your couple in the years you expect in the indexes for Antwerpen, it's more likely that they married somewhere else (perhaps in another town in the area where they had family, for example).

[vicky19]

Ive done general name searches for them not just linked to the one place, just wondering if they're not from the Flemish area of Belgium but from Netherlands instead.... The names are Johannes Baptiste Ludovicus D'Joos and Joanna Gyde. I know of two children, Victor born in 1897 and Marie Josephine Carolina born in 1903 both in Antwerpen.

[TreeSpirit]

6 Jun 1896 Antwerpen #933
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9PDB-1VV?i=689

[vicky19]

Wow thanks... how did I not see that thank you.. I love how they have both parents names on the form.. V

[BelgianAncestry]

Check the marriage record & birth record as they had another child born before the marriage and legitimized (Angeline Leopoldina Gydé, later D'Joos, born 5 Jan 1895 (record 119 of the 7th). They lived in Klamperstraat 20, check the population records; they moved from there to Maatstraat then Tulpstraat in Antwerpen. I live like 20 km from there.

[vicky19]

Ah lovely, I was wondering how she fit in, but my limited knowledge of the language wasnt helping. How would I search for deaths? Their son Victor Phillipus (born 1897) died quite young - its a mystery what happened to him, some think he got killed during a village raid in WW1 but nothing is really known about him after his marriage. We know he had a daughter in 1915 and then theres nothing.

[BelgianAncestry]

D'Joos Victor Philippus husband of Maria Florentina Claes died in Germany in 1918, record 4051bis (see in the margin, extra entry, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C33M-ZSW6-V?i=110&cat=1479551)