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Offline TheBanana

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Belgium Forename Variations
« on: Saturday 27 July 13 12:05 BST (UK) »
Jean Frans Mees is my great-grandfather.
His father was Isdor/Isidor Mees.

I know that those forenames might have just been short version or the way a reigstrar would have spelt it. Any alternatives or full variations of those names?

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Re: Belgium Forename Variations
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 27 July 13 12:12 BST (UK) »
I don't think they are short for anything! ;D

Jean is a very popular name in the French-speaking world.
Frans is popular in the Dutch-speaking world.
See http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Flemish_given_names

Mees is, I think, a Flemish/Dutch surname.


I heard a story that, until relatively recently, babies in Belgium could only have a name on a special list?
Garrad (Suffolk, Essex, Somerset), Crocker (Somerset), Vanstone (Devon, Jersey), Sims (Wiltshire), Bridger (Kent)

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Re: Belgium Forename Variations
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 27 July 13 12:15 BST (UK) »
Isdor/Isidor could be a variation for Isadore.
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Re: Belgium Forename Variations
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 27 July 13 12:17 BST (UK) »
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Re: Belgium Forename Variations
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 27 July 13 12:18 BST (UK) »
The Belgian name is Isidoor.
A Masculine name.
Garrad (Suffolk, Essex, Somerset), Crocker (Somerset), Vanstone (Devon, Jersey), Sims (Wiltshire), Bridger (Kent)

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Re: Belgium Forename Variations
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 27 July 13 12:24 BST (UK) »
Quote from: KGarrad on Saturday 27 July 13 12:18 BST (UK)
The Belgian name is Isidoor.
A Masculine name.

I always thought that Isadore was a masculine name, and that Isadora was the feminine.  Different spelling 'cos Belgian isn't English, of course.
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Re: Belgium Forename Variations
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 27 July 13 17:15 BST (UK) »
As Kgarrad says, Jean and Frans were common names in Belgium. But a
French and Flemish version together is unusual. Depending on the period,
place and/or the registrar it would normally be :
Jean François  /  Joannes Franciscus  /  Jan Frans
Isidor is just Isidor  /  Isidoor  /  Isidore  /  Isidorus   etc.

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Re: Belgium Forename Variations
« Reply #7 on: Saturday 27 July 13 20:40 BST (UK) »
Wow a lot of great information and variations. Thanks. I will get to work in that area.

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Re: Belgium Forename Variations
« Reply #8 on: Saturday 27 July 13 23:31 BST (UK) »
Are you sure your Jean Frans Mees is born around 1885 ?
This Joannes Franciscus Mees was born on 14/02/1876 at 08:00 o'clock in his parents house :
Noeveren n° 184 in Boom, Antwerp province. (Noeveren is a street name)
father : Isidorus Mees, 26 years old, born in Puurs (province Antwerp), brickmakers laborer
mother : Maria Amelia Fleurackers, 27 years old, born in Boom, housewife
witnesses : Joannes Franciscus Fleurackers, 31 years old, brickmakers laborer
                 Isidorus Greveraerts, 29 years old, tailor


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