Well, I hope that your internet will work properly soon but it is good news isn’t it, now you can be sure that every file, folder, button or program stays where you want it
a journalier / dagloner normally is a day labourer, a daily hired and paid unskilled worker, just as well it could be a journeyman. On the 1812 census he was a gold beater, his sons were ouvriers ébéniste, literally worker cabinet makers, they could be apprentice cabinet makers, or not ? It was a family of craftsman I would think, Simon’s great grandsons in Antwerp were cabinet makers too.
In the 1812 census
http://bruxelles1812.org/(children under the age of 10 only listed by number and gender with head of the household)
click on the ‘G’
Galmaert Simon, 42 years old, born at Brussels, husband of Rinsveld Thérèse, gold beater, Rue Terre-Neuve n° 168, section 2
Galmaert Joseph, 16 years old, born at Brussels, (workman-cabinet maker/ebonist ?)
Galmaert Charles, 13 years old, born at Brussels, (workman-cabinet maker/ebonist ?)
Galmaert Marie, 10 years old, born at Brussels, lacemaker
click on the ‘R’
Rinsveld Thérèse, 48 years old, born at Brussels, wife of Galmaert Simon
Rinsveld Joseph, 70 years old, born at Brussels, widow, (workman/labourer ?) could be the father of Therese
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We do say the same ‘rondlopen als een kip zonder kop’ , we also say kieke(n) instead of kip, but kieken isn’t Standard Dutch, so common speaking it is kip
