Graag gedaan Kgarrad welverdiend, the official language makes it difficult (no one speaks like that), but also the old spelling and writing I would think (and because it’s Flemisch, not Dutch, wat het moeilijker maakt voor een Brit die 16 jaar in Nederland gewoond heeft en makkelijker voor een Belgische die al heel haar leven in Vlaanderen woont
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Prudentia her death was registered under her maiden name because, according to the Belgian law, the only valid and legitimate name is the one on your birth cert. One can use their partner’s name but not on official documents.
Most records for the region Brakel and Lierde are online, parish records : ca 1650-1796, and civil registration records : ca 1796-1910 (some earlier ca 1605, some later up to and including 1912), partly on the Belgian State Archives and partly on FamilySearch.
Brakel = the merged municipalities Elst, Everbeek, Michelbeke, Nederbrakel, Opbrakel, Zegelsem, Parike
Lierde = the merged municipalities Deftinge, Sint-Maria-Lierde, Hemelveerdegem, Sint-Martens-Lierde
Yes Parmesan, it states that Petrus Modde died in Zegelsem (the cert is on FamilySearch he died on 25/07/1878 , his given name is Cletus not Petrus)
Birth cert n° 1 - Charles Louis Emiel Van Achter
In the year 1888, the 4th Januari, at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, before us Alfons Van den Dooren, mayor, officer of the civil registry of the municipality Nederbrakel, judical district Oudenaarde, province East Flanders has appeared : Victor Van Achter, 28 years old, mason, living here, who has shown us a child of the masculine gender, born in this municipality yesterday at 4 o’clock in the morning, from him the appearer and from Leonie Modde, 25 years old, seamstress, his wife, living with him, to wich child he declared he want to give the first names of Charles Louis Emiel. The aforesaid declaration and presentation was done in the presence of Edmond Blommert, 35 years old, slaughterer and Constant Weemaes, 28 years old, land surveyor, both living here, witnesses requested by the declarant, who have signed, beside us, this declaration of birth immediately after the reading. The appearer declared not being able to write.
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