Ancestors

Henri Derrez

d. 1798 · Vottem, near Liege → Nagelbeek → Moutheuvel, Schinnen, Limburg
Died 1798
Children include Jan

A Walloon from Vottem, a village on the northern edge of Liege, who married there and then brought his family north over the language line into Dutch Limburg. The parish registers of Schinnen call him ex Vottem for the next twenty years, and the priest who christened his son Bartholomaeus Rochus in 1776 closed the entry with a line that settles where the marriage happened: Parentes juncti sunt matrimonio in Vottem prope Leodium, the parents were joined in matrimony at Vottem near Liege.

The eldest of his children found, Martinus, was baptised at Vottem on 2 November 1757, and the Schinnen priest later copied that entry into his own book as an extract from the Vottem register, which is the clearest sign of a family arriving with its paperwork. From 1760 the children are christened at Schinnen itself, ten of them in all, the household moving between the hamlets of Nagelbeek, Schutteneind, Broek and finally Moutheuvel. He could not write: at his son's wedding on 1 June 1779 the marriage entry records hoc est signum Henrici Derrez patris sponsi, this is the mark of Henri Derrez, father of the bridegroom, and he made a cross where his name should have been.

His wife died of consumption at Moutheuvel on 13 November 1789 and was buried three days later. He married again the following May, to Anna Catharina Bohres of Julich, and his son Joannes Mathias stood witness. He died at Moutheuvel about seven in the morning on 10 November 1798, fortified with the sacraments, and was buried in the Schinnen churchyard on the twelfth. The burial entry calls him widower of Maria Latinne of Vottem, naming the wife who had been dead nine years rather than the one he married after her, which the entry does not explain.

His own parents are not named by any record read, and would be in the parish books of Vottem.

Sources

Schinnen, Dionysius: DHO registers 1750-1784 and 1785-1796, inventories 112.008 and 112.009, and DTB Schinnen 1796-1818, inventory B2182 (Alle Limburgers)
the State Archives of Belgium, agatha.arch.be, whose IIIF image host i3f.arch.be answers bare urllib with no cookie, no account and no captcha: Lummen Onze-Lieve-Vrouw parish 2094 and Linkhout Sint-Trudo parish 2095, and Vottem Saint Etienne parish 1821
Vottem (Herstal), Saint Etienne, burial register 1764-1785, Belgian State Archives, bookpart 139601, bound with the marriages and sharing the 84 canvas manifest of bookpart 139604: folio 49 recto and 49 verso, canvas indexes 54 and 55, plus the parish's own burial index at canvas indexes 39 and 44

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Cite: Heirology, "Henri Derrez (d. 1798)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/henri-derrez-1798-526c80.