Genealogy

One of my other hobbies… It allowed me a trip through time searching for my ancestors.

I've found ancestor on 13 generations and on 400 years long...

The most ancient ancestor (at 11th generation) for whom I'm sure of the birth date is Philippette Hulet. She was born on October 16th 1601 and is died on April 26th, 1676. She was living in Ohain, a little village in the Wallon Brabant. Her husband was a certain Paul Goffau.  I found their traces in a text from 1640 and 1641 because they have sold a piece of ground. 

Philippette's parents are Guillaume Heulet and Charlotte Moreau. They were certainly born around or before 1580. Guillaume Heulet's name was found in a document of Feb. 9th 1599, because he buy a piece of ground in Ohain.

Philipette and her parents live in the time of French kings Henry IV, Louis XIII and Louis XIV...

On the AUBRY's  side

With the help of Stéphane Herens, from Bruxelles, I 've reached my most ancient identified ancestor in the AUBRY family. He is François AUBRIS. He married Jeanne Catherine.  LAMBERT on May 9th 1728, in Obaix, a little village located 8 km south of Nivelles, on the border between Hainaut and Brabant. 

François AUBRIS died on October 10th 1774 and Jeanne Catherine LAMBERT on Jan. 29th 1784. She was born on November 12th 1702 in Obaix. On her mother side, she was the grand-daughter of Philippe MORIAU and Marie BAUDE (marriage in Obaix on April 9th 1656).

I Come from one son of François et Jeanne Cattherine: Charles AUBRI. He is born in Obaix on October 1st 1730. He get married on July 17th 1763 in Ohain (Walloon Brabant) with Jeanne Marie CORNET (1742-1817). The family stay in Ohain until World War 2.

My great grand-mother, Marie-Antoinette ORLANS,  is death in Ohain in 1944. 

Some descendants of Charles AUBRI are still living in Ohain.

My grand-father Antoine AUBRY came in Gembloux around 1920, but the family of his wife, Marie Agnès ANDRIES, lived since 1881 in the La Vôte and Le Culot Corner.

Click here to visit the  François AUBRIS descendants data base

On the SOHY's  side

The SOHY's, my mother family come from Lesve and Fosse, near Namur.

My oldest ancestors on the SOHY side are Jean Joseph SOHY and Anne Marie GENIN (wedding in 1770 probably in Lesves, near Namur).

My grandfather Alexandre SOHY was Gembloux's last cooper. His cooperage was established in Puit Connette Street between 1920 and 1969.  

Click here to visit the Jean Joseph SOHY's descendants data base

Thanks...

Warm thanks to the people that helped me.

With the help of uncles, aunts, cousins and relatives I have preserved the living memory of the family.

• Jean-Louis AUBRY, fram Bruxelles, 
• Jean-Marie AUBRY, from Heppignies,
• Dr Edouard AUBRY, from Namur, 
• Lucienne SOHY, from Oshawa (Canada)
• Dr Georges ROSY, from Braine l'Alleud;
• Bertha LENGLET, from Lasne,
• Dan ORLANS ( dan.orlans@skynet.be - Web pages http://users.skynet.be/dan.orlans ) and André ORLANS, from Ottignies (they gave me a lot of documents and information) and they are always searching the origine of Sergeant Hubert Orlans (XVIIe)...
• José MATAIGNE, from Ottignies, 
• Benoît COLLARD (bcollard@multimania.com)
• Daniel DEPIREUX, de Gembloux
• Jean-François LANGUY,  (http://perso.infonie.be/jflanguy/geneal/geneindex.htm)
• Marc COQUETTE,
• Brigitte BAUDENNE (a newcommer in genealogy)
• Georges SOMMEVILLE
• Bob VALOIS, from RALEIGH (North Caroline), USA

Many thanks also to:

• M. MASCAUX, from Club Généalogique de Sambreville, (http://membres.lycos.fr/bcollard/mainwa01.html) 
• Albert LEMY, from Gembloux,
• Daniel LEGRAIVE, from Ohain, who publishe the results of his search in archives of Ohain and Lasne-Chapelle-Saint-Lambert and give me very important détails about my ancestry;
• my friends in CGHL, the Lasne Genealogy and History Association,  (http://www.lasneforyou.be/cercle/index.html ) and in the G3, Gembloux Genealogy Group ( www.gemblouxgenealogie.be )
• Jean Jacques HALLAUX, from Netradyle Association  (www.netradyle.com)
• Françoise RONDOUX, who found something interesting in the archives of Liège; 
• Municipal administration employees from cities of Gembloux, Ohain, Profondeville, Fosse-la-Ville, Aiseau-Presle, Chatelet, Lasnes, Jemeppe-sur-Sambre, etc
• the members of http://www.geneanet.org for the fantastic work.

I found also on Internet  informations to complete mine. Special thanks to:

• Philippe GERARD, from Brussels (philippe.gerard@chello.be). He have put more than 21.000 names on Geneanet.org (http://gw.geneanet.org/gerfos)

Any information you could have about the families AUBRY, SOHY, ANDRIES, MALOTAUX, ORLANS and LEJOUR, or about people in my genealogical database are welcome.

All my genealogic information is online in my Database.

I will kindly answer to any questions.

But il will made no reply to questions like: "Gives me all your information about JohnDoe Family name".

Please made your questions in precise terms and give me the current state of your research. (By example: this is the information I know on JohnDoe Family. Did you known info's about the lineage?).

Please contact me now at  

pierre.aubry @ base.be

Above picture: Alexandre Sohy (1885-1969), Gembloux's last cooper.

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