Belgian Laces Spring in Bruges http://0.tqn.com/d/cruises/1/0/d/U/5/Bruges_3242.JPG Volume 32 - #124 June 2010 Our principal BELGIAN LACES: Official Quarterly Bulletin of objective is: THE BELGIAN RESEARCHERS Keep the Belgian Belgian American Heritage Association Heritage alive Dear Members! 2010 Queen Elisabeth Competition Piano in our hearts and in Once again State Farm Insurance has given the hearts of our TBR a generous grant of $500 thanks to the posterity dedicated work Chuck VandenEeden continues Dear Members to provide to increase the information available Paper ONLY THE BELGIAN freely on our webpage!. Thanks Chuck! US/Canada ONLY: US $18 RESEARCHERS Thanks State Farm! Your help goes a long way in helping us keep up with the constant cost Belgian American increase! Electronic ONLY Heritage Association In this issue you will find the continuing series BOTHAnywhere: US $ 10.00 Our organization was that you have grown accustomed to. 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Yekwon Sunwoo, Korea, Laureate BELGIAN LACES Régine Watch them all over again till September 15 at http://video.cmireb.be/vod President-Editor: Table of Contents Régine Brindle Letter from the Editor/News Inside Cover Treasurer/Secretary: Books in Review p37 Melanie Reynolds The Popes of Lodomez p38 Past Presidents: The 30th MA Infantry p39 Micheline Gaudette Belgians on the WWI Draft Cards p45 Pierre Inghels Pennsylvania and West Virginia Obituaries p47 Co-Founders: The Deadliest Railroad Accidents in Belgium /Crash sparks train drivers strike p49 Belgians on the 1900 Census: Cook Co, IL – Chicago p50 Micheline Gaudette & Belgian Days in Brussels, Wisconsin p53 Ardiena Stegen Belgians in Indiana in 1900 p55 Deadline for The STOUFF Family of Indiana & Virginia p56 submission of Articles Belgians in 1906 Saskatchewan p60 to Belgian Laces: Canadian Obituaries p62 March 1 – June 1 Researching Online Peel’s Prairie Provinces Website p64 Belgian woman solves mystery of World War II soldier from Harlan Co, KY p65 September 1 - December 1 Index p66 Paper: $20 (US/Can) $30 Overseas Contact Information: THE BELGIAN RESEARCHERS - 495 East 5th Street - Peru IN 46970 ISSN: 1046-0462 Tel/Fax:765-473-5667 OR e-mail [email protected] Electronic ONLY: $10 All subscriptions are for the calendar year-*New subscribers receive the four issues of the current year, regardless when paid Content of the articles is the sole responsibility of their authors - All Rights Reserved ISSN: 1554-2432 (anywhere) Content Can Not Be Reproduced or Redistributed without Prior Authorization from The Belgian Researchers, Inc Belgian Laces Vol#32-124 Les Colonies Belges et Francaises du Manitoba: Notes de Voyage au Canada en 1890 By Louis Hacault Hacault, Louis (1843-1921), Belgian journalist and lawyer toured Manitoba in 1890 as a correspondent for the Courrier de Bruxelles and for the Handelsblad of Antwerp. He immigrated with his family and settled at Bruxelles, Manitoba in 1891 (Morice, Histoire de l'église catholique). This book contains extracts of farmers reports on a research on Canadian agricultural resources in 1890. Brussels, Belgium: Alfred Vromant & cie, 1892. Physical description: 80 p., illus., fold. map.; 22 cm. full text available online in French at http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1887.html Info in Flemish at http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/1888.html Arnold Van Puymbroeck By David Baeckelandt The First Eighty Years - A Tribute to the Man Who Led the Belgian Colony of Chicago for Fifty Years (1952-2002) Sponsored by and for the Benefit of The Belgian American Historical Society & The Belgian American Club of Chicago “In anticipation of a commemorative dinner we will hold June 13th for Arnold Van Puymbroeck we have produced a commemorative book about Arnold's life and contributions to the Belgian Colony in Chicago. It includes never-before published photos and interviews. We would be delighted if you have an interest in purchasing it. Those of you who attend the dinner can also buy a copy onsite. The proceeds go to benefit the Belgian American Historical Society of Chicago. Naturally please feel free to contact me with any questions. Met vriendelijke groeten, David Baeckelandt” View my book at Blurb: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/837340/72331f63550 f5dd9d5adde81325562fc More on the Belgian American Historical Society: http://www.bahsc.org/ Page 37 Belgian Laces Vol#32-124 Not Everything in Print is True: The Popes of Lodomez Extracted from “Curieuses Histoires de l’Histoire en Belgique” by D-C Luytens, published by Jourdan editeur shared by LOCHTMANS Luc - [email protected] on EVOO Yahoogroup Submitted by Micheline Gaudette To those interested in History and every day life of our ancestors, their customs, legends etc., here is a story about life in Lodomez about an interesting long gone dynasty (1789-1929). The "HURDEBISE" of Lodomez Taken from a document titled “Des Papes en Ardennes” about the hamlet of Lodomez, near Stavelot. Just as in Rome and in Avignon, Lodomez was the site where popes took up headquarters for some years. They reigned in the hollow of the hill that sinks into the Amblève River, in Lodomez, a hamlet located between Stavelot and Bellevaux on the road to Luxemburg. A total of 10 popes were elected. It all started with the French Revolution. With all the heads rolling, the Nobles, Bourgeois and clerics had to hide. The priests celebrated christenings, marriages and burial in the deepest secret, from farm to farm, because their very life was on the line should they be caught. The Stavelot-Malmédy principality was reattached to the Department of the Ourthe, the church pillaged, abbeys burnt to the ground… The Stavelot abbey burnt to the ground, the Bishop Prince Célestin THYS had fled with his monks. It is during this period (1789) that Lodomez decided to choose someone among them who would basically make up for the lack of religious clergy: a robust farmer1 in his forties, single, happy-go-lucky, very religious, Antoine HURDEBISE. They later gave him the nickname of “Pope”, whether with fondness or to poke fun at his level of dedication to his task. He administered the last rights to the dying and christened newborns. http://privatestay.com/accommodation/Be When the church reopened its doors, Antoine HURDEBISE did not revert to his position as a lgium/Lige/Stavelot- simple parishioner, instead he continued serving as ‘the Pope’. It is only when he was close to Vieux_Moulin_de_Lodomez_00002681.p dying that his papacy is made official. hp?det=4 Peace had returned but the people decided to keep this tradition. Rules were set and four cardinals chosen from among the wisest villagers. One of the requirements to become pope stipulated that one had to be a member of the HURDEBISE family, single and likely to remain so. Tradition also dictated that on Saint Sebastien Day the pope offered the villagers some “mirou”, a wheat cake kneaded in milk, with butter and sugar, poured pekêt2 to the men and coffee to the women. The pope also had to chase away demons from each of the hamlet’s farms. When Antoine I died in October 1830, the pope dynasty began in Lodomez. The conclave formed by the 4 cardinals chose a worthy successor for the deceased pope: Ferdinand HURDEBISE. He died in 1848. At his death, three HURDEBISE brothers presented themselves: Antoine, Jacques and Louis, who all three met the requirements as worthy successor. They threw the dice and Antoine II was chosen. But he had purchased land in the neighboring village of Beaumont and that was unacceptable to the residents of Lodomez.