Magdaleentje Bibau

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THE BEBOUT FAMILY IN FLANDERS AND NORTH AMERICA, 1943, by Alexander C Flick, p 7: "MAGDALEENTJE BIBAU [6649-2376] married JOOS AEME [6662-2375/2376/2377], a native of Ghent [Flanders]. He was a widower of MARGARIETE DE VOS [6663-2375], who after the death of Madeleentje Bibau married as his third wife JOSIJNTGEN VAN EEGHEN [6665-2377] ^ with whom he had made a pre-nuptial contract bef. Notary Public Cant at sluys on October 11, 1652. Joos Aeme was a wine merchant, a man of substantial means and one of the leaders of the Baptist congregation at Aardenburg. The records of the Orphan Masters of Aardenburg contain data about this couple which also refer to her brother Pieter [6653-2381/2383] (the ancestor of the American family), and which therefore follow here. Orphan Chamber, Aardenburg, Vol. 3, 1638-79, CITY ARCHIEVES Aardenburg, 10 October 1652. Division of the estate of the late Madeleentje Bybau between her surviving husband Joos Aeme and the son Daniel Aeme aged about 8 years. Daniel Aeme to receive outright 850 ponden Vlaamsch (pounds Flemish). Undivided, 2 houses in the Weststraat at Aardenburg, one house called het strooi haenlien (the straw rooster) on the south side of the Weststraat in the parish of St. Cruys, also 36 measures of land in the parish of St. Cruys outside of Brugge (Bruges) [Flanders], of which 16 1/2 measures of land in the parish of Moerkerke are one half of a property con- sisting of a house and land, the other half of which belongs to Pieter Bybau [6653-2381/2383] the maternal uncle of the orphan. Also in the wateringe bewesten Eede (in the drained and irrigated land to the west of Eede), near the corner south of the Bruggeweg (turnpike to Brugges) consisting of 5 parcels, which had come by inheritance and sale from the estate of the late Symon Bybau [6645-2369], the maternal grandfather of the orphan. An entry in the inventory refers to Pieter Bybau living at Thielt, who owed money to Magdaleentje Bybau. This record is of great value, as it establishes the descent of Symoen and his son Pieter, the American line." FOOTNOTE "The van Eeghen family is one of the most prominent Baptist families originally living at Aardenburg. At present they are foremost in the financial and business world of Amsterdam. They intermarried several times at Aardenburg with the Beheyt family to whom the brother-in-law of the American progenitor of the Bebout family belonged (see No. 18). (NEDERLANDSCHE LEEUW 1918:226)."