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ZANDHOVEN - ARCHIVES ] [VERMOELEN ]- Family archives of the Vermoelen family, originally from Zandhoven (Antwerp), and the Baudez family, originally from Berlaimont (northern France) and established in Antwerp in the 19th century, allied in 1905. - Josephus CLAESSENS. Handwritten business book. Ca 1786]. In-12, 45 ff (paginated 31-125), many blank ff, in fine 50 ff, in Dutch and English. Contemporary parchment boards, four drawstrings, handwritten inscriptions on the boards. Interesting collection of accounts and methods of calculation. Another hand, from the 19th c., wrote English-Dutch vocabulary aids and, in fine, copied numerous English language exercises with the Dutch translation opposite. The book is full of various coloured paper cut-outs, many of them hand-coloured, with some notes on loose leaf. J. Claessens was the father of Marie Claessens, who married Joseph-Corneille Vermoelen (1804-1849), from whom he had Alphonse, father of Marguerite who married Louis Baudez in 1905 (cf. ms. note attached to the work and other doc. of the same lot). Provenance: Pauline Vermoelen (ms. note on the upper cover). - Pierre MINET. Manuscript book of reason. Leuven, 1800, in-12, [122] pp, in Dutch, French, Latin. Contemporary half parchment, four cords of closure. Very worn, inside quite fresh. Contains in particular schoolboy exercises: translations, essays, models or copies of letters, etc. - +/- 100 miscellaneous documents, many with official stamps and/or letterheads, 19th - early 20th c.: family papers (Claessens, Vermoelen...), notarial deeds, miscellaneous notes on the history of Zandhoven (some tombstone surveys, coats of arms...), receipt for the "Zandhoven" tax office, etc.), receipt of the national forced loan of the year 4 (Antwerp, 1795), assignat, diploma on vellum of the normal school of Eeklo (1895, seal under paper), diploma of the institute St-Ignace in Antwerp (1896), certificates, extract of birth certificate,-travel declaration,- wedding announcement (Antwerp, February 28, 1905), order form, invoice and customs doc. for a doll (Paris, 1918), 2 documents relating to the sending of parcels to Sergeant Louis Baudez, prisoner of war in Germany (1918), etc. Various stamps. Good general condition.
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