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Joseph Adrien Geerts b1811 Antwerp Belgium

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SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 22 Mar 2016 20:01

Joonie ................

here's the record, from ancestry .......... it's very faint, so hard to read .........

England, Alien Arrivals, 1810-1811, 1826-1869

Name: Joseph Adrien Geerts
Port of Arrival: London, England
Arrival Date: 17 Mar 1842
Country of Origin/Native of: Belgium

from image:-

Certificate of Arrival No. 701
Profession:- Hair Dresser
Arrived from Antwerp (can't read the next words)

There is a comment in the Remarks section, but I can't make it out


No-one else is listed on that Certificate

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 22 Mar 2016 20:11

This is another record for the same event ............... from the List of Aliens in a register submitted by the Master of the ship Princess Victoria .....

England, Alien Arrivals, 1810-1811, 1826-1869

Name: J A Geerts
Port of Arrival: London, England
Arrival Date: 17 Mar 1842
Port of Departure: Antwerp, Belgium
Ship: Princess Victoria
Country of Origin/Native of: Belgium


There are 3 other names on that page, none of them Geert


Other Geerts arrivals in England are ...........

A Geerts London, England 5 Sep 1852
Cathre Geerts London, England 5 Jul 1852
Geerts Newhaven, England 11 Oct 1858

Cathre Geerts is actually Catherine Geerts, wife of Eugene Verboeckhoven ...... and she was added to HIS certificate.

That fact implies to me that wife or child would have been added to Joseph's Certiifcate if they had accompanied him.

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

Gerry

Gerry Report 23 Mar 2016 00:06

Hi Joonie and Silviain

Silviain has found the same records as I did under immigration. I have enhanced the image with photoshop and all I can read in the remarks is what looks like Feb and the rest dont know

Gerry

Gerry Report 23 Mar 2016 00:11

BTW I have just found the baptism of Louisa Geerts in 1844. Her parents were "Adrien and Louise" Smout and her Christian names were Louisa Geerts.

So, she was born 2 years before her parents married and her mother (Louisa Frances Smout) must have been very young if the census dates for her are correct.

However, the marriage cert says she was of "full age"!! Have just checked her second marriage cert in 1880 where she gave her age as being 58, ie 1822 which would have made her 22 when Louisa was born

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