Zwevegem: Children and Grandchildren of Petrus Franciscus Spincemaille (1845-1882)

Spincemaille, Petrus-Franciscus(#54), b.1845-d.1882 was born in the period the potato-crisis begon in Belgium. Petrus Franciscus Spincemaille had a bad health and died very young, leaving behind  three young children of his second marriage. His second Wife Eugenia will take care of the three children in difficult conditions. When she died in 1918 her children Achille and Alida ware in the States and her daughter in a convent. Only Medard son of Achille was on her side when she died. She complained then also in her memoriam that she could not say goodbye to the other family members. Achille travelled to America in 1903 with the SS Finland to look for a better live  leaving his wife with two young children in Belgium. His sister Alida followed hem in 1907 when she married Cyriel Vandenbroucke who came together with his brother from the States to marry here in Belgium. This two brothers installed them as entrepreneneurs in Maywood, Chicago, Ill. At that time Achille lived also in the same place and he was maybe the contactpoint to marry his sister.

Achille came several times back to Belgium like in 1907 for the marriage of his sister and in 1911. War made contact then impossible till 1922 when the contact with Europe was normalised. His daughter came first and after a visit to Belgium from Achille followed also his wife to America. At that time Achille lived in Los Angelos, Florida.Medard son of Achille will never travell to the states because he was working as a teacher in a Belgian college in Ypres, WVl, B. Maria (Mietje) married in America with Julien Muller. But with the crisis of 1930 she came back to Europe with her husband and her mother and they installed them in Luxembourg were Julien worked in a Ford manufacture as technician. Achille stayed still in the State when his son Medard married in 1931 He moved around 1932 to îesno, California  We see here a picture of his sister Alida in her backyard ca 1940 and also of her husband in 1941 at the marriage of their daughther Irene.

Below we see Medard son of Achille with his sister Maria and his aunt Maria Eugenia (Reverend Sister Florine). His aunt died in 1962. With here death he loosed a dear family member and the last person of the generation of his father. Two years later in 1964 he organised then a family reunion with all the descendants of Petrus Cornelius Spincemaille, brother of Bavo. At right we see a typical picture of him speaking at that occasion in his typical style of a teacher.