The Saeijs of Sleidinge and Zeeland

A family history, 1627 to 2002

The Saeijs of Sleidinge and Zeeland

Nine generations of one family, father to son: from Livinus Saij, married at Sleidinge in Flanders in 1655, through the villages of the Meetjesland, and across the border into Dutch Zeeland. Every fact rests on a record, and most of the key records can be seen: click a date to open the register page, or a name to see that person.

The Volpenswege, where the registers place the family from 1688 to 1744, on the Ferraris map of 1777: the old road from Bassevelde to Ghent, lined with farms and cottages

Contents

  1. How to read this account
  2. Chapter 1. Joannes Say and Livina Buyle, Destelbergen, about 1560 to 1627
  3. Chapter 2. Joannes Say the younger and Maria Vereecken, about 1588 to 1653
  4. Chapter 3. Livinus Saij and Maria Van Kerrebrouck, 1627 to 1699
  5. Chapter 4. Joannes Saey and his two families, 1660 to 1719
  6. Chapter 5. Joannes Saey and Georgia Stofferis, 1706 to 1770
  7. Chapter 6. The other Saey families of the region
  8. Chapter 7. Bernardus Saeij and Maria Anna van Hijfte, 1748 to 1809
  9. Chapter 8. Judocus Bernardus Saeij, day labourer of Bassevelde, 1777 to 1831
  10. Chapter 9. Bernardus Saey and Marie Therese Vervaet, on the Landsdijk, 1803 to 1870
  11. Chapter 10. Eduardus Saey crosses the border, 1844 to 1929
  12. Chapter 11. Pieter Johannes Saeij and Mathielde Sophia Lohman, 1887 to 1968
  13. Chapter 12. Achille Eduard Saeij and Irma Sophia de Paepe, 1915 to 2002
  14. Epilogue. The line continues
  15. Appendix. What you can go and see
  16. Chapter 15. How you can help: the records still to be found

The line

  1. Joannes Say the elder 1560–1621
  2. Joannes Say the younger 1588–1634
  3. Livinus Saij 1627–1699
  4. Joannes Saey 1660–1719
  5. Joannes Saey 1706–1767
  6. Bernardus Saeij 1748–1809
  7. Judocus Bernardus Saeij 1777–1831
  8. Bernardus Saey 1803–1861
  9. Eduardus Saeij 1844–1925
  10. Pieter Johannes Saeij 1887–1960
  11. Achille Eduard Saeij 1915–2002

The mother’s side: two more family books

This site also holds the history of the families on the mother’s side of the youngest generation in this book: the Dewulf line of West Flanders and the Deschacht line that married into it.