Chapter 3. Joannes Baptista Deschacht and Cornelia Scharle, Jabbeke, 1729 to 1780
West of Brugge
The sons of Joannes and Maria van Dierendonck left Wingene for Jabbeke, a village on the sandy road country west of Brugge, where the land runs flat towards the polders.8 From here on, the family would stay within one small circle of parishes - Jabbeke, Snellegem, Zerkegem, Bekegem - for almost two hundred years.
Jabbeke was an old parish of the Brugse Vrije, the countryside district of Bruges. Its castle had belonged since the fifteenth century to the Van Straten and then the Van Haveskercke families, and in the seventeenth century the estate was sold to the Van Caloen family of Bruges. The village remembered hard times: the troops of Maximilian of Austria had plundered it in 1488, and the Geuzen, the Calvinist rebels, in 1579.9 By the time the Deschachts arrived, the worst was a century behind it.
On 7 July 1729 Joannes Baptista de Schacht married Cornelia Charle at Jabbeke; her name is also written Scharle, Sarley and Serlé. The witnesses were Judocus and Jacoba de Schacht, and six weeks later Joannes, Judocus and Joannes Baptista de Schacht all stood witness at another wedding in the same church.1
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Julius. 6 Contraxerunt sponsalia Joes Baptista de Schacht et Cornelia Charle, testibus Francisco Pauwels et Jacoba Rijnaerts[?]. 7 Contraxerunt matrimonium de praesenti Joannes Bapta de Schacht et Cornelia Charle, testibus Judoco de Schacht et Jacoba de Schacht.
July [1729]. On the 6th Joannes Baptista de Schacht and Cornelia Charle contracted their betrothal, witnesses Franciscus Pauwels and Jacoba Rijnaerts[?]. On the 7th Joannes Baptista de Schacht and Cornelia Charle contracted marriage by words of the present, witnesses Judocus de Schacht and Jacoba de Schacht - his kin: a Judocus de Schacht baptised a daughter at Jabbeke in 1734 (grade A).
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Augustus. 13 Contraxerunt sponsalia Petrus Blomme et Maria Weerbrouck, testibus Joanne de Schacht et Judoco de Schacht. 24 Contraxerunt matrimonium de praesenti Petrus Blomme et Maria Weerbrouck, testibus Judoco de Schacht et Joanne Bapta de Schacht.
August [1729]. On the 13th Petrus Blomme and Maria Weerbrouck contracted their betrothal, witnesses Joannes de Schacht and Judocus de Schacht. On the 24th Petrus Blomme and Maria Weerbrouck contracted marriage, witnesses Judocus de Schacht and Joannes Baptista de Schacht. Three Deschacht men of Jabbeke six weeks after Joannes Baptista's own wedding (by-catch, grade A).
Judocus, called Joos, married Amelberga De Beele and died at Jabbeke in 1749; when his children needed guardians the orphan court of the Brugse Vrije recorded the family in July 1750. Gillis - the Egidius born at Wingene in 1705 - married her sister Agnes De Beele and lived at Zerkegem; when he died in 1761 the orphan register named his mother: "Van Dierendonck Marie".2
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16506, 158v bovenaan, Jabbeke, akte van 07-07-1750. Jacoba (13j), 1 van de 5 k.v. De Schacht Joos & De Beele Amelberghe (d.v. Marcus). Voogden: De Schacht Pieter & De Beele Pieter. Ze erft van haar ouders. De vader + 24-03-1749 te Jabbeke, en de moeder + 21-12-1748 te Jabbeke. Er was geen onroerend goed. Dezelfde De Schacht Pieter als mede-erfgenaam en rendant.
Jabbeke, act of 7 July 1750. Jacoba (13), one of the five children of Joos De Schacht and Amelberghe De Beele (daughter of Marcus). Guardians: Pieter De Schacht and Pieter De Beele. She inherits from her parents: the father died on 24 March 1749 at Jabbeke, the mother on 21 December 1748 at Jabbeke. No real estate. The same Pieter De Schacht was co-heir and rendant. Joos (Judocus) witnessed the wedding of Joannes Baptista in 1729 - probably his brother; Joos and Gillis married two daughters of Marcus De Beele (grade B).
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16507, 229v, Zerkegem, akte van 17-06-1761. Joseph (22j), 1 van de 4 k.v. De Schacht Gillis (z.v. Joseph & Van Dierendonck Marie) & De Beele Agnes (d.v. Marcus & Saulens Jacoba). Voogden: De Schacht Joannes & De Schacht Pieter. Hij erft van zijn moeder, + 07-02-1759 te Zerkegem (geen onroerend goed). Rendant: dezelfde De Schacht Joannes.
Zerkegem, act of 17 June 1761. Joseph (22), one of the four children of Gillis De Schacht (son of Joseph and Marie Van Dierendonck) and Agnes De Beele (daughter of Marcus and Jacoba Saulens). Guardians: Joannes De Schacht and Pieter De Schacht. He inherits from his mother, who died on 7 February 1759 at Zerkegem (no real estate). Gillis was baptised at Wingene in 1705 as the son of Joannes de Schacht and Maria van Dierdonck, so 'Joseph' is a slip of the register or the abstract (grade B).
Is the Jabbeke man the Wingene child?
That the Joannes Baptista of Jabbeke is the child baptised at Wingene in 1707 rests on three things. He married in 1729, so he was born by about 1709, and of the three boys called Joannes Baptista Schacht baptised at Wingene - in 1707, 1718 and 1723 - only the first is old enough.3 He was sixty-six when he was buried at Jabbeke on 23 January 1774, which points to 1707 or 1708.4 And the orphan registers of the Brugse Vrije name the mother of his brother Gillis as "Van Dierendonck Marie", as the estate index does for his brother Jan.25 The register calls Gillis's father "Joseph", a slip: Gillis's own baptism names Joannes. The link is grade B: very probable, but no single act says it outright.
The children
Joannes Baptista and Cornelia had Emmanuel, baptised on 5 April 1734, born the day before at three in the afternoon, and Isabella Theresia in 1736.6 The orphan register of 1784 adds two more sons, Jacob and Bernardus. When Jacob died that year, his children were placed under the guardianship of "De Schacht Bernardus, paternal uncle", and the register calls Jacob "son of Jan Baptiste & Serlé Cornelie".7
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Aprilis. 5a Baptizatus est Emanuel fil. leg. Joannis Baptistae de Schacht et Corneliae Scharle conjugum, susceptoribus Victore La Maire et Carolina Den Bade[?]; natus est pridie hora 3a post meridiem.
April [1734]. On the 5th was baptised Emmanuel, lawful son of Joannes Baptista de Schacht and Cornelia Scharle, a married couple, the sponsors being Victor La Maire and Carolina Den Bade[?]; born the day before at three in the afternoon (grade A).
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20. Baptizata est Isabella Theresia fa Joannis Baptistae de Schacht et Corneliae Scharle conjugum. Susceptores Walterus Nestelynck et Catharina Du Gardin[?]; nata hodie.
On the 20th [February 1736] was baptised Isabella Theresia, daughter of Joannes Baptista de Schacht and Cornelia Scharle, a married couple. Sponsors Walterus Nestelynck and Catharina Du Gardin[?]; born today. Emmanuel's sister (grade A).
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16513, 41, Jabbeke, akte van 21-12-1784. Francisca (8j), Joannes (6j), Anna (4j) & Joanna (1j), k.v. De Schacht Jacob (z.v. Jan Baptiste & Serlé Cornelie) & Vlaminck Isabelle (d.v. Martinus & Vande Zande Joanne). Voogden: De Schacht Bernardus (paternele oom van de wezen) & Vlaeminck Francois (maternele oom van de wezen). Ze erven van hun vader, + 28-01-1784 te Jabbeke (geen onroerend goed). De moeder hertrouwde ondertussen met Dumarez Pieter.
Jabbeke, act of 21 December 1784. Francisca (8), Joannes (6), Anna (4) and Joanna (1), children of Jacob De Schacht, son of Jan Baptiste and Cornelie Serlé, and of Isabelle Vlaminck. Guardians: Bernardus De Schacht, paternal uncle of the orphans, and Francois Vlaeminck, maternal uncle. They inherit from their father, died 28 January 1784 at Jabbeke (no real estate); the mother has remarried Pieter Dumarez. Jacob and Bernardus are brothers of Emmanuel, the ancestor: all sons of Joannes Baptista and Cornelia Scharle (grade B).
Joannes Baptista died on 22 January 1774, "husband of Cornelia Sarley", aged sixty-six, and was buried the next day.4
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23a Sepultus est in coemiterio versus occidentem officio medio Joannes Baptista de Schacht maritus Corneliae Sarley; obiit 22a circa medium 4ae mat[utinae]; aetatis 66 annorum.
On the 23rd [January 1774] was buried in the churchyard on the west side, with the middle office, Joannes Baptista de Schacht, husband of Cornelia Sarley; he died on the 22nd about half past three in the morning; aged 66 - so born about 1707/08, which fits his baptism at Wingene on 22 August 1707 (grade A).
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Jabbeke, marriages 1725-1755 [S3], image 0_0633: 6 and 7 July 1729; Petrus Blomme and Maria Weerbrouck, 13 and 24 August 1729 (grade A). ↩
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Orphan registers of the Brugse Vrije [S10]: register 16506 f. 158v, Jabbeke, 7 July 1750 (Joos De Schacht and Amelberghe De Beele, both died 1748-1749); register 16507 f. 229v, Zerkegem, 17 June 1761 (Gillis De Schacht, "son of Joseph & Van Dierendonck Marie", and Agnes De Beele) (grade B). ↩↩
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Wingene baptisms, index [S8]: Joannes Baptista Schacht, 22 August 1707 (read on the image, [S2]), 16 February 1718 and 1 June 1723 (grade B; no parents given). ↩
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Jabbeke, burials 1770-1779 [S3], image 0_1273: Joannes Baptista de Schacht, died 22 and buried 23 January 1774, aged 66 (grade A). ↩↩
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Index of the estate inventories [S9]: Zerkegem no. 1030 (1748), Jan De Schacht, mother "NN Van Dierendonck" (grade B). ↩
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Jabbeke, baptisms 1725-1748 [S3]: Emmanuel, 5 April 1734 (image 0_0563); Isabella Theresia, 20 February 1736 (image 0_0571) (grade A). ↩
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Orphan registers of the Brugse Vrije [S10], register 16513 f. 41, Jabbeke, 21 December 1784 (grade B). Index of the estate inventories [S9], Brugse Vrije second series, no. 13418, Jabbeke, 28 January 1784: Jacob De Schacht, father "Jan Bapt. De Schacht" (grade B). ↩
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Inventaris Onroerend Erfgoed and Wikipedia on Jabbeke [S19, S20] (background only). ↩
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Wikipedia (Dutch), "Jabbeke" [S20]: the castle and its owners, the plunderings of 1488 and 1579 (background). ↩