Torhout on the Ferraris map of 1777: the town around the church of Sint-Pietersbanden, where six generations of the family were baptised, with the roads to Kortemark, Lichtervelde and BrugesKortemark and Handzame on the Ferraris map of 1777: Joos Dewulf's parish and the village where his granddaughter-in-law came from, among the small hedged fields along the KrekebeekThe castle and woods of Wijnendale, between Torhout and Kortemark, on the Ferraris map of 1777. In the open ground here, on 28 September 1708, Webb's allied force threw back a French and Spanish army three times its size, seven weeks after Loonis and Maria had their daughter Petronella baptised at TorhoutLichtervelde on the Ferraris map of 1777: the village where Desiderius Dewulf married Barbara Hillewaere in 1875, a century laterThe country between Diksmuide, Torhout, Tielt and Roeselare on the Frickx map of 1712, in Loonis Dewulf's lifetime: the French border fortresses lay a day's walk to the westTorhout, Wijnendale and Lichtervelde on the Vandermaelen map (1846-1854), in Carel Dewulf's farming years: the new railway from Bruges reached the town in 1846Plan of the action at Wijnendale, 28 September 1708: the allied line drawn up across the open heath between the woods, the French army opposite, and the convoy road to LilleTorhout in an engraving from Antonius Sanderus's Flandria illustrata (state of 1652): the church of Sint-Pietersbanden over a small market town in open fieldsThe Groote Markt of Torhout on a postcard of the early twentieth century, with the town hall of 1713The church of Sint-Pietersbanden at Torhout about 1900, where Carel De Wulf and Eugenia Borra and most of the family were baptised and marriedLichtervelde in Sanderus's Flandria illustrata (state of 1652), with the ruined castle of its lordsThe old baptismal font of Lichtervelde, catalogued as eleventh-century, on a postcard of about 1903The Neerstraat at Lichtervelde on an early-twentieth-century postcardTorhout seen from above on an early-twentieth-century postcard, the town where Victor and Flavie married in 1903The castle of Wijnendale, just outside Torhout, on an early-twentieth-century postcard"Cortemarck, West Flanders: old wool spinning wheel with a device for driving it by hand", photographed in 1903 at an exhibition of home spinning in Karlsruhe. Wheels like this stood in Kortemark farmhouses for centuriesThe church of Zarren, the next parish west of Kortemark, on a postcard of about 1908
