The Volpenswege in June 1651, four years before Livinus Saij married and settled there: a survey of the land of the almonry of Saint Bavo 'in the parish of Sleydynghe, in the ward of Volkens weghe', with 'De volkens veghe straete' along the bottom and the houses standing on it. Among the neighbouring landholders are Guillame Rogiers, Jooris van Hecke, the widow and heirs of Andries Goethals, Stoffel, Daneel and Pauwels van Vooren, Lieven Bral and Jan Standaert: names that stand as godparents, witnesses and kin in the Say records of those years
Jan van Bale, sworn surveyor of the city of Ghent, June 1651, for Jacques de Vos, receiver of the almonry of St Bavo; tenant Jacques de Baerdemaeckere (public domain). State Archives of Belgium (Rijksarchief Gent), AGATHA 514_0549_000_00414_000.
