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From: Luc Matthijs <>
Subject: Re: [BEL-R] GHENT-CHRISTI
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 03:03:09 +0200


Joyce,

CHRISTI was one of the abbreviations used before 1800 for LOCHRISTI, my
native town. Others where: Lo, Lho, Loe, Loe Sancti Xpi, Loe Xpi, Loo
Chri, Loochristi. Lochristi is now a municipality, composed of the towns
Lochristi, Beervelde, Zaffelare and Zeveneken. Lochristi does have a
second parish: Hijfte.

Lochristi could be translated by the "Forest of the Christ". That forest
was situated between Ghent and Lokeren. It was cultivated by the abbeys of
St Baafs and St Pieters (Gent) from the 13th century on.

The colonization of this swampy woods did start in 1221, with the
foundation of the parish Zeveneken. In 1287 the parish Lochristi was
founded, as a split of from Zeveneken. The 8 parishes between Gent and
Lokeren did form the eastern half of the "Oudburg of Gent" and where mostly
owned by the abbeys of St Baafs and Sint Pieters.

The summer residence "Rooselaar" of the abbot of the Sint-Baafs was
located in Lo-Christi. When in the 16th century the Spanish Castle in Gent
constructed on the ground of the St Baafs abbey, Emperor Charles V decided
to compensate the abbey with the seigneurie of Hijfte and with the actual
St Baafs church in Gent. But he did give some of the St Baafs goods to the
new bishop of Gent, when that diocese was created some years later. The
bishop did retain Lochristi as his summer residence and transformed it in a
very luxurious "private" home. It was famous for his flower collection.

The residence was burned down around 1796 (French Revolution) and never
re-constructed, but the stables where transformed eventually to a mansion
by the new owners, who did develop the existing flower collection into a
very profitable business. Soon after that other farmers did become
florists. One of their selling points was the KOUTER in Ghent. Because that
place was the meeting point for the high society in Ghent.

So that's a possible link between the birth places of this Nauts and his son.

The large family NAUDTS was until some years one of the large florist
families in Lochristi, situated around the Bosstraat/Hoekskenstraat. I
wouldn't be surprised that they did belong to the group of 10 initial
farmer families in Lochristi in the 14th century. Most florist are know out
of business and Lochristi did become a "sleep town" for the people working
in the industry around the port of Ghent.

For Petrus Franciscus you will find his parents in the parish registers of
Lochristi. I hope for you that his father wasn't a Petrus, because I'm
blocked with too much Petrus Naudts around 1710, for one of my ancestors.
The surname was written as NAUDTS, NAUTS or sometimes NAUDS. I will
continue my research for this branch somewhere in 2001/2002. Your data has
been recorded in my database.

At 25/06/2000 03:13, J & G Brinks wrote:
>Greetings from Michigan, U.S.A.,
>Can anyone tell me if there's a birth registered to a PIERRE FRANCOIS
>NAUTS(NAUDTS), born c/1763. He came from CHRISTI (CHRISTY)near Ghent..
>I'd like to know his parents names.
>He had a son, FRANCOIS ANTOINE born 8-5-1803, in GHENT-KOUTER, who was my
>gr.gr.grandfather.
>What kind of an area was CHRISTI, in the early 1800s?
>Thank you for any help,
>Joyce (Nauts-Carr) Brinks


Greetings,

Luc Matthijs
Evere (Brussels, Belgium)
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