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From: Francois Nielsen <>
Subject: Re: [BEL-R] Mahieu, Detrexhe in Kansas, Chievre, Hainaut Belgium
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 14:32:49 -0400
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Brian:
Couple of thoughts about your research:
1. Dometelle is not a first name I recognize. Could the spelling be
something else?
2. Chievres is in Hainaut, not far from Mons (about 15 km). You can
find a map showing where it is on expedia.com.
3. Detrexhe is not in the Patrom files at the University of Louvain,
but there were 297 persons named Detrixhe in Belgium in 1987, mostly in
Liege province. (Some of them are members of the noble family Woot de
Trixhe.)
Francois.

Brian Mahieu wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> It now appears that my Belgian ancestors were names FLORENT and
> DOMETELLE MAHIEU. I am waiting for some verification from Cloud County
> Kansas, on this, the family legend was that they came from Mons Belgium
> into Pennsylvania then to Nebraska and finally in Meade Co. Kansas,
> though they were in Cloud County Kansas by 1880 (briefly).
>
> THE 1880 Census misspelled their name and lists them as:
> Dometelle & Florent Mayhieu husband and wife.
> Dometelle: aged 42 wife
> Florent: aged 47 husband
> children:
> Alexis
> Armil (my great grandfather)
> Arthur
> Hortense
> Joseph
> Josephine
> Phillip
>
> Before Florent and Dometelle disappeared (to Nebraska?) they sold their
> farm to another Belgian Mr. Lambert Detrexhe in 1886. Does Detrexhe ring
> any bells for you ??
>
> Evidently, a large group of Belgians came to Kansas en masse. Can
> someone offer any clues as to how I might discover what ship they
> emmigrated on, what prot they may have come to in the US etc.?
>
> Searching the LDS database for Florent Mahieu, I find Chievre, Hainaut
> Belgium. Can someone tell me where this is? I have not been able to find
> it on a map of Belgium.
>
> Thanks for all the help thusfar!
>
> Brian M.A.H.I.E.U.
> Franklin Missouri, USA
> http://www.brianmahieu.com

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