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From: "Jules Vanhaelemeesch" <>
Subject: Re: BELGIUM-ROOTS-D Digest V99 #166
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 09:25:35 -0500


There is a Duwijn family living in La Salette. Ontario. This is near Delhi
in the tobacco district.
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Date: Monday, March 01, 1999 10:42 PM
Subject: Re: BELGIUM-ROOTS-D Digest V99 #166

>My name is Albert John Duwyn.
>My father was the late Albert Francis Duwyn (Duwijn) born November 12, 1916
>emigrated to Canada in 1928 and died June 29, 1982.
>His father was Camiel Duwyn ( Duwijn) born December 15, 1886, emigrated to
>Canada in the 1920's deceased December 31, 1969.
>Camiel was married to Heppolite Hughe died September 1969.
>Camiel and Heppolite had three sons Victor, Sylvain and Albert and three
>daughters Georgette, Marie and Yvonne. They came from a small town called
>Iseghem or Illeghem or something like that.
>
>My mother was born Mary Defraeye on October 31, 1920 and is still living.
>Her father was Gustaf Defraeye and her mother Emma Vanhaecke. They had
three
>boys Charlie, Joseph and Albert and three daughters Emilie, Mary and
>Madeleine.
>They emigrated from Belgium to Canada in the 1920's as well.
>
>Any help in locating some ancestors would be greatly appreciated!
>
>Regards, Albert
>
>

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