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From: Picavet <>
Subject: Re: BASTINs of Australia
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 23:35:13 +0100


At 18:59 +0100 01-03-1999, Ron Legg wrote:
>Greetings, My Gr-grandfather Arthur Louis Alexandre BASTIN, b. 1837,
>Lille St. Hubert, Belgium, came to Australia in 1853. His parents were
>Francois BASTIN & Therese Julie van de WEYER. His siblings were:
> Victor b. 1838 Antwerp; Alphonse b. 1840 Antwerp;
> Eleanore 1841 Ghent; Sidonie b. 1843 Ghent;
> Julia 1845-1851 Ghent.
>
>The family lived in Ghent.
>Patricia Legg, Victoria, Australia

Hi!

I was slightly confused. Lille is a place in northern France, and St.
Hubert a place in Wallonia. I had to look a second time to figure out that
the place you refer to is the French translation for
Sint-Huibrechts-Lille, now part of the municipality of Neerpelt, in the
province of Limburg.

Georges

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