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From: "ann-an-burt" <>
Subject: Re: BELGIUM-ROOTS-D Digest V99 #212
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 09:36:21 -0700


I am looking for information on JOHN VAN UXEM

Born about 1788

Came from Ypres where he was a butcher

Enlisted in de Meuron Regiment 1809 and came to Canada with them in 1813

Enlisted alongside a friend - Jean Poublon

Had 3 children and wife in Flanders when he left

Died in Canada in about 1865

Name variations found:

VANEXHEIM, VANEXAN, VANOXEN, VINEXEN, VINIXEN, VINIXAN and many more
similar ones! Seems the record clerks couldn't get it straight twice in a
row!

Any help on heritage in Flanders would be much appreciated

ANN (gr gr gr grandughter of John Van Uxem)

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