Notes for August Van Holsbeke
August Van Holsbeke returned to Belgium after coming to the U.S. with his wife and family, maybe around 1909 or 1910. The FamilySearch Ancestral File (Reference Number: 116D-P9T) includes the following information about the Van Holsbeke family: Augustus Francies Van Holsebeke b. 8 Jan 1849 Overbroek, Gand, Oost Vlaanderen, Belgium.
BIRTH: Born at 11 pm. Information from Birth Certificate, copy in the possession of P.D. Haney. Parents indicated as Johannes Baptiste VAN HOLSBEKE and Amelia BRUSSEEL. Witnesses: Augustus Francies Brusseel and Joannes Baptista Coppens. Translated from the original Flemish by Marjon van der Meulen. [FHL Film 755820] He came to live in Indiana with his wife Marie Prudence Moorman. After his wife died in 1918, he returned to Belgium. His daughter Marie stayed in the South Bend/Mishawaka area.
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