Researchers Interested
in Belgian Balza Immigrants to the Door Peninsula
There are a number of immigrant Balza ancestors involved here,
who may or may not have been related. Several of the towns in
Brabant Province from which these different Balzas came are
actually quite close together. I suspect that one or another of us
will eventually figure it all out.  |
| Immigrant Ancestors |
Researcher |
Website |
| Jean-Baptiste Balzat (b. 1807, Orbais, Brabant, Belgium)
and his wife Marie-Catherine Prevot (b. c. 1803, Belgium) |
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Eileen Baye |
Farrell-Baye Family (no website) |
| Elsie Baye |
Hey |
| Audrey Erdmann Easton |
Erdmann Family Papers |
| Rudy Ramsey |
Ramsey-Farrell Family (our site) |
| Michael Balza (b. 1823, Thorembias St. Trond, Belgium)
and his wife Julia Jadule (b. 1833, Grand-Rosiere, Belgium).
Since our Balza line now extends into Thorembais-Saint-Trond,
though a century earlier, I rather expect to discover that these
lines are linked. |
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Gary A. Tremble |
N/E
Wis, Belgium & Bohemia |
| Antoine Balza (b. 1845, Sart-Walhain, Brabant, Belgium)
and his wife Marie Antoinette Flahaut (b. 1845, Tourinnes-St-Lambert, Brabant, Belgium) |
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Richard M. Balza |
Balza Family Page |
| Virginia (Veronica) Balza (b.
1825, Perwez, Brabant, Belgium) (possibly a sister of Michael)
and her husband Charles LeDocq |
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Cathy Popour |
No website |
| Other websites with significant Balza
information |
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Ronald C. Flemal |
PenBelGen
(Wisconsin Door Peninsula Belgian Genealogy) |
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Balza Birth Records in Orbais, Brabant
Province, Belgium
In the course of researching our Balza ancestors, I've been looking at records in the civil registry of
Orbais, Brabant Province, Belgium. I've found a number of Balza's there, and am still looking. Although I
don't yet know how many of these Balza's will turn out to be related, I'm betting it will be quite a few.
In any case, I wanted to make these records available, in case they're of interest to others.
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| As an example, here's the birth
certificate of our ancestor, Leopold Joseph Balza, born
in Orbais |
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Transcription of Birth
Certificate in French
L'an mil huit cent trente-trois, le quinze du mois de novembre, à onze heure du matin, par-devant nous Auguste Guiotte Bourgmastre, Officier de l'état civil de la commune d'Orbais, province de Brabant, est comparu Balzat Jean Baptiste, ágè de vingt sept ans, profession de journalier, domiciliè au cette Commune, le quel nous a présenté un infant du sexe masculin, né en sa maison, le quatorze du présent mois, a six heure du soir, de le déclarant et de Catherine Josephe Privot, son epouse, et auquel il déclaré vouloir donnez le prénom de Leopold Joseph. |
Translation of Birth
Certificate Into English
The year 1833, the fifteenth of the month of November, at eleven o'clock in the morning, before us Auguste Guiotte, Mayor, officer of the civl registry of the town of Orbais, province of Brabant, has appeared Balzat, Jean Baptiste, aged twenty-seven years, profession of day-laborer, residing in this town, who has presented to us an infant of the masculine sex, born at his home, the fourteenth of the present month, at six o'clock in the evening, to the declarer and to Catherine Josephe Privot, his spouse, and to whom he has declared that he wishes to give the first name(s) Leopold Joseph. |
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| I had a lengthy table here of
Balza's I've discovered in Orbais. However, I've now linked
almost all of them into our Balza line, so you'll now find the
information in the main family tree. |
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