Individual Details

In 1810 Philippus Gregorius arrives in Waterlandkerkje with the eightteen year old and pregnant Catharina Regina De Planter. In the village people assume that both are married, and when on the 28 of July Catharina Rosalie is born, she is registered as Fijnaut. Thereafter 7 more children are born and equally registered as Fijnaut. However, Philippus is not married to Catharina but with her niece Maria Jacoba De Grieck. Apparently he fell in love with her, she became pregnant and the two eloped. In 1836 Philippus' wife Maria dies and a few years later he decides to marry Catharina. Philippus then begs the King to legitimate the children, which the King refuses as 'the children had been begotten in adultery'. In that time they used to call things by their name! After that the names of the children should have been changed into De Planter. Luckily the mentality in this Zeeuwsflamish village was not that severe and they let it pass on. As a result the Dutch and the American branches of the Belgian family FINAUT have the name FIJNAUT and not De Planter.

Birth	12 Mar 1780	Haringe, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Marriage	1808	Maria Jacoba De Grieck
Death	9 Dec 1846	Waterlandkerkje, Oostburg, Zeeland, Netherlands

Spouse

Maria Jacoba De Grieck (1778 - 1836)

Spouse	Catharina Regina De Planter (1791 - 1866)
Child	Catharina Rosalina Fijnaut (1810 - )
Child	Philippus Jacobus Fijnaut (1813 - )
Child	Ludovicus Jacobus Fijnaut (1817 - 1868)
Child	Johannes Fijnaut (1820 - 1878)
Child	Amelia Fijnaut (1823 - )
Child	Johannes Jacobus Fijnaut (1828 - )
Child	Frederikus Carolus Fijnaut (1832 - 1918)
Child	Petrus Bernardus Fijnaut (1835 - )

Father	Philippus Andreas Finaut (1750 - 1833)
Mother	Isabeau Albertine De Vos (1759 - 1797)
Sibling	Jean Baptist Albert Finaut (1781 - )