Individual Details

Joseph John LURQUIN

(23 Apr 1866 - 24 Feb 1940)

The obituary of Frances Deuster Lurquin states that, at the time of her death, her husband had been an invalid for nine years. She died in 1938, so Joseph was bedridden from about 1929 on.

Events

Birth23 Apr 1866Oud-Heverlee, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium
Marriage19 Apr 1892Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, United States - Frances Margaret DEUSTER
Residence (family)1898n.s. Dousman, 8 w. Fink, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, United States - Frances Margaret DEUSTER
Census (family)1 Jun 1900Dousman Street, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, United States - Frances Margaret DEUSTER
Census (family)15 Apr 19101308 Dousman Street, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, United States - Frances Margaret DEUSTER
Census (family)6 Jan 19201308 Dousman Street, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, United States - Frances Margaret DEUSTER
Occupation1921Gardener - Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, United States
Census (family)Apr 19301314 Dousman Street, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, United States - Frances Margaret DEUSTER
Death24 Feb 1940Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, United States
BurialAllouez, Brown, Wisconsin, United States

Families

SpouseFrances Margaret DEUSTER (1865 - 1938)
ChildHenry Joseph LURQUIN (1893 - )
ChildFelix Louis A. LURQUIN (1895 - 1928)
ChildFerdinand H. LURQUIN (1897 - 1975)
ChildDorothy Antoinette LURQUIN (1898 - 1979)
ChildLouis James LURQUIN (1901 - 1990)
ChildAgnes Barbara LURQUIN (1903 - 1993)
FatherFelix LURQUIN (1842 - )
MotherRosaline DEVROYE (1840 - 1922)
SiblingCatherine Antoinette V. "Nettie" LURQUIN (1868 - 1954)

Notes

Residence (family)

Joseph was described here as a laborer.

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Census (family)

Living with Joseph and Frances were the first four of their children: Henry (age 7), Felix (age 5), Ferdinand (age 3), and Dorothy (age 1). Lived next door to Felix and Rosalie Lurquin. Joseph had immigrated in 1866, and was a naturalized citizen. He worked as a gardener, and owned his house free of mortgage.

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Census (family)

Enumerated with this family were Joseph Lurquin, a gardener, age 43; his wife, Francis (sic), age 45; and children: Henry J., age 17, an apprentice jeweler; Felix L., age 15; Ferdinand, age 13; Dorothy, age 11; Louis J., age 9; and Agnes, age 7.

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Census (family)

Residing in this family:
-- Joseph J. Lurquin, head. White male, married, age 53, born Belgium. Mother tongue: Flemish. Immigrated 1866, unnaturalized. Occupation: none.
-- Frances A. Lurquin, wife. White female, married, age 54, born Wisconsin. Parents were born in Coblens (sic), and their mother-tongue was German. Occupation: None.
-- Henry J. Lurquin, son. White male, single, age 26. Watchmaker in a jewelry store.
-- Felix L. Lurquin, son. White male, single, age 24. Baker in a baking company.
-- Louis J. Lurquin, son. White male, single, age 18. Salesman in a grocery store.
-- Agnes B. Lurquin, daughter. White female, single, age 16.
-- Roselyn Lurquin, mother. White female, widowed, age 79. Born Belgium. Mother tongue: Flemish. Unnaturalized.

All spoke English. All except Roselyn could read and write. Children all born in Wisconsin.

Home was owned, with a mortgage.

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Occupation

Residence 1308 Dousman Street

Census (family)

Sometime between 1930 and 1940, the house numbers on this street were changed. This house, which had been built by Felix Lurquin, became 974 Dousman Street. Also by the time of the 1940 Census, both Joseph and Frances had passed away, and the family of their eldest son, Henry Lurquin, had moved into this house.

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Endnotes

1. "Belgium, Brabant, Civil Registration, 1582-1914," digital images, FamilySearch ( : downloaded 21 March 2017), birth of Josephus Lurquin; Archives De L'Etat À Bruxelles and Rijksarchief te Leuven ; Oud-Heverlee; Geboorten 1861-1880 (film #004717873), image 377.

2. 1900 U.S. Federal Census, , population, Wisconsin, Brown, Precinct 2 Green Bay Ward 6, enumeration district (ED) 18, sheet 8A, image 15, dwelling 133, family 145, lines 13-18, Joseph Lurquin and family; digital images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1325221 : accessed 24 February 2019); National Archives and Records Administration.

3. Dorothy Beno Lutomski and Mary Ann Lurquin Defnet, Lurquin Addition: A Lurquin Deuster Genealogy (N.p.: n.p., 1978).

4. U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995 (Provo, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011), page 187, image 100, Lurquin, Joseph A.; online images, Ancestry.com ( : accessed ), Green Bay, Wisconsin City Directory; 1898.

5. 1900 U.S. Federal Census, Wisconsin, Brown, Green Bay, Ward 6 -- enum. dist. 18, sheet 8A, p. 68, lines 13-18, dwelling 133, family 145.

6. 1900 U.S. Federal Census, , population, Wisconsin, Brown, Precinct 2 Green Bay Ward 6, enumeration district (ED) 18, sheet 8A, image 15, dwelling 133, family 145, lines 13-18, Joseph Lurquin and family; digital images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1325221 : accessed 24 February 2019); National Archives and Records Administration.

7. 1910 U.S. Federal Census, Wisconsin, Brown, Green Bay, Ward 6, ed 19, sheet 7A-7B, lines 45-52, dwelling 120, family 137, images 13-14..

8. 1920 U.S. Federal Census, Wisconsin, Brown, Green Bay, Ward 6, ed 29, sheet 4B, dwelling 82, family 91: Joseph J. Lurquin and family.

9. U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995 (Provo, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011), p. 347, image 183, Lurquin Joseph J; online images, Ancestry.com ( : accessed ), Green Bay, Wisconsin City Directory, 1921.

10. 1930 U.S. Federal Census, Wisconsin, Brown, Green Bay, Ward 14, ED 5-30, sheet 2A,p. 248, dwelling 28, family 35, lines 20 and 21.

11. , Find A Grave, photographs and extracted information (findagrave.com : accessed 6 August 2016), Joseph J. Lurquin, memorial #121357049.

12. Dorothy Beno Lutomski and Mary Ann Lurquin Defnet, Lurquin Addition: A Lurquin Deuster Genealogy (N.p.: n.p., 1978).

13. , Find A Grave, photographs and extracted information (findagrave.com : accessed 6 August 2016), Joseph J. Lurquin, memorial #121357049.