Individual Details

Marriage

A transcription of the wedding certificate appears on page 54 of Reunion: A Beno-Champeau Genealogy by Dorothy Beno Lutomski and Mary Ann Lurquin Defnet. The following information is drawn from that record:
-- The wedding took place at "Longchamps, arrondissement communal de Namur, département de Sambre et Meuse," at 11:00 in the morning on 27 Jan 1809.
-- The groom, Jean Joseph Binon, was born at Trieux-des-Fresnes, in the parish of St-Denis, département of Sambre-et-Meuse, on 11 Sep 1784 (date differs from birth record). He was a blacksmith by trade. His current residence was at Longchamps, départment de Sambre-et-Meuse. He was the legitimate son of Jean Joseph Binon and Marie Marguerite Josèphe Mauriaud, who resided at Trieux-des-Fresnes.
-- The bride, Marie Joseph Wautelet, a housewife, was 24 years old. She had been born at Longchamps, in the parish of Mehaigne, département of Sambre-et-Meuse. She was the legitimate daughter of Jean Joseph Wautelet and Marie Josèphe Namur (deceased), who resided at Longchamps.
-- The parents together consented to the marriage, and no one, to this point, had expressed opposition.
-- Names of witnesses were illegible.

Sambre-et-Meuse was a département in the First French Empire which existed between 1795 and 1814. With the fall of Napoleon, it became a part of the Netherlands for a time. Its territory is now part of Belgium again, divided between the Belgian provinces of Namur and Luxembourg.

Longchamps is also called Longchamps-lez-Dhuy, to distinguish it from several other localities of that name. It is in the province of Namur. The closest significant community today is Eghezée, which has an interesting website: http://www.eghezee.be/