Eugène Nicolaas Hubert Goossens (1827-1903) and his wife Catherine Victorine Honoré (1838-1866) were living in Liège in Belgium where they were married in 1856. Eugène was born in Bree in Belgium as son of the Dutch couple Petrus Jacobus Goossens (1790-1876) and Maria Anna Alexandrina de Borman (1793-1877) who had settled in Bree.
Charles Joseph Victor Marie Goossens was born on 7-12-1862 in Liège in Belgium |
Eugène and his wife had two sons: Pierre François Eugène Marie Maurice Goossens (1857-1890) and Charles Joseph Victor Marie Goossens (1862-1915). Charles was married on 22 October 1889 in Liège to Laurence Elise Marie Larroque. She was born on 20 October 1866 in Liège as daughter of Frenchman Mathieu Ernest Larroque (1841-1922) and his wife Joséphine Eugénie Stembert (1829-1915).
Marcel François Ernest Goossens was born on 26-10-1892 in Liège in Belgium |
While Charles and Laurence were living in Liège, they had four children: Eugène Charles Ernest, born in 1890, Marcel François Ernest, Jeanne Marie Louise (1894-1917) and Georges Eugène Ernest, born in 1900.
Their second son, Marcel François Ernest, was born on 26 October 1892 in Liège. He married Suzanna Beaumartin on 8 April 1920 in Bordeaux in France. Suzanna was born there on 26 August 1894. The couple had children named Jeanne, Pierre, Arlette and Jean Marie.
Arlette Monique Henriette Georgette Goossens was born on 2 April 1926 in Bordeaux, and died there on 29 October 2021, at the age of 95.