Longevity ~ Maria Joanna Hubertina Duchateau (100)

An obituary in a local newspaper lists the age of Maria Joanna Hubertina (“Marie”) Duchateau, wife of Bernhardus Brigg, as “over 100” years old.

De Nieuwe Limburger, 30-8-1965

Maria Joanna Hubertina Duchateau was born on 10 June 1865 in Sint-Pieter, Limburg, The Netherlands. She had an older sister Maria Joanna Hubertina Francisca Duchateau, born on 15 April 1864 in Sint-Pieter, who died there on 22 July 1866. There seems to have been another sister with a rather similar name, Maria Gertrudis Joanna Hubertina, who was born on 24 September 1868 in Sint-Pieter. She married Joannes Petrus Hubertus Kicken (1864-1907) and died in 1905 at the age of 37. Maria Johanna Hubertine, however, was 100 years, 2 months and 18 days old, when she died on 28 August 1965 in Maastricht. She was buried on 1 September.

These girls' mother, Maria Ida Gillissen (1834-1911), had 6 surviving children from 10 pregnancies, among them was her second son Marie Chrétien Theodore Emmanuel Duchâteau who was born on 8 February 1860 in Sint-Pieter. These children's father was Andreas Joannes Josephus Theodorus Duchateau. He was born on 28 September 1826 in Sint-Pieter, and died there on 14 March 1886 at the age of 59.

On 4 october 1888 in Amsterdam, Marie Chrétien Theodore Emmanuel Duchâteau, aged 28, married 24-year-old Geertruida Brigg. She was born in Amsterdam on 18 February 1864. Her parents are Heinrich Wilhelm Brigg (†1892) and Charlotte Margarethe Wilhelmine Hegewisch (†1901), who both originated in the Hannover region in Germany. Geertruida gave birth to 2 sons: Walther Marie Jean Theodore Emmanuel in 1888 and Theodorus Charles Franciscus Antonius Johannes in 1893.

Ons Zuiden, 27-1-1893

Maria Joanna Hubertina (“Marie”) Duchâteau married, at the age of 27, on 26 January 1893 in Amsterdam. The groom was 30-year-old Bernardus Brigg, an elder brother of Geertruida. Bernardus was born in Amsterdam on 11 May 1862.

Bernardus Brigg and Marie Duchateau are the parents of

1. Hubertine Marianne Elise Brigg is born on 4-12-1893 in Amsterdam. She died on 18-5-1930 in Heerlen, aged 36 jaar. At the age of 29, Hubertina had married on 21-9-1923 in Maastricht. Her husband is Johannes Franciscus Hubertus Bastin, aged 27. 
2. Heinrich Wilhelm Brigg is born on 11-4-1895 in Amsterdam. Heinrich was 23 year old when he died on 28-12-1918 in Cadier en Keer. 
3. August Brigg is born on 22-3-1896 in Amsterdam. August died on 11-6-1971 in Maastricht, aged 75. August was married, at the age of 32, on 23-11-1928 in Maastricht. The bride was 22-year-old Annette Marie Louise (“Jeanne”) Hamers, who was born 16-12-1905 in Liège, Belgium.
4. Elise Hubertina Joanna Brigg is born on 5-3-1901 in Maastricht. Elise died in Heerlen on 4-5-1949, aged 48. Elise had married, aged 34, on 2-5-1935 in Heerlen the widower of her eldest sister, Johannes Franciscus Hubertus Bastin, then aged 38.
5. Maria Ida Julia Brigg was born on 19-4-1903 in Sint-Pieter, and died there on 18-9-1903.

Marie's brother, Marie Chrétien Theodore Emmanuel Duchâteau, died at the age of 43 on 23 July 1903 in Bergeijk. Their mother, Maria Ida Gilissen, died in Maastricht on 5 April 1911, aged 76. She had been a widow for 25 years. Marie's eldest son, Heinrich Wilhelm Brigg, died - after a short illness - on 28 December 1918 at the age of 23. Marie's husband, Bernardus Brigg, died, at the age of 60, on 26 July 1922 in Maastricht. Their two remaining daughters, Hubertina and Elise, died in 1930 and 1949. Bernardus' sister, Geertruida Brigg, died on 24 July 1955 in The Hague, aged 91.
When Marie died, at the age of 100, on 28 August 1965 in Maastricht, she was survived by her son August Brigg. He died, aged 75, on 11 June 1971 in Maastricht.

Sources: WieWasWie.nl, Delpher.nl, Archieven.nl, Archief.Amsterdam.