Elizabeth,

I made it to the local FHC yesterday, but was not having much success with my own work, so I looked for Ferdinand Huybrecht and Theresia Maria VanLoo on the tapes I had.

I found no births for a Ferdinand Huybrecht between 1830 and 1850 in any of the following towns:
Huldenberg, Ottenburg, Duysburg, Loonbeek, Sint-Agatha-Rode, Tervuren, Vossem, Nethen and Korbeek-Dijle. The tape I have for Neerijse is incomplete and the birth records end at 1842.

I found one Maria Theresia VanLoo birth in that same time period for the aforementioned towns.

Maria Theresia VanLoo was born on April 5, 1844 in Loonbeek, to Joannes Baptista VanLoo (age 29) and Elisabeth Gilis (age 21)

I also managed to get access to a copy of the Flemish in Wisconsin. They actually had a listing for Ferdinand Huybrechts and Theresa Van Loo. It states the following:

Ferdinand Huybrechts (b. Apr 1844) came to the U.S. with his mother, Anna (b. 1802), in 1856. He married Theresa Van Leoo (b. 1844). Their children were: Philomene (b. 1862); peter (b. 1865) married Nancy Schultz and lived in Kunsh; Charles (b. 1868 d. 1891); Rose (b. Mar. 1887); Mamie (b. Aug 1886); and, josephine (b. Feb 1889).

Not sure if you have all this information already or not. Also, the date given there is off 10 years for the birthdate you have for Ferdinand. It is known that the Flemish of Brabant has errors, so take this with a bit of caution.

One last note. The reference to Charles who died in 1891. He died on January 27, 1891 in Green Bay. I obtained this information some time ago when I was transcribing and translating the Flemish language newspaper "De Volkstem", printed in De Pere, WI. I have the information on my website at:

http://www.geocities.com/sylvan1206/

when you arrive there, select the Volksstem translations. The translated death notice is listed in Years 1 and 3.

Best regards,

Tom