I don't know how much help I can be; I have just started trying to trace my grandfather's family. He was born Edouard Adrian Peschard in Flere [Normandy], France, in 1876. I know that he was one of 10 children and his father died when my grandfather was 10. All family records were destroyed in 1944 during the Normandy invasion. I don't know if there is any connection to the Peschard family in Belgium, but it does not seem to be that common a name.