Michel Joseph DELPERDANGE was born in Bastogne <•> on January 4, 1828. His father, Jean Joseph DELPERDANGE, was a bricklayer. After the death of his first wife, Marie Thérèse WILLOT he married Marie Josèphe SACK, originating from Hardigny. They settled in Bastogne where their first three children were born. About 1835 they left this town for Hollange where their other children were born. Their children and grandchildren will be responsible for the presence of the name DELPERDANGE  in the municipalities of Hollange, Sainlez and Fauvillers for more than a century

Michel Joseph DELPERDANGE was 7 years old when his parents left Bastogne to settle in HOLLANGE. Together with his sisters and brothers he grew up on his parents’ farm. At the age of 26, two years after his father’s death on September 17, 1844 he married Marie Marguerite LAMBERT <•>, a girl from the neighbouring village Sainlez, who like he was living in a farmers’ family. Some years later he settled with his family in the village of his in-laws.

They gave birth to 8 children :

Marie Marguerite LAMBERT died on March 13, 1876 only 54 years old. Five years later, on December 7, 1881, Michel Joseph remarried <•> the 31-year-old Marie Marguerite LALLEMAND, originating from Hollange.

This second marriage did not last very long : in May 1882 their daughter Marie Barbe Mathilde was born <•>. But 1 year later Marie Marguerite LALLEMAND died <•> at the birth of her second child Henri Joseph, on September 7, 1883<•>. This child also died some months later, in April 1884 .

It is possible that Michel Joseph had another son Adolphe Joseph Anatole, born on July 31 from an unknown mother. This however still has to be confirmed.

Michel Joseph DELPERDANGE died in Sainlez on March 17, 1905 at the age of 77 <•>.

We do not know what happened later on to Guillaume, Marie Mélanie and Emile Henri Joseph, children of the first marriage and to Adolphe Joseph Anatole, born in 1884.

Marie Barbe Mathilde became a seamstress. On December 18, 1901 she married Henri Emile DEMANDE, a farmer in Hollange<•>. We do not dispose of  any information on their possible children. Marie Barbe Mathilde died in 1946, her husband Henri Emile DEMANDE in 1965. They were buried on the churchyard of Bastogne<•>.

Jean Baptiste settled in Harlange (Grand Duchy of Luxemburg) after his marriage. Thanks to his 3 sons and 2 daughters the name DELPERDANGE is still heard there until the present day.

It is Jean Joseph DELPERDANGE who with his wife Marie Joséphine THILMANY and their 10 children of whom 9 sons is at the basis of the further presence of the DELPERDANGES  in Holange and Sainlez (see generation 8).

On Wednesday August 29, 1894 Jean Joseph DELPERDANGE, son of Michel Joseph and Marie Marguerite LAMBERT, married Marie Joséphine THILMANY<•>. Marie Joséphine was born in Honville on May 21, 1869, she was 25 years old, her husband 36.

Jean Joseph DELPERDANGE and Marie Joséphine THILMANY
around 1920

Between 1894 and 1908 they will have 10 children, who were all born in Hollange :

Firmin Jules Joseph became a farmer like his father. He died in Sainlez on April 5, 1920 at the age of 22, without any descendants.

His seven still living brothers and his sister will all reach the adult age, marry and get children.

So Jean Joseph DELPERDANGE and Marie Joséphine THILMANY are at the start of an impressing genealogical branch. Jean Joseph died in Sainlez on June 19, 1919 at the age of 61<•>. His wife died in the same municipality on September 18, 1636, at the age of 67.

In this paragraph we will summarize in some lines how the lives of the children of Jean Joseph DELPERDANGE and Marie Joséphine THILMANY went :  

·         Nestor Joseph, born in 1894 was an employee with the railway company. On April 26, 1922 he married Marie Marguerite Rosalie GEORGES, originating from Hollange<•>. They got two children, Emile and José.

·         Emile Joseph, born in 1899, became a farmer. He married Ida Marie COLLIGNON. They gave birth to 6 children : Firmin, René, Marcelle, Joseph, Rainilde and Jeanine. He died in Bièvre in 1987 at the age of 87. Together with his wife he is buried on the churchyard of Libramont<•>.

·         Marcel Eudore Joseph, born in 1901, was a tram conductor at the moment of his marriage with Marcelle Elisa GREGOIRE on June 19, 1919 in Hollange<•>. We do not have any information about any children in this marriage. Marcelle died in 1973, her husband Marcel died on September 23, 1986 at the age of 85.

·         Fernand Emile Joseph, born in 1902, married Marie STREVELER. They probably had only one daughter, born in 1934, who died two years later. Marie died in 1973, Fernand in 1979. They were buried on the churchyard of  Libramont<•>.

·         Maria Joséphine, born in 1903, married Célestin Joseph CHEVIGNE in Sainlez on April 27, 1927<•>. The couple got two children : René Joseph Ghislain born in 1928 and José born in 1937. Maria died on May 15, 1985 in Gilly at the age of 82.

·         Adolphe Joseph, born in 1904 married Esther ADAM in 1930. They had 4 children: a son René Gérard Léon Joseph, born in 1931, and three daughters : Gilberte, Mariette and Monique respectively born in 1932, 1934 and 1940. Adolphe died in 1963.

·         Cyrille Joseph, born in 1906 married Léona BOEUR on Friday October 11, 1929 in Noville. The couple got six children : Irène, Marie, Christiane, Robert, Marcel and Renée. Cyrille died on May 3, 1986 in Vaucelles at the age of 79. Together with his wife he is buried on the churchyard of Vaucelles<•>.

·         On Edgar Emile Joseph, born in 1908, no further information has been found until now.

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