De Blier, Remy Joseph 1a

Birth Name De Blier, Remy Joseph
Recognized Name De Blier, Remi Josep
Recognized Name Debleir, Remi Jozep
Recognized Name De Bliere, Remige Joseph
Recognized Name de Blier, Remi Joseph
Recognized Name 1813-10-10: Deblire, Remi Josephe
Gramps ID I0123
Gender male
Age at Death less than 49 years, 10 months, 23 days

Notes

Note

After the French Revolution Remy-Joseph lost his position, and had to start his career over again from the bottom. We find him in the census of 1796 in Ekeren, near Antwerp, with his wife Marie Anne.

Meerlo was a border post between Prussia and the Austrian Netherlands. Customs administration was done exclusively in German, so we can assume that Remy-Joseph was quite fluent in this language and most likely also spoke some Flemish.

For five decades, it was assumed that Remy-Joseph died in Russia before 1814. Oral tradition told that he went there with the army of Napoleon, but inquiries with the French army (who are quite meticulous about keeping records) show that he wasn't registered there. Another, more likely possibility is the following: Napoleon's armies apparently took along customs officers, wherever they went. He, as an officer, might simply have been ordered to go there.

Evidence has recently surfaced that he did not actually die in Russia ["Russie"] but more likely in Prussia ["Prussie"], and that he definitely lived until the 10th of October 1813, when a child was born in Minden, 10 months after the end of Napoleon's disastrous campaign in Russia. It also looks like he had been demoted from "sous-lieutenant" back to "préposé".

More obscure oral tradition said that he may have married a woman in eastern Europe [false], and had a child there [there was indeed a son born in Prussia, but that's hardly eastern Europe].

 

Events

Event Date Place Description Sources
Death [E0295] before 1814      
Note

Given that the city of Minden was abandoned by French imperial troops on the 3rd of November 1813(*), days after the birth of Josephe Deblire in that city, it is very likely that Remy Joseph died around this time.

Birth [E0294] 1764-02-09 Fisenne, Érezée, Luxembourg, Belgium    
Baptism [E10258] 1764-02-09 Fisenne, Érezée, Luxembourg, Belgium    
Residence [E9216] 1796 Ekeren, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium    
Occupation [E11162] 7-06-01 (French Republican) Nederweert, Limburg, Netherlands "préposé des douanes"  
Occupation [E0296] 11-06-04 (French Republican) Meerlo, Meerlo-Wanssum, Limburg, Netherlands "préposé der douanen"  
Occupation [E0297] 1808 Zolder, Heusden-Zolder, Limburg, Belgium "onderluitenant der douanen" 2
Occupation [E12403] 1813-10-10 Minden, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany "douanen préposé"  

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father de Blier, Jean Philippe [I0119]1722-09-071775-02-18
Mother Duchamps, Jeanne [I0118]
    Brother     Deblir, Jean Philippe Thomas [I7379] 1758-08-31
    Sister     De Blier, Marie Josephe Antoinette [I0117] 1760-03-27
    Brother     De Blier, Pierre Joseph [I0116] 1762-02-26 1829-01-13
         De Blier, Remy Joseph 1764-02-09 before 1814
    Brother     De Blier, Jean Ernest [I0115] 1766-08-04 1841-01-01

Families

Family of De Blier, Remy Joseph and Heremans, Maria Anna [F0041]
Married Wife Heremans, Maria Anna [I0122] ( * 1771-10-08 + 1838-11-11 )
 
Event Date Place Description Sources
Marriage [E7482] 1793-10-14 Ekeren, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium   3a
Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
Deblier, Félicité [I6696]1874-03-20
de Blier, Marie Antoinette [I6099]1799-02-191863-03-17
Deblier, Peter Joseph [I0121]1801-07-24
Deblier, Jean Baptiste [I0138]1803-02-231888-06-05
De Blier, Nicolas Joseph [I0120]1804-10-191888-02-01
De Bliere, Marie Anne [I4248]1808-07-261879-11-09
Deblier, Remy Joseph [I6289]1811-09-121898-11-28
Deblire, Josephe [I8450]1813-10-10

Family Map

Source References

  1. Belgisch Staatsblad - Moniteur Belge [S0108]
      • Date: 1865-12-01
      • Page: 1865-12-01/6193
      • Confidence: Very High
      • Citation:

        9° Bourses fondées par M. Paul Vanderveken, pour la théologie au séminaire de Namur, de préférence en faveur des descendants légitimes 1° de Jean-Philippe de Blier, père d'Ernest, de Pierre-Joseph et de Remi-Joseph; 2° de Dominique-Martin Alen, ancien consul à Hasselt, et de son épouse Isabelle-Jacobine Pelenders.

  2. Zolder (Limburg), Burgerlijke Stand: Registers van de Burgerlijke Stand, 1798-1890 [S0068]
  3. Rooms Katholieke Kerk, Ekeren: Kerkelijke registers, 1608-1802 [S0047]
      • Page: Film 319053/Page 251
      • Transcript:

        [1793] Decima quarta octobris
        Contrasecrunt Matrimonium Remigius josephus De Blier ex fisenne luxemburgensis et maria Anna Hermans ex ootingen cozam paracho et testibus joanne baptista mertens et ludovico feits
        R Jos De Blier signum + Maria Anna Hermans nes cren sis scribere