Wittouck family

United Belgian States French First Republic First French Empire United Kingdom of the Netherlands The Wittouck family (/witʊk/) is a noble Belgian family, that descends from the Seven Noble Houses of Brussels, established in Brussels since the 18th century.

I) Josse (Judocus) Wittouck, administrator ("concierge") of the domain of the Duke of Arenberg at Drogenbos, baptised on 29 January 1710 in Saint-Nicolas (Waas), died probably in 1785 in Uccle, married in Drogenbos on 1 December 1745 (witnesses: Franciscus van Haelen and Anthonius de Ruyst), Maria Anna van Haelen, baptized in Uccle on 8 February 1721, died in Drogenbos on 23 April 1796, daughter of François van Haelen and Marie Anne Vandiest.

On 26 May 1751 the couple Josse Wittouck-van Haelen bought to Louis-Engelbert, Duke of Arenberg a parcel of land at the place called "Horeken", in the bend of the Senne where are now established the Papeteries Catala-Ondulium.

[8] Guillaume Wittouck acquired on 28th Floreal of the year VIII (18 May 1800) the castle of Petit-Bigard in Leeuw-Saint-Pierre with a field of one hundred hectares.

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