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.
This family has distinguished itself in the high magistracy and high industry (distilleries, breeding, sugar refinery).
Members
Guillaume Wittouck (1749–1829), high magistrate. Jeanne Wittouck (1781–1849), wife of Jean-Louis Van Dievoet (1777–1854), Secretary of the Belgian supreme court. François Wittouck (1783–1814) husband of Pétronille van Cutsem. Félix-Guillaume Wittouck (1812–1898), distiller, burgomaster of Sint-Pieters-Leeuw. Félix Wittouck (1849–1916), industrial sugar refiner. Paul Wittouck (1851–1917), industrialist. Frantz Wittouck (1855–1914), industrialist, husband of Albertine Brandeis. They had: Jean Wittouck, Élisabeth Wittouck, wife of Jules Guillaume, diplomat, Marie-Thérèse Wittouck, wife of Jean Ullens. Élisabeth Wittouck, wife of Jules Guillaume, Belgian diplomat.
The Wittouck family 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. The couple Wittouck-van Haelen had eight children.
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.A.G.R., N.G.B., Notary P. J. Dupré no 17.167/1, act 14). On this land, increased by an equivalent parcel, his widow built a mill. (octroi du 13 October 1792, cfr. previous reference). On 25 June 1760, Josse Wittouck had also bought a farm with field and orchard(A.G.R., Greffes scab. Brux., 3.158, f° 231–234) Isabelle Wittouck, wife of Louis Victor Dammeville sold the mill to Mrs. de Liagre and Stevens in 1803. See: J. Lorthiois, in, l’Intermédiaire des Généalogistes, no 158, year 1972, p.128
1) Maria Anna Wittouck, baptised in Drogenbos on 25 October 1746. 2) François Wittouck, on 3 March 1748. 3) Guillaume Wittouck, 30 October 1749, which follows under II. Issue of Guillaume Wittouck, Counselor at the Supreme Court of Brabant. 4) François Wittouck, on 1 December 1751. 5) Jacques Wittouck, made bourgeois of Brussels on 27 May 1794, succeeded his father in the service of Arenberg, miller, cost (sacristan) of Drogenbos (1785), drossard of Beersel from 1792 to 1794, municipal agent (9 germinal year IV) (29 March 1796), born in Drogenbos 26 May 1755, died about 1800, married in Uccle on 17 September 1782 Petronilla van der Meulen, daughter of Josse van der Meulen, brewer in Stalle, and Marie Everaerts. Jacques Wittouck had succeeded Jean-Jacques Cattoir, who had been named drossard, i.e. burgomasterof Beersel, at the appointment of the Duke of Aremberg and Arschot, lord of the place, in 1771.See: François de Cacamp, « Les Cattoir à Gand et à Bruxelles », in, Brabantica, IV, 1959, p.89. Their descendants include: a) Isabelle Françoise Victoire Wittouck, born on 21 July 1787, who married in Zellik on 5 October 1808, Pierre Bols, decorated with the Iron Cross,Liste nominative extraite du moniteur, de 1031 citoyens proposés pour la croix de fer, par la commission des récompenses honorifiques, 1835, p. 17, n° 77 : « Bols-Wittouck, imprimeur typographe, à Bruxelles, dès le 26 août et pendant les journées de septembre 1830, il imprima toutes les proclamations tendant à appeler la population aux armes et à propager le mouvement national » bookbinder,Antoine Massin, Brussels. Qui est qui en 1812, Bruxelles, 1997, volume I, p. 58 : « BOLS, Pierre – Agé de 22 ans – Epoux WITTOUCK, Isabelle – Relieur de livres – Domicilié Son 8 – Grand Place 1127 – Né à Bruxelles – 1 garçon ». printer-typographer, papermaker, printer of the City of Brussels, known under the printing name "Bols-Wittouck", born in Brussels on 8 September 1789, son of Servais Bols, beer salesman, and Anne Marie Schats, born in Diest. b) Anne-Philippine Wittouck wife of Antoine Herinckx born 8 January 1776, ancestorRead: Paul Herinckx, Jean Herinckx mon père – 1888–1961, Bruxelles, editions Racine, 2002 (preface by Pierre Harmel), p. 18. of Jean Herinckx, burgomaster of Uccle. 6) Maria Magdalena Wittouck, on 25 January 1759. 7) Judoca Wittouck, born on 24 December 1760. 8) Isabelle Wittouck, married in brussels, Louis Victor Dammeville, burgomaster of Drogenbos, born in Falaise (Calvados).Alphonse Wauters, Histoire des environs de Bruxelles, book 10 A, re-edited in 1973, p. 122 : (French) « Par son testament, passé à Montpellier, le 10 juillet 1806, le maire de la commune de Drogenbos, Louis-Victor Dammeville, fonda une école française, dans laquelle on devait enseigner à lire, à écrire, l’arithmétique, l’arpentage et les principes du dessin suffisant pour cette partie, les éléments de géographie et de sphère, sous le rapport de l’économie rurale. La surveillance de l’institution devait appartenir à la mairie, et la nomination du maître d’école, qui ne pouvait être ni clerc ni cabaretier, devait avoir lieu par concours, devant l’autorité municipale de Bruxelles, à la diligence et en présence du maire de Droogenbosch. Dammeville donna pour cet établissement, qu’il nomma institution d’Isabelle, une maison située sur le pavé conduisant du château à la chaussée d’Alsemberg, plus un capital de 8.000 francs, dont une partie fut employée à payer à Jean Wittouck un tiers de la maison précitée. »
Issue of Guillaume Wittouck, Counselor at the Supreme Court of Brabant II. Guillaume Wittouck, born in Drogenbos on 30 October 1749 and died in Brussels on 12 June 1829, lawyer at the Brabant Council, became Counselor at the Supreme Court of Brabant in 1791. During the Brabant Revolution, he sided with the Vonckists, who were in favor of new ideas. When Belgium joined France, he became substitute for the commissioner of the Directory at the Civil Court of the Department of the Dyle, then under the consulate, in 1800, judge at the Brussels Court of Appeal, then from 1804 to 1814, under the Empire, counselor at the Court of Appeal of Brussels, then advisor to the Superior Court of Brussels. He married in Brussels (Church of Saint Nicolas) on 29 June 1778, Anne Marie Cools, born in Gooik on 25 January 1754, died in Brussels on 11 April 1824, daughter of Jean Cools and Adrienne Galmaert descendants of the Seven Noble Houses of Brussels.Link to Seven Noble Houses of Brussels :
I. Guillaume (Willem) Pipenpoy, bailiff of Gaasbeek, bore the banner of Lord Gaasbeek and fought alongside John I, Duke of Brabant at the Battle of Worringen in 1288. He was alderman of Brussels in 1287, 1290, 1297, 1302 and 1306 and amman of Brussels in 1300. II Wouter Pipenpoy, Alderman in 1301, 1314, 1316, 1318, 1322, 1326, amman of Brussels in 1318 and 1319. III. Wouter Pipenpoy, alderman in 1331, 1333, 1336, 1337, amman in 1341, 1349, married Catherine Boote IV. Gysbrecht Pipenpoy, treasurer in 1372, alderman in 1380, 1388, dean of the Guild of the drapery, married Marie Swaef. V. Jan Pipenpoy, born around 1387, alderman in 1462, married Marguerite van de Voorde, daughter of Jean and Clémentine de Gaesbeek, natural daughter of Sweder d'Abcoude, lord of Gaasbeek. VI. Willem (Jan) Pipenpoy, alderman 1468, treasurer in 1483, married Catherine de Buttere dit Haecman VII. Jean Pipenpoy, alderman in 1504, bishop of Bossuyt, 1509, married Gertrude Bosch VIII. Jean Pipenpoy, married Cornélia van Overstraeten IX. Jean Pipenpoy, married Elisabeth Goosens. X. Marie Pipenpoy, married Jean van Cutsem XI. Zeger van Cutsem, born in 1620 died 3 April, 1681 at Sint Martens Lennik married on 8 May, 1644 at Sint Martens Lennik, Barbara Walravens 1623–1699. XII. Barbara van Cutsem born 19 September 1653 in Sint-Martens-Lennik married on 14 May 1680, in Sint Martens Lennik, Christiaan Galmaert, clerk of the Barony of Gooik, born 27 December, 1654 in Gooik, died 20 January 1718 in Gooik, son of Martinus and Maria Eijlenbosch. XIII. Michael Galmart baptized in Brussels on 18-08-1690, "tempore belli, in Ecclesia parochiali Sti Gaugerici, vulgo Ste Geerix and died on 11 March 1786 at 9 am, buried in Gooik on 13 March 1786, at the age of 95 years old married 30 July 1719 in Gooik Maria Theresia Walravens, baptized in Gooik on 3 January 1700 daughter of Joannes Jacobus Walravens and Maria Tienpont and died on 15 June 1750 in Gooik. XIV Adrienne Christine Galmaert, baptised. 26 October 1724 in Gooik and died 3 May 1764 in Gooik, married in Brussels in the church of St. Catherine on 23 April 1750 Jean Baptiste Cools, baptized on 14 January 1718 in Gooik, son of Ludovicus and Anna Maria Walravens and died 20 June 1782 in Gooik. XV. Anne Marie Cools, born in Gooik on 25 January 1754, died in Brussels on 11 April 1824, married in Brussels, church of Saint-Nicolas on 29 June 1778, Guillaume Wittouck, lawyer at the Brabant Council, then (1791) advisor at the Supreme Court of Brabant He ended his career as a counselor at the Superior Court of Justice in Brussels, born in Drogenbos on 30 October 1749, died in Brussels on 12 June 1829.
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.Philippe Farcy, 100 châteaux de Belgique connus et méconnus, Brussels, 2003, volume 2, pp. 76–77: (French) « Château Wittouck à Leeuw-Saint-Pierre. Ce domaine fut acheté en totalité (100 hectares), contre 45 000 francs le 28 floréal an VIII (1800) par Guillaume Wittouck, homme de loi, qui résidait rue du Grand Hospice à Bruxelles ». Petit-Bigard will remain the home of the elder branch until its sale in 1941. Issue:
A) Jeanne Wittouck, née le 3 décembre 1781 à Bruxelles, décédée du choléra le 26 juillet 1849 à Bruxelles, épousa à Leeuw-Saint-Pierre le 7 février 1803, Jean-Louis van Dievoet, Secretary of the Belgian Supreme Courtson of Jean-Baptiste et d’Anne Marie Lambrechts, born in Brussels on 24 November 1777 and died in Brussels on 16 May 1854. They are the parents of the jurisconsult and law historian Augustus Van Dievoet, and they count amongst others among their descendants: Jules Van Dievoet, lawyer at the Court of Cassation, Henri Van Dievoet, architect, Gabriel Van Dievoet, Art Nouveau decorator, Germaine Van Dievoet, swimming champion.