Petrus or Pieter van Genabeth

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Petrus or Pieter van Genabeth, died 19 Sep 1852 Amsterdam
A few biographies http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/93303605

J.G. Frederiks en F. Jos. van den Branden, Biographisch woordenboek der Noord- en Zuidnederlandsche letterkunde. L.J. Veen, Amsterdam 1888-1891:
Genabeth (Petrus van), in de Roomsch-Kath. kerk op het Begijnenhof te Amst. gedoopt den 10 Febr. 1793, werd 19 Oct. 1814 op 21-jarigen leeftijd onderw. van den derden, twee jaar later van den tweeden rang, was destijds openb. onderw. te Amst., waa r hij een paar maanden vroeger gehuwd was met E.L.C.E. Schabracq, eene onderwijzeres van Isr. herkomst, met wie hij daar eene school had. Hij werd in 1817 leeraar in de Nederd. taal aan het Athenaeum te Doornik, en twee jaren daarna aan dat te Bru gge. Door de Belgische revolutie tot de vlucht genoodzaakt, ging hij terug naar Amst., waar hij een jaargeld kreeg en zijne vrouw weder een school opzette, terwijl Pieneman hem in 1843 klerk en opzichter bij de tentoonstellingen van Arti et Amicit iae maakte. Hij overleed te Amsterdam 19 Sept. 1852. etc etc.
http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bran038biog01_01/bran038biog01_01_1479.php
Married 10 Jul 1816 Amsterdam to:
Maria Louisa Catharina Eugenia Schabracq, birth 13 Oct 1791 Amsterdam, died 26 Sep 1847 Amsterdam, daughter of Ezechiel Hartog Schabracq and Ester Jacob Cohen
The order of the forenames varies. MLCE when she married and when she died, MCLE in the birth certificates of all her children. Her original name must have been a variant of Catharina/Caatje. In Nov 1816 (Not v Meersch) she names herself Catharin a Eugenia.

She was baptized in a convent in Paris in 1812 and converted to the Roman Catholic religion (info from the marriage supplements).

When she married she was a teacher in Amsterdam at the same school as Petrus van Genabeth. In 1817 Petrus got an appointment in Doornik (Tournay), in 1819 in Brugge. The Belgian revolution forced them back north, first Sluis, then Middelburg, de n Haag, where they arrived in dire circumstance, and finally back to Amsterdam, where Maria started another school.

1) Henricus Petrus Philippus van Genabeth, birth 12 Jun 1817 Amsterdam, died 14 Jun 1817 Amsterdam

2) Eleonore Eugenie van Genabeth, birth 4 Sep 1819 Doornik/Tournay, 30 years old when married 28 Apr 1859, died 20 Jan 1891 Amsterdam
Eleonore E. van Genabeth was born in Doormik (now Belgium) in 1819 and died in Amsterdam in 1891. Lived and worked in Amsterdam, Haarlem, Delfshaven, Den Haag, Harlingen. Pupil of J.W. Pieneman. She was a landscape-painter and a sister of P.A.B . van Genabeth, who was also a painter.

3) Rosalia Catharina van Genabeth, birth 7 Sep 1821 Brugge, died 12 Mar 1845 Amsterdam

4) Euphrosina Celestina Coleta Francisca van Genabeth, birth 20 Mar 1823 Brugge, 21 Mrt 1823 Registration of the birth yesterday of a female child of Pieter van Genabeth, professor at the Athenaeum in Brugge, and Maria Catharina Louisa Eugenia Schabracq, that he gave the forenames Euphrosina Celestina Coleta Francisca., died after 14 Oct 1896
Marriage in den Haag 4 Apr 1860 to Johannes Graauwenhaan. Living in den Haag in 1896 when her son Arnoldus August Petrus van Graauwenhaan married in Rotterdam.

5) Petrus Augustinus Benedictus van Genabeth, birth 15 Oct 1824 Brugge, died 23 Dec 1857 Den Haag
Artist Painter, married Maaijke Francina Koemans in Den Haag 30 Oct 1850. Lived in Amsterdam with her and his sisters Coleta (Euphrosina) and Elisabeth Henrietta. Moved to Haarlem soon after, then to Den Haag.

6) Wilhelmina Anna Helena Francisca van Genabeth, birth 18 Nov 1826 Brugge, died 1 Jan 1911 Zutphen

7) Elisa Henriette van Genabeth, birth 3 Jan 1829 Brugge
Married 9 Jan 1858 in Londen to Andries Beetz, artist, a few of their children later married in Paris.

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