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Grabowsky - Delvaux Marriage details required

LouiseLane630  (View posts) Posted: 5 Apr 2005 12:08AM GMT
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Surnames: LOUISE GRABOWSKY AND JULES DELVAUX
Has anybody information regarding my Grandmother Louise Lilly Mary Grabowsky (born in Helensbro, Scotland on 14 May 1891 and her spouse Jules Leopold Marie Ghyslain Delvaux a Belgian musician/Professor of Music born in Leuze, Belgium.

Her father was Ernest Grabowsky and her mother Anna Louise Hoyes and his father was Emile Laibert Delvaux
and his mother Vietsrine Frimn.

According to a 'war diary' she wrote during the war in 1914, they left Namur, Belgium escaping the Germans via Holland and caught a ship to Great Britain with great difficulty.

They were married between 1916 - 1919 (perhaps at an irregular border, civil marriage) Was it Scotland, Canada Britain, Holland, Russia, Poland, Australia, America etc ? It could be anywhere as she travelled continously, knew many languages and used to be an interpreter, and was a nurse during the war.

They had a son Ivan Jules Ghuyslain born in Paddington, London on 30 October 1920.

They then went by ship to the Cape of Good Hope (Cape Town) in South Africa. My father was born in Durban on 17 April 1925.

Both Louise and Jules died in Durban South Africa and were buried in a joint grave at Stellawood Cemetary in Durban.
Louise died on 21March 1942 and Jules died on 4 May 1962.

Really hope that I will find their marriage certificate!!.

Louise

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