Lemal - Family History & Genealogy Message Board

Re: Wisc Lamal

2003-01-16 22:45:13Z

Just a short intro. My name is Patricia Lamal Mahlik. My father was Alvin Lamal, grandfather was Charles Lamal, Great grandfather was Julius Lamal, and Great Great grandfather was Andre' Lamal. He came to America aboard the shop Pyramid 1 in 1855. If you would like more info., you can contact me at lmahlik@netzero.net. Hope to hear from you. Pat Mahlik

Re: LEMALS

2002-08-20 01:11:43Z

Hi Gary - I'm sorry but I can't help you there. My Lemals were in the States in the late 1800's. My grandmother was Bertha Lemal and her father was Jacques LeMal. I have nothing on him.
Keep looking...
Don

Re: LEMALS

garylemal — 2002-08-19 22:14:21Z

Hi, We are trying to find out about our father's family.
He was called Thomas Keith Florent Lemal and was born December 2, 1945 and died August 14, 1988. He was born in Hebden, Yorkshire, England and his father came over from Belgium in the second world war. He contracted TB whilst on the South coast of England and had to go to an isolation hospital in Hebden, where my grandmother, Iris Bell was a nurse. He died before my father was born.We know very little else about our family and any other information would be gratefully received. Thanks, Gary Lemal.

Wisc Lamal

sue_Delebreau — 2002-02-03 04:47:27Z

Would your Lamal have had a brother Julius Lamal b. 1857. Julius Father was Andrew Lamal. Born in Belgium, Germany

Re: Wisc Lamal

clamal — 2001-11-10 23:48:54Z

I'm afraid there may be needless confusion here.

The Lamal who was born in Overijse, Belgium in 1827, who married Johanna Adams in Belgium in 1855 and who subsequently emigrated to the US, settled in the Green Bay area where he fathered two sons with Johanna, Peter and Julius Lamal, and who finally died of malaria in the Civil War at a Memphis army hospital in 1863, was, according to Belgian birth records, named "Andreas", not "Andrew".

In fact, it would not make sense for a child born in Belgium to be named "Andrew" which is, after all an anglicised variation. The Belgian name would be either "Andreas" (among the Flemish) or Andre' (among the Walloons). The fact that first names among the Belgian Lamals are a melange of Flemish and French styles reflects the fact that the family traces its origins to the Brabant, on the border between the Flemish and French speaking regions of Belgium.

Please let's not compound the confusion by dragging in a completely inappropriate name such as "Andrew"

LEMALS

2001-05-24 15:11:29Z

Hi Barbara...see that you didn't get any responses to your query. What are we going to do to find our ancesters? Did Dick Venino every give you the copy of Bertha's signature from her high school days in Jersey City? Where would we find copies of year books from Jersey City high schools...local library? I can't get thru to you with your old email address. Please let me hear from you...thanks...Don

Francois LEMAL/LAMAL,Belgium to US 1859

2001-01-09 16:13:03Z

I am researching my g-grandfather Francois LEMAL/LAMAL.
He was born in Belgium about 1822.Both of his parents were
also born in Belgium.

He came to America in 1859 to smelt zinc.He was in Bethelhem,Pa.
and then in Illinois.He married an Lousia (surname unknown)
They had 2 sons born in Cook Co.,Ill.Joseph and Francis (Frank).

My grandfather John Max LEMAL was b. in Newark,NJ Nov.1870.By 1880
Francois and Lousia were living in Bayonne,NJ
and he was still working in zinc smelting.

John Lemal married Mary Frances Cadmus in Bayonne,NJ 1898.
They had 4 children,Leonard,Richard,Mildred,Edith.

I have very little information on my Lemal
ancestors other that what I have found in the 1880 census.

Francois Lemal,b.1821/1822 was dead by 1900
and I have been unable to find his dod or
cemetery where he was buried.

Any assistance would be appreciated.