Description

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Official site: Site Officiel de la Province de Hainaut (French)

Territorial Subdivisions

This entity has been created as the French departement Jemappes in 1793, suppressed during the Austrian restauration of 1794, recreated 1 October 1975 and transformed in the Dutch province Hainaut (Henegouwen in Dutch) from 24 Augustus 1815 on. The administrative transformation in a Belgian province with the same name was finished in 1836.

It was from 17 Februari 1800 composed of the administrative districts of Mons, Charleroi and Tournai. Those of Ath, Thuin and Soignies have been created in 1818. And the district of Mouscron in 1963.

• List of districts from 1963 on

  The province is composed of the following French speaking districts (Ducth names in parenthesis)

  Ath (Aat)

  Charleroi

  Mons (Bergen)

  Mouscron (Moeskroen)

  Soignies (Zinnik)

  Thuin

  Tournai (Doornik)

  The population did grow from ca 413.873 inhabitants in 1797 to 1.318.015 in 1978

Short History with Bibliography

• General

• Contemporary history

  • Belgian Era

    • Charbonages du Hainaut (French), with focus on the 19th century

  • Dutch Era

    See also the history of the "United Kingdom of the Netherlands" (Southern Provinces).

  • French Era

    See also the history of the French "13 Reunited Departements".

• Ancien Régime

  See mainly the history of the County of Hainaut.

• Bibliography

  Province de Hainaut Pratique (French)

Sources

Repositories

• Cemeteries

  Cemeteries of Hainaut, Belgium - Cemetery Records - Genealogy (1 record for 1 cemetery)

• Internet

• MSN

• Belgian Glassworkers

Societies

• Genealogical

  • Association Généalogique du Hainaut Belge (AGHB)

    Section "Commission Histoire des Familles de CHARLEROI" (AGHB - Section CHFC)

    Section "Mons - Borinage - Centre" (AGHB - Section MBC)

    Section "Hainaut Occidental" (AGHB - Section HTO)

• Internet

  • Yahoo! Group Hainaut) (Belgium)
  • Yahoo! Group HainautGenealogy (Belgium & France)
  • Hainut-Louisiana
  (Hainaut -> Louisiana, USA)

Migration / Emigration / Immigration

• Glassworkers

  MSN group: Belgian Glassworkers

  This site is for descendents of Belgian glassworkers who came to the US from Charleroi and the Hainaut area, Belgium.

• Hainaut-Louisiana

  Site: Hainaut-Louisiana

  In 1720, over 100 colonists, many with their families, left Hainaut and migrated to Louisiana, where they became among the first families of Louisiana. These families have been linked to the Mayflower of Louisiana, according to Lambremont descendant Jack Pastorek, as they were among the very first permanent working families to stay in Louisiana.

  Site: DeCuir family - Hainaut to Louisiana

  The DeCuir family of the United States is descended from our common ancestor, Albert deCuire (1673-1750), native of Macon , Hainaut (now Belgium), who migrated as one of the earliest colonists to Louisiana in 1720.

Families and Family Histories

Sciences

• Cartography

• Popp

• Plans Popp pour la Province de Hainaut (French) List of land owners on the municipal level around 1860

This web site is the collective work of the subscribers to the mail list BELGIUM-ROOTS-L founded June 1998 by Georges Picavet (see our members page and the copyrights page for more info) Q:\webbeta\rw_belgiumroots\bel\5hai\index.html (br_bel_wht) This Global file was last updated 18/01/2007 23:49:02 CET and uploaded Thursday, 18-Jan-2007 16:11:24 MST