BELGIUM-ROOTS Project Sciences Folklore and the study of daily life Peddlers

Peddlers

• Description

  Dutch = leurder, straathandelaar, marskramer

  French = forains, marchands ambulant, ...

• Bibliography

  • De marskramer (Dutch, 1993)

• Families with peddlers

  • The Debruyne family in Klerken-Houthulst and the surrounding area
    "This group of marginal people expanded and the brush and broom business boomed as production was being sold during summertime allover Flanders. In doing this the "boskanters" only tried to make a similar way of living as many other peddlers in the country, as for example the well-known Nieuwmarkters from nearby Roeselare (first selling fish; later switching to baskets and ordinary houseware). Much of the Debruyne's participated in this. "

• Places with peddler families

  • Leurders in Houthulst (Dutch)
  • Mussel peddlers in Mechelen (English)
  • USA: Berea's Deliverymen & Peddlers Remembered

• Language

  • Bargoensch (in Dutch)

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