Birth certificates of de LALIEUX de la ROCQ
Pious pictures by de LALIEUX de la ROCQ
Mortuary of the burgomaster of LALIEUX de la ROCQ in the Nivelles town hall
Ouchy place of death of LALIEUX de la ROCQ
Born in Nivelles on 25/11/1862 and died in Ouchy-Lausanne, Switzerland on 07/09/1918, aged 55. Son of René Adolphe de LALIEUX born on 1er November 1822 in Feluy, Seneffe died on 23/03/ 1905 in Nivelles and de le HOYE Julie Marie Jeanne born 11/10/1822 at Nivelles and died 20/02/1865 at Nivelles from this union were born four children: de LALIEUX Marie, de LALIEUX Léontine, de LALIEUX Marie, de LALIEUX Emile Marie René. Emile Marie René married 03/06/1890 at Verviers SIMONIS Maria Euphrosine Amande Joséphine born 16/05/1866 in Verviers, died 14/04/1945 in Nivelles.
This union produced 3 children.
Berthe Euphrosine Renée LALIEUX de la ROCQborn in Nivelles on 08/06/1891 and died in Brussels (capital) on 01/04/1980. Buried in Nivelles on 16/04/1980.
Louis de LALIEUX de la ROCQ, Born in Verviers on 16/01/1894, he was mortally wounded on 14/09/1917 at Calais (France) aged just 23.
René de LALIEUX de la ROCQ, born in Nivelles on 16/08/1895 and died on 28/11/1896 in Cologne (Germany).
N.B.
By judgment of the Court of 1era de Nivelles, 1era Chambre enregistré sur expédition rendu le 15 juillet 1912, transcrit sur les registres de l'état civil des naissances de la ville de Nivelles le 29 juillet 1912 sous le numéro 123. The birth certificate has been rectified in that the name LALIEUX will be joined to "de la ROCQ". Nivelles 30th July 1912. The alderman civil registrar P de BRULET. Nivelles, 06 August 1912. The Registrar
Biography :
With a doctorate in law from the Catholic University of Louvain and landed gentry, he was one of the pioneers of Christian democracy in Walloon Brabant.
He devoted his youth to the working class, where he contributed to the improvement of the working class both politically and socially. In 1889, he was president of the Jeune garde catholique and of the Ligue des Capacitaires de Nivelles, which he founded in the Nivelles district. He was particularly in favour of universal suffrage, tempered by plural voting. That same year, Pope Leo XIII encouraged social Catholicism. He set up the Democratic League in the province of Brabant.
He was elected to the Nivelles Municipal Council on 19 October 1890, then alderman on 06 April 1891. Following the introduction of universal plural suffrage, he became deputy for Nivelles in the House of Representatives in 1896, where he served until 1900. In 1908 he replaced J. BRABANT deceased. He was not re-elected in 1910. The following year, following the resignation of G. SNOY he becomes a Member of Parliament again by taking up his seat. His term of office ended during the Great War. In 1905, the King appointed him Mayor of Nivelles (cité des Aclots).
During the First World War, the town of Nivelles was not affected by the massacres of the German invasion, but was subjected to the conditions of occupation imposed by the occupying forces. He became involved in his moral mission. In April 1915, he was arrested for helping to distribute relief supplies to railway workers who refused to work for the occupying forces. He refused to provide a list of the "unemployed" in his town. He was imprisoned for four months in Nivelles and then deported to Germany, where he contracted a long and painful illness. The Germans considered him to be seriously ill and "undesirable". Thanks to the intervention of the Red Cross, he was transferred to Switzerland, where he never returned from exile. His mortal remains were not brought back to Nivelles until Saturday 24 April 1920, the day of the official religious ceremony. His body was then transported to the family vault in Feluy before being transferred to Nivelles, where it remains to this day.
Sources :
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_de_Lalieux_de_La_Rocq
https://connaitrelawallonie.wallonie.be/fr/wallons-marquants/dictionnaire/de-lalieux-de-la-rocq-emile
https://monvieuxnivelles.jimdofree.com/ev%C3%A9nements/les-fun%C3%A9railles-d-emile-de-lalieux/
Iconographic credit :
https://monvieuxnivelles.jimdofree.com/ev%C3%A9nements/les-fun%C3%A9railles-d-emile-de-lalieux/
