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Our family history is a Belgian epic, which, to me, means \u00aba journey through the Kingdom of Belgium\u00bb from north to south, stopping off in Brussels, its capital. The Rousseaus are a family of nail-makers, coal-miners and glassmakers, but there are also tobacconists, goldsmiths, trimmings makers and lace-makers\u2026 It was in 1909 that Jules Rousseau, whilst doing his military service, came to settle in Etterbeek, a suburb of Brussels, and made his home there in 1912 with his wife Marie Jacobs, with whom he had three children: Marcel, Oscar and Ren\u00e9. \u00abLa Chasse\u00bb, a local place-name, a reminder of days gone by when the Sonian Forest stretched as far as this spot and where the King would rest in a small pavilion whilst hunting; this is why, a little further along the Chauss\u00e9e de Wavre, there is another local place-name: \u00abChasse royale\u00bb (now the Hankar metro station). Marie Jacobs, my paternal grandmother, filled my childhood with memories and legends \u2026 we are descended from Spaniards who came to the \u2018Netherlands\u00ab by boat. As chance would have it\u2026 a film, *Christopher Columbus*, in which the Queen of Spain sends the Count of Bovadilla to the Americas, and that was the trigger, the spark that set things alight. That is how I came to board his ship \u2013 not to sail to the Americas, but to trace a branch of my family tree and uncover the full story of \u00bbDon Luis de Bobadilla\u2019, a sergeant-major in the army of the Spanish Netherlands from 1648 to 1689. I would like to thank Andr\u00e9 Vroye for the IT support he provided whilst I was compiling this family tree.<\/p>\n
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