Belgium’s history is quite complicated. Belgium was not a country but a tug of war of territories, counties and states between regimes, monarchies, noblemen,, duchies, and other countries. Eventually, the country was taking shape, by the creations of two regions; Flanders with Dutch dialect called Flemish, and the French-speaking Wallonia. The regions were divided into Provinces. The censuses I’ve listed here are of the Wallonia region or what we Americans know as the “French Part”. These include the Provinces of Luxembourg, Namur, Hainaut, Brabant-Wallon and Liege (not yet vailable).
For the 1766 census, provinces of Namur and Luxembourg have each recorded village directly linked to the village’s corresponding census image, provided by FamilySearch.org. The 1693 & 1709 census of Province of Walloon-Brabant villages are also linked to respective images. The remaining censuses of Hainaut (1770-1910), and Namur (1709-1900) their towns linked to the corresponding census page.
Genealogical information you could find:
- Names of Married Couples (sf)
- Names: Surname and First name
- Names of Wives
- Name of Children
- Sex of Children
- Names of Family Members
- Names of Servants
- Town of where person is from
- Town where they live at presently
- town where they went to/date of departure
- town of birth
- date of birth or age
- profession
- marital status
- date of death
So far, we have villages in these provinces:
Census of Luxembourg – 1766
Census of Namur – 1766
Census of Namur 1709-1900
Census of Hainaut 1770-1910
Census of Wallon-Brabant 1693 & 1709
- Introduction to the 1766 census Province of Luxembourg
- Introduction to the censuses Province of Namur & Hainaut
- Navigate the Census of Hainaut & Namur
- a step by step navigational instruction using images from FamilySearch.org