Ancestors Cardoen
Family tree 5 generations.
Leopoldina Peckel, my grandmother, was an only child. Her mother was Maria Gilebert and she had a sister Albertine Gilbert. Her father was Robert Peckel and he worked for the railroad. He was an adjuster and looked for the cause of defective machines. Very intelligent man apparently. The Peckels had lived in Ypres since the 13th century.
Leopoldina was first married to Henri Dauchy and they had one son, Johnny Dauchy. Henri Dauchy was a political prisoner and died in a concentration camp in Germany. From the following link I deduce that Henri Dauchy was in the resistance or something.
Henri Dauchy
- Clerk at the post office
- Also a member of the resistance movement A.S.B.
- Born in Rouen on September 30, 1919
- Arrested in Oost Vleteren on November 18, 1943
- Deported to Germany on May 21, 1944
- Sent via Buchenwald to Ellrich's murderous tunnel command where he succumbed to torture and hardship on January 4, 1945
https://second.wiki/wiki/kz-auc39fenlager_ellrich-juliushc3bctte
What that man experienced must have been terrible. Here is a poem and drawing I found about what happened in Ellrich.
Le pire
Le pire, c'est la faim,
Avoir faim, attendre la coulée chaude.
Le pire, c'est le froid,
Le froid quand on a faim,
Le froid des affamés qui tendent l'écuelle
Attendant all the time, not even the attendants.
Le pire, c'est les coups,
Les coups dans les reins.
C'est aux reins que les genoux s'articulent.
Douleur des coups, des corps sans genoux,
Douleur aux reins après deux heures d'appel,
Coups au réveil.
Le pire c'est savoir
Qu'on ne sait pas quand ça finira,
Au matin de la libération
Où chaque soir du désespoir.
Le pire, c'est le voisin
Qui tend sa face.
Et sous nos yeux s'entrechoquent les dents.
Le pire, c'est qu'on marche à reculons
Dans des souliers pour
Géants,
Et que la nature nous coupe l'appétit.
Et nous faisons des pas petits petits
Comme des enfants
Revant d'espaces
Plus grands
Le pire, c'est le pajama rayé
Pour affronter la nuit polare,
And all the same, the cette is cool
Peut garder des seaux d'eau
Printaniere
Le pire, c'est d'être ici.
Le pire, c'est d'y penser.
Le pire, c'est d'écouter
Le temps qui ne s'écoule pas.
The truck for the delivery of the Ellrich command is the first charge for the crématoire,
Léon Delarbre - March 1945
Henri Dauchy his father was called Jean Dauchy (or Jan). He had a café in Ypres, café de Arend. There is another son, Alain Dauchy, who probably lives somewhere in Kortrijk. Jean Dauchy comes from Rouen. So French.
Leopoldine remarried in 1948 to Cyrille, my grandfather Cardoen. Leopoldine and Cyrille had five children: Dany, Patrick, Gregory, Dorothy and Doris.
Cyrille's parents were Charles Cardoen (Karel) and Ludovica Hoorelbeke. Charles and Ludovica had six children: Robert, Raymond, Roger, Elisabeth, Lydie and Cyrille. Elisabeth was my godmother.
Charles Cardoen was a brickmaker. Very good man. Is buried in Ypres in a family grave together with his wife Ludovica. Aunt Lydie has always taken care of her mother.
When WWI started, Charles and Ludovica fled to France. They already had three sons, Robert, Raymond and Roger. They were taken care of in a farm in France. They were happy with the extra hands to work in the fields. The people of the farm were sad when they returned to Ypres. Elisabeth was born in 1918 and Lydie in 1919. When Lydie was 1 year old they returned to Ypres. After their return from France, they first lived in a primitive hangar. They then moved to Lindedreef. The houses in Lindedreef were built by a wealthy lady who wanted to help large families or war victims. When that lady died in the 1950s, Lydie was able to buy the house. Roger Cardoen and Elisabeth Hoorelbeke (no relation to Ludovica) lost two children to a grenade during WWII. One child, Annie, survived. The two deceased children were called Lily and Willy and were later buried in the grave with their parents. The mother, Elisabeth, saw it happen. It was at the end of WWII during the liberation of Ypres. A retreating German soldier threw a grenade at Elisabeth's children out of frustration. Lily was born on October 14, 1933, Wily on January 18, 1939. And both died on September 6, 1944. Annie died last year, on August 11, 2021. Annie has one son, Rony Lemaire who lives in Ypres. And Ronny Lemaire has one daughter.
Raymond went to live in Mons where he worked in a coal mine. So there must also be Cardoens in Wallonia because there were many children in that family.
Charles and Ludovica had also adopted one child, Marcel van 't Wieltje. He lived with the family. Probably a lot of orphans after the war.
Grave Roger Cardoen, Elisbath Hoorelbeke, Lily Cardoen and Willy Cardoen.
At the bottom it also says Lilly and Willy, but it is very difficult to read.
Robert Cardoen had a son René who had a café in Menen. He died of cancer and was buried in Menen. He had one daughter. René was a very handsome man (see photo). Robert Cardoen was married and divorced to a Vandamme, from the café de Concordia, next to the fish market in Ypres. Not far from the Vagant.
Grandmother Louise Hoorelbeke (Ludovica) had a brother who lived on the Torrepoort, not far from the Lindedreef.
Johnny Dauchy, Dany Cardoen, Patrick Cardoen, Gregory Cardoen, Dorothy Cardoen and Doris Cardoen.
Grandpa Cyrille Cardoen
Aunt Lydie and Grandpa Cyrille (brother and sister)
René Cardoen (son of Robert Cardoen) with Bernice and bridesmaids
Dany and Patrick Cardoen
Cloth Hall Ypres after the war 1919
Cyrille Cardoen worked most of his life in the mines in Wallonia. First in a mine not far from Marcinelles. Then in Limburg where he stayed in a kind of host family. An absent father according to Doris. Cyrille also knew a boxer named Abert Ossieur (something like that). His wife's name was Marie. But Cyrille always wrapped that friend's hands in boxing. That friendship apparently lasted 70 years. Cyrille boxed before he was a Jehovah's Witness. Once a witness, he was no longer allowed to do so. Cyrille died on January 25 at 10:25 PM surrounded by Doris and her children.
From Doris Cardoen:
The Spanish flu broke out in 1919. More people died then than in WWI. Partly because there were no painkillers yet.
Silver bell from Leoplodina Peckel. Oh my...
Leopoldine died on February 25, 2010 in a retirement home in Alveringem.
From top left to top right: Trui Victoor, Dorothy Cardoen, Cyrille Cardoen, Doris Cardoen. From bottom left to bottom right: Lieven Cardoen, Dany Cardoen, Gerti (wife Patrick), Patrick Cardoen
Johnny Dauchy and his wife.
Leopoldina Peckel
Roger Cardoen, Elisabeth (wife of Roger)
Henri Dauchy
Leoplodina Peckel and Henri Dauchy
Johnny Dauchy and ?
Lydie Cardoen, Cyrille Cardoen, Louise Hoorelbeke, Betty Cardoen and Dany Cardoen
Gregory Cardoen