By Alan Lowe
I am searching for relatives of Henri Joseph Borghys and Frans Buyssens.
To date, the search for family members still alive has been fruitless though I have found several family members of Henri Joseph Borghys. They are:- His sister, Maria Joanna Borghys who died in Ostend in 1975. She had been the wife of a Franciscus DeGroote. His brother, Emilius Aplphonsus Borghys who died in Knokke in 1981. He was a writer and had three children, one, a daughter Huguette Borghys is buried in Knokke. (179, Kalvekeetdijk, Knokke-Heist, Belgium.) Huguette was married to a Paul Stepman, now sadly deceased.
I have been unable to trace any relatives of Frans Buyssens as I am not sure where in Belgium he came from originally. I live in hope that someone reading this will be able to provide information that might yet lead to family members of the two boys who are still alive.
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