The lock keeper's son became a brewer in Sluis. An invented newspaper reports that his homemade lemonade won a prize in 1927, when he was ten. He took over the brewery in 1935 and married Maria Ipsenbeke in 1946.
Henri Van Aliquam
son of Lodewijk Van Aliquam and Emma De Loremans
1916–1978
- Born
- 5 October 1916 in Schoten
- Died
- 29 March 1978 in Sluis
- Married
- Maria Ipsenbeke, 12 September 1946 in Sluis
- Occupation
- brouwer
- Places lived
- Schoten (1916-1935); Sluis (1935-1978)
In the newspapers
- 13 August 1927
Ten-year-old Henri Van Aliquam, son of the Schoten lock keeper, took first place at the Sluis fair with homemade lemonade from the Verdolor brewery. The jury called the drink "old-fashioned in taste and masterly in preparation".
Sluisse Courant (fictief) - 5 July 1936
Cycling race at the Middelburg fair: an "H. Van Aliquam, brewery hand from Sluis" finished third. Probably the same Henri Van Aliquam whose lemonade won in 1927, but that is not proven. (probably this person, not proven)
Middelburgsche Courant (fictief)
Family
Married Maria Ipsenbeke
Ancestors
Sources
- Civil registers of Schoten (fictional), geboorteakte 1916, nr. 88
- Civil registers of Sluis (fictional), overlijdensakte 1978, nr. 12
- Van Aliquam family book, 1972 edition with later additions (fictional), pp. 21, 22
Checked against original records
- Death record · 29 March 1978, Sluis · Demo Archive Sluis (fictional)