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Joseph Reuleaux,("Kunstmeister"*) the son of Joseph and Anne Reuleau, was born on 4 May 1737, married Sophie Helene Baumann on 7 January 1766 in Eschweiler, and died in 1818 in Eschweiler; she died on 25 December 1809 in Liittich (Liège). They were our great-great-great-grandparents. It was this generation that changed the spelling of their surname from Reuleau to Reuleaux; the reason is not recorded, but a correspondent, Suzanne Reuleaux, in Liège suggests that at that time names tended to be flexible. She also believes that the name originated from the small village of Reuleau, a few miles SE of Namur.

The children of Joseph and Sophie were:

Johann Joseph (no dates recorded);

Franz Xaver Joseph (1768-cl810) who married Anna Katharina Graaf(-1836/7); our great-great-grandparents;

Cornelis Peter Hubert, born and died in 1770 in "Bardenberg bei Clachen" [not identified];

Jean Pierre (1772-);

Jean Wilhelm François (1775-1857), married Elisabeth Gorres;

Hermann Joseph (1779-1860), married Catharina Servais;

Anna Sybilla Caroline Therese (1781-);

Maria Auguste Petronella.

*Waterworks engineer or surveyor

JOSEPH AND SOPHIE HELENE REULEAUX