Re: BAILEY SIBILINGS FROM BELGIUM: Frank,Joseph,Guy,Henry,Josephine,Julia...
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BAILEY SIBILINGS FROM BELGIUM: Frank,Joseph,Guy,Henry,Josephine,Julia...
APRIL NOZICKA 7/22/07
My great grandfather Leopold Willard and his brother Desire Willard came from Marbais, Belgium. Leopold wound up in Chicago and Desire in Wisconsin.Leopold married a Susy Bailey, also born in Belgium, her name may have been Ursula. I've never run across any Baileys before but Susy was said to have had several brothers in Green Bay.She must have come over with Leopold.The original name was usually spelled Willart.I know nothing else about Susy my great-grandmother but she and Leopold had ten children all of whom lived to reasonably old age and included my grandfather Joseph Julian Willard.Susy's other children were Elizabeth, Francis (not the famous Francis strangely enough, who was from the English Willard family), Christ,
Henry a fireman, Paul a policeman, Alice, Florence, Rosalie, and Edward. Don