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Persoonlijke gegevens Constantine Antoine DeBeelen 

• Hij is geboren op 9 juni 1770 in Brussels, Bruxelles, Belgium.
• Hij is overleden op 18 december 1850 in Pittsburgh, Alleghney, Pennsylvania, hij was toen 80 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Baron Frederic Eugene Francois DeBeelen Bertholff en Baroness Jeanne Marie Theresa de Castro y Toledo

Gezin van Constantine Antoine DeBeelen

(1) Hij is getrouwd met Elizabeth Antoinette Murphy.

Zij zijn getrouwd

Kind(eren):

1. Elizabeth Antoinette de Beelen  1818-1871 
2. ??  
3. Mary DeBeelen  1815-????

(2) Hij is getrouwd met Aiken.

Zij zijn getrouwd

Kind(eren):

1. Anna Maria DeBeelen  ± 1829-????
2. Caroline DeBeelen  ± 1831-????
3. Adeline DeBeelen  ± 1833-????
4. Frederick A. DeBeelen  1827-????
5. Eliza DeBeelen  1816-????

Notities over Constantine Antoine DeBeelen

Notes




Found on Ancestry.com...references from the Library of Congress...50,000
Bibliographic Sources results for Constantine Antine De Bertholff

DeBeelen...

I gratefully note it here this day...
9/23/09

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Title; History of the Gazzam family together with a biographical sketch of the
family of DeBeelen/

Author(s): Mackenzie, A. DeB. (Antoine DeBeelen) b. 1862. (Main)
Published: Reading, PA: Printed for private circulation by C.F. Haage, 1894.
Description: 76 p. (14) leaves of plates; col. coat of arms, ports,; 26 cm.
Notes: Color illustrated material preserved in MicRR.  Call number of original;
CS71.G291 1894.

Master microform held by: DLC, Microfilm, Washington, D.C.: Library of
Congress Photoduplication Service, 1985. 1 microfilm reel; 35 mm.

LC Call No: Microfilm84/79029(C)

Format: Book (Microfilm)

LCCN: 84-244583//

Note:  Apparently Constantine De Beelen also went by other names...aka...
  Anthony Beelen.  See note below:


"Pittsburgh - A Sketch of its Early Social Life" - by Charles W. Dahlinger,
G.P. Putnam & Sons, New York and London, the Knickerbocker Press,

copyright 1916..."


Begin on page 152...


Anthony Beelen, Major Denny's partner, was a native of the Austrian
Netherlands, now Belgium, and was the son of Francis, Baron de Belen Bartholf,
Minister of the King of Austria, Joseph II., to the United States, who, upon the
death of the King in 1790, continued a resident of the United States. 

The Baron seems to have soon discarded his title of nobility, as he was engaged
in business in Pittsburgh at an early date, going by the name of Francis Beelen,
being a partner in the firm of Amberson, Beelen, and Anshutz which was

dissolved in 1794.  Anthony Beelen made the acquaintance of Denny in

Philadelphia, and became associated with him, and in 1794 settled the affairs of
Ashton & Denny. In 1803 he was one of the Pittsburgh assessors.  In later years
he conducted an air furnace and other enterprises.  Beelen afterward lost his
property, but the family fortunes rose again when Mrs. Mary Murphy died.  In her
will she left all her valuable estate, the principal part of which consisted of the
block on Market Street in which "Clapboard Row" was located, to Beelen in trust
for his daughter and granddaughter."...etc...................End of DeBeelen.


Found online, at www.archive.org., and noted gratefully here this day...
9/5/10

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Additional Note:  This same information also found on Google Digital
Books, "History of the Gazzam and DeBeelen Families", A. DeBeelen
Mackenzie, 1894, pages 56-60.

CONSTANTINE ANTOINE DeBEELEN. Constantine Antoine, the only child of (/)
Baron and Baroness deBeelen Bertholff, was born at Brussels, Bel- gium, June 9, 1770.

An ancient document in Latin, on hand-made paper much worn by the tooth of time,
bears the following endorsement in English, in the firm and cultivated hand- writing of
Constantine Antoine deBeelen : —

My Father's Certificate of my Baptism (Mon Baptistaire), taken from the record of the
Cathedral of Ste. Gudule in the City of Bruxelles, in Belgium.

The contents of this paper, translated, are as follows :

On the ninth of June, in the year 1770, was baptized Constantine Antoine, legitimate son
of Sir Frederic Eugene Francois deBeelen Bertholff and Lady Jeanne Marie Theresa de
Castro y Toledo, husband and wife ; born at nine o'clock in the morning, the 9th day of
June, 1770. The sponsors were by name Lady Marie Theresa Constance deBeelen and Sir
Antoine de Castro y Toledo, Toparcka in Zoombeeck, Van- dengver ; and Lady Carolina
and Sir Nicholas deBeelen, husband and wife.*

After the death of his parents {2) Constantine Antoine • deBeelen Bertholff settled in
Pittsburg, where he became well and favorably known as an importing merchant. It is said
that had he so desired he could have returned to the home of his ancestors, reclaiming the
title and estates of his father. But it appears he had become too much im- bued with the
love of American institutions to submit him- self and his fortunes to monarchical rule.

*The certificate of baptism is {1S94) in the possession of Hon. Joseph M. Gazzam, of
Philadelphia, Pa.

While in Pittsburg he discontinued the use of the suffix BertholfF, being commonly
known as Antoine deBeelen.

He married in that city Elizabeth Antoinette Murphy, daughter and only child of Captain
Patrick Murphy, of the Continental Army, around whose parentage there clings a little
romance.

It seems that sometime during the latter half of the 17th century, a poor gentleman
became tutor in the family of an Irish nobleman, the father of a beautiful daughter. The
tutor fell in love with his charge, there was an elopement, a hasty marriage, and —
America.

During the Revolution the tutor became an officer in the Continental Army. After peace
was declared he moved to Pittsburg, in which city his wife died at the time of the birth of
her daughter. It was this daughter who became the wife of Antoine deBeelen.

Upon the death of his wife Captain Murphy sent to Carlisle, Pa., for a young woman
named Molly, who had left Ireland to come to America as maid to Mrs. Murphy, marrying
here and settling at Carlisle, shortly afterward becoming a widow. She consented to take
charge of the infant daughter, and subsequently Captain Murphy married her. From this
union there was no issue, but Mrs. Murphy survived the death of the Captain many years.
He left her comparatively well off and she became projector of many business enterprises,
being interested in the first gas works and one of the first rolling mills ever started in
Pittsburg. Through clear-headed business ability she acquired considerable additional
property, in later years extremely valuable.

Dying childless, this property was bequeathed to the de- scendants of her stepdaughter,
Elizabeth Antoinette. 

Constantine Antoine deBeelen and Elizabeth Antoinette, his wife, left several children. But
two of them married, however : —

Mary;married Dr. William Simpson, of Pittsburg, Pa., and was the mother of the
wife of

the late Benjamin Rush, Esq., of Philadelphia.


Elizabeth Antoinette;born at
Pittsburg, Pa.,in1817; married, March 24,
1835, to Dr. Edward D. Gazzam.* Mrs. E. A.Gazzam was a gentlewoman of fine
education, of polished and easy manners, hospitable disposition, good and truly

charitable nature, and ever ambitious to relieve
the wants of her suffering fellow-
beings-a liberal Christian in the broadest sense of the word. She lived a life of

influence, and in her death, which occurred suddenly on the 25th of July, 1871,
at Pittsburg, all who knew her recognized the transition of an immortal soul from
earth to a happy and eternal heaven.


Constantine Antoine deßeelen survived his first wife, and subsequently

married a Miss Aiken. Of this marriage there was issue five children :


(5) Eliza; born March 24, 1816.
(6) Frederick A.; born April 12, 1827; married and lived inBrazil for a number of years.
(y) Anna Maria;married to General James A. Oakes,

U. S. A.,inNovember, 1854.
(8) Caroline;married to George S. Lovett, of Philadelphia, inOctober, 1850.
(p) Adeline; married to Colonel W. Milnor Roberts, a celebrated civil engineer, who for many

years was in the service of Dom Pedro, the late Emperor of Brazil.

Additional Information:




Found on-line at Google, Digital Library..."History of the Gazzam-DeBeelen"
Family.  I note it gratefully here this day...

10-20-09

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CONSTANTINE ANTOINE DeBEELEN. (b. 1770) Constantine Antoine, the only child
of Baron and Baroness deBeelen Bertholff, was born at Brussels, Belgium, June 9, 1770.

An ancient document in Latin, on hand-made paper much worn by the tooth of time,
bears the following endorsement in English, in the firm and cultivated handwriting of
Constantine Antoine deBeelen : —

" My Father's Certificate of my Baptism (Mon Baptistaire), taken from the record of the
Cathedral of Ste. Gudule in the City of Bruxelles, in Belgium."

The contents of this paper, translated, are as follows :

"On the ninth of June, in the year 1770, was baptized Constantine Antoine, legitimate son
of Sir Frederic Eugene Francois deBeelen Bertholff and Lady Jeanne Marie Theresa de
Castro y Toledo, husband and wife ; born at nine o'clock in the morning, the 9th day of
June, 1770. The sponsors were by name Lady Marie Theresa Constance deBeelen and Sir
Antoine de Castro y Toledo, Toparcka in Zoombeeck, Vandengver ; and Lady Carolina
and Sir Nicholas deBeelen, husband and wife.*"

After the death of his parents Constantine Antoine deBeelen Bertholff settled in Pittsburg,
where he became well and favorably known as an importing merchant. It is said that had
he so desired he could have returned to the home of his ancestors, reclaiming the title and
estates of his father. But it appears he had become too much im- bued with the love of
American institutions to submit himself and his fortunes to monarchical rule.

*The certificate of baptism is {1894) in the possession of Hon. Joseph M. Gazzam, of
Philadelphia, Pa.

While in Pittsburg he discontinued the use of the suffix BertholfF, being commonly
known as Antoine deBeelen.

He married in that city Elizabeth Antoinette Murphy, daughter and only child of Captain
Patrick Murphy, of the Continental Army, around whose parentage there clings a little
romance.

It seems that sometime during the latter half of the 17th century, a poor gentleman became
tutor in the family of an Irish nobleman, the father of a beautiful daughter. The tutor fell in
love with his charge, there was an elopement, a hasty marriage, and — America.

During the Revolution the tutor became an officer in the Continental Army. After peace
was declared he moved to Pittsburg, in which city his wife died at the time of the birth of
her daughter. It was this daughter who became the wife of Antoine deBeelen.

Upon the death of his wife Captain Murphy sent to Carlisle, Pa., for a young woman
named Molly, who had left Ireland to come to America as maid to Mrs. Murphy, marrying
here and settling at Carlisle, shortly afterward becoming a widow. She consented to take
charge of the infant daughter, and subsequently Captain Murphy married her. From this
union there was no issue, but Mrs. Murphy survived the death of the Captain many years.
He left her comparatively well off and she became projector of many business enterprises,
being interested in the first gas works and one of the first rolling mills ever started in
Pittsburg. Through clear-headed business ability she acquired considerable additional
property, in later years extremely valuable.

Dying childless, this property was bequeathed to the descendants of her stepdaughter,
Elizabeth Antoinette. Constantine Antoine deBeelen and Elizabeth Antoinette, his wife,
left several children. But two of them married, however : —

Mary ; married Dr. William Simpson, of Pittsburg, Pa., and was the mother of the wife of
the late Benjamin Rush, Esq., of Philadelphia.

Elizabeth Antoinette ; born at Pittsburg, Pa. , in 1 8 1 7 ; married, March 24, 1835, to Dr.
Edward D. Gazzam.* Mrs. E. A. Gazzam was a gentlewoman of fine education, of
polished and easy manners, hospitable disposition, good and truly charitable nature, and
ever ambitious to relieve the wants of her suffering fellow-beings — a liberal Christian in
the broadest sense of the word. She lived a life of influence, and in her death, which
occurred suddenly on the 25th of July, 1871, at Pittsburg, all who knew her recognized
the transition of an immortal soul from earth to a happy and eternal heaven.

Constantine Antoine deBeelen survived his first wife, and subsequently married a Miss
Aiken. Of this marriage there was issue five children : — Eliza; born March 24, 18 16.
Frederick A.; born April 12, 1827; married and lived in Brazil for a number of years. Anna
Maria ; married to General James A. Oakes, U. S. A., in November, 1854. Caroline ;
married to George S. Lovett, of Philadelphia, in October, 1850. Adeline; married to
Colonel W. Milnor Roberts, a celebrated civil engineer, who for many years was in the
service of Dom Pedro, the late Emperor of Brazil. 



Found On-line 5/10/10, under scarlet.be/gallez.nic/Biographies/Beelen-Bertholf. Noted
gratefully here this day...

Constantin-Antoine de BEELEN-BERTHOLFF : fils du Baron Frédéric Eugène François
de BEELEN-BERTHOLFF.

Le père (né à Bruxelles le 29 juin 1729) fut chargé d'une mission commerciale aux Etats-
Unis en 1783 par le gouvernement des Pays-Bas Autrichiens. Il fut nommé conseiller au
commerce et envoyé à Philadelphie pour y préparer les conclusions d'un traité et
développer les relations d'affaires entre les Etats-Unis et l'empire Autrichien. Quand sa
mission fut supprimée en 1790, il resta aux EtatsUnis où il y mourut et ses deux fils
François-Eugène et Constantin-Antoine devinrent citoyens américains.

Constantin-Antoine, dit Anthony, s'installa à Pittsburgh au début du 19eme siècle et, grâce
à sa richesse, son éducation et son courage, il atteignit bientôt une notoriété enviable. Il
reçut Louis-Philippe lors de son séjour à Pittsburgh, à la fin du 18eme siècle, ainsi que
Lafayette lors de son voyage en 1825. Il aida d'abord valablement tout se qui se faisait en
faveur de la religion mais devint franc-maçon et se maria hors religion. Il mourut sans
s'être réconcilié avec elle.

Source : A. De Smet : Voyageurs Belges aux Etats-Unis du XVIIe siècle à 1900

Anthony Beelen, Major Denny's partner, was a native of the Austrian Netherlands, now
Belgium, and was the son of Francis, Baron de Belen Bartholf, Minister of the King of
Austria, Joseph II., to the United States, who, upon the death of the King in 1790,
continued a resident of the United States. The Baron seems to have soon discarded his
title of nobility, as he was engaged in business in Pittsburgh at an early date, going by the
name of Francis Beelen, being a partner in the firm of Amberson, Beelen, & Anshutz
which was dissolved in 1794.IS Anthony Beelen made the acquaintance of Denny in
Philadelphia, and became associated with him, and in 1794 settled the affairs of Ashton &
Denny. In 1803 he was one of the Pittsburgh assessors. In later years he conducted an air
furnace and other enterprises. Beelen afterward lost his property, but the family fortunes
rose again when Mrs. Mary Murphy died. In her will she left all her valuable estate, the
principal part of which consisted of the block on Market Street in which "Clapboard Row"
was located, to Beelen in trust for his daughter and granddaughter

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