One of the youngest Baltus son and heir, from my grandfather's branch, is Michael. He is our youngest son, 2 minutes younger then our second son.

Our tree goes back to 1500 and starts with Baltus van Hellesdorp, who was born in Aubel. He lived in Hellestrop. On the Satelitephoto you see the actual situation. The picture is from Google Maps.

This map show the area where my ancestors lived in the 17th and 18th century. The whole map you can find here.

Aubel(B) lies about 15 km south-east from Vaals, the place where my grandfather was born. On the map you see some places where my ancestors came from. I took the map from Locatienet. Some of the early information I got from Samuel Defauwes, which you can find in another branch of the Baltus-family.

One of the oldest mariage entries of Baltus in the churchbook of Vaals is the one between Clemens Baltus and Gertrudis Lousberg on September 4, 1764. According this document and the death certificate Clemens Baltus came from Hombourg, but according my information he was born in Montzen. So I have still to do some work! Also it is not certain who the parents are from Gertrude Lousberg. According the death certificate they were Johannes Lousberg and Anna Johanna Peters or Pieters. But when you look to the birth date, there was no child born in 1738 with these parents, but there was born a Gertrude Lousberg with Johannes Lousberg and Johanna Vanduren (van Duren) as parents.

I found also a message about a maid which died when she fall from a cherrytree. It was dated August 26, 1816! Furthermore I saw a rent contract which was made for Thomas Baltus and his wife Maria Theresia Göbgens (Jöpis) in 1822. This contract was made under assignment of King Willem with his seal is on the paper.

On this picture you see the wife of Johan Hubert Baltus, namely Anna Maria Gielens. Johan Hubert was born on November 20, 1842 at eight o'clock in the morning. He married on April 24, 1872 in Vaals Anna Maria Gielens. Anna Maria Gielens is the mother of my grandfathers dad, Johan Clemens Baltus, born on January 29, 1873 at Vaals.
Anna Maria was born on November 13, 1847 at 4 o'clock in the afternoon in het parrents house at Raren, Vaals. Johan Hubert passed away on July 15, 1912 at nine o'clock in the morning at an age of 69 years. Anna Maria died on June 17, 1935 at 5 o'clock in the morning at an age of 87 years.

This photo is from my grandfathers dad, Johan Clemens Baltus, born on January 29, 1873 in Vaals. When my grandfather was born his occupation was sheetweaver. He married on May 21, 1896 in Vaals Anna Maria Agnes Adang, she was born on August 24, 1872 in Vaals. They had 10 childrein, three of them died early in life. Anna Maria Agnes Adang died on June 13, 1935 in Vaals. Johan Clemens died on January 17, 1957 in Heerlen.

The small cottages were situated in the Bloemendalstraat 8 upto 14. The cottages were build between 1765 and 1795 by Von Clermont. They were pulled down around 1960. The picture was made around 1947. On number 12, the third cottage, was the birthplace of my granddad, Hubert Christiaan Baltus. According a list of 1903, the inhabitant was Leonard Baltus. Unfortunately I didn't find any information about him.

My grandfather, Hubert Christiaan Baltus was born on December 8, 1900. He moved to Heerlen, where we married my grandmother Maria Hubertina Moonen on July 22, 1927. She was born on July 20, 1901 at Heerlen, together with here twinsister, who died 3 months later. Grandfather and gandmother had 9 kids, 4 girls and 5 boys. Grandfather worked in the coal mine in a laboratory. Grandfather died on September 18, 1967 at the age of 66. Grandma reached the age of 89 years and died on July 30, 1990 at Heerlen.

My dad was born in 1934 in Heerlen. He married my mother in 1957. They have two kids, me and my sister. My dad worked first in a garage, then in a colemine. In 1967 he started his carreer at a car company called DAF. He is now retired and has a lot of hobbies.

I'm the oldest son of heir when you look to the kids with the surname Baltus of my grandfathers descendants. I married in 1988 and my first son was born in 1996. Sixteen months later followed by Maurice and Michael, who is the youngest male descendant of my grandfather.

On the picture you see Jan Mathijs Moonen. The picture is made between 1900 and 1907. He is the father of my grandmother, Maria Hubertina Moonen. According the birthcertificate he was born on 21-8-1877 in "de Lingen" in Heerlen. According a familyrecord was his occupation between 1900 and 1909 "machinist", probably he worked for a newspaper.

On a family-record between 1910 - 1940 his occupation was mineworker, on the ON I. He worked above the ground. He got also a silver medal, Orde van Oranje Nassau, for his work on the mine.

On this picture you see Maria Theresia Donners, the wife of Jan Mathijs Moonen. She was born on 5-7-1875 in Heerlen. Between September 1901 and April 1902 they lived at Heer, nearby Maastricht. At this place also the twin-sister of my grandmother died.