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Storys in Belgium Rise and progress of the cotton trade in England. (extract of : »Partnership en commandite or partnership with limites liabilities for employement of capital The circulation of Wages and the revival of our Home and Colonial Trade » EFFINGHAM WILSON publisher. 11, Royal Exchange London 1848.) The rise and progress of that trade in the country is very curious. There are persons yet living, who recollect its commencement. In 1764, the East India Company Petioned Parlement for permission to export Foreign printed cottons in their African trade, those that they procured from India being too fine. The year following that, permission having been given, a Dutchman, names Voortman, came over from Holland to print calicoes; but not being allowed to print India cottons for consumption in England, he returned to Wezep (or Weesp), in his native land. One of his Dutch workmen married a woman named STORY from Carlisle, whose father (Richard) died about 1766. Her two brothers, of tender age, were left orphans, and she took charge of them, procuring them employment at Wezep, whither she had removed. Both these became calico-printers. About the year 1788, Benjamin Story, the elder, was invited by Emperor Joseph II, to go into Belgium (then a province of Austria) with his master Mr. Clement, to print cottons. He went, and died in Brussels in 1833, proprietor of most extensive print-works, opposite the palace of Laeken near that city. Lineage of Richard Story Richard Story = Susannah : A girl (married with a Dutchman in Weesp) Benjamin Story (Deptford 1760 - Brussels 1833) + Regina Elisabeth Mollé (Amsterdam 1764- Ghent 1825) Matthew Story (Deptford 1761 - ?) + Catharina Baets In fact, four « Story » are to be traced from 1780 in the parish registers in Ghent. Benjamin Story from Deptford. Anglia Matthew Story from Deptford. Anglia Richard Story from Greenitz. Anglia (I suppose Greenwich) Edmond Story from Iref…near Londinum. Anglia. Benjamin Story (1760-1833) X Regina-Elisabeth Mollé 1782 Matthew Story (1761- 1782) X Catharina Baets (ou de Baets) Gand 24-10-1782 Richard Story X Susannah Fisher Richard(us) Story X Petronilla Beniest Gand may 1787 Edmond Story X ? Benjamin and Matthew must have been related with Richard and Edmond as we find signatures of Benjamin and Matthew for the baptism of the children’s of Richard and Edmond. But how ? Richard probably married twice, ones in England and the second time in Ghent(Gand, Gent) Lineage of Benjamin Franciscus JoannesStory and Régina Elisabeth Mollé : Victoria Elisabeth Story (22-9-1783-….) x Charles Louis Paquet Gertrude-Andréa Story (oct. 1784) Jean Nicolas Story (2-8-1787) Abraham Henri Story(1789-1858) x Marie Pauline Callebaut Edouard (7-2-1791 Benjamin Jean Liévin Story(19-11-1792-5-6-1854) x (1813)Pauline Van Waes Charles François Story(18-5-1794-1873) x (1819)Jeanne Nuytens 8. Franciscus Joseph Story(+1827ou1833) x Anne-Marie Verdrenghe Lineage of Matthew Story and Catharina Baets or de Baets : Henrica Catharina(28-1-1783) Nicolaus (mai 1784) died at 5 weeks 12-6-1784 Joseph (13-1-1789) Petrus Mathias (3-6-1792) Isabella Josepha (23-11-1795) Lineage of Richard Story et Susanna Fisher (converted to the catholic church) Suzannah Francisca ( 2-11-1780) Matthias (21-10-1782) 1  2