Appendix 4
Notes on the Genealogy
of the Later Moretuses
Up to and including Joannes Jacobus Moretus it was only the masters of the Gulden Passer who continued the Moretus family in the male line - see the genealogy in Appendix 3.
Two of the four sons of Joannes Jacobus Moretus married. The descendants of the eldest son, Franciscus Joannes, master of the Gulden Passer (1757-68) are also listed in Appendix 3. This branch failed in the male line with the death of Alexis, Edward Moretus's unmarried son, in 1914.
There are still descendants in the male line of Joannes Jacobus's fourth son, Paulus Jacobus (1721-76): from this branch descend the various members of the family who still bear the name Moretus or Moretus-Plantin. Concerning these the reader should consult the genealogical table in Roger Moretus-Plantin de Bouchout's Demeures familiales. Notices historiques sur la Maison Plantin à Anvers et quelques propriétés urbaines et rurales ayant appartenu à la famille Moretus, 1950.
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