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baptised 20 March 1698 (died before 1771 leaving one daughter), all at the St
Jacobskerk in Antwerp. His parents' marriage had ended in an acrimonious divorce in 1707. Testimony by multiple witnesses during the divorce procedure of 2 July 1708 attested to the awful behaviour of the father Pieter, who mistreated and beat his wife and children calling them 'pigs' and flew into drunken rages during which he destroyed their home.
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Henry
Scheemakers, variously entered in French records as Henri Scheckmackers, Scheekmackers, Shkemacker, and Schektmackers, died on 18 July 1748 on rue Meslé (now Meslay) in Paris, age approximately 65 years old, at 2 am after about two weeks' illness. As Henry's children were underage, their mother
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who was childless. Thomas took on his uncle's workshop in Vine Street when Peter retired to his native town of
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in 1697; Catherine’s brother Simon was a London carver and gilder, as was her nephew George
Michael Hennekin. Henry and Catherine Scheemaker's son Michael, named after her father, and daughter Catherine both died young and were buried at St Margaret's Westminster in 1731 and 1734 respectively, but
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The inventory taken of his business stock after death includes "60 figures de terre cuite de differentes grandeurs... et differents sujets, une armoire remplie d'outils, deux selles à modeller, un escabel, une table" in a back room on the ground floor, and in the "atelier donnant sur la cour côté
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Verbruggen, who had married Susanna Verhulst in 1682. Henry's younger siblings were Catharina baptised 1 October 1688 (died young), Pieter-Caspar baptised 10 January 1691, Elisabeth baptised 6 July 1693 (still living in 1771), Jan-Frans baptised 2 February 1696 (ditto), and another Catharina
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rue Meslé... 8 gros vases de pierre de
Conflans presque achevés, 4 autre vases non travaillés... modèles en plâtre". The valuation experts were Pierre Danse and Denis Robinot, also sculptors and also resident on rue Meslé. Henry's creditors included
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composée de deux tetes de chérubins avec rayons"; Claude-Nicolas Lenoir, marchand de pierre à Conflans-Sainte-Honorine; Pierre
Pouillet, tailleur de pierre; Noël Froment, chirurgien du Roi; and the landlord who claimed 200 livres rent for the year.
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Despite being resident and working in Paris for almost 15 years, very few of Henry
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the Younger, with whom he collaborated on some projects. Henry's younger son Thomas-Henry took on his uncle Peter the Younger's workshop in Vine Street after Peter retired in the 1770s.
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