VAN HOORICK Louis

Major Louis VAN HOORICK was born on 1 September 1780 in Brussels. He joined the Dutch military in 1802 and became surveillant des haras royaux in Borculo.
He subsequently moved to the Grand-Duchy where he became directeur du haras royal in Bonnevoie. He also lived in Bonnevoie where one of his sons was born in 1825.
By 1827 he was in charge of the haras royal of Walferdange and had taken up residence in Walferdange.
VAN HOORICK’s military career reveals that he left Luxembourg in October 1830 to join the Belgian Government. He served in Bruges as commandant de la place in the rank of colonel until his retirement in August 1842.
He died soon after in Brussels on 18 February 1843.

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