Sophia Pardoen (1827-1905)

� Sophia Pardoen (4 May 1827 - 1905)

Biography
Sophia was remembered as a very caring, though stern, motherly figure. She had to be, she had twelve children. They lived in a small apartment with her chimney sweep husband. Sophia outlived her husband by twelve years until her own death aged seventy-eight in 1905.

Family
Sophia Pardoen was the daughter of Johannes Pardoen (1781 - 1850) and Margaretha la Heij (1784 - 1858), who was French. Sophia was the youngest of their eleven children, born when her parents were already in their forties. Sophia married Giovanni Antonio Vittali (1823 - 1893) on 24 July 1850. See Vittali (surname).