Yerna, Oscar

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Category

Person (Male)

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  • Professional

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Life dates

Liège, 1845 - ?, ?

Activity

1873 ca Liège, Rue Pont-d'Ile, 4
Predecessor: Barras Victor (senior) Successor: Van Malderen Joseph (Fils)
Oscar Marie Henri, ° 19.5.1845. Son of Simon Yerna (see that name). CVs exist at this address bearing a printed slip "O. Yerna & Cie (Maison Straus)". An early operator in the studio let by Gustave Straus at this address, preceded by Victor Barras (senior). On the occasion of his wedding in Brussels on 16.8.1872, Yerna was recorded as a photographer resident in Brussels, Rue de Namur, 75. Then recorded as a photographer domiciled in Liège, Rue Saint-Séverin, 123 at the birth of a daughter there in April 1873.
1881 Bruxelles, Montagne de la Cour, 72
Journeyman photographer at this address, where his father Simon had operated in 1866 in the family home and where Oscar Yerna himself was recorded as an operator-photographer in 1866, undoubtedly assisting his father.
1885 ca - 1887 ca Vilvorde, Rue de Louvain, 49
1887 * - 1890 Bruxelles - Etterbeek, Rue des Acacias, 63
Arrived in Brussels - Etterbeek on 16.9.1887.
1890 * - 1891 / Malines, Rue Milsen, 47
Recorded as a photographer, coming from Vilvorde, on 28.4.1890. Left for Brussels - Ixelles, Rue Vautier, 57 on 22.9.1891.

Locations

1873 ca Liège, Rue Pont-d'Ile, 4
1881 Bruxelles, Montagne de la Cour, 72
1885 ca - 1887 ca Vilvorde, Rue de Louvain, 49
1887 * - 1890 Bruxelles - Etterbeek, Rue des Acacias, 63
1890 * - 1891 / Malines, Rue Milsen, 47

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DIRECTORY_1997#4833

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SFJ revised 23.5.2018 & 1.6.2018; SFJ revised 24.7.2023 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght

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