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Personal data Willem Blokland 


Household of Willem Blokland

(1) He is married to Sijgje van 't Hoog.

They got married on September 19, 1857 at Hardinxveld, Gemeente Hardinxveld-Giessendam, South Holland, Netherlands, he was 23 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Arie Blokland  1860-1860
  2. Adrianus Blokland  1862-1862
  4. Arie Blokland  1865-1865
  5. Arie Blokland  1866-1928 
  6. Adrianus Blokland  1868-1868
  7. Arigje Blokland  1869-1869
  8. Adrianus Blokland  1872-1872
  9. Adrianus Blokland  1873-1873
  10. Ewouter Blokland  1878-1878


(2) He is married to Annigje Verheij.

They got married on August 25, 1892 at Hardinxveld, Gemeente Hardinxveld-Giessendam, South Holland, Netherlands, he was 58 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Adriana Blokland  1895-????
  2. Elisabeth Blokland  1896-????
  3. Neeltje Blokland  1896-????
  4. Marigje Blokland  1899-????

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Birthday April 11, 1834

  • The temperature on April 11, 1834 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: half bewolkt hagel sneeuw bui winderig. Source: KNMI
  •  This page is only available in Dutch.
    De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
  • In the year 1834: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
    • February 3 » Wake Forest University is established (as Wake Forest Institute) in North Carolina, United States.
    • March 6 » York, Upper Canada, is incorporated as Toronto.
    • March 18 » Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.
    • May 30 » Minister of Justice Joaquim António de Aguiar issues a law seizing "all convents, monasteries, colleges, hospices and any other houses" from the Catholic religious orders in Portugal, earning him the nickname of "The Friar-Killer".
    • July 15 » The Spanish Inquisition is officially disbanded after nearly 356 years.
    • December 1 » Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.

Day of marriage August 25, 1892

  • The temperature on August 25, 1892 was about 18.8 °C. There was 6 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1892: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • June 6 » The Chicago "L" elevated rail system begins operation.
    • June 7 » Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
    • June 30 » The Homestead Strike begins near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
    • July 26 » Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
    • August 4 » The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. She was tried and acquitted for the crimes a year later.
    • December 18 » Premiere performance of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Day of death November 15, 1904

  • The temperature on November 15, 1904 was between -0.9 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1904: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.4 million citizens.
    • February 28 » S.L. Benfica is founded in Portugal.
    • May 5 » Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
    • July 21 » Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100mph (161km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brillié in Ostend, Belgium.
    • October 4 » The IFK Göteborg football club is founded in Sweden.
    • October 20 » Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.
    • December 6 » Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.


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