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Personal data Wilhelmus Janssen "Willem" Melsen 

  • Nickname is Willem.
  • He was christened on March 6, 1749 in Kalmthout B.
  • Profession: burgemeester van Ossendrecht.
  • He died on June 4, 1820 in Ossendrecht.
    Of: 16 10 1826 te Ossendrecht (Memorie van Successie 286 te Bergen op Zoom).
    Of: 21 1 1858 te Ossendrecht (Memorie van Successie 18 te Bergen op Zoom).
  • A child of Joannes Willem Melsen and Petronella Merten Bussers
  • This information was last updated on October 4, 2004.

Household of Wilhelmus Janssen "Willem" Melsen

(1) He is married to Joanna Jacobs.

They got married on November 17, 1771 at Bergen op Zoom.

Attestatie van Ossendrecht.

Child(ren):



(2) He is married to Johanna Nuijts.

They got married on September 24, 1786 at Ossendrecht.


Child(ren):

  1. Adrianus Melsen  > 1786-????
  3. Antonius Melsen  1791-1869 

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Christening day March 6, 1749

  • The temperature on March 6, 1749 was about 1.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east by south. Weather type: betrokken helder. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem IV (Huis van Oranje) was from 1747 till 1751 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1749: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 3 » Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
    • January 3 » The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark's oldest continually operating newspaper, is published.
    • January 21 » The Teatro Filarmonico in Verona is destroyed by fire, as a result of a torch being left behind in the box of a nobleman after a performance. It is rebuilt in 1754.
    • May 19 » King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.
    • June 21 » Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.

Day of marriage September 24, 1786

  • The temperature on September 24, 1786 was about 11.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1786: Source: Wikipedia
    • June 29 » Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
    • August 7 » The first federal Indian Reservation is created by the United States.
    • August 11 » Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.
    • November 7 » The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
    • November 30 » The Grand Duchy of Tuscany, under Pietro Leopoldo I, becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty (later commemorated as Cities for Life Day).
    • December 4 » Mission Santa Barbara is dedicated (on the feast day of Saint Barbara).

Day of death June 4, 1820

  • The temperature on June 4, 1820 was about 12.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: veel regen 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 1820: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 30 » Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica.
    • February 4 » The Chilean Navy under the command of Lord Cochrane completes the two-day long Capture of Valdivia with just 300 men and two ships.
    • February 6 » The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society depart New York to start a settlement in present-day Liberia.
    • February 23 » Cato Street Conspiracy: A plot to murder all the British cabinet ministers is exposed.
    • April 12 » Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece.
    • September 15 » Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal.


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