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Personal data Catharina van Houtum 

  • Blessed on August 6, 1766 in Ingetreden. Zie 740-73 blad 65.
  • She died after 1800.
  • This information was last updated on April 19, 2016.

Household of Catharina van Houtum


Notes about Catharina van Houtum

Echte Begijn.
Ze is geprofest op 6 augustus 1766
Zij fungeerde rond 1782 regelmatig als getuige in de kapel bij huwelijksinzegeningen.
Zij wordt genoemd in 1800 in archiefstuk 740-826 samen met Maria van Houtum
Zij staat op een lijst in Archief 740-342.

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Historical events

  • The temperature on August 6, 1766 was about 20.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north by west. Weather type: mist 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 1766: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 5 » Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
    • July 1 » François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France.
    • November 10 » The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).
    • December 2 » Swedish parliament approved the Swedish Freedom of the Press Act and implemented it as a ground law, thus being first in the world with freedom of speech.
    • December 5 » In London, auctioneer James Christie holds his first sale.
    • December 25 » Mapuches in Chile launch a series of surprise attacks against the Spanish starting the Mapuche uprising of 1766.

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Gerrit van Dijk. Archivaris Begijnhof Amsterdam a.i, "Alle Begijnen van Amsterdam, Vondel, Hooft, Huydecoper, v. Eeghen, De Clercq, Trip, Boissevain en anderen.", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/alle-begijnen-van-amsterdam/I600.php : accessed May 7, 2024), "Catharina van Houtum (????-> 1800)".