Berkemeijer Genealogie » Klaas Folkersma (1893-1980)

Personal data Klaas Folkersma 


Household of Klaas Folkersma

He is married to Pieterke Bronsema.

Gemeente: Bedum Soort akte: Huwelijksakte Aktenummer: 1 Datum: 04-01-1919
Bruidegom Klaas Folkersma Geboorteplaats: Grijpskerk
Bruid Pieterke Bronsema Geboorteplaats: Ulrum
Vader bruidegom Wiemer Folkersma Moeder bruidegom Freerkje de Haan
Vader bruid Pieter Geert Bronsema Moeder bruid Ludewina Buikema
Nadere informatie beroep bruidegom: arbeider; beroep bruid: dienstbode; beroep vader bruidegom.: arbeider; bruidegom 25 jaar; bruid 25 jaar

They got married on January 4, 1919 at Bedum, Gr, Nederland, he was 25 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Wiemer Folkersma  1919-1999 
  2. (Not public)
  4. Hilbrand Folkersma  1930-2014 


Notes about Klaas Folkersma

Gemeente: Grijpskerk Soort akte: geboorte Aktenummer: 79 Aangiftedatum: 18-11-1893
Kind Klaas Folkersma Geslacht: M Geboortedatum: 16-11-1893 Geboorteplaats: Visvliet
Vader Wiemer Folkersma Moeder Freerkje de Haan
Nadere informatie beroep vader: arbeider; beroep moeder: arbeidster

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Birthday November 16, 1893

  • The temperature on November 16, 1893 was about 2.5 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. 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 1893: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • June 13 » Grover Cleveland notices a rough spot in his mouth and on July 1 undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; the operation was not revealed to the public until 1917, nine years after the president's death.
    • July 9 » Daniel Hale Williams, American heart surgeon, performs the first successful open-heart surgery in United States without anesthesia.
    • August 14 » France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
    • September 16 » Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
    • September 20 » Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
    • October 28 » Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique receives its première performance only nine days before the composer's death.

Day of marriage January 4, 1919

  • The temperature on January 4, 1919 was between 4.7 °C and 7.3 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 4.6 mm of rain. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (52%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1919: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.7 million citizens.
    • January 15 » Great Molasses Flood: A wave of molasses released from an exploding storage tank sweeps through Boston, Massachusetts, killing 21 and injuring 150.
    • January 15 » Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps at the end of the Spartacist uprising.
    • February 14 » The Polish–Soviet War begins.
    • April 16 » Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier.
    • May 27 » The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
    • June 21 » The Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg general strike.

Day of death February 18, 1980

  • The temperature on February 18, 1980 was between 1.9 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1980: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 14.1 million citizens.
    • March 24 » El Salvadorian Archbishop Óscar Romero is assassinated while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.
    • March 27 » Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, leads to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.
    • June 3 » An explosive device is detonated at the Statue of Liberty. The FBI suspects Croatian nationalists.
    • September 22 » Iraq invades Iran.
    • October 2 » Michael Myers becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War.
    • October 30 » El Salvador and Honduras agree to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice.

Day of burial February 22, 1980

  • The temperature on February 22, 1980 was between 0.8 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (84%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1980: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 14.1 million citizens.
    • February 25 » The government of Suriname is overthrown by a military coup led by Dési Bouterse.
    • April 30 » The Iranian Embassy siege begins in London.
    • May 20 » In a referendum in Quebec, the population rejects, by 60% of the vote, a government proposal to move towards independence from Canada.
    • September 17 » Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed in Asunción, Paraguay.
    • September 18 » Soyuz 38 carries two cosmonauts (including one Cuban) to the Salyut 6 space station.
    • November 20 » Lake Peigneur drains into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe had been drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing water to flow down into the mine, eroding the edges of the hole.


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