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Personal data Sijke (Lusya) Geerts Smeding 


Household of Sijke (Lusya) Geerts Smeding

She is married to Pieter Douwes Vlietstra.

Trouwregister Hervormde gemeente Leeuwarden, 1791 DTB nr: 1000, 1789 - 1793
Vermelding: Bevestiging huwelijk van 15 mei 1791
Man: Pieter Douwes, Leeuwarden Vrouw: Sijke Geerts, Leeuwarden

They got married on May 15, 1791 at Leeuwarden, Fr, Nederland.


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Notes about Sijke (Lusya) Geerts Smeding

Smallingerland, geboortejaar 1766, doopjaar 1767 Rottevalle, Doop Herv. gem. 1724-1811 DTB: 630
Dopeling: Lusya Geboren op 8 november 1766 onder Noorder Drachten Gedoopt op 5 april 1767 in Rottevalle
Kind van Geert Hendriks en Antje Sytses

Overlijdensakte Ferwerderadeel, 1846 Aangiftedatum 20 augustus 1846, blad nr. 39
Sijke Geerts Smeding, vrouw, overleden 18 augustus 1846 Oud 83 jaar, weduwe van Pieter Douwes Vlietstra
Dochter van Geert Hendriks Smeding en Antje Sytzes

Familienamen 1811
Vlietstra, Pieter Douwes, Hallum

k. Douwe 16, Geert 13, Antje 12

Mairie Hallum, fol. 11v

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Historical events

Christening day November 8, 1766

  • The temperature on November 8, 1766 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: regen omtrent helder. 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.
    • March 18 » American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.
    • 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.
    • 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.

Day of marriage May 15, 1791

  • The temperature on May 15, 1791 was about 14.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. 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 1791: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 18 » Congress passes a law admitting the state of Vermont to the Union, effective 4 March, after that state had existed for 14 years as a de facto independent largely unrecognized state.
    • March 4 » The Constitutional Act of 1791 is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario).
    • June 21 » King Louis XVI of France and his immediate family begin the Flight to Varennes during the French Revolution.
    • July 14 » The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of Birmingham, England.
    • July 17 » Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing scores of people.
    • November 4 » Northwest Indian War: The Western Confederacy of American Indians wins a major victory over the United States in the Battle of the Wabash.

Day of death August 18, 1846

  • The temperature on August 18, 1846 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: half bewolkt. Source: KNMI
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    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 1846: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
    • February 4 » The first Mormon pioneers make their exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois, westward towards Salt Lake Valley.
    • April 25 » Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican–American War.
    • June 14 » Bear Flag Revolt begins: Anglo settlers in Sonoma, California, start a rebellion against Mexico and proclaim the California Republic.
    • August 10 » The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the United States Congress after James Smithson donates $500,000.
    • October 10 » Triton, the largest moon of the planet Neptune, is discovered by English astronomer William Lassell.
    • October 16 » William T. G. Morton administers ether anesthesia during a surgical operation.


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