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Personal data Cornelia de Wit 


Household of Cornelia de Wit

She is married to Willem Meijers.

They got married on March 8, 1886 at Dussen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland, she was 20 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Petrus Meijers  1887-1934 
  2. Simon Petrus Meijers  1888-1981 
  3. Anna Maria Meijers  1889-1980 
  4. Pieter Meijers  1893-????
  5. Cornelia Meijers  1897-1900
  6. Johanna Meijers  1900-1970
  7. Janus Meijers  1901-1992
  8. Johannes Meijers  1905-1906

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Historical events

  • The temperature on November 14, 1865 was about -0.4 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 79%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1865: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • March 16 » American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.
    • April 1 » American Civil War: Union troops led by Philip Sheridan decisively defeat Confederate troops led by George Pickett, cutting the Army of Northern Virginia's last supply line.
    • April 12 » American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.
    • May 26 » American Civil War: The Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last full general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.
    • July 7 » Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
    • November 26 » Battle of Papudo: A Spanish navy schooner is defeated by a Chilean corvette north of Valparaíso, Chile.
  • The temperature on March 8, 1886 was about -2.6 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1886: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • January 18 » Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
    • January 29 » Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
    • March 1 » The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham.
    • March 29 » John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta.
    • June 13 » A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
    • September 4 » American Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrenders to General Nelson Miles in Arizona.
  • The temperature on August 6, 1911 was between 14.9 °C and 21.7 °C and averaged 17.8 °C. There was 7.3 mm of rain. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (57%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1911: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
    • January 14 » Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
    • May 19 » Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.
    • June 16 » IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
    • July 7 » The United States, UK, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.
    • August 21 » The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia, a Louvre employee.
    • September 23 » Pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department


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