Dreyer Tree » Hendrik Jacobus van der Spuy d2e1f1 (1840-1917)

Personal data Hendrik Jacobus van der Spuy d2e1f1 


Household of Hendrik Jacobus van der Spuy d2e1f1

(1) He is married to Elizabeth Johanna Baartman.

They got married.


Child(ren):



(2) He is married to Harriette Eedes Cloete.

They got married in the year 1883, he was 42 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Grace van der Spuy  1892-1897


Notes about Hendrik Jacobus van der Spuy d2e1f1

Hendrik Jacobus van der Spuy (f5) was born at Kalkfontein on Saturday 29 October 1859, and died at Durbanville at age 76 on Sunday 17 February 1935. At the time of his death,  were living in Durbanville in a house on the corner of Gladstone and Church Streets, close to the Synagogue. He was interned in the Kalkfontein family vault in the Philadelphia cemetery, as was his wife when she passed away in 1957. Thereafter the vault was sealed and no further burials were done therein

Around 1883 he married Harriette Eedes Cloete, daughter of Sebastian Valentine Cloete and Harriette Eedes. S.V. Cloete was a Magistrate at Somerset West and later at Paarl. This marriage produced fourteen children. The third child, a boy, was stillborn. The fourth child, Sebastian

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  • The temperature on June 3, 1840 was about 12.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. 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 1840: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
    • February 10 » Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
    • February 11 » Gaetano Donizetti's opera La fille du régiment receives its first performance in Paris, France.
    • May 7 » The Great Natchez Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi killing 317 people. It is the second deadliest tornado in United States history.
    • May 20 » York Minster is badly damaged by fire.
    • July 23 » The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union.
    • October 11 » The Maronite leader Bashir Shihab II surrenders to the Ottoman Empire and later is sent to Malta in exile.
  • The temperature on May 13, 1917 was between 14.3 °C and 23.8 °C and averaged 18.0 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1917: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
    • March 16 » World War I: A German auxiliary cruiser is sunk in the Action of 16 March 1917.
    • May 27 » Pope Benedict XV promulgates the 1917 Code of Canon Law, the first comprehensive codification of Catholic canon law in the legal history of the Catholic Church.
    • October 13 » The "Miracle of the Sun" is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Portugal.
    • November 8 » The first Council of People's Commissars is formed, including Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin.
    • November 28 » The Estonian Provincial Assembly declares itself the sovereign power of Estonia.
    • December 20 » Cheka, the first Soviet secret police force, is founded.


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