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Personal data Jan Andries Gouws 


Household of Jan Andries Gouws

(1) He is married to Johanna Hendrina Dreyer.

They got married on July 6, 1914 at Queenstown, Kaapprovinsie, Suid-Afrika, he was 68 years old.


(2) He is married to Geertruida Magaretha de Bruin.

They got married on May 20, 1867 at Queenstown, Cape Province, South Africa, he was 21 years old.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Jan Andries Gouws

Jan Andries Gouws
1845-1920

(1) 1914

Johanna Hendrina Dreyer
1874-1921

(2) 1867

Geertruida Magaretha de Bruin
1848-????


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Historical events

Birthday November 13, 1845

  • The temperature on November 13, 1845 was about 6.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-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 1845: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
    • January 29 » "The Raven" is published in The Evening Mirror in New York, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe.
    • March 1 » United States President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas.
    • August 28 » The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published.
    • October 10 » In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 students.
    • December 27 » Ether anesthetic is used for childbirth for the first time by Dr. Crawford Long in Jefferson, Georgia.
    • December 29 » In accordance with International Boundary delimitation, the United States annexes the Republic of Texas, following the manifest destiny doctrine. The Republic of Texas, which had been independent since the Texas Revolution of 1836, is thereupon admitted as the 28th U.S. state.

Day of marriage May 20, 1867

  • The temperature on May 20, 1867 was about 12.5 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • From June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
  • In the year 1867: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • February 13 » Work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
    • May 3 » The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
    • June 8 » Coronation of Franz Joseph as King of Hungary following the Austro-Hungarian compromise (Ausgleich).
    • September 28 » Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario, having also been the capital of Ontario's predecessors since 1796.
    • October 21 » The Medicine Lodge Treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American Plains tribes to relocate to a reservation in western Oklahoma.
    • November 23 » The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish Republican Brotherhood members from custody.

Day of death July 21, 1920

  • The temperature on July 21, 1920 was between 14.2 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 17.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 1920: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.8 million citizens.
    • February 24 » Nancy Astor becomes the first woman to speak in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom following her election as a Member of Parliament (MP) three months earlier.
    • March 28 » Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.
    • April 15 » Two security guards are murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti would be convicted of and executed for the crime, amid much controversy.
    • August 11 » The Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty, which relinquished Russia's authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed, ending the Latvian War of Independence.
    • October 25 » After 74 days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney dies.
    • December 22 » The GOELRO economic development plan is adopted by the 8th Congress of Soviets of the Russian SFSR.


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