Dreyer Tree » Jacobus Geldenhuis (1844-1929)

Personal data Jacobus Geldenhuis 

  • He was born on August 3, 1844 in Deelkraal, Potchefstroom, Transvaal, South Africa.
  • He died on November 1, 1929 in Deelkraal, Potchefstroom, Transvaal, South Africa, he was 85 years old.
    Oorzaak: chronic endocarditis CF
  • He is buried in Deelkraal, Potchefstroom, Transvaal, South Africa.

Household of Jacobus Geldenhuis

(1) He is married to Anna Elizabeth Dreyer.

They got married on May 28, 1864 at Potchefstroom, Transvaal, South Africa, he was 19 years old.


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(2) He is married to Aletta Jacomina Wolmerans.

They got married on July 31, 1875 at Heidelberg, Transvaal, South Africa, he was 30 years old.


(3) He is married to Sophia Cecilia Schutte van Wyk.

They got married on December 4, 1917 at Johannesburg, he was 73 years old.

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Historical events

Birthday August 3, 1844

  • The temperature on August 3, 1844 was about 15.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: half bewolkt weerlicht. 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 1844: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
    • February 27 » The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.
    • March 21 » The Bahá'í calendar begins. This is the first day of the first year of the Bahá'í calendar. It is annually celebrated by members of the Bahá'í Faith as the Bahá'í New Year or Náw-Rúz.
    • May 1 » Hong Kong Police Force, the world's second modern police force and Asia's first, is established.
    • May 23 » Declaration of the Báb the evening before the 23rd: A merchant of Shiraz announces that he is a Prophet and founds a religious movement that would later be brutally crushed by the Persian government. He is considered to be a forerunner of the Bahá'í Faith; Bahá'ís celebrate the day as a holy day.
    • July 3 » The last pair of great auks is killed.
    • December 21 » The Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers commences business at its cooperative in Rochdale, England, starting the Cooperative movement.

Day of marriage December 4, 1917

  • The temperature on December 4, 1917 was between -6.9 °C and 4.0 °C and averaged -1.2 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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.
    • January 19 » Silvertown explosion: A blast at a munitions factory in London kills 73 and injures over 400. The resulting fire causes over £2,000,000 worth of damage.
    • March 1 » The Zimmermann Telegram is reprinted in newspapers across the United States after the U.S. government releases its unencrypted text.
    • March 15 » Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne ending the 304-year Romanov dynasty.
    • March 25 » The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.
    • October 13 » The "Miracle of the Sun" is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Portugal.
    • December 6 » Finland declares independence from Soviet Russia.

Day of death November 1, 1929

  • The temperature on November 1, 1929 was between 2.7 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (35%). 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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1929: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
    • June 21 » An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico.
    • August 8 » The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
    • September 7 » Steamer Kuru capsizes and sinks on Lake Näsijärvi near Tampere in Finland. One hundred thirty-six lives are lost.
    • October 29 » The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or "Black Tuesday", ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.
    • December 3 » President Herbert Hoover delivers his first State of the Union message to Congress. It was presented in the form of a written message rather than a speech.
    • December 27 » Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin orders the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class".


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

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About the surname Geldenhuis


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