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Personal data Hester Petronella Swanepoel 


Household of Hester Petronella Swanepoel

She is married to Lucas Cornelis Johannes Dreyer.

They got married on October 1, 1860 at Smithfield, Orange Free state, she was 15 years old.


Child(ren):

  4. Pieter Andries Dreyer  1872-1945 

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Historical events

Day of marriage October 1, 1860

  • The temperature on October 1, 1860 was about 15.6 °C. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%. 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 March 18, 1858 till February 23, 1860 the Netherlands had a cabinet Rochussen - Van Bosse with the prime ministers J.J. Rochussen (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal).
  • From February 23, 1860 till March 14, 1861 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Van Heemstra with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. S. baron Van Heemstra (liberaal).
  • In the year 1860: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
    • February 27 » Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.
    • April 6 » The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, later renamed Community of Christ, is organized by Joseph Smith III and others at Amboy, Illinois.
    • May 18 » Abraham Lincoln wins the Republican Party presidential nomination over William H. Seward, who later becomes the United States Secretary of State.
    • September 20 » The future King Edward VII of the United Kingdom begins the first visit to North America by a Prince of Wales.
    • October 17 » First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open).
    • October 18 » The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.

Day of death June 25, 1909

  • The temperature on June 25, 1909 was between 10.8 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 1909: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.8 million citizens.
    • March 4 » U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State.
    • April 11 » The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
    • April 13 » The military of the Ottoman Empire reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
    • August 7 » Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
    • August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
    • October 16 » William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.


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About the surname Swanepoel


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