Dutch Connections to Sheboygan County, Wisconsin » Gerrit Willem vanSighem (1818-1890)

Personal data Gerrit Willem vanSighem 


Household of Gerrit Willem vanSighem

He had a relationship with Pieternella Minderhoud.


Child(ren):

  1. Willem vanSighem  ± 1840-1864
  2. Maatje vanSighem  ± 1842-1917 
  3. Kornelis vanSighem  ± 1845-????
  4. Pieter vanSighem  ± 1857-1925 

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Gerrit Willem vanSighem

Maria Balje
????-1829
Janis Janis Roelse
± 1760-1829

Gerrit Willem vanSighem
1818-1890


Willem vanSighem
± 1840-1864
Maatje vanSighem
± 1842-1917
Kornelis vanSighem
± 1845-????
Pieter vanSighem
± 1857-1925

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  1. geboorten Westkapelle 1740 - 1830
  2. "Westkapelle, een Familie", Jac Pouwelse, 1998

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  • The temperature on September 28, 1818 was about 14.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-southeast. Weather type: omtrent helder. 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 1818: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 15 » A paper by David Brewster is read to the Royal Society, belatedly announcing his discovery of what we now call the biaxial class of doubly-refracting crystals. On the same day, Augustin-Jean Fresnel signs a "supplement" (submitted four days later) on reflection of polarized light.
    • March 30 » Physicist Augustin Fresnel reads a memoir on optical rotation to the French Academy of Sciences, reporting that when polarized light is "depolarized" by a Fresnel rhomb, its properties are preserved in any subsequent passage through an optically-rotating crystal or liquid.
    • April 20 » The case of Ashford v Thornton ends, with Abraham Thornton allowed to go free rather than face a retrial for murder, after his demand for trial by battle is upheld.
    • July 29 » French physicist Augustin Fresnel submits his prizewinning "Memoir on the Diffraction of Light", precisely accounting for the limited extent to which light spreads into shadows, and thereby demolishing the oldest objection to the wave theory of light.
    • September 7 » Carl III of Sweden–Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.
    • October 20 » The Convention of 1818 is signed between the United States and the United Kingdom, which settles the Canada–United States border on the 49th parallel for most of its length.
  • The temperature on November 16, 1890 was about 4.1 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • 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 April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1890: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • January 1 » Eritrea is consolidated into a colony by the Italian government.
    • March 20 » Prime Minister of the German Empire Otto von Bismarck is dismissed by Emperor Wilhelm II.
    • June 1 » The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
    • July 10 » Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
    • July 27 » Vincent van Gogh shoots himself and dies two days later.
    • November 23 » King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to succeed him.


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About the surname VanSighem


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Janice Hesselink, "Dutch Connections to Sheboygan County, Wisconsin", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/dutch-connections-to-sheboygan-county-wisconsin/I07441.php : accessed June 25, 2024), "Gerrit Willem vanSighem (1818-1890)".