Emigranten » Willempje Jacobs van Dam (1752-1819)

Personal data Willempje Jacobs van Dam 


Household of Willempje Jacobs van Dam

She is married to Gerrit Willemsen van der Top.

Permission for the marriage has been obtained in Kootwijk (GL) on May 17, 1775.

They were married in church on June 5, 1775 at Kootwijk (GL), she was 23 years old.Source 2


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  1. Kootwijk, baptisms Dutch Reformed 1687-1769
  2. Kootwijk, marriages Dutch Reformed 1772-1810

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Historical events

Christening day January 16, 1752

  • The temperature on January 16, 1752 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: motregen geheel betrokken. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • Regentes Anna (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1759 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1752: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 29 » King Alaungpaya founds Konbaung Dynasty, the last dynasty of Burmese monarchy.
    • April 20 » Start of Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War, a new phase in the Burmese Civil War (1740–57).
    • June 15 » Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity (traditional date, the exact date is unknown).
    • September 2 » Great Britain, along with its overseas possessions, adopts the Gregorian calendar.
    • September 14 » The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (the previous day was September 2).

Day of marriage June 5, 1775

  • The temperature on June 5, 1775 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: helder. Special wheather fenomena: wat dauw. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1775: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 26 » The British East India Company factory on Balambangan Island is destroyed by Moro pirates.
    • May 10 » American Revolutionary War: A small Colonial militia led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold captures Fort Ticonderoga.
    • June 17 » American Revolutionary War: Colonists inflict heavy casualties on British forces while losing the Battle of Bunker Hill.
    • July 3 » American Revolutionary War: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
    • July 29 » Founding of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps: General George Washington appoints William Tudor as Judge Advocate of the Continental Army.
    • September 11 » Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec leaves Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Day of death September 4, 1819

  • The temperature on September 4, 1819 was about 18.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: half bewolkt. Source: KNMI
  •  This page is only available in Dutch.
    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 1819: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 15 » French physicist Augustin Fresnel is adjudged the winner of the Grand Prix of the Académie des Sciences for his "Memoir on the Diffraction of Light", which verifies the Fresnel integrals, accounts for the limited extent to which light spreads into shadows, and thereby demolishes Newton's initial objection to the wave theory of light.
    • May 25 » The Argentine Constitution of 1819 is promulgated.
    • June 16 » A major earthquake strikes the Kutch district of western India, killing over 1,543 people and raising a 6m high, 6km wide, ridge, extending for at least 80km, that was known as the Allah Bund ("Dam of God").
    • August 7 » Simón Bolívar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá.
    • August 16 » Peterloo Massacre: Seventeen people die and over 600 are injured in cavalry charges at a public meeting at St. Peter's Field, Manchester, England.
    • December 17 » Simón Bolívar declares the independence of Gran Colombia in Angostura (now Ciudad Bolívar in Venezuela).


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