Genealogy Ellens Jonkman Hansma Jager » Willem Holwerda (1863-1928)

Personal data Willem Holwerda 


Household of Willem Holwerda

He is married to Geeske van der Ploeg.

They got married on June 11, 1884 at Grand Rapids, Kent County, US-MI, he was 20 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. John William Holwerda  1885-1969 
  2. Matthew Holwerda  1886-1950 
  3. Sietze W. Holwerda  1890-1905
  4. Harm Holwerda  1893-1930


Notes about Willem Holwerda

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Geboorte 04-08-1863 Niehove gem. Oldehove
Kind Willem Holwerda Geslacht m
Vader Jan Holwerda Moeder Jantje Schripsema
Bron Geboorteregister Oldehove 1863 Aktenummer 52
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Cathy Bontekoe-Holwerda, USA, Notities Bontekoe.
"Family Status: Head of household. Age: 19. Sex: Male. Occupation: Cooper. Status: Permanant sojourn. Ship Accommodations: Steerage. Port of Embarkation: Amsterdam. Vessel: Edam (nasnc). Destination: USA. Date of Arrival: 6/19/1882. City of Birth: Holland. Microfilm Roll: 453. Ship Manifest Number: 833."
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Collection: Michigan Marriages 1868-1925
Groom's name: William Holwerda Groom's age: 20 years Groom's birth year: 1864 Groom's birthplace: Groningen, Netherlands
Bride's name: Geeske Vander Ploeg Bride's age: 17 years Bride's birth year: 1867 Bride's birthplace: Gronigan, Netherlands
Marriage date: 11 Jun 1884 Marriage place: Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan
Film number: 2342474 Digital GS number: 4207685 Image number: 115 Reference number: v 2 p 137 rn 2440
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Bron: Cathy Bontekoe-Holwerda
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    Birthday August 4, 1863

    • The temperature on August 4, 1863 was about 16.6 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%. Source: KNMI
    • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1863: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
      • January 11 » American Civil War: Battle of Arkansas Post: General John McClernand and Admiral David Dixon Porter capture the Arkansas River for the Union.
      • January 22 » The January Uprising breaks out in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. The aim of the national movement is to regain Polish–Lithuanian–Ruthenian Commonwealth from occupation by Russia.
      • April 30 » A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fights a force of nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.
      • May 6 » American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with the defeat of the Army of the Potomac by the Army of Northern Virginia.
      • October 14 » American Civil War: Confederate troops under the command of A. P. Hill fail to drive the Union Army completely out of Virginia.
      • November 23 » American Civil War: Battle of Chattanooga begins: Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant reinforce troops at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and counter-attack Confederate troops.

    Day of marriage June 11, 1884

    • The temperature on June 11, 1884 was about 14.2 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 70%. Source: KNMI
    • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1884: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
      • February 19 » More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
      • March 13 » The Siege of Khartoum begins. It lasts until January 26, 1885.
      • August 5 » The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
      • October 13 » The International Meridian Conference establishes the meridian of the Greenwich Observatory as the prime meridian.
      • October 14 » George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
      • December 6 » The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.

    Day of death April 10, 1928

    • The temperature on April 10, 1928 was between 9.1 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (20%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 year 1928: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
      • January 1 » Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
      • January 7 » A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.
      • March 12 » In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people.
      • April 14 » The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, reaches Greenly Island, Canada - the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
      • October 12 » An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
      • December 17 » Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.
    

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