Genealogy Noardeast-Fryslân » Dirk Douwes Fokkema (1850-1927)

Personal data Dirk Douwes Fokkema 


Household of Dirk Douwes Fokkema

(1) He is married to Wiemkje Pieters Hoogstra.

They got married on March 27, 1875 at Ferwerderadeel, he was 24 years old.


Child(ren):

  2. Emkje Dirks Fokkema  1877-1881
  3. Douwe Dirks Fokkema  1879-1879
  4. Douwe Dirks Fokkema  1880-????
  5. Emkje Dirks Fokkema  1882-1886


(2) He is married to Anna Jans de Haan.

They got married on October 2, 1886 at Ferwerderadeel, he was 36 years old.


Child(ren):

  2. Emkje Dirks Fokkema  1889-1890
  3. Jan Dirks Fokkema  1891-1891
  4. Jan Dirks Fokkema  1892-1892
  5. Jan Dirks Fokkema  1894-1894
  6. Jan Dirks Fokkema  1896-1896

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Birthday August 27, 1850

  • The temperature on August 27, 1850 was about 14.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: helder. 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 Netherlands , there was from November 1, 1849 to April 19, 1853 the cabinet Thorbecke I, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1850: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
    • February 2 » Brigham Young declares war on Timpanogos in the Battle at Fort Utah.
    • March 7 » Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.
    • April 4 » A large part of the English village of Cottenham burns to the ground in suspicious circumstances.
    • May 15 » The Arana–Southern Treaty is ratified, ending "the existing differences" between Great Britain and Argentina.
    • June 29 » Autocephaly officially granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Church of Greece.
    • September 29 » The papal bull Universalis Ecclesiae restores the Roman Catholic hierarchy in England and Wales.

Day of marriage October 2, 1886

  • The temperature on October 2, 1886 was about 16.0 °C. The air pressure was 28 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 82%. 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 1886: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • January 29 » Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
    • June 13 » A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
    • July 3 » Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, the first purpose-built automobile.
    • July 3 » The New-York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
    • November 14 » Friedrich Soennecken first developed the hole puncher, a type of office tool capable of punching small holes in paper.
    • November 27 » German judge Emil Hartwich sustains fatal injuries in a duel, which would become the background for Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest.

Day of death December 12, 1927

  • The temperature on December 12, 1927 was between -2.8 °C and 1.1 °C and averaged -1.1 °C. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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 year 1927: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
    • January 1 » New Mexican oil legislation goes into effect, leading to the formal outbreak of the Cristero War.
    • April 14 » The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
    • April 30 » Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
    • July 23 » The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
    • November 21 » Columbine Mine massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes.
    • December 3 » Putting Pants on Philip, the first Laurel and Hardy film, is released.

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