Genealogy Te Voortwis en Ormel » Gerhard "Gerrit" Westerhoff (1790-1865)

Personal data Gerhard "Gerrit" Westerhoff 


Household of Gerhard "Gerrit" Westerhoff

He is married to Hendrina Nijman.

They got married on May 8, 1819 at Dinxperlo, he was 29 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Jan Derk Westerhof  1820-1884
  5. Johan Westerhoff  1833-1881 

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Birthday January 13, 1790

  • The temperature on January 13, 1790 was about 8.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: 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)
  • In the year 1790: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 4 » France is divided into 83 départements, cutting across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on ownership of land by the nobility.
    • July 12 » The Civil Constitution of the Clergy is passed in France by the National Constituent Assembly.
    • July 31 » The first U.S. patent is issued, to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
    • September 25 » Four Great Anhui Troupes introduce Anhui opera to Beijing in honor of the Qianlong Emperor's eightieth birthday.
    • October 22 » Northwest Indian War: Native American forces defeat the United States in the Harmar Campaign.
    • December 17 » The Aztec calendar stone is discovered at El Zócalo, Mexico City.

Day of marriage May 8, 1819

  • The temperature on May 8, 1819 was about 13.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: 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 1819: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 7 » Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles leaves Singapore after just taking it over, leaving it in the hands of William Farquhar.
    • February 22 » By the Adams–Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
    • May 22 » SSSavannah leaves port at Savannah, Georgia, United States, on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
    • 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").
    • July 3 » The Bank for Savings in the City of New-York, the first savings bank in the United States, opens.
    • August 6 » Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.

Day of death June 18, 1865

  • The temperature on June 18, 1865 was about 13.7 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. 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 1865: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • April 2 » American Civil War: Defeat at the Third Battle of Petersburg forces the Army of Northern Virginia and the Confederate government to abandon Richmond, Virginia.
    • April 26 » American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina. Also the date of Confederate Memorial Day for two states.
    • May 5 » American Civil War: The Confederate government was declared dissolved at Washington, Georgia.
    • August 12 » Joseph Lister, British surgeon and scientist, performs 1st antiseptic surgery.
    • December 2 » Alabama ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, followed by North Carolina then Georgia, and U.S. slaves were legally free within two weeks
    • December 17 » First performance of the Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert.


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