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Personal data Bernardus Riksen 

  • He was born on July 11, 1851 in Garderen (Barneveld).
  • He died on November 29, 1933 in Polkton Township, Ottawa County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten, he was 82 years old.
    BIRTH11 Jul 1851 Garderen, Barneveld Municipality, Gelderland, Netherlands
    DEATH 29 Nov 1933 (aged 82) Polkton Township, Ottawa County, Michigan, USA
    BURIAL Pilgrim Home Cemetery, Holland, Ottawa County, Michigan, USA
    PLOTPH1-EA-53-17
    MEMORIAL ID49833041

    Widowed husband of Fredericka
    Age 82y 4m 18d
    COD: Heart

    Father: Ryk Riksen b. Netherlands
    Mother: Hendrieka Boeve b. Netherlands

    Informant: Mrs. J. Mulder from Coopersville, MI
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    Dutch Birth Record
    Child Bernardus Riksen
    Gender Man
    Father Rijk Riksen
    Profession Landbouwer
    Age 32
    Mother Hendrika Boeven
    Profession zonder beroep
    Age 27
    Event Geboorte
    Event date 11-07-1851
    Event place Garderen
  • He is buried December 1933 in Pilgrim Home Cemetery, Holland, Ottawa County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten.
  • A child of Rijk Riksen and Hendrika Boeve
  • This information was last updated on July 1, 2021.

Household of Bernardus Riksen

He is married to Frederika van Lente.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Bernardus Riksen

Wulf Riksen
1759-1836
Jannetje Hendriks van den Broek
1783-1862
Berend Stevens Boeve
1780-1861
Aaltje Willems Kamphuis
1787-1871
Rijk Riksen
1818-1889

Bernardus Riksen
1851-1933


Frederika van Lente
1854-1930


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Birthday July 11, 1851

  • The temperature on July 11, 1851 was about 13.9 °C. There was 5 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 67%. 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 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 1851: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
    • May 21 » Slavery in Colombia is abolished.
    • September 11 » Christiana Resistance: Escaped slaves led by William Parker fight off and kill a slave owner who, with a federal marshal and an armed party, sought to seize three of his former slaves in Christiana, Pennsylvania, thereby creating a cause célèbre between slavery proponents and abolitionists.
    • September 18 » First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.
    • October 24 » William Lassell discovers the moons Umbriel and Ariel orbiting Uranus.
    • November 9 » Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
    • December 29 » The first American YMCA opens in Boston, Massachusetts.

Day of death November 29, 1933

  • The temperature on November 29, 1933 was between 1.1 °C and 4.1 °C and averaged 2.8 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1933: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.2 million citizens.
    • January 28 » The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhry Rahmat Ali Khan and is accepted by Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence.
    • March 31 » The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission of relieving rampant unemployment in the United States.
    • April 7 » Prohibition in the United States is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment. (Now celebrated as National Beer Day in the United States.)
    • May 12 » The Agricultural Adjustment Act, which restricts agricultural production through government purchase of livestock for slaughter and paying subsidies to farmers when they remove land from planting, is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
    • September 3 » Yevgeniy Abalakov is the first man to reach the highest point in the Soviet Union, Communism Peak (now called Ismoil Somoni Peak and situated in Tajikistan) (7495 m).
    • November 8 » Great Depression: New Deal: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million unemployed.


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