Genealogy Kuipers » Willem Sjerps Twijnstra (1793-1869)

Personal data Willem Sjerps Twijnstra 

  • He was born on December 2, 1793 in Baard, Friesland, Netherlands.
    Baarderadeel, dopen, geboortejaar 1793, doopjaar 1793
    Dopeling: Willem
    Geboren op 2 december 1793
    Gedoopt op 26 december 1793 in Baard
    Kind van Seerp Gerbens en Sjoukjen Willems

    Gestandaardiseerde namen (voornaam en patroniem):
    Dopeling : WILLEM of WILLEMKE
    Vader : SEERP GERBENS
    Moeder : SJOUKJE WILLEMS

    Bron:
    Collectie Doop-, Trouw-, Begraaf- en Lidmaatboeken (DTBL)
    Herv. gem. Winsum en Baard, doop 1772-1812
    Inventarisnr. : 88
    Op microfiche beschikbaar op studiezaal Tresoar

    Wijzigingsdatum: 20-6-2006

  • He was christened on December 26, 1793 in Baard, Friesland, Netherlands.
  • He died on July 5, 1869 in Wymbritseradeel, Friesland, Netherlands, he was 75 years old.
    Overlijdensakte Wymbritseradeel, 1869
    Aangiftedatum 6 juli 1869, akte nr. 103
    Willem Twijnstra, overleden 5 juli 1869, man
    Oud 75 jaar, gehuwd

  • A child of Sjerp Gerbens Twijnstra and Sjoukjen Willems Groustra
  • This information was last updated on September 18, 2008.

Household of Willem Sjerps Twijnstra

He is married to Japke Pieters Boomsma.

They got married on January 24, 1816 at Heeg, Friesland, Netherlands, he was 22 years old.

Huwelijksakte Wymbritseradeel (mairie Heeg), 1816
Man : Willem Sjeerps Tweenstra
Vrouw : Japke Pieters Boomsma
Datum : 24 januari 1816, akte nr. 1

Opm. : Bruidegom ondertekent met "Twijnstra"


Child(ren):

  8. Jan Willems Twijnstra  1833-1927 

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Birthday December 2, 1793

  • The temperature on December 2, 1793 was about 6.0 °C. There was 26 mm of rainWind direction mainly northwest. 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 1793: Source: Wikipedia
    • July 23 » Kingdom of Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.
    • August 16 » French Revolution: A levée en masse is decreed by the National Convention.
    • October 16 » War of the First Coalition: French victory at the Battle of Wattignies forces Austria to raise the siege of Maubeuge.
    • November 3 » French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.
    • December 9 » New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster.
    • December 26 » Second Battle of Wissembourg: France defeats Austria.

Christening day December 26, 1793

  • The temperature on December 26, 1793 was about 4.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east by north. Weather type: zeer 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 1793: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 1 » French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
    • March 18 » Flanders Campaign of the French Revolution, Battle of Neerwinden.
    • March 18 » The first modern republic in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann.
    • July 9 » The Act Against Slavery in Upper Canada bans the importation of slaves and will free those who are born into slavery after the passage of the Act at 25 years of age.
    • December 9 » New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster.
    • December 23 » The Battle of Savenay: A decisive defeat of the royalist counter-revolutionaries in War in the Vendée during the French Revolution.

Day of marriage January 24, 1816

  • The temperature on January 24, 1816 was about 1.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: betrokken regen. 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 1816: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 9 » Humphry Davy tests his safety lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.
    • February 20 » Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville premieres at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.
    • May 2 » Marriage of Léopold of Saxe-Coburg and Princess Charlotte of Wales.
    • July 2 » The French frigateMéduse strikes the Bank of Arguin and 151 people on board have to be evacuated on an improvised raft, a case immortalised by Géricault's painting The Raft of the Medusa.
    • September 15 » HMSWhiting runs aground on the Doom Bar.
    • December 30 » The Treaty of St. Louis between the United States and the united Ottawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi Indian tribes is proclaimed.

Day of death July 5, 1869

  • The temperature on July 5, 1869 was about 26.8 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 51%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
  • In the year 1869: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • January 27 » Boshin War: Tokugawa rebels establish the Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō.
    • April 17 » Morelos is admitted as the 27th state of Mexico.
    • June 27 » The Republic of Ezo on the island of Hokkaido ends after being defeated by Japanese Imperial troops.
    • October 5 » The Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region in Canada.
    • October 16 » Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England's first residential college for women.
    • October 16 » The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".


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