Genealogisch bestand van Leo Hendriks » Josias Eckhardt (1672-1740)

Personal data Josias Eckhardt 

    Josias Eckhardt was de zoon van Jean Andeas Eckhardt en Maria Spieringh.
    Jean Andreas was raad van Zijne Koninklijke Majesteit van Groot Brittanni'é
    en resident van het hof te Brussel. Josias werd geboren in Den Haag maar
    vertrok omstreeks 1697 naar Breda. Hij was daar rentmeester van de domeinen
    van de prins van Oranje. Waarschijnlijk woonde hij in één van de gebouwen,
    dië eigendom waren van de prins, zoals het Kasteel met zijn vele bijgebouwen,
    het huis in het Valkenburg of het Klooster. In 1706 trouwde hij met Jeanne
    Georgette de Villegas, de dochter van Gautier de Villegas, commandeur van
    Breda, [b]
    Korte tijd daarna zou hij zijn weerdagboek starten, waarschijnlijk puur uit
    liefhebberij. Zijn waarnemingsregisters zijn voornamelijk van belang vanwege
    de zeer uitgebreide weerbeschrijvingen. Deze gegevens zijn een belangrijke
    bron van informatie, omdat ze de meest uitgebreide waarnemingsreeks uit die
    tijd vormen. Vanaf 1710 verrichtte hij tevens temperatuurmetingen met een
    zeer primitieve thermometer of meerdere thermometers, waarschijnlijk van
    Engelse makelij. In die tijd maakte een Engels instrumentmaker, Francis
    Hauksbee (de jongere) een reis, waarbij hij ook ons land aandeed. Hij demonstreerde
    op zijn reis thermometers van John Patrick
  • He was born on July 28, 1672 in 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland.
  • He died on June 12, 1740 in Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland, he was 67 years old.
  • This information was last updated on September 8, 2018.

Household of Josias Eckhardt

He is married to Jeanna Georgette de Villegas.

They got married on December 19, 1706 at 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland, he was 34 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Wouter Eckhardt  1708-1771 

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Josias Eckhardt

Josias Eckhardt
1672-1740

1706

Jeanna Georgette de Villegas
1682-1762

Wouter Eckhardt
1708-1771
Johanna Georgetta Titia Amadea Eckhardt
1728-????

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Birthday July 28, 1672

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    Van 1650 tot 1672 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Eerste Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
  • Stadhouder Prins Willem III (Huis van Oranje) was from 1672 till 1702 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1672: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 15 » Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence.
    • May 2 » John Maitland becomes Duke of Lauderdale and Earl of March.
    • May 5 » In preparation for the Franco-Dutch War, Louis XIV of France personally inspects his troops at Charleroi in one of the most magnificent displays of military power in the seventeenth century.
    • August 20 » Former Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis are lynched by an angry mob in The Hague.

Day of marriage December 19, 1706

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    Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
  • In the year 1706: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 3 » During the Battle of Fraustadt Swedish forces defeat a superior Saxon-Polish-Russian force by deploying a double envelopment.
    • May 23 » John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, defeats a French army under Marshal François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy at the Battle of Ramillies.
    • July 22 » The Acts of Union 1707 are agreed upon by commissioners from the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland, which, when passed by each countries' Parliaments, led to the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
    • September 7 » War of the Spanish Succession: Siege of Turin ends, leading to the withdrawal of French forces from North Italy.

Day of death June 12, 1740

  • The temperature on June 12, 1740 was about 10.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
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    Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
  • In the year 1740: Source: Wikipedia
    • April 8 » War of Jenkins' Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate Princesa, taken into service as HMSPrincess.
    • June 13 » Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.
    • June 26 » A combined force of Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
    • August 17 » Pope Benedict XIV, previously known as Prospero Lambertini, succeeds Clement XII as the 247th Pope.
    • October 9 » Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin massacring the ethnic Chinese population in Batavia, eventually killing 10,000.
    • October 20 » France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction, and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.


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