Kramer Family Tree » Gepke Tjeerds Wiersma De Wit (1879-1943)
Personal data Gepke Tjeerds Wiersma De Wit
Source 1- She was born on December 15, 1879 in Surhuisterveen, Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Netherlands.
- She died on August 7, 1943 in Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland, she was 63 years old.
- She is buried in Boelenslaan - gemeente Achtkarspelen.
- A child of Tjeerd Tjallings de Wit and Rinskje Tiemens Wiersma
Household of Gepke Tjeerds Wiersma De Wit
She is married to Sjoerd Nijboer.
They got married on September 19, 1914 at Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland, she was 34 years old.
They got marriedChild(ren):
- Anne Nijboer 1900-
- Johanna Nijboer 1906-1918
- Sjoerd Nijboer 1915-1917
- Johanna Nijboer 1920-1923
- Sjoerd Nijboer 1922-1923
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Historical events
Birthday December 15, 1879
- The temperature on December 15, 1879 was about -5.7 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. 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 November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
- In The Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
- In the year 1879: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
- March 11 » Shō Tai formally abdicated his position of King of Ryūkyū, under orders from Tokyo, ending the Ryukyu Kingdom.
- May 31 » Gilmore's Garden in New York City is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
- October 7 » Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the "Twofold Covenant" and create the Dual Alliance.
- October 8 » War of the Pacific: The Chilean Navy defeats the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos.
- October 21 » Thomas Edison applies for a patent for his design for an incandescent light bulb.
- December 31 » Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
Day of marriage September 19, 1914
- The temperature on September 19, 1914 was between 8.1 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 8.7 mm of rain. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1914: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
- March 7 » Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign as King.
- July 11 » Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball.
- August 25 » World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
- September 22 » A German submarine sinks three British cruisers over a seventy-minute period, killing almost 1500 sailors.
- September 26 » The United States Federal Trade Commission is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.
- November 1 » World War I: The Australian Imperial Force (AIF) departed by ship in a single convoy from Albany, Western Australia bound for Egypt.
Day of death August 7, 1943
- The temperature on August 7, 1943 was between 13.1 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (15%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1943: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
- January 11 » The Republic of China agrees to the Sino-British New Equal Treaty and the Sino-American New Equal Treaty.
- February 16 » World War II: In the early phases of the Third Battle of Kharkov, Red Army troops re-enter the city.
- April 7 » The Holocaust in Ukraine: In Terebovlia, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress and march through the city to the nearby village of Plebanivka, where they are shot and buried in ditches.
- May 15 » Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or Third International).
- May 30 » The Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Zigeunerfamilienlager (Romani family camp) at Auschwitz concentration camp.
- June 3 » In Los Angeles, California, white U.S. Navy sailors and Marines clash with Latino youths in the Zoot Suit Riots.
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Louis Kramer, "Kramer Family Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/kramer_stamboom/I513100.php : accessed January 25, 2026), "Gepke Tjeerds Wiersma De Wit (1879-1943)".