Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum » Grethe Elisabeth - Griet Liezebet - Elisabeth Engelken (1816-1896)
Personal data Grethe Elisabeth - Griet Liezebet - Elisabeth Engelken
- Also known as Engelke(n)s.
- She was born on October 7, 1816 in Melstrup, Fresenburg, Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany.Source 1
- She was christened in Lathen, Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany.
- Profession: arbeidster.
- Resident on September 26, 1873: Barger-Compascuum.
- She died on May 7, 1896 in Barger-Compascuum, Gemeente Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland, she was 79 years old.Source 2
- She is buried in Barger-Compascuum, Gemeente Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland.Source 3
- A child of Johann Theodor - Jan Dir(c)k Engelken and Anna Wobbina - Wübke Grote
- This information was last updated on October 5, 2019.
Household of Grethe Elisabeth - Griet Liezebet - Elisabeth Engelken
She had a relationship with Johann Heinrich - Jan Hindrik - Hendrik Eilers.
Child(ren):
- Jan Berend Eilers 1849-1851
- Anna Leenke - Helena Eilers 1856-1876
- Anna Gesina Eilers 1859-1859
- Johannes Eilers 1861-1864
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Ancestors (and descendant) of Grethe Elisabeth - Griet Liezebet - Elisabeth Engelken
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Robert Engelken http://gedbas.genealogy.net/person/show/1152523483Pauline Berens: Genealogienetwerk zus Greetje Berens voorheen EemslandBoekweitBoerenImmigratie
https://www.genealogieonline.nl/the-dutch-connection/I1433.php- Johan Bernard (Broer) Berens CBB134 JB (Broer) Berens: overledenen parochie Barger-Compascuum 1873-1959 https://fjmblom.home.xs4all.nl/collectie_broer_berens/collectie_broer_berens9.html
J.B. (Broer) Berens: overledenen parochie Barger-Compascuum 1873-1959 https://fjmblom.home.xs4all.nl/collectie_broer_berens/collectie_broer_berens9.html
7-5-1896 Elisabeth Engelkens 78 jaar weduwe Hendrik Eilers/Eilders
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Overlijden (Overlijden), Emmen, 08-05-1896, aktenummer 146
Overleden: Elisabeth Engelkes; geboren op: 18-10-1817 te Meelstrup (Duitsland ); beroep: zonder, overleden op 07-05-1896 te Barger Compascuum (Emmen); oud: 78 jaar en 6 maand, dochter van NN NN en NN NN .
Gehuwd geweest met: Hendrik Eilers (overleden;Overleden echtgenoot) - Johan Bernard (Broer) Berens: overledenen parochie Barger-Compascuum 1873-1959 https://fjmblom.home.xs4all.nl/collectie_broer_berens/collectie_broer_berens9.html
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Birthday October 7, 1816
- The temperature on October 7, 1816 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: betrokken regen winderig. Source: KNMI
- This page is only available in Dutch.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.
- May 22 » A mob in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, riots over high unemployment and rising grain costs, and the riots spread to Ely the next day.
- June 19 » Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
- 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.
- July 9 » Argentina declares independence from Spain.
- November 19 » Warsaw University is established.
Day of death May 7, 1896
- The temperature on May 7, 1896 was about 12.6 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 73%. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1896: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
- March 1 » Henri Becquerel discovers radioactive decay.
- June 15 » The deadliest tsunami in Japan's history kills more than 22,000 people.
- June 28 » An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
- July 9 » William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
- November 27 » Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss is first performed.
- December 30 » Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila.
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- 1917 » Albert Ball, English fighter pilot (b. 1896)
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