Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum » Gerrit Voorn (1860-1954)

Personal data Gerrit Voorn 


Household of Gerrit Voorn

He is married to Geertien Roelofs.

They got married on September 2, 1884 at Emmen, Gemeente Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland, he was 24 years old.Source 3


Child(ren):

  1. Jan Voorn  1889-???? 
  2. Berend Voorn  1897-1921

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Sources

  1. https://www.wiewaswie.nl/nl/detail/14666190
    24 in 1884
  2. https://www.wiewaswie.nl/nl/detail/32490006
    Relatie: Geertien Roelofs
    Relatie: Marijgien Prins
  3. https://www.wiewaswie.nl/nl/detail/14666190
    Opmerkingen: voogd bruid Jan Harm Leferink; toeziend voogd bruid Hendrik Jan Grobbe; vader bruidegom overleden

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Historical events

Day of marriage September 2, 1884

  • The temperature on September 2, 1884 was about 15.7 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%. 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 April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1884: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • March 27 » A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury which had returned a verdict of manslaughter in what was seen as a clear case of murder; over the next few days the mob would riot and eventually destroy the courthouse.
    • May 1 » Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
    • July 5 » Germany takes possession of Cameroon.
    • August 5 » The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
    • October 6 » The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island.
    • October 13 » The International Meridian Conference establishes the meridian of the Greenwich Observatory as the prime meridian.

Day of death February 12, 1954

  • The average temperature on February 12, 1954 was 1.7 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1954: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 10.6 million citizens.
    • February 13 » Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game.
    • March 1 » Nuclear weapons testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
    • March 13 » The Battle of Điện Biên Phủ begins with an artillery barrage by Viet Minh forces under Võ Nguyên Giáp; Viet Minh victory lead to the end of the First Indochina War and French withdrawal from Vietnam.
    • April 25 » The first practical solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories.
    • June 14 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words "under God" into the United States Pledge of Allegiance.
    • July 20 » Germany: Otto John, head of West Germany's secret service, defects to East Germany.


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