Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum » Jan Durks | Dircx Posthumus (1755-1786)

Personal data Jan Durks | Dircx Posthumus 

  • Patronym Durks | Dircx.
  • He was born in the year 1755.Source 1
  • Resident: 1783 Wommels.
  • He died in the year 1786, he was 31 years old.Source 2
  • This information was last updated on March 26, 2025.

Household of Jan Durks | Dircx Posthumus

He is married to Aaltje Veenstra.

They got married on March 9, 1783 at Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland, he was 28 years old.Source 3


Child(ren):

  1. Jantje Posthumus  1786-1870 

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Jan Posthumus

Jan Posthumus
1755-1786

1783

Aaltje Veenstra
1756-1848

Jantje Posthumus
1786-1870

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Sources

  1. https://www.wiewaswie.nl/nl/detail/54723255
  2. https://www.wiewaswie.nl/nl/detail/54115798
    <13-05-1787
  3. https://www.wiewaswie.nl/nl/detail/54723255

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Historical events

Day of marriage March 9, 1783

  • The temperature on March 9, 1783 was about 3.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly west by south. 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 1783: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 20 » The Kingdom of Great Britain signed preliminary articles of peace with France, setting the stage to the official end of hostilities in the American Revolutionary War later that year.
    • February 3 » Spain–United States relations are first established.
    • June 4 » The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).
    • June 22 » A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
    • July 24 » The Kingdom of Georgia and the Russian Empire sign the Treaty of Georgievsk.
    • August 4 » Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing about 1,400 people. The eruption causes a famine, which results in an additional 20,000 deaths.

About the surname Posthumus


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Pauline Berens BC, "Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/ofb-barger-compascuum/I94649.php : accessed February 2, 2026), "Jan Durks | Dircx Posthumus (1755-1786)".