Otten family tree » Grietje Jans Kootstra (1829-1910)
Personal data Grietje Jans Kootstra
- She was born on March 12, 1829 in Langezwaag, Fryslân | Friesland, Nederland.Source 1
- Profession: Arbeidster.
- She died on May 5, 1910 in Emmen, she was 81 years old.Source 2
81 jaar oud
- A child of Jan Aukes Kootstra and Fokjen Johannes Knevelman
Household of Grietje Jans Kootstra
(1) She is married to Willem Willems Boersema.
They got married on May 18, 1851 at Ooststellingwerf, she was 22 years old.Source 3
Child(ren):
- Tietje Willems Boersma 1851-1937
- Baukje Willems Boersma 1855-1858
- Jan Willems Boersma 1858-1918
- Baukje Boersma 1861-1920
- Willem Boersma 1863-1939
- Aukje Boersma 1865-1890
- Mina Boersma 1868-1937
- X Boersma 1868-1868
- Johannes Boersma 1871-1957
(2) She is married to Berend Alles Hoogenberg.
They got married on December 9, 1881 at Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland, she was 52 years old.Source 4
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Historical events
Birthday March 12, 1829
- The temperature on March 12, 1829 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: half bewolkt. 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 1829: Source: Wikipedia
- May 2 » After anchoring nearby, Captain Charles Fremantle of HMSChallenger, declares the Swan River Colony in Australia.
- June 5 » HMSPickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
- August 3 » The Treaty of Lewistown is signed by the Shawnee and Seneca peoples, exchanging land in Ohio for land west of the Mississippi River.
- October 8 » Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials.
- November 30 » First Welland Canal opens for a trial run, five years to the day from the ground breaking.
- December 4 » In the face of fierce local opposition, British Governor-General Lord William Bentinck issues a regulation declaring that anyone who abets suttee in Bengal is guilty of culpable homicide.
Day of marriage December 9, 1881
- The temperature on December 9, 1881 was about 6.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 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 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 1881: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
- February 16 » The Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1).
- April 11 » Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
- April 14 » The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
- May 10 » Carol I is crowned the King of the Romanian Kingdom.
- June 29 » In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam.
- July 1 » General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
Day of death May 5, 1910
- The temperature on May 5, 1910 was between 2.9 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (46%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
- In the year 1910: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.9 million citizens.
- March 1 » The deadliest avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County, Washington, killing 96 people.
- May 4 » The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
- September 20 » The ocean liner SSFrance, later known as the "Versailles of the Atlantic", is launched.
- October 20 » The hull of the RMSOlympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
- October 21 » HMSNiobe arrives in Halifax Harbour to become the first ship of the Royal Canadian Navy.
- November 10 » The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, although the official founding date is November 23, 1910.
Same birth/death day
- 1821 » John Abbott, Canadian lawyer and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Canada († 1893)
- 1823 » Katsu Kaishū, Japanese statesman († 1899)
- 1824 » Gustav Kirchhoff, Russian-German physicist and academic († 1887)
- 1832 » Charles Boycott, English farmer and agent († 1897)
- 1834 » Hilary A. Herbert, Secretary of the Navy († 1919)
- 1835 » Simon Newcomb, Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician († 1909)
- 1902 » Bret Harte, American short story writer and poet (b. 1836)
- 1907 » Şeker Ahmed Pasha, Turkish soldier and painter (b. 1841)
- 1913 » Henry Moret, French painter (b. 1856)
- 1916 » John MacBride, Irish soldier and rebel (b. 1865)
- 1916 » Maurice Raoul-Duval, French polo player (b. 1866)
- 1921 » Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian journalist and publicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
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