Purvis Farquhar » Gerrigje Wierks (1868-1924)

Personal data Gerrigje Wierks 

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  • She was born in the year 1868 in Tienhoven.
  • She died on May 30, 1924 in Ameide, she was 56 years old.

Household of Gerrigje Wierks

She is married to Willem Streefkerk.

They got married on February 28, 1896 at Tienhoven, she was 28 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Fijgje Streefkerk  1899-????
  2. Cornelis Streefkerk  1898-????
  3. Cornelis Streefkerk  1896-1897

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Gerrigje Wierks
1868-1924

1896

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Historical events

  • The temperature on February 28, 1896 was about 4.5 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. 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.
    • January 28 » Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8mph (13km/h), thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2mph (3.2km/h).
    • May 18 » Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people.
    • May 18 » The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine is constitutional.
    • 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.
    • August 16 » Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
    • August 27 » Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in world history (09:02 to 09:40), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
  • The temperature on May 30, 1924 was between 10.5 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1924: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
    • January 22 » Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
    • February 5 » The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal.
    • February 14 » The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
    • March 16 » In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume becomes annexed as part of Italy.
    • June 10 » Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
    • November 27 » In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.


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