Sluzigers (e.a.) » Jan Hendriks Meijer (1741-1792)

Personal data Jan Hendriks Meijer 

  • He was born in the year 1741 in Zwartsluis.
  • He was christened on March 5, 1741 in Zwartsluis.Source 1
    Arendje Jans witnessed this.
  • Occupations:
    • schipper.Source 2
      22-05-1764 verkoop tjalk aan Steenwijker schipper
    • from January 31, 1788 till 1790 kwartiermeester VOC.Source 3
      Voornaam opvarende: Jan
      Patroniem opvarende: Hendrik
      Achternaam opvarende: Meijer
      Herkomst opvarende: Swartsluijs
      Datum indiensttreding: 1788-01-31
      Functie bij indiensttreding: Kwartiermeester
      Uitleg over functie: directe contole op groepen manschappen, ronddeling warm eten en ordehandhaving tijdens het schaften
      Uitgevaren met het schip: STRALEN
      Datum uit dienst: 1790-00-00
      Waar uit dienst: AREND
      Reden uit dienst: Gerepatrieerd
      Uitleg over reden einde dienstverband: Teruggekeerd naar Nederland en afgemonsterd.
      Opmerking: arbeidsongeschikt (in scan staat: onbekwaam)
      Schip terugreis: AREND

      Begunstigde Maandbrief: M. Koster, Amsterdam

      waarschijnlijk monstert Jan Meijer 20-02-1791 opnieuw aan als matroos in Hoorn. Hij overlijdt een jaar later in Azië.
  • He died on February 14, 1792 in Azië, he was 51 years old.Source 3
  • A child of Hendrik Jans Meijer and Cornelia Arends Pekelharing
  • This information was last updated on April 7, 2021.

Household of Jan Hendriks Meijer

He is married to Margje Jans Koster.

Permission for the marriage has been obtained in Zwartsluis on March 30, 1764.Source 4

They got married on April 23, 1764 at Zwartsluis, he was 23 years old.Source 4

Zwolle: Jan Hend.k Meijer j.m. aan de Zwarte Sluis met Maria Koster j.d. alhier
de proclamatien gaan mede aan de Zwarte Sluis
Den 16 April 1764 Att: verleent om daar te trouwen.

Child(ren):

  1. Hendrik Jans Meijer  1766-1772


Notes about Jan Hendriks Meijer

VT48: binnendijks 1884

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Jan Hendriks Meijer

Jan Meijer
± 1665-????
Arend Jans Pekelharing
± 1660-< 1739
Grietjen Jans Dik
± 1670-1746

Jan Hendriks Meijer
1741-1792

1764

Margje Jans Koster
1741-????

Hendrik Jans Meijer
1766-1772

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Sources

  1. db rec. 5080
  2. HCO Voluntaire zaken 1763-1767/88
  3. Nationaal Archief, VOC opvarenden
  4. tb rec. 1659

Historical events

Christening day March 5, 1741

  • The temperature on March 5, 1741 was about 1.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
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    Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
  • In the year 1741: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 13 » The Battle of Cartagena de Indias (part of the War of Jenkins' Ear) begins.
    • March 18 » New York governor George Clarke's complex at Fort George is burned in an arson attack, starting the New York Conspiracy of 1741.
    • May 20 » The Battle of Cartagena de Indias ends in a Spanish victory and the British begin withdrawal towards Jamaica with substantial losses.
    • July 15 » Aleksei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
    • July 31 » Charles Albert of Bavaria invades Upper Austria and Bohemia.
    • September 14 » George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah.

Day of marriage April 23, 1764

  • The temperature on April 23, 1764 was about 10.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. 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)
  • Regent Lodewijk Ernst (Hertog van Brunswijk-Wolfenbüttel) was from 1759 till 1766 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1764: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 19 » Bolle Willum Luxdorph records in his diary that a mail bomb, possibly the world's first, has severely injured the Danish Colonel Poulsen, residing at Børglum Abbey.
    • January 19 » John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
    • February 15 » The city of St. Louis is established in Spanish Louisiana (now in Missouri, USA).
    • September 7 » Election of Stanisław August Poniatowski as the last ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Day of death February 14, 1792

  • The temperature on February 14, 1792 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: 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 1792: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 20 » The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by United States President George Washington.
    • April 5 » United States President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.
    • April 28 » France invades the Austrian Netherlands (present day Belgium and Luxembourg), beginning the French Revolutionary Wars.
    • May 17 » The New York Stock Exchange is formed under the Buttonwood Agreement.
    • August 13 » King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.
    • September 2 » During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia


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