Sluzigers (e.a.) » Thijs Jacobs van der Meulen (1762-????)

Personal data Thijs Jacobs van der Meulen 

  • He was born in the year 1762 in Zwartsluis.
  • He was christened on February 24, 1762 in Zwartsluis.Source 1
    Stijntje Hijlkes de Jager witnessed this.
  • Occupations:
    • starting around 1787 schipper.Source 2
      'varende van Amersfoort'
    • from April 27, 1791 till January 31, 1793 matroos VOC.Source 3
      Voornaam opvarende: Thijs
      Tussenvoegsel opvarende: van der
      Achternaam opvarende: Moolen
      Herkomst opvarende: Swartsluis
      Datum indiensttreding: 1791-04-27
      Functie bij indiensttreding: Matroos
      Uitleg over functie: waak- en roergang; laden en lossen; reinigen, teren en kalfaten van het schip; af- en aanslaan van de zeilen; helpers van de onderofficieren. Ook wel bootsgezel.
      Uitgevaren met het schip: DRIE GEBROEDERS
      Datum uit dienst: 1793-01-31
      Waar uit dienst: Kaap de Goede Hoop
      Reden uit dienst: Naar marine
      Uitleg over reden einde dienstverband: de opvarende wordt aangemonsterd op een oorlogsschip
      Schuldbrief: Ja
      Maandbrief: Nee
    • starting around 1800 zeeman.Source 4
      woont in 1814 in Amsterdam
  • A child of Jacob Thijs van der Meulen and Antonia Batenburg
  • This information was last updated on March 21, 2022.

Household of Thijs Jacobs van der Meulen

He is married to Hendrikjen Groenewoud.

Permission for the marriage has been obtained in Zwartsluis on May 11, 1787.Source 5

They got married on June 7, 1787 at Amersfoort, he was 25 years old.Source 6

03-05-1787 ondertrouw Amersfoort

Notes about Thijs Jacobs van der Meulen

achternaam in WWW ook: van der Molen
voornaam in WWW ook: Matthijs

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Thijs Jacobs van der Meulen

Thijs Jans van der Meulen
1701-1775
Haasjen Alberts Mussche
± 1700-1777
Bartholomeus van Batenburg
± 1685-????
Cornelia Tieland
± 1690-1754

Thijs Jacobs van der Meulen
1762-????

1787

Hendrikjen Groenewoud
± 1764-1828


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Sources

  1. db rec. 6589
  2. trouwboek Zwartsluis
  3. Nationaal Archief, VOC opvarenden
  4. huwelijksakte 1814, Antonia van der Molen, Amersfoort
  5. tb rec. 2170
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Historical events

Christening day February 24, 1762

  • The temperature on February 24, 1762 was about 1.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north by east. Weather type: omtrent helder. 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 1762: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 10 » French Huguenot Jean Calas, who had been wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities; the event inspired Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform.
    • May 22 » Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg.
    • June 24 » Battle of Wilhelmsthal: The British-Hanoverian army of Ferdinand of Brunswick defeats French forces in Westphalia.
    • July 9 » Catherine the Great becomes Empress of Russia following the coup against her husband, Peter III.
    • September 15 » Seven Years' War: Battle of Signal Hill.
    • October 6 » Seven Years' War: The British Capture Manila from Spain and occupy it.

Day of marriage June 7, 1787

  • The temperature on June 7, 1787 was about 11.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: helder. Special wheather fenomena: noorderlicht. 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 1787: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 25 » Shays's Rebellion: The rebellion's largest confrontation, outside the Springfield Armory, results in the killing of four rebels and the wounding of twenty.
    • February 3 » Militia led by General Benjamin Lincoln crush the remnants of Shays' Rebellion in Petersham, Massachusetts.
    • May 13 » Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the "First Fleet") to establish a penal colony in Australia.
    • June 20 » Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the 'United States'.
    • September 17 » The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia.
    • September 28 » The Congress of the Confederation votes to send the newly-written United States Constitution to the state legislatures for approval.

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