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Personal data Willem Wegen 


Household of Willem Wegen

He is married to Gerritje Schaftenaar.

They got married on November 13, 1867 at Harderwijk, Gelderland, Nederland, he was 34 years old.Source 1


Child(ren):

  1. Geertje Wegen  1868-1945

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Willem Wegen

Willem Wegen
1833-1904

1867

Gerritje Schaftenaar
1837-1890

Geertje Wegen
1868-1945

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Sources

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Historical events

Day of marriage November 13, 1867

  • The temperature on November 13, 1867 was about 8.5 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 68%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • From June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
  • In the year 1867: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • March 1 » Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital.
    • March 29 » Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes Canada on July 1.
    • April 1 » Singapore becomes a British crown colony.
    • May 3 » The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
    • August 28 » The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll.
    • November 9 » Tokugawa shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.

Day of death February 22, 1904

  • The temperature on February 22, 1904 was between 0.7 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1904: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.4 million citizens.
    • January 23 » Ålesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style.
    • February 17 » Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.
    • April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
    • May 9 » The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100mph (160km/h).
    • October 27 » The first underground New York City Subway line opens, later designated as the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line.
    • November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).


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Source: Wikipedia


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