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Personal data Jacob Willems Hoekstra 

Sources 1, 2
  • He was born in the year 1740 in Nijega, Smallingerland, Friesland, Netherlands.
  • He was christened on December 17, 1740 in Nijega.
  • He died December 1797 in Nijega, Smallingerland, Friesland, Netherlands, he was 57 years old.

Household of Jacob Willems Hoekstra

He is married to Zwaantje Wopkes Lap.

They got married on December 9, 1781 at Oudega, he was 41 years old.

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  1. Fokkema Web Site, Tonnie Fokkema, Jacob Willems Hoekstra, December 3, 2013
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  2. Boelens Web Site, Jelle Boelens, Jacob Willems Hoekstra, December 24, 2013
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Historical events

Christening day December 17, 1740

  • The temperature on December 17, 1740 was about 3.0 °C. There was 48 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: regen. Source: KNMI
  •  This page is only available in Dutch.
    Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
  • In the year 1740: Source: Wikipedia
    • April 8 » War of Jenkins' Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate Princesa, taken into service as HMSPrincess.
    • June 13 » Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.
    • June 26 » A combined force of Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
    • August 17 » Pope Benedict XIV, previously known as Prospero Lambertini, succeeds Clement XII as the 247th Pope.
    • October 9 » Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin massacring the ethnic Chinese population in Batavia, eventually killing 10,000.
    • October 20 » France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction, and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.

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