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Personal data Willem Mertens 

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Household of Willem Mertens

He is married to Nieske Visser.

They got married on September 7, 1922 at Hoogkerk, Nederland, he was 26 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Jan Mertens  1923-1924
  2. ??  

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Willem Mertens

Johannes Petrus Mertens
1825-1884
Henderika Vermeulen
1821-1859
Berend Engberts van Es
1809-1872
Gebbina Kremer
1822-1894
Jan Mertens
1857-1908

Willem Mertens
1896-1979

1922

Nieske Visser
1900-1990

Jan Mertens
1923-1924
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    1. koning Web Site, henk koning, Willem Mertens, July 3, 2012
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      Familiesite: koning Web Site
      Stamboom: 8590119-3
    2. ELP Web Site, jan van Elp, Willem Mertens, July 3, 2012
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      Familiesite: ELP Web Site
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    Historical events

    Birthday February 17, 1896

    • The temperature on February 17, 1896 was about -0.3 °C. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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 4 » Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
      • February 1 » La bohème premieres in Turin at the Teatro Regio (Turin), conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.
      • March 1 » Battle of Adwa: An Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
      • August 27 » Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in world history (09:02 to 09:40), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
      • December 14 » The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
      • December 17 » Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Schenley Park Casino, which was the first multi-purpose arena with the technology to create an artificial ice surface in North America, is destroyed in a fire.

    Day of marriage September 7, 1922

    • The temperature on September 7, 1922 was between 7.4 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (72%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
    • 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 1922: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 7.0 million citizens.
      • February 9 » Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
      • March 10 » Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation.
      • June 24 » The American Professional Football Association is renamed the National Football League.
      • July 9 » Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds breaking the world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'.
      • July 15 » Japanese Communist Party is established in Japan.
      • October 19 » British Conservative MPs vote to terminate the coalition government with the Liberal Party.

    Day of death March 9, 1979

    • The temperature on March 9, 1979 was between 1.3 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 13.6 mm of rain during 8.3 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1979: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
      • January 25 » Pope John Paul II starts his first official papal visits outside Italy to The Bahamas, Dominican Republic, and Mexico.
      • June 20 » ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart is shot dead by a Nicaraguan soldier under the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. The murder is caught on tape and sparks an international outcry against the regime.
      • August 5 » In Afghanistan, Maoists undertake the Bala Hissar uprising against the Leninist government.
      • October 17 » Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
      • October 26 » Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea, is assassinated by Korean CIA head Kim Jae-gyu.
      • November 28 » Air New Zealand Flight 901, a DC-10 sightseeing flight over Antarctica, crashes into Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.
    

    Same birth/death day

    Source: Wikipedia

    • 1890 » Ronald Fisher, English-Australian statistician, biologist, and geneticist († 1962)
    • 1891 » Abraham Fraenkel, German-Israeli mathematician and academic († 1965)
    • 1893 » Wally Pipp, American baseball player and journalist († 1965)
    • 1899 » Jibanananda Das, Bangladeshi-Indian poet and author († 1954)
    • 1900 » Ruth Clifford, American actress († 1998)
    • 1903 » Sadegh Hedayat, Iranian-French author and translator († 1951)

    Source: Wikipedia


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