Family tree Dunning » Jantje Mellema (1842-1928)

Personal data Jantje Mellema 

  • She was born on February 19, 1842 in Doezum, Grootegast, Nederland.
  • Emigrated in the year 1885, Noord-Amerika.
    EmigrantGerrit Jonkman|50 jaar daglooner|Vertrek uitGrootegast|Vertrek naarNoord-Amerika|Datum vertrek1885|ReligieChristelijk Gereformeerd|Vrouw1|Kinderen3|Reden van vertrekVerbetering van bestaan|Welgestelden, Mindergegoeden, BehoeftigenMindergegoeden|Hoofdelijke omslag`Neen|BronStaat van landverhuizers in 1885|Commissaris der Koningin|Inventarisnummer 5548
  • She died March 1928 in Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten, she was 86 years old.

Household of Jantje Mellema

(1) She is married to Gerrit Jonkman.

They got married on May 7, 1869 at Grootegast, Nederland, she was 27 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Hiske Jonkman  1869-1870
  2. Hiske Jonkman  1882-????
  3. Hendrik Jonkman  1871-????
  4. Wiebe Jonkman  1873-????
  5. Tjebbe Jonkman  1877-????


(2) She is married to Hessel Kuipers.

They got married


Notes about Jantje Mellema

(not verified) Left for North America around 1885 with husband and three children. Name is in Staat van landverhuizers in 1885, provincie Groningen

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Jantje Mellema

Jantje Mellema
1842-1928

(1) 1869

Gerrit Jonkman
1834-1885

Hiske Jonkman
1869-1870
Hiske Jonkman
1882-????
Hendrik Jonkman
1871-????
Wiebe Jonkman
1873-????
Tjebbe Jonkman
1877-????
(2) 

Hessel Kuipers
1854-1920


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Birthday February 19, 1842

  • The temperature on February 19, 1842 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south. Weather type: betrokken mist. Source: KNMI
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    De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
  • In the year 1842: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
    • March 9 » The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.
    • March 30 » Ether anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long.
    • May 30 » John Francis attempts to murder Queen Victoria as she drives down Constitution Hill in London with Prince Albert.
    • August 9 » The Webster–Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States–Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains.
    • August 29 » Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War.
    • November 26 » The University of Notre Dame is founded.

Day of marriage May 7, 1869

  • The temperature on May 7, 1869 was about 18.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west by south. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 69%. 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 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
  • In the year 1869: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • May 10 » The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah with the golden spike.
    • July 25 » The Japanese daimyōs begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869).
    • August 29 » The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first mountain-climbing rack railway.
    • September 24 » Gold prices plummet after President Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.
    • November 11 » The Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act is enacted in Australia, giving the government control of indigenous people's wages, their terms of employment, where they could live, and of their children, effectively leading to the Stolen Generations.
    • November 22 » In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched


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