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Personal data Wilhelmus Rijkers 


Household of Wilhelmus Rijkers

He is married to Cornelia Driessen.

They got married on May 8, 1863 at Riethoven (gemeente Bergeijk), he was 23 years old.

BS Riethoven huwelijken;

Child(ren):

  1. Johanna Maria Rijkers  1864-1904 
  2. Hendrikus Rijkers  1865-1950 
  3. Peternella Rijkers  1868-1871
  5. Wilhelmus Rijkers  1872-> 1915 
  6. Petronella Rijkers  1875-???? 
  7. Hendrika Rijkers  1877-???? 
  8. Johannes Rijkers  1879-1880


Notes about Wilhelmus Rijkers

BS Valkenswaard, overlijdens; woont wijk D, 44;
bev.reg. Riethoven 1890-1902, lijst van hoofdbewoners wijk A 31 t/m 60;
bev.reg. Riethoven 1903-1916 f 34; woont A 35; naar V. 7.12.1908;
BS Riethoven, geboorten;
bev.reg. Riethoven 1890-1902; f 34; woont 35
Bev. reg. Riethoven 1870-1879 f 101; woont voort 6;
ook: Rykers;

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Birthday July 22, 1839

  • The temperature on July 22, 1839 was about 20.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: half bewolkt winderig regen. 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 1839: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
    • January 9 » The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
    • January 20 » In the Battle of Yungay, Chile defeats an alliance between Peru and Bolivia.
    • June 3 » In Humen, China, Lin Tse-hsü destroys 1.2million kilograms of opium confiscated from British merchants, providing Britain with a casus belli to open hostilities, resulting in the First Opium War.
    • August 23 » The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for the First Opium War with Qing China.
    • September 9 » John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
    • November 25 » A cyclone slams into south-eastern India, with high winds and a 40-foot storm surge destroying the port city of Coringa (which has never been completely rebuilt). The storm wave swept inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths resulted from the disaster.

Day of marriage May 8, 1863

  • The temperature on May 8, 1863 was about 12.2 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 65%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1863: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • February 7 » HMSOrpheus sinks off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, killing 189.
    • March 30 » Danish prince Wilhelm Georg is chosen as King George of Greece.
    • May 27 » American Civil War: First Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson.
    • June 9 » American Civil War: Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia.
    • September 20 » American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga, in northwestern Georgia, ends in a Confederate victory.
    • November 24 » American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain: Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.

Day of death January 16, 1911

  • The temperature on January 16, 1911 was between -6.0 °C and 2.9 °C and averaged -1.3 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1911: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
    • May 15 » In Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, the United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be broken up.
    • June 16 » IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
    • June 28 » The Nakhla meteorite, the first one to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars, falls to Earth, landing in Egypt.
    • August 29 » The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
    • September 1 » The armored cruiser Georgios Averof is commissioned into the Greek Navy. It now serves as a museum ship.
    • October 10 » The day after a bomb explodes prematurely, the Wuchang Uprising begins against the Chinese monarchy.


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