Eijsermans family tree » Gerardus Smits (1842-1916)

Personal data Gerardus Smits 


Household of Gerardus Smits

He is married to Anna Christina Joosten.

They got married.


Child(ren):

  1. Theodorus Smits  1878-????
  2. Hendrik Smits  1880-???? 
  3. Maria Catharina Smits  1883-???? 


Notes about Gerardus Smits

bev. reg. Valkenswaard 1880-1890, wijk C, f 2; van A. 4.3.1885;
bev.reg. B en S. 1910-1920; f 111;
BS Borkel en Schaft overlijdens;
ook: pg Groote Brogel; dg 1848;
bev. reg. B en S 1890-1910; blad 123; woont 114; van V. 6.6.1896; ook:dg 1849

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Gerardus Smits

Francis Smits
????-< 1879
Helena de Jong
????-< 1879
Hendrik Smits
1803-1879

Gerardus Smits
1842-1916


Anna Christina Joosten
1850-1908

Theodorus Smits
1878-????
Hendrik Smits
1880-????
Maria Catharina Smits
1883-????

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Birthday October 16, 1842

  • The temperature on October 16, 1842 was about 12.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. 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.
    • January 13 » Dr. William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British East India Company Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 4,500 men and 12,000 camp followers when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
    • March 9 » Giuseppe Verdi's third opera, Nabucco, receives its première performance in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera composers.
    • May 16 » The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail from Elm Grove, Missouri, with 100 pioneers.
    • August 1 » The Lombard Street riot erupts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
    • November 26 » The University of Notre Dame is founded.
    • December 7 » First concert of the New York Philharmonic, founded by Ureli Corelli Hill.

Day of death October 11, 1916

  • The temperature on October 11, 1916 was between 13.2 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1916: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
    • May 16 » The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the French Third Republic sign the secret wartime Sykes-Picot Agreement partitioning former Ottoman territories such as Iraq and Syria.
    • June 5 » Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he is the first American Jew to hold such a position.
    • August 14 » Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary.
    • August 25 » The United States National Park Service is created.
    • August 27 » World War I: The Kingdom of Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary, entering the war as one of the Allied nations.
    • December 23 » World War I: Battle of Magdhaba: Allied forces defeat Turkish forces in the Sinai Peninsula.


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