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Personal data Gerrit Rientses Terpstra 


Household of Gerrit Rientses Terpstra

He is married to Pietje Symons.

They were married in church on December 29, 1765 at Wommels, he was 33 years old.


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Notes about Gerrit Rientses Terpstra

Gerrit woonde in het gehucht Hennaard, en was van beroep landbouwer.

Naamsaanneming 1811 in de mairie (gemeente) Witmarsum, folio 90, Gerrit Rientses te Hartwerd = Terpstra. Met kinderen: Janke 43, Akke 38, Rients 37, Rinske3 4, Simontje 31, Boukje 28, Klaas 25.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Gerrit Rientses Terpstra

Janke Durks
± 1710-> 1732

Gerrit Rientses Terpstra
1732-1819

1765

Pietje Symons
1747-1815

Marijke Gerrits Terpstra
1770-1809

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Historical events

Christening day May 1, 1732

  • The temperature on May 1, 1732 was about 12.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: geheel betrokken. Source: KNMI
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    Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
  • In the year 1732: Source: Wikipedia
    • June 9 » James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of the future U.S. state of Georgia.
    • September 16 » In Campo Maior, Portugal, a storm hits the Armory and a violent explosion ensues, killing two thirds of its inhabitants.
    • November 29 » The magnitude 6.6 Irpinia earthquake causes 1,940 deaths in the former Kingdom of Naples, southern Italy.
    • December 7 » The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London, England.

Day of marriage December 29, 1765

  • The temperature on December 29, 1765 was about -3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: betrokken. Special wheather fenomena: ijs. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • Regent Lodewijk Ernst (Hertog van Brunswijk-Wolfenbüttel) was from 1759 till 1766 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1765: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 25 » Port Egmont, the first British settlement in the Falkland Islands near the southern tip of South America, is founded.
    • March 9 » After a campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son may have actually committed suicide.
    • March 22 » The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.
    • March 24 » Great Britain passes the Quartering Act, which requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.
    • August 12 » Treaty of Allahabad is signed. The Treaty marks the political and constitutional involvement and the beginning of Company rule in India.
    • November 1 » The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the Thirteen Colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.

Day of death November 20, 1819

  • The temperature on November 20, 1819 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: half bewolkt 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 1819: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 6 » Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.
    • February 7 » Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles leaves Singapore after just taking it over, leaving it in the hands of William Farquhar.
    • February 19 » British explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands and claims them in the name of King George III.
    • March 15 » French physicist Augustin Fresnel is adjudged the winner of the Grand Prix of the Académie des Sciences for his "Memoir on the Diffraction of Light", which verifies the Fresnel integrals, accounts for the limited extent to which light spreads into shadows, and thereby demolishes Newton's initial objection to the wave theory of light.
    • June 16 » A major earthquake strikes the Kutch district of western India, killing over 1,543 people and raising a 6m high, 6km wide, ridge, extending for at least 80km, that was known as the Allah Bund ("Dam of God").
    • July 1 » Johann Georg Tralles discovers the Great Comet of 1819, (C/1819 N1). It was the first comet analyzed using polarimetry, by François Arago.


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