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Personal data Jacob Wessels (Bredewolt) 


Household of Jacob Wessels (Bredewolt)

He is married to Magteld Jans.

Permission for the marriage has been obtained in Heerde on May 23, 1766.

They were married in church on June 15, 1766 at Heerde, he was 31 years old.


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Ancestors (and descendant) of Jacob Wessels (Bredewolt)

Wessel Jans
± 1700-????
Berentje Gerrits
± 1705-????

Jacob Wessels (Bredewolt)
1735-1799

1766

Magteld Jans
1737-1797

Jan Bredewolt (Jacobs)
1767-????
Berendina Bredewolt (Jacobs)
1768-1845

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Historical events

Christening day July 3, 1735

  • The temperature on July 3, 1735 was about 15.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: geheel betrokken regen. 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 1735: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 8 » The premiere of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante takes place at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
    • March 10 » An agreement between Nader Shah and Russia is signed near Ganja, Azerbaijan and Russian troops are withdrawn from occupied territories.
    • July 11 » Mathematical calculations suggest that it is on this day that dwarf planet Pluto moved inside the orbit of Neptune for the last time before 1979.
    • August 5 » Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he had published was true.

Day of marriage June 15, 1766

  • The temperature on June 15, 1766 was about 14.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: donker. Special wheather fenomena: droog. 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)
  • In the year 1766: Source: Wikipedia
    • May 22 » A large earthquake causes heavy damage and loss of life in Istanbul and the Marmara region.
    • July 1 » François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France.
    • November 10 » The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).
    • December 2 » Swedish parliament approved the Swedish Freedom of the Press Act and implemented it as a ground law, thus being first in the world with freedom of speech.
    • December 5 » In London, auctioneer James Christie holds his first sale.
    • December 25 » Mapuches in Chile launch a series of surprise attacks against the Spanish starting the Mapuche uprising of 1766.

Day of death August 10, 1799

  • The temperature on August 10, 1799 was about 16.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: omtrent helder. 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 1799: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 17 » Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriots, is executed.
    • March 3 » The Russo-Ottoman siege of Corfu ends with the surrender of the French garrison.
    • April 16 » French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor: Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.
    • June 18 » Action of 18 June 1799: A frigate squadron under Rear-admiral Perrée is captured by the British fleet under Lord Keith.
    • September 19 » French Revolutionary Wars: French-Dutch victory against the Russians and British in the Battle of Bergen.
    • October 9 » HMSLutine sinks with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000.


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