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Personal data Johann Heinrich HOFMEYR 

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Household of Johann Heinrich HOFMEYR

(1) He is married to Magdalena Elizabeth van Helsdingen.

They got married on September 4, 1757 at Kaapstad, he was 36 years old.Sources 1, 2

Die egpaar het 4 kindersSources 1, 2

Child(ren):

  1. Jan Hendrik HOFMEYR  1759-1838 
  2. Jan Antonie HOFMEYR  1763-1767
  3. Hermanus HOFMEYR  1768-1827 


(2) He is married to Anna Spiegelberg.

They got married on February 17, 1765 at Kaapstad, he was 43 years old.Source 2

Die egpaar het 2 kindersSource 2

(3) He is married to Maria Wilhelmina Smuts.

They got married on February 2, 1772 at Kaapstad, he was 50 years old.Source 2

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Johann Heinrich HOFMEYR
1721-1805

(1) 1757
(2) 1765
(3) 1772

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  • The temperature on March 17, 1721 was about 2.0 °C. 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 1721: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 6 » The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings, revealing details of fraud among company directors and corrupt politicians.
    • March 24 » Johann Sebastian Bach dedicated six concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt, now commonly called the Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046-1051.
    • April 4 » Sir Robert Walpole becomes the first British prime minister.
    • April 26 » A massive earthquake devastates the Iranian city of Tabriz.
    • August 18 » The city of Shamakhi in Safavid Shirvan is sacked.
    • October 22 » Russian Empire is proclaimed by Tsar Peter I after the Swedish defeat in the Great Northern War.
  • The temperature on February 2, 1772 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south by west. Weather type: zeer betrokken omtrent helder. 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 1772: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 1 » The first traveler's cheques, which could be used in 90 European cities, were issued by the London Credit Exchange Company.
    • June 9 » The British schooner Gaspee is burned in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island.
    • June 12 » French explorer Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne and 25 of his men killed by Māori in New Zealand.
    • August 19 » Gustav III of Sweden stages a coup d'état, in which he assumes power and enacts a new constitution that divides power between the Riksdag and the King.
    • August 21 » King Gustav III completes his coup d'état by adopting a new Constitution, ending half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden and installing himself as an enlightened despot.
    • September 1 » The Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is founded in San Luis Obispo, California.
  • The temperature on July 4, 1805 was about 23.0 °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 1805: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 17 » The Italian Republic, with Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King of Italy.
    • April 7 » German composer Ludwig van Beethoven premiered his Third Symphony, at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
    • May 17 » Muhammad Ali becomes Wāli of Egypt.
    • June 2 » Napoleonic Wars: A Franco-Spanish fleet recaptures Diamond Rock, an uninhabited island at the entrance to the bay leading to Fort-de-France, from the British.
    • October 21 » Napoleonic Wars: A British fleet led by Lord Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet under Admiral Villeneuve in the Battle of Trafalgar.
    • December 2 » War of the Third Coalition: Battle of Austerlitz: French troops under Napoleon Bonaparte decisively defeat a joint Russo-Austrian force.


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