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Personal data Petrus Antonie van der MERWE 


Household of Petrus Antonie van der MERWE

He is married to Agatha Gertruida OOSTHUIZEN.

They got married on March 26, 1894 at Krugersdorp, he was 24 years old.

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Petrus Antonie van der MERWE
1869-1961

1894

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    Historical events

    • The temperature on August 15, 1869 was about 17.3 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%. Source: KNMI
    • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
    • In the year 1869: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
      • March 6 » Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
      • March 24 » The last of Titokowaru's forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising.
      • April 6 » Celluloid is patented.
      • August 29 » The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first mountain-climbing rack railway.
      • October 16 » The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".
      • November 6 » In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey), 6–4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game.
    • The temperature on September 12, 1869 was about 12.8 °C. There was 9 mm of rain. The air pressure was 69 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. Source: KNMI
    • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
    • In the year 1869: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
      • January 27 » Boshin War: Tokugawa rebels establish the Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō.
      • April 6 » Celluloid is patented.
      • May 10 » The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah with the golden spike.
      • October 5 » The Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region in Canada.
      • October 16 » Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England's first residential college for women.
      • November 11 » The Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act is enacted in Australia, giving the government control of indigenous people's wages, their terms of employment, where they could live, and of their children, effectively leading to the Stolen Generations.
    • The temperature on March 26, 1894 was about 8.0 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 73%. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1894: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
      • January 9 » New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
      • March 22 » The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
      • April 14 » The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
      • April 21 » Norway formally adopts the Krag–Jørgensen bolt-action rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon that would remain in service for almost 50 years.
      • July 4 » The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
      • November 1 » Buffalo Bill, 15 of his Indians, and Annie Oakley were filmed by Thomas Edison in his Black Maria Studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
    • The temperature on January 31, 1961 was between 5.3 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (11%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1961: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 11.6 million citizens.
      • April 9 » The Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles, once the largest electric railway in the world, ends operations.
      • April 11 » The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
      • April 30 » K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.
      • May 14 » Civil rights movement: A white mob twice attacks a Freedom Riders bus near Anniston, Alabama, before fire-bombing the bus and attacking the civil rights protesters who flee the burning vehicle.
      • June 16 » While on tour with the Kirov Ballet in Paris, Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.
      • July 4 » On its maiden voyage, the Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-19 suffers a complete loss of coolant to its reactor. The crew are able to effect repairs, but 22 of them die of radiation poisoning over the following two years.
    

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    Gert Esterhuizen, "Family tree Eric Esterhuizen", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-eric-esterhuizen/I18910.php : accessed February 21, 2026), "Petrus Antonie van der MERWE (1869-1961)".