Family tree Fopma/Bouma » Willemke Lolkes Bijlsma (1847-1915)

Personal data Willemke Lolkes Bijlsma 


Household of Willemke Lolkes Bijlsma

She is married to Gerrit Sjoerds Westra.

They got married on June 16, 1870 at Opsterland, Friesland, Netherlands, she was 22 years old.

MARR: RFN 289672

Child(ren):

  2. Janke Gerrits Westra  1872-1937 
  4. Houkje Gerrits Westra  1875-1958 
  5. Jeltje Gerrits Westra  1877-1954 
  6. Ike Gerrits Westra  1879-1935
  7. Lolkje Gerrits Westra  1880-1953 
  9. Rigtje Gerrits Westra  1884-1936 
  10. Taetske Gerrits Westra  1887-1965 


Notes about Willemke Lolkes Bijlsma

ADDR: RFN 289668
BIRT: RFN 289670
ADDR: RFN 289671
DEAT: RFN 290226

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Birthday September 10, 1847

  • The temperature on September 10, 1847 was about 13.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken zwaar mist. Source: KNMI
  •  This page is only available in Dutch.
    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 1847: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
    • January 16 » John C. Frémont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory.
    • January 30 » Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco, California.
    • April 16 » Shooting of a Māori by an English sailor results in the opening of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand Wars.
    • November 4 » Sir James Young Simpson, a Scottish physician, discovers the anaesthetic properties of chloroform.
    • November 19 » The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railroad, is opened.
    • December 5 » Jefferson Davis is elected to the U.S. Senate.

Day of marriage June 16, 1870

  • The temperature on June 16, 1870 was about 29.2 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 47%. 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 1870: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • January 15 » A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).
    • February 3 » The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to male citizens regardless of race.
    • February 23 » Reconstruction Era: Post-U.S. Civil War military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
    • March 1 » Marshal F. S. López dies during the Battle of Cerro Corá thus marking the end of the Paraguayan War.
    • April 13 » The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.
    • September 6 » Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.

Day of death October 23, 1915

  • The temperature on October 23, 1915 was between -0.8 °C and 11.1 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
    • March 18 » World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
    • March 20 » Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
    • May 27 » HMS Princess Irene exploded and sank off Sheerness, Kent with the loss of 352 lives.
    • June 29 » The North Saskatchewan River flood of 1915 is the worst flood in Edmonton history.
    • July 7 » Colombo Town Guard officer Henry Pedris is executed in British Ceylon for allegedly inciting persecution of Muslims.
    • August 4 » World War I: The German 12th Army occupies Warsaw during the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive and the Great Retreat of 1915.


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