Family tree Griffioen Jellema Friese Adel » Hendrik Durks (Henrik) de Vries (1745-1818)

Personal data Hendrik Durks (Henrik) de Vries 

  • He was christened on February 21, 1745 in Luinjeberd, Aengwirden, Friesland.
    AEngwirden, doopjaar 1745
    Dopeling: Hendrik
    Gedoopt op 21 februari 1745 in Luinjeberd
    Kind van Dirk Hendriks en Sjoukjen Dirks
    [bron: Doopreg.Herv.gem.Terband, Tjalleberd, Luinjeberd en Gersloot 1738-1772]
  • He died on May 23, 1818 in Oudega, Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland.
    Aangiftedatum: 24 mei 1818
    Overleden: 23 mei 1818 om 17.00 uur te Oudega, no.72
    Overledene: Hendrik Durks de Vries, oud 73 jaar, koopman
    Geboren te --, wonende te Oudega
    Echtgenoot van Hielkjen Johannes
    Vader: Durks Hendriks
    Moeder: Sjoukjen Durks, beiden overleden,"in leven huislieden te IJngwierden(?)"
    Aangever 1: Reinder Klazes Kijlstra, oud 47 jaar, koopman
    Aangever 2: Oedzes Kuperus, oud 35 jaar, kuiper,
    "beide wonende te Oudega, geburen"
    [bron: Overlijdensregister Smallingerland 1818, pag.14]
  • A child of Durk Hendriks and Sjoukjen Durks
  • This information was last updated on September 20, 2018.

Household of Hendrik Durks (Henrik) de Vries

He is married to Hylkje Johannes (Hylkjen Hielkjen) de Vries.

They were married in church on April 18, 1773 at Boornbergum, Smallingerland, Friesland.

Smallingerland, huwelijken 1773
Vermelding: Bevestiging huwelijk op 18 april 1773 in Boornbergum
Man: Henrik Durks afkomstig van Boornbergum
Vrouw: Hylkjen Johannes afkomstig van Boornbergum
[bron: Trouwregister Hervormde gemeente Boornbergum Kortehemmen 1667-1811]

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Historical events

Christening day February 21, 1745

  • The temperature on February 21, 1745 was about -1 °C. Wind direction mainly west. Weather type: betrokken mist. Source: KNMI
  •  This page is only available in Dutch.
    Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
  • In the year 1745: Source: Wikipedia
    • May 11 » War of the Austrian Succession: French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch–Hanoverian army.
    • June 4 » Battle of Hohenfriedberg: Frederick the Great's Prussian army decisively defeated an Austrian army under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine during the War of the Austrian Succession.
    • July 9 » French victory in the Battle of Melle allows them to capture Ghent in the days after.
    • July 26 » The first recorded women's cricket match takes place near Guildford, England.
    • August 19 » Ottoman–Persian War: In the Battle of Kars, the Ottoman army is routed by Persian forces led by Nader Shah.
    • November 8 » Charles Edward Stuart invades England with an army of ~5000 that would later participate in the Battle of Culloden.

Day of marriage April 18, 1773

  • The temperature on April 18, 1773 was about 9.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: omtrent helder. Special wheather fenomena: rijp. 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 1773: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 1 » The hymn that became known as "Amazing Grace", then titled "1 Chronicles 17:16–17" is first used to accompany a sermon led by John Newton in the town of Olney, Buckinghamshire, England.
    • January 17 » Captain James Cook leads the first expedition to sail south of the Antarctic Circle.
    • May 10 » The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by reducing taxes on its tea and granting it the right to sell tea directly to North America. The legislation leads to the Boston Tea Party.
    • June 17 » Cúcuta, Colombia, is founded by Juana Rangel de Cuéllar.
    • October 14 » The first recorded ministry of education, the Commission of National Education, is formed in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
    • December 16 » American Revolution: Boston Tea Party: Members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawk Indians dump hundreds of crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the Tea Act.

Day of death May 23, 1818

  • The temperature on May 23, 1818 was about 12.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: half bewolkt. 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 1818: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 15 » A paper by David Brewster is read to the Royal Society, belatedly announcing his discovery of what we now call the biaxial class of doubly-refracting crystals. On the same day, Augustin-Jean Fresnel signs a "supplement" (submitted four days later) on reflection of polarized light.
    • February 12 » Bernardo O'Higgins formally approves the Chilean Declaration of Independence near Concepción, Chile.
    • March 30 » Physicist Augustin Fresnel reads a memoir on optical rotation to the French Academy of Sciences, reporting that when polarized light is "depolarized" by a Fresnel rhomb, its properties are preserved in any subsequent passage through an optically-rotating crystal or liquid.
    • April 16 » The United States Senate ratifies the Rush–Bagot Treaty, limiting naval armaments on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain.
    • April 19 » French physicist Augustin Fresnel signs his preliminary "Note on the Theory of Diffraction" (deposited on the following day). The document ends with what we now call the Fresnel integrals.
    • December 3 » Illinois becomes the 21st U.S. state.


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