Family tree Griffioen Jellema Friese Adel » Tjitske Durks (Dirks, Derks) (1757-1820)

Personal data Tjitske Durks (Dirks, Derks) 

  • She was christened on July 3, 1757 in Tjalleberd, Aengwirden, Friesland.
  • She died on June 11, 1820 in Oldeboorn, Utingeradeel, Friesland.
    Memories kantoor Heerenveen
    Bron: Memories van successie
    Soort registratie: Inschrijving Memorie van successie
    Plaats: Heerenveen
    Bijzonderheden: Filmnummer: 135
    Er behoorde geen onroerend goed tot de nalatenschap
    vrouw van Thomas Alberts Boontje;
    moeder van Sjoukje (vrouw van Ate Martens Deedert), Yke, Aukje (vrouw van Yke Pieters de Nes, te Heerenveen) en Marten Thomas Boontje, matroos.
    Overledene Tjitske Durks overleden op 11-06-1820 , wonende te Oldeboorn
  • A child of Durk Hendriks and Sjoukjen Durks
  • This information was last updated on December 9, 2017.

Household of Tjitske Durks (Dirks, Derks)

She is married to Thomas Alberts (Tomas) Boonstra (Boontje).

They got married on August 19, 1781 at Oldeboorn, Utingeradeel, Friesland.

Trouwregister Hervormde gemeente Oldeboorn Nes
Bron: DTB Trouwen
Soort registratie: DTB inschrijving trouwen
Aktedatum: 19-08-1781
Plaats: Oldeboorn
Soort akte: bevestiging huwelijk
Bruidegom Thomas Alberts wonende te Oldeboorn
Bruid Tjitske Dirks wonende te Oldeboorn

Child(ren):

  3. Marten Thomas Boontje  1786-> 1818
  5. Sjoukje Thomas Boontje  1789-1870 
  6. Yke Thomasz Boontje  1790-????
  7. Aukje Thomas Boontje  1793-1832 

The couple are divorced.

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Historical events

Christening day July 3, 1757

  • The temperature on July 3, 1757 was about 16.0 °C. There was 26 mm of rainWind direction mainly north west from. Weather type: regen 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)
  • Regentes Anna (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1759 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1757: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 5 » Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France by drawing and quartering, the traditional and gruesome form of capital punishment used for regicides.
    • March 14 » Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMSMonarch for breach of the Articles of War.
    • May 6 » English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.
    • June 23 » Battle of Plassey: Three thousand British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000-strong Indian army under Siraj ud-Daulah at Plassey.
    • November 5 » Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach.
    • December 31 » Empress Elizabeth I of Russia issues her ukase incorporating Königsberg into Russia.

Day of marriage August 19, 1781

  • The temperature on August 19, 1781 was about 25.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: zeer half bewolkt regen. 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 1781: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 1 » American Revolutionary War: One thousand five hundred soldiers of the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment under General Anthony Wayne's command rebel against the Continental Army's winter camp in Morristown, New Jersey in the Pennsylvania Line Mutiny of 1781.
    • January 6 » In the Battle of Jersey, the British defeat the last attempt by France to invade Jersey in the Channel Islands.
    • March 1 » The Articles of Confederation goes into effect in the United States.
    • August 5 » The Battle of Dogger Bank takes place.
    • September 5 » Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War: The British Navy is repelled by the French Navy, contributing to the British surrender at Yorktown.
    • November 29 » The crew of the British slave ship Zong murders 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea to claim insurance.

Day of death June 11, 1820

  • The temperature on June 11, 1820 was about 13.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: half bewolkt regen. 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 1820: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 27 » A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent, approaching the Antarctic coast.
    • March 15 » Maine becomes the 23rd U.S. state.
    • April 12 » Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece.
    • May 1 » Execution of the Cato Street Conspirators, who plotted to kill the British Cabinet and Prime Minister Lord Liverpool.
    • November 17 » Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica. (The Palmer Peninsula is later named after him.)
    • November 20 » An 80-ton sperm whale attacks and sinks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America. (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story.)


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