Family tree Grooten » Gezina Smit (1894-1974)

Personal data Gezina Smit 


Household of Gezina Smit

She is married to Berend Grooten.

They got married on September 22, 1916 at Odoorn (Drenthe), she was 22 years old.Source 2

Bruidegom: Berend Grooten, geboren te Odoorn; oud: 20 jaren, zoon van Jan Grooten en Ida Roossien.
Bruid: Gesina Smid, geboren te Odoorn; oud: 22 jaren, dochter van Geert Smid en Siemkje Bos.

Child(ren):

  1. Jan Grooten  1917-1994
  2. Geert Grooten  1922-1998


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Ancestors (and descendant) of Gezina Smit

Gezina Smit
1894-1974

1916

Berend Grooten
1895-1923

Jan Grooten
1917-1994
Geert Grooten
1922-1998

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Sources

  1. Berend Grooten
  2. Odoorn, huwelijksakte, 22 september 1916, aktenr. 76

Historical events

Birthday August 26, 1894

  • The temperature on August 26, 1894 was about 13.3 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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 7 » Thomas Edison makes a kinetoscopic film of someone sneezing. On the same day, his employee, William Kennedy Dickson, receives a patent for motion picture film.
    • February 7 » The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado, United States.
    • March 25 » Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C.
    • 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.
    • July 4 » The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
    • August 1 » The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.

Day of marriage September 22, 1916

  • The temperature on September 22, 1916 was between 5.5 °C and 14.5 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (12%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
    • May 10 » Sailing in the lifeboat James Caird, Ernest Shackleton arrives at South Georgia after a journey of 800 nautical miles from Elephant Island.
    • June 15 » United States President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter.
    • June 30 » World War I: In "the day Sussex died", elements of the Royal Sussex Regiment take heavy casualties in the Battle of the Boar's Head at Richebourg-l'Avoué in France.
    • September 6 » The first self-service grocery store Piggly Wiggly was opened in Memphis, Tennessee by Clarence Saunders.
    • December 18 » World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when German forces under Chief of staff Erich von Falkenhayn are defeated by the French, and suffer 337,000 casualties.
    • December 30 » The last coronation in Hungary is performed for King Charles IV and Queen Zita.

Day of death May 1, 1974

  • The temperature on May 1, 1974 was between 5.0 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (61%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1974: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 13.5 million citizens.
    • March 1 » Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
    • March 29 » Terracotta Army was discovered in Shaanxi province, China.
    • May 18 » Nuclear weapons testing: Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.
    • November 20 » The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T Corporation. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its Bell System.
    • December 1 » Northwest Airlines Flight 6231, another Boeing 727, crashes northwest of John F. Kennedy International Airport.
    • December 24 » Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Australia.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

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