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Personal data Dirkjen Douwes 

  • She was born in the year 1756.
  • She died on May 15, 1839 in Hindeloopen, she was 83 years old.
  • This information was last updated on March 5, 2009.

Household of Dirkjen Douwes

She is married to Hidde Sikkes.

They got married on May 28, 1780 at Hindeloopen, she was 24 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Jelle Hiddes Sikkes  1781-1855
  2. Douwe Hiddes Sikkes  1783-1874
  3. Sikke Hiddes Sikkes  1785-1860
  4. Pieter Hiddes Sikkes  1787-1855 
  6. Sierd Hiddes Sikkes  1793-< 1795
  7. Sierd Hiddes Sikkes  1795-1884

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Dirkjen Douwes

Dirkjen Douwes
1756-1839

1780

Hidde Sikkes
1757-1830

Jelle Hiddes Sikkes
1781-1855
Douwe Hiddes Sikkes
1783-1874
Sikke Hiddes Sikkes
1785-1860
Pieter Hiddes Sikkes
1787-1855
Grietje Hiddes Sikkes
1790-1859
Sierd Hiddes Sikkes
1793-< 1795
Sierd Hiddes Sikkes
1795-1884

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Day of marriage May 28, 1780

  • The temperature on May 28, 1780 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south. Weather type: omtrent 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)
  • In the year 1780: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 14 » American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans.
    • March 17 » American Revolution: George Washington grants the Continental Army a holiday "as an act of solidarity with the Irish in their fight for independence".
    • August 22 » James Cook's ship HMSResolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage).
    • September 11 » American Revolutionary War: Sugarloaf Massacre: A small detachment of militia from Northampton County are attacked by Native Americans and Loyalists near Little Nescopeck Creek.
    • September 23 » American Revolution: British Major John André is arrested as a spy by American soldiers exposing Benedict Arnold's change of sides.
    • October 16 » American Revolutionary War: The British-led Royalton raid is the last Native American raid on New England.

Day of death May 15, 1839

  • The temperature on May 15, 1839 was about 6.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: half bewolkt winderig bui hagel. 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 1839: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
    • April 19 » The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom and guarantees its neutrality.
    • June 17 » In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the edict of toleration which gives Roman Catholics the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaii Catholic Church and the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace are established as a result.
    • June 22 » Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot are assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota, which had resulted in the Trail of Tears.
    • July 3 » The first state normal school in the United States, the forerunner to today's Framingham State University, opens in Lexington, Massachusetts with three students.
    • September 9 » John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
    • November 11 » The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.


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