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Personal data Gerrit Ottenbros 

  • He was born in the year 1753 in Norden (Duitsland).
    Ouders genoemd Gerrit Outen Broest en Trijntje Lodewijks Demmendal.
  • He died on January 24, 1839 in Westerblokker, he was 86 years old.
  • This information was last updated on December 17, 2011.

Household of Gerrit Ottenbros

He is married to Trijntje Lodewijks Demmendal.

They got married on April 7, 1787 at Westerblokker, he was 34 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Maarten Ottenbros  1788-1788
  2. Maarritje Ottenbros  1789-????
  3. Wijntje Ottenbros  1791-????
  4. Ottenbros  1794-1876 
  5. Christina Ottenbros  1797-????
  6. Frederik Ottenbros  1800-1848
  9. Antje Ottenbros  1805-????
  10. Lodewijk Ottenbros  1807-????


Notes about Gerrit Ottenbros

Ook genaamd Otten, Ottes Poest, Ottenbroest en Otte Brost

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Day of marriage April 7, 1787

  • The temperature on April 7, 1787 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: 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 1787: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 11 » William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
    • February 3 » Militia led by General Benjamin Lincoln crush the remnants of Shays' Rebellion in Petersham, Massachusetts.
    • June 20 » Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the 'United States'.
    • July 13 » The Continental Congress enacts the Northwest Ordinance establishing governing rules for the Northwest Territory. It also establishes procedures for the admission of new states and limits the expansion of slavery.
    • August 6 » Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
    • December 7 » Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.

Day of death January 24, 1839

  • The temperature on January 24, 1839 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: betrokken regenachtig. 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.
    • January 9 » The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
    • January 19 » The British East India Company captures Aden.
    • June 3 » In Humen, China, Lin Tse-hsü destroys 1.2million kilograms of opium confiscated from British merchants, providing Britain with a casus belli to open hostilities, resulting in the First Opium War.
    • June 14 » Henley Royal Regatta: the village of Henley-on-Thames, on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, stages its first regatta.
    • September 4 » Battle of Kowloon: British vessels open fire on Chinese war junks enforcing a food sales embargo on the British community in China in the first armed conflict of the First Opium War.
    • November 4 » Newport Rising: The last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.


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