Family tree Root, Brinksma, Van Schoten en Molen » Guurtje Root (1860-1938)
Personal data Guurtje Root
- She was born in the year 1860 in Zaandam.
- She died on April 17, 1938 in Zaandam, she was 78 years old.
- A child of Albert Root and Aaltje Pet
- This information was last updated on March 19, 2011.
Household of Guurtje Root
She is married to Maarten Kerkhoven.
They got married on January 29, 1882 at Koog aan de Zaan, she was 22 years old.
Child(ren):
- N.n. Kerkhoven ± 1882-1883
- Grietje Kerkhoven ± 1883-1884
- Gerrit Kerkhoven 1884-1948
- Albert Kerkhoven 1892-????
- Klaas Kerkhoven 1892-????
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Historical events
Day of marriage January 29, 1882
- The temperature on January 29, 1882 was about 2.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. Source: KNMI
- Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
- In the year 1882: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
- April 25 » French and Vietnamese troops clashed in Tonkin, when Commandant Henri Rivière seized the citadel of Hanoi with a small force of marine infantry.
- May 6 » The United States Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act.
- May 6 » Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed to death by Fenian assassins in Phoenix Park, Dublin.
- July 10 » War of the Pacific: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.
- July 11 » The British Mediterranean Fleet begins the Bombardment of Alexandria in Egypt as part of the Anglo-Egyptian War.
- September 5 » Tottenham Hotspur, a Premier League football club from North London, is founded (as Hotspur F.C.).
Day of death April 17, 1938
- The temperature on April 17, 1938 was between -0.6 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1938: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
- March 12 » Anschluss: German troops occupy and absorb Austria.
- July 31 » Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius the Great in Persepolis.
- July 31 » Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia).
- September 5 » Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are executed after surrendering during a failed coup.
- September 12 » Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
- September 30 » The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
Same birth/death day
- 1930 » Alexander Golovin, Russian painter and stage designer (b. 1863)
- 1933 » Kote Marjanishvili, Georgian director and playwright (b. 1872)
- 1936 » Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck, Dutch lawyer and politician, 28th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1873)
- 1942 » Jean Baptiste Perrin, French-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
- 1944 » Dimitrios Psarros, Greek lieutenant, founded the National and Social Liberation (b. 1893)
- 1944 » J. T. Hearne, English cricketer and coach (b. 1867)
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