Family tree Root, Brinksma, Van Schoten en Molen » Jan Root (1862-1945)

Personal data Jan Root 


Household of Jan Root

He is married to Grietje Engel.

They got married on July 25, 1886 at Zaandam, he was 23 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Antonia Root  1887-1949
  2. Cornelis Root  1888-????
  3. Neeltje Root  ± 1890-1891
  4. Neeltje Root  1894-????

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Jan Root

Klaas Root
1793-1856
Jannetje Bakker
1793-1849
Jan Huig
1809-????
Neeltje Voogt
1806-????
Cornelis Root
1829-1885
Neeltje Huijg
1830-????

Jan Root
1862-1945

1886

Grietje Engel
1861-1932

Antonia Root
1887-1949
Cornelis Root
1888-????
Neeltje Root
± 1890-1891
Neeltje Root
1894-????

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    Historical events

    Birthday October 3, 1862

    • The temperature on October 3, 1862 was about 13.5 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. Source: KNMI
    • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • From March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
    • In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1862: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
      • January 31 » Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch (47cm) telescope now located at Northwestern University.
      • February 5 » Moldavia and Wallachia formally unite to create the Romanian United Principalities.
      • March 13 » The Act Prohibiting the Return of Slaves was passed by the United States Congress, effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.
      • April 16 » American Civil War: Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia.
      • April 20 » Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the experiment disproving the theory of spontaneous generation.
      • September 18 » The Confederate States celebrate for the first and only time a Thanksgiving Day.

    Day of marriage July 25, 1886

    • The temperature on July 25, 1886 was about 22.6 °C. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 59%. 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 April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1886: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
      • January 18 » Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
      • March 1 » The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham.
      • June 13 » A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
      • June 26 » Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.
      • July 3 » The New-York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
      • July 4 » The Canadian Pacific Railway's first scheduled train from Montreal arrives in Port Moody on the Pacific coast, after six days of travel.

    Day of death October 6, 1945

    • The temperature on October 6, 1945 was between 10.5 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
    • In The Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
    • From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
    • In the year 1945: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 9.2 million citizens.
      • January 31 » World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp are forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken (now Yantarny, Russia) and executed.
      • March 31 » World War II: A defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands.
      • May 8 » The Halifax riot starts when thousands of civilians and servicemen rampage through Halifax, Nova Scotia.
      • July 16 » Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
      • August 11 » Poles in Kraków engage in a pogrom against Jews in the city, killing one and wounding five.
      • September 2 » World War II: Combat ends in the Pacific Theater: The Japanese Instrument of Surrender is signed by Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and accepted aboard the battleship USSMissouri in Tokyo Bay.
    

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