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Personal data Gerrit Jan Scheffer 


Household of Gerrit Jan Scheffer

(1) He is married to Johanna Hoogendijk.

They got married on October 11, 1873 at Vlaardingen, he was 21 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Gerrit Jan Scheffer  1873-1889
  2. Alberdina Scheffer  1874-1881
  3. Elsje Scheffer  1876-1876
  4. Kornelis Scheffer  1877-1877
  5. Elsje Scheffer  1878-1878
  6. Elsje Scheffer  1879-1880
  7. Kornelis Scheffer  1880-???? 
  8. Elsje Scheffer  1885-1886
  9. Meindert Scheffer  1886-1887
  10. Alberdina Scheffer  1888-????
  11. Gerrit Scheffer  1890-1890
  12. Hendrik Scheffer  1890-1890


(2) He is married to Sibilla Owin.

They got married on May 25, 1898 at Andernach (Dld), he was 46 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Heinrich Scheffer  1898-1964
  2. Peter Scheffer  < 1899-????

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  • The temperature on October 20, 1851 was about 13.2 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. 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 Netherlands , there was from November 1, 1849 to April 19, 1853 the cabinet Thorbecke I, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1851: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
    • February 6 » The largest Australian bushfires in a populous region in recorded history take place in the state of Victoria.
    • March 11 » The first performance of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Venice.
    • September 11 » Christiana Resistance: Escaped slaves led by William Parker fight off and kill a slave owner who, with a federal marshal and an armed party, sought to seize three of his former slaves in Christiana, Pennsylvania, thereby creating a cause célèbre between slavery proponents and abolitionists.
    • September 18 » First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.
    • November 9 » Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
    • December 9 » The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal.
  • The temperature on May 25, 1898 was about 13.1 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%. 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 July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1898: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • July 3 » A Spanish squadron, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, is defeated by an American squadron under William T. Sampson in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba.
    • July 8 » The death of crime boss Soapy Smith, killed in the Shootout on Juneau Wharf, releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.
    • August 13 » Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.
    • August 25 » Seven hundred Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece.
    • August 28 » Caleb Bradham's beverage "Brad's Drink" is renamed "Pepsi-Cola".
    • September 18 » The Fashoda Incident triggers the last war scare between Britain and France.
  • The temperature on August 9, 1901 was between 14.4 °C and 25.3 °C and averaged 19.6 °C. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (64%). 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, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1901: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
    • January 1 » The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
    • January 10 » The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
    • March 23 » Emilio Aguinaldo, only President of the First Philippine Republic, was captured at Palanan, Isabela by the forces of General Frederick Funston.
    • May 3 » The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
    • September 2 » Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
    • November 27 » The U.S. Army War College is established.


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