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Personal data Gerardus van Zelst 


Household of Gerardus van Zelst

He is married to Allegonda Smallegang.

Their notice of marriage was on October 25, 1793 in Sprang, Noord-Brabant, Nederland.

They got married on November 10, 1793 at Sprang, Noord-Brabant, Nederland.


Child(ren):

  1. Jan van Zelst  1799-????
  3. Elisabeth van Zelst  1799-1860 

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    Historical events

    Christening day March 11, 1764

    • The temperature on March 11, 1764 was about 2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: helder. Special wheather fenomena: ijs. 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)
    • Regent Lodewijk Ernst (Hertog van Brunswijk-Wolfenbüttel) was from 1759 till 1766 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
    • In the year 1764: Source: Wikipedia
      • January 19 » Bolle Willum Luxdorph records in his diary that a mail bomb, possibly the world's first, has severely injured the Danish Colonel Poulsen, residing at Børglum Abbey.
      • January 19 » John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
      • February 15 » The city of St. Louis is established in Spanish Louisiana (now in Missouri, USA).
      • September 7 » Election of Stanisław August Poniatowski as the last ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

    Day of marriage November 10, 1793

    • The temperature on November 10, 1793 was about 9.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly south. Weather type: zeer betrokken. 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 1793: Source: Wikipedia
      • January 23 » Second Partition of Poland.
      • July 9 » The Act Against Slavery in Upper Canada bans the importation of slaves and will free those who are born into slavery after the passage of the Act at 25 years of age.
      • July 13 » Journalist and French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is assassinated in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday, a member of the opposing political faction.
      • September 5 » French Revolution: The French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror.
      • October 15 » Queen Marie Antoinette of France is tried and convicted, and condemned to death the following day.
      • November 16 » French Revolution: Ninety dissident Roman Catholic priests are executed by drowning at Nantes.

    Day of burial May 29, 1806

    • The temperature on May 29, 1806 was about 16.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
    •  This page is only available in Dutch.
      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 1806: Source: Wikipedia
      • January 8 » Cape Colony in southern Africa becomes a British colony as a result of the Battle of Blaauwberg.
      • January 10 » Two British brigades occupy Cape Town after the Battle of Blaauwberg.
      • February 6 » Battle of San Domingo: British naval victory against the French in the Caribbean.
      • May 30 » Future U.S. President Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel.
      • July 18 » A gunpowder magazine explosion in Birgu, Malta, kills around 200 people.
      • October 30 » War of the Fourth Coalition: Convinced that he is facing a much larger force, Prussian General von Romberg, commanding 5,300 men, surrenders the city of Stettin to 800 French soldiers.

    About the surname Van Zelst


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