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Personal data Gerardus Merks 

Sources 1, 2, 3

Household of Gerardus Merks

He is married to Geertruida van de Loo.

They got married on October 12, 1906 at Tiel, he was 26 years old.

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Gerardus Merks
1880-1943

1906

Geertruida van de Loo
1880-1962


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  1. Burgerlijke Stand gemeente Wadenoijen = Overlijdens-register
    Akte nr.:118, d/d 23-06-1943 gemeente Tiel van; Gerardus Merks.
    "...dat op twee en twintig Juni dezes jaars, des voormiddags te vijf uur, in deze gemeente is overleden: Merks, Gerardus, oud drie en zestig jaar, zonder beroep, geboren te 's Princenhage, wonende te Tiel, echtgenoot van; van de Loo, Geertruida,
    zoon van wijlen de echtelieden: Merks, Arnoldus, en ; Dirks, Magdalena.
    Waarvan akt, welke is voorgelezen."
  2. Burgerlijke Stand gemeente Tiel = Huwelijks Register
    Huwelijks akte nr.: 60, d/d 20-10-1906 gemeente Tiel van; Gerardus Merks en Geertruida van de Loo.
  3. Burgerlijke Stand gemeente 's Princenhage = geboorte register

Historical events

Birthday March 22, 1880

  • The temperature on March 22, 1880 was about 4.7 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 70%. 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 1880: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
    • February 13 » Thomas Edison observes Thermionic emission.
    • May 13 » In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
    • June 24 » First performance of O Canada at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français. The song would later become the national anthem of Canada.
    • June 29 » France annexes Tahiti, renaming the independent Kingdom of Tahiti as "Etablissements de français de l'Océanie".
    • July 27 » Second Anglo-Afghan War: Battle of Maiwand: Afghan forces led by Mohammad Ayub Khan defeat the British Army in battle near Maiwand, Afghanistan.
    • December 16 » Outbreak of the First Boer War between the Boer South African Republic and the British Empire.

Day of marriage October 12, 1906

  • The temperature on October 12, 1906 was between 5.8 °C and 17.5 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (55%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1906: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
    • February 10 » HMSDreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships is christened and launched by King Edward VII.
    • March 10 » The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in northern France.
    • April 7 » Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
    • May 6 » The Russian Constitution of 1906 is adopted (on April 23 by the Julian calendar).
    • July 11 » Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
    • September 30 » The Royal Galician Academy, the Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, starts working in La Coruña, Spain.

Day of death June 22, 1943

  • The temperature on June 22, 1943 was between 6.8 °C and 21.6 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (58%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 year 1943: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
    • April 13 » World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government-in-exile in London and the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility.
    • August 2 » The Holocaust: Jewish prisoners stage a revolt at Treblinka, one of the deadliest of Nazi death camps where approximately 900,000 persons were murdered in less than 18 months.
    • August 17 » World War II: The U.S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrives in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.
    • October 1 » World War II: After the Four Days of Naples, Allied troops enter the city.
    • November 29 » World War II: The second session of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ), held to determine the post-war ordering of the country, concludes in Jajce (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina).
    • December 17 » All Chinese are again permitted to become citizens of the United States upon the repeal of the Act of 1882 and the introduction of the Magnuson Act.


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