Family tree Van der Eijk Van Busschbach Leegwater Stiemer » Willem Cornelis van Wijk (1911-)

Personal data Willem Cornelis van Wijk 


Household of Willem Cornelis van Wijk

He is married to Marietje Leegwater.

They got married on November 5, 1936 at Amsterdam, he was 24 years old.

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Historical events

  • The temperature on November 20, 1911 was between 2.9 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 6.6 mm of rain. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1911: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
    • January 14 » Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
    • May 23 » The New York Public Library is dedicated.
    • June 16 » IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
    • August 29 » Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
    • September 20 » The White Star Line's RMSOlympic collides with the British warship HMSHawke.
    • November 5 » After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica.


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Jan van der Eijk, "Family tree Van der Eijk Van Busschbach Leegwater Stiemer", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-van-der-eijk/I2947.php : accessed January 11, 2026), "Willem Cornelis van Wijk (1911-)".