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Personal data Gerrit Willems Westera 


Household of Gerrit Willems Westera

(1) He is married to Geertje Louws Post.

They got married on September 18, 1785 at Kampereiland, Overijssel, Nederland, he was 37 years old.


(2) He is married to Aaltje Jans van 't Oever.

They got married on April 17, 1791 at Kampereiland, Overijssel, Nederland, he was 43 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Willem Westera  1792-1792
  5. Willem Westera  1798-1860 
  6. Aaltje Gerrits Westera  1799-1834 
  7. Jan Gerrits Westera  1801-1838
  10. Dirk Westera  1806-1807
  11. Geesje Westera  1807-1807
  12. Geesje Westera  1808-1808
  13. Geesje Westera  1809-1880


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    Birthday January 21, 1748

    • The temperature on January 21, 1748 was about 1.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: sneeuw geheel betrokken. Source: KNMI
    • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem IV (Huis van Oranje) was from 1747 till 1751 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
    • In the year 1748: Source: Wikipedia
      • June 11 » Denmark adopts the characteristic Nordic Cross flag later taken up by all other Scandinavian countries.
      • August 26 » The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, is founded in Philadelphia.
      • October 12 » War of Jenkins' Ear: A British squadron wins a tactical victory over a Spanish squadron off Havana.
      • October 18 » Signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession.

    Day of marriage April 17, 1791

    • The temperature on April 17, 1791 was about 10.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. 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 1791: Source: Wikipedia
      • July 17 » Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing scores of people.
      • August 4 » The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman–Habsburg wars.
      • August 14 » Slaves from plantations in Saint-Domingue hold a Vodou ceremony led by houngan Dutty Boukman at Bois Caïman, marking the start of the Haitian Revolution.
      • August 21 » A Vodou ceremony, led by Dutty Boukman, turns into a violent slave rebellion, beginning the Haitian Revolution.
      • September 5 » Olympe de Gouges writes the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen.
      • December 4 » The first edition of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published.

    Day of death September 18, 1816

    • The temperature on September 18, 1816 was about 15.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: omtrent betrokken. 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 year 1816: Source: Wikipedia
      • February 20 » Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville premieres at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.
      • April 14 » Bussa, a slave in British-ruled Barbados, leads a slave rebellion and is killed. For this, he is remembered as the first national hero of Barbados.
      • May 22 » A mob in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, riots over high unemployment and rising grain costs, and the riots spread to Ely the next day.
      • July 9 » Argentina declares independence from Spain.
      • November 19 » Warsaw University is established.
      • December 30 » The Treaty of St. Louis between the United States and the united Ottawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi Indian tribes is proclaimed.
    

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