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Personal data Willem Jacobs Westera 


Household of Willem Jacobs Westera

Waarschuwing Attention: Wife (Harmpje Gerrits Westera) is also his cousin.

He is married to Harmpje Gerrits Westera.

They got married on July 8, 1819 at Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland, he was 32 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Jacob Westera  1820-1901
  2. Aaltje Westera  1826-1895 


Notes about Willem Jacobs Westera

Erf 70 huis gedeeltelijk weggeslagen als gevolg van de stormvloed van 4-5 Februari 1825.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Willem Jacobs Westera

Willem Alberts Westera
1711-1796
Gerrigje Jans Rietberg
1716-1796

Willem Jacobs Westera
1786-1875

1819

Harmpje Gerrits Westera
1793-1862

Jacob Westera
1820-1901
Aaltje Westera
1826-1895

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    Birthday December 26, 1786

    • The temperature on December 26, 1786 was about -7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: helder. 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 1786: Source: Wikipedia
      • January 16 » Virginia enacts the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.
      • May 1 » In Vienna, Austria, Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro is performed for the first time.
      • June 10 » A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.
      • June 25 » Gavriil Pribylov discovers St. George Island of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea.
      • November 7 » The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
      • November 30 » The Grand Duchy of Tuscany, under Pietro Leopoldo I, becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty (later commemorated as Cities for Life Day).

    Day of marriage July 8, 1819

    • The temperature on July 8, 1819 was about 18.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken zwaar regen. 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 1819: Source: Wikipedia
      • February 17 » The United States House of Representatives passes the Missouri Compromise for the first time.
      • February 19 » British explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands and claims them in the name of King George III.
      • March 15 » French physicist Augustin Fresnel is adjudged the winner of the Grand Prix of the Académie des Sciences for his "Memoir on the Diffraction of Light", which verifies the Fresnel integrals, accounts for the limited extent to which light spreads into shadows, and thereby demolishes Newton's initial objection to the wave theory of light.
      • May 22 » SSSavannah leaves port at Savannah, Georgia, United States, on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
      • July 3 » The Bank for Savings in the City of New-York, the first savings bank in the United States, opens.
      • December 17 » Simón Bolívar declares the independence of Gran Colombia in Angostura (now Ciudad Bolívar in Venezuela).

    Day of death February 1, 1875

    • The temperature on February 1, 1875 was about 6.7 °C. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%. Source: KNMI
    • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
    • In the year 1875: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
      • January 5 » The Palais Garnier, one of the most famous opera houses in the world, is inaugurated in Paris.
      • February 25 » Guangxu Emperor of Qing dynasty China begins his reign, under Empress Dowager Cixi's regency.
      • March 3 » The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Quebec, Canada as recorded in the Montreal Gazette.
      • March 15 » Archbishop of New York John McCloskey is named the first cardinal in the United States.
      • May 1 » Alexandra Palace reopens after being burned down in a fire in 1873.
      • September 27 » The merchant sailing ship Ellen Southard is wrecked in a storm at Liverpool.
    

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