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Personal data Wichertje Willems 


Household of Wichertje Willems

(1) She is married to Evert Jans.

They got married on April 21, 1776 at Mastenbroek, Overijssel, Nederland, she was 17 years old.


Child(ren):

  2. Willem Everts  1778-< 1781
  4. Willem Everts  1781-????
  5. Machteld Everts  1784-????


(2) She is married to Willem Alberts van der Werf.

They got married on June 12, 1785 at Hasselt, Overijssel, Nederland, she was 26 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Albert van der Werf  1786-< 1787
  4. Willem van der Werf  1791-1849 
  5. Wibbegje van der Werf  1794-1868 
  6. Jennigje van der Werf  1797-1849 


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    Historical events

    Birthday March 4, 1759

    • The temperature on March 4, 1759 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southeast. Weather type: 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)
    • Regentes Anna (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1759 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
    • In the year 1759: Source: Wikipedia
      • January 11 » The first American life insurance company, the Corporation for Relief of Poor and Distressed Presbyterian Ministers and of the Poor and Distressed Widows and Children of the Presbyterian Ministers (now part of Unum Group), is incorporated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
      • January 15 » The British Museum opens to the public.
      • May 1 » Josiah Wedgwood founds the Wedgwood pottery company in Great Britain.
      • September 13 » Battle of the Plains of Abraham: the British defeat the French near Quebec City in the Seven Years' War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War.
      • November 25 » An earthquake hits the Mediterranean destroying Beirut and Damascus and killing 30,000-40,000.
      • December 31 » Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000 year lease at £45 per annum and starts brewing Guinness.

    Day of marriage June 12, 1785

    • The temperature on June 12, 1785 was about 20.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north west from. Weather type: omtrent 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 1785: Source: Wikipedia
      • January 7 » Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
      • January 20 » Invading Siamese forces attempt to exploit the political chaos in Vietnam, but are ambushed and annihilated at the Mekong river by the Tây Sơn in the Battle of Rạch Gầm-Xoài Mút.
      • January 27 » The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
      • November 28 » The first Treaty of Hopewell is signed, by which the United States acknowledges Cherokee lands in what is now East Tennessee.

    Day of death November 24, 1797

    • The temperature on November 24, 1797 was about 4.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west. Weather type: zeer 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 1797: Source: Wikipedia
      • February 14 » French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St. Vincent: John Jervis, (later 1st Earl of St Vincent) and Horatio Nelson (later 1st Viscount Nelson) lead the British Royal Navy to victory over a Spanish fleet in action near Gibraltar.
      • February 22 » The last Invasion of Britain begins near Fishguard, Wales.
      • April 17 » Sir Ralph Abercromby attacks San Juan, Puerto Rico, in what would be one of the largest invasions of the Spanish territories in the Americas.
      • June 28 » French troops disembark in Corfu, beginning the French rule in the Ionian Islands.
      • September 4 » Coup of 18 Fructidor in France.
      • October 22 » André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump, from one thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris.
    

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    • 1745 » Charles Dibdin, English actor, playwright, and composer († 1814)
    • 1756 » Henry Raeburn, Scottish painter and educator († 1823)
    • 1760 » Hugh Ronalds, British nurseryman who cultivated and documented 300 varieties of apples († 1833)
    • 1760 » William Payne, English painter († 1830)
    • 1769 » Muhammad Ali, Ottoman military leader and pasha († 1849)
    • 1770 » Joseph Jacotot, French philosopher and academic († 1840)

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