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Personal data Willem "Willem" van Gent 


Household of Willem "Willem" van Gent

He is married to Dirkje Jacobsdr van der Voort.

They got married on February 28, 1791 at Alkemade, Kaag en Braassem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland.Source 1

Ouders
Johannes Cornelisz van Gent †1806
Agatha Pieterse Schuijn †1808 Jacobus Dirksz van der Voort 1723-1795
Marijtje Claasdr van der Lugt 1728-1798

hun kinderen:
Pieter van Gent 1792
Neeltje van Gent 1794
Jacob van Gent 1795
Clazina van Gent 1797
Pieter van Gent 1799
Joannes van Gent 1802
Marijtje van Gent 1804
Aagje van Gent 1806

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Child(ren):

  1. Pieter van Gent  1792-????
  2. Neeltje van Gent  1794-???? 

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Willem van Gent

Willem van Gent
1764-1818

1791

Dirkje Jacobsdr van der Voort
1764-1845

Pieter van Gent
1792-????
Neeltje van Gent
1794-????

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Historical events

Christening day August 26, 1764

  • The temperature on August 26, 1764 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south by west. Weather type: natte mist. Special wheather fenomena: veel dauw. 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)
  • Regent Lodewijk Ernst (Hertog van Brunswijk-Wolfenbüttel) was from 1759 till 1766 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1764: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 19 » Bolle Willum Luxdorph records in his diary that a mail bomb, possibly the world's first, has severely injured the Danish Colonel Poulsen, residing at Børglum Abbey.
    • January 19 » John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
    • February 15 » The city of St. Louis is established in Spanish Louisiana (now in Missouri, USA).
    • September 7 » Election of Stanisław August Poniatowski as the last ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Day of marriage February 28, 1791

  • The temperature on February 28, 1791 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. 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)
  • In the year 1791: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 2 » Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, North America, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War.
    • July 14 » The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of Birmingham, England.
    • August 4 » The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman–Habsburg wars.
    • August 30 » HMSPandora sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.
    • September 14 » The Papal States lose Avignon to Revolutionary France.
    • December 15 » The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.

Day of death December 2, 1818

  • The temperature on December 2, 1818 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: omtrent betrokken. Source: KNMI
  •  This page is only available in Dutch.
    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 1818: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 15 » A paper by David Brewster is read to the Royal Society, belatedly announcing his discovery of what we now call the biaxial class of doubly-refracting crystals. On the same day, Augustin-Jean Fresnel signs a "supplement" (submitted four days later) on reflection of polarized light.
    • April 4 » The United States Congress, affirming the Second Continental Congress, adopts the flag of the United States with 13 red and white stripes and one star for each state (20 at that time).
    • April 16 » The United States Senate ratifies the Rush–Bagot Treaty, limiting naval armaments on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain.
    • April 19 » French physicist Augustin Fresnel signs his preliminary "Note on the Theory of Diffraction" (deposited on the following day). The document ends with what we now call the Fresnel integrals.
    • July 29 » French physicist Augustin Fresnel submits his prizewinning "Memoir on the Diffraction of Light", precisely accounting for the limited extent to which light spreads into shadows, and thereby demolishing the oldest objection to the wave theory of light.
    • September 7 » Carl III of Sweden–Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.


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