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Personal data Afra Catharina "Afra" Besseling 


Household of Afra Catharina "Afra" Besseling

She is married to Adrianus Boots.

They got married on September 8, 1944, she was 28 years old.

vader bruid Cornelis Besseling 3 januari 1875 Wognum- 15 mei 1946 De Weere
moeder bruid Immetje (Emerentiana Emma) Schouten 28 mei 1875 Hoogwoud- 23 juni 1968 De Weere, gehuwd 27 april 1899 te Hoogwoud.

7 kinderen

Notes about Afra Catharina "Afra" Besseling

7 kinderen: (daarachter de kleinkinderen)
a) Kees getrouwd/gescheiden van Elly: Pauline, Maurice, Monique
b) Emmy + ?
c) Ans en Piet: Helen en Sander
d) Jan en Nel: Arjan, Pieter, Marieke
e) Nico en Marian: Karen, Stef en Marle
f) Marga en Johan
g) Els en Ruud; Linda

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Afra Catharina Besseling

Jan Besseling
1847-1929
Grietje Pannekeet
1849-1876
Jan Schouten
1844-1885
Elizabeth Poland
1849-1927

Afra Catharina Besseling
1915-2009

1944

Adrianus Boots
1916-1998


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Birthday October 18, 1915

  • The temperature on October 18, 1915 was between 4.2 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1915: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
    • January 19 » German strategic bombing during World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing at least 20 people, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.
    • February 22 » World War I: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
    • March 18 » World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
    • April 24 » The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
    • June 21 » The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down Oklahoma grandfather clause legislation which had the effect of denying the right to vote to blacks.
    • July 1 » Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.

Day of marriage September 8, 1944

  • The temperature on September 8, 1944 was between 8.5 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 6.8 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (14%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1944: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
    • April 4 » World War II: First bombardment of oil refineries in Bucharest by Anglo-American forces kills 3000 civilians.
    • April 5 » World War II: Two hundred seventy inhabitants of the Greek town of Kleisoura are executed by the Germans.
    • August 12 » Alençon is liberated by General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by French forces.
    • August 20 » World War II: The Battle of Romania begins with a major Soviet Union offensive.
    • August 26 » World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris.
    • September 12 » World War II: The liberation of Yugoslavia from Axis occupation continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among the liberated cities.

Day of death April 24, 2009

  • The temperature on April 24, 2009 was between 3.9 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 13.2 hours of sunshine (91%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 2009: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
    • January 20 » A protest movement in Iceland culminates as the 2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests start.
    • June 9 » An explosion kills 17 people and injures at least 46 at a hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan.
    • June 30 » Yemenia Flight 626, an Airbus A310-300, crashes into the Indian Ocean near Comoros, killing 152 of the 153 people on board. A 14-year-old girl named Bahia Bakari survives the crash.
    • August 19 » A series of bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 101 and injures 565 others.
    • September 28 » The military junta leading Guinea attacks a protest rally, killing or wounding 1400 people.
    • October 10 » Armenia and Turkey sign the Zurich Protocols, intended to normalize relations. However, they are never ratified by either side.

Day of cremation April 29, 2009

  • The temperature on April 29, 2009 was between 2.4 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (43%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 2009: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
    • January 31 » In Kenya, at least 113 people are killed and over 200 injured following an oil spillage ignition in Molo, days after a massive fire at a Nakumatt supermarket in Nairobi killed at least 25 people.
    • February 10 » The communications satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collide in orbit, destroying both.
    • July 4 » The Statue of Liberty's crown reopens to the public after eight years of closure due to security concerns following the September 11 attacks.
    • August 17 » An accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam in Khakassia, Russia, kills 75 and shuts down the hydroelectric power station, leading to widespread power failure in the local area.
    • October 28 » NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its short-lived Constellation program.
    • December 30 » A segment of the Lanzhou–Zhengzhou–Changsha pipeline ruptures in Shaanxi, China, and approximately 150,000l (40,000USgal) of diesel oil flows down the Wei River before finally reaching the Yellow River.


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