Family tree Van Willigen » Wilhelmus Wennekes (1864-1937)

Personal data Wilhelmus Wennekes 

  • He was born on August 5, 1864 in Ubbergen.Source 1
  • Profession: Onderwijzer.
  • He died on June 9, 1937 in Nijmegen, he was 72 years old.
    Vak: 22 Rij: 13 Graf: 08
    Type graf: zandsteen
    Materiaal: hardsteen
    Lengte: 200 Breedte: 100 Hoogte: 60
    Tekst op liggens deel:
    IN MEMORIAM
    WILHELMUS WENNEKES
    GEB. UBBERGEN 5 AUG. 1864
    OVERL. NIJMEGEN 9 JUNI 1937
    CATHA. M. WENNEKES
    -VAN WILLIGEN
    GEB. NIJMEGEN 28 NOV. 1865
    OVERL. ALDAAR 14 FEBR. 1946
    Teksttoevoeging: Mijn Jezus barmhartigheid.
  • He is buried in Nijmegen.
  • A child of Johannes Antonius Wennekes and Anna Florentina Akkermans
  • This information was last updated on May 20, 2012.

Household of Wilhelmus Wennekes

He is married to Catharina Maria van Willigen.

They got married on July 28, 1896 at Nijmegen, he was 31 years old.Source 2


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Historical events

Birthday August 5, 1864

  • The temperature on August 5, 1864 was about 25.7 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 56%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1864: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • February 20 » American Civil War: Battle of Olustee: The largest battle fought in Florida during the war.
    • March 11 » The Great Sheffield Flood kills 238 people in Sheffield, England.
    • May 7 » American Civil War: The Army of the Potomac, under General Ulysses S. Grant, breaks off from the Battle of the Wilderness and moves southwards.
    • May 21 » American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends.
    • June 15 » Arlington National Cemetery is established when 200 acres (0.81km) of the Arlington estate (formerly owned by Confederate General Robert E. Lee) are officially set aside as a military cemetery by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
    • September 29 » American Civil War: The Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought.

Day of marriage July 28, 1896

  • The temperature on July 28, 1896 was about 15.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 73%. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1896: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • May 26 » Nicholas II becomes the last Tsar of Imperial Russia.
    • July 9 » William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
    • July 28 » The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
    • August 16 » Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
    • December 17 » Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Schenley Park Casino, which was the first multi-purpose arena with the technology to create an artificial ice surface in North America, is destroyed in a fire.
    • December 30 » Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila.

Day of death June 9, 1937

  • The temperature on June 9, 1937 was between 13.4 °C and 22.7 °C and averaged 17.6 °C. There was 12.4 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1937: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
    • March 8 » Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.
    • March 18 » The New London School explosion in New London, Texas, kills 300 people, mostly children.
    • March 21 » Ponce massacre: Nineteen people in Ponce, Puerto Rico are gunned down by police acting on orders of the US-appointed Governor, Blanton C. Winship.
    • June 14 » U.S. House of Representatives passes the Marihuana Tax Act.
    • August 1 » Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
    • August 24 » Spanish Civil War: the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement.


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