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Personal data Volkert van der Willigen 


Household of Volkert van der Willigen

He is married to Anna van der Hoeven.

They got married on June 15, 1905 at Rotterdam, he was 41 years old.Source 2


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    Sources

    1. Rotterdam 1864 b159v. 1424
    2. Rotterdam 1905 g35.

    Historical events

    Birthday April 24, 1864

    • The temperature on April 24, 1864 was about 12.6 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 54%. 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.
      • June 3 » American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor: Union forces attack Confederate troops in Hanover County, Virginia.
      • July 19 » Taiping Rebellion: Third Battle of Nanking: The Qing dynasty finally defeats the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
      • August 23 » American Civil War: The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico except Galveston, Texas.
      • October 2 » American Civil War: Confederates defeat a Union attack on Saltville, Virginia. A massacre of wounded Union prisoners (most of them are from a Black cavalry unit) ensues.
      • October 30 » The Treaty of Vienna is signed, by which Denmark relinquishes one province each to Prussia and Austria.
      • November 15 » American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins Sherman's March to the Sea.

    Day of marriage June 15, 1905

    • The temperature on June 15, 1905 was between 10.1 °C and 25.3 °C and averaged 18.1 °C. There was 11.6 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
    • In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1905: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
      • January 22 » Bloody Sunday in Saint Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.
      • May 5 » The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.
      • June 30 » Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
      • August 20 » Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary, forms the first chapter of T'ung Meng Hui, a union of all secret societies determined to bringing down the Manchus.
      • September 1 » Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.
      • November 21 » Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E=mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.

    Day of burial April 10, 1943

    • The temperature on April 10, 1943 was between 6.9 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 1943: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
      • March 19 » Frank Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard.
      • April 18 » World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island.
      • June 4 » A military coup in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo.
      • July 10 » World War II: Operation Husky begins in Sicily.
      • September 7 » A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston kills 55 people.
      • October 21 » World War II: The Provisional Government of Free India is formally established in Japanese-occupied Singapore.
    

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    About the surname Van der Willigen


    The Family tree Van Willigen publication was prepared by Rob van Willigen (contact is not possible).
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    Rob van Willigen, "Family tree Van Willigen", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-van-willigen/I19271.php : accessed March 17, 2026), "Volkert van der Willigen (1864-1942)".