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Personal data Petrus Jacobus Syssau 

  • He was born in the year 1740 in Oostnieuwkerke West-Vlaanderen België.
  • Profession: Landman.
  • He died on May 30, 1817 in Oostnieuwkerke De Oever, he was 77 years old.
    Bron Rijksarchief van België aktedatum 31-05-1817
  • A child of Paschasus Syssau and Cathalijne Degrave

Household of Petrus Jacobus Syssau

He is married to Rosalia Brigitta Degrave.

They got married on February 9, 1773 at Langemark West-Vlaanderen, Belgie, he was 33 years old.

Bron Rijksarchief van België

Child(ren):

  4. Petrus Ignatius Syssau  1777-1849 
  5. Anna Teresia Syssau  1780-1851 

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Day of marriage February 9, 1773

  • The temperature on February 9, 1773 was about -3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: sneeuw zeer 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 1773: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 17 » Captain James Cook leads the first expedition to sail south of the Antarctic Circle.
    • June 1 » Wolraad Woltemade rescues 14 sailors at the Cape of Good Hope from the sinking ship De Jonge Thomas by riding his horse into the sea seven times. He drowned on his eighth attempt.
    • June 17 » Cúcuta, Colombia, is founded by Juana Rangel de Cuéllar.
    • October 12 » America's first insane asylum opens.
    • October 14 » The first recorded ministry of education, the Commission of National Education, is formed in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
    • December 16 » American Revolution: Boston Tea Party: Members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawk Indians dump hundreds of crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the Tea Act.

Day of death May 30, 1817

  • The temperature on May 30, 1817 was about 12.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: veel regen betrokken winderig. 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 1817: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 8 » Las Heras crosses the Andes with an army to join San Martín and liberate Chile from Spain.
    • May 15 » Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).
    • June 5 » The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.
    • October 16 » Simón Bolívar sentences Manuel Piar to death for challenging the racial-caste in Venezuela.
    • October 30 » Simón Bolívar becomes President of the Third Republic of Venezuela.
    • November 3 » The Bank of Montreal, Canada's oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal.


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