Family tree Visser-Groot » Gerrit Bruijn (± 1812-1881)
Personal data Gerrit Bruijn
- He was born about 1812 in Enkhuizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland.
- (Marriage) on June 25, 1837.
- He died on August 11, 1881 in Enkhuizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland. He was about 68-69 years old.
- A child of Jacob Bruijn and Cornelia de Vries
Household of Gerrit Bruijn
He is married to Cornelia Bakker.
They got married
Child(ren):
- Cornelia Bruijn ± 1838-1901
- Marijtje Bruijn 1838-1921
- Antje Bruijn 1841-1920
- Grietje Bruijn 1844-1915
- Klaas Bruijn 1846-1928
- Jacob Bruijn 1849-1916
- Geertje Bruijn 1852-1883
- Pieter Bruijn 1855-1921
- Jannetje Bruijn ± 1858-1935
Timeline Gerrit Bruijn
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Historical events
Day of death August 11, 1881
- The temperature on August 11, 1881 was about 17.4 °C. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%. 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 August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
- In the year 1881: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
- January 25 » Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
- February 27 » First Boer War: The Battle of Majuba Hill takes place.
- April 11 » Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
- June 13 » The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
- July 2 » Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James A. Garfield (who will die of complications from his wounds on September 19).
- November 7 » Mapuche rebels attack the Chilean settlement of Nueva Imperial, as defenders fled to the hills and the settlement was effectively destroyed.
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- 1890 » John Henry Newman, English cardinal and theologian (b. 1801)
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- 1903 » Eugenio María de Hostos, Puerto Rican-American sociologist, philosopher, and lawyer (b. 1839)
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The Family tree Visser-Groot publication was prepared by Margriet E- Visser-Groot.
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Margriet E- Visser-Groot, "Family tree Visser-Groot", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-visser-groot/I1663.php : accessed March 5, 2026), "Gerrit Bruijn (± 1812-1881)".
Margriet E- Visser-Groot, "Family tree Visser-Groot", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-visser-groot/I1663.php : accessed March 5, 2026), "Gerrit Bruijn (± 1812-1881)".