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Personal data Nicolaas Postma 


Household of Nicolaas Postma

He is married to Eelkje Wonderman.

They got married on April 20, 1899 at Achtkarspelen (Fr), he was 33 years old.Source 4


Child(ren):

  1. Dirk Postma  1900-1976
  2. Gaele Postma  1903-1985
  4. Roel Postma  1907-1997

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Nicolaas Postma

Sjoerd Wiegers Postma
± 1785-1866
Hiltje Gerks Huisma
1794-1869

Nicolaas Postma
1865-1948

1899

Eelkje Wonderman
1864-1949

Dirk Postma
1900-1976
Gaele Postma
1903-1985
Levenloos geborene
Roel Postma
1907-1997

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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister 1865, Achtkarspelen
  2. Overlijdensregister 1948, Achtkarspelen
  3. https://www.graftombe.nl/names/info/303990/postma
  4. Huwelijksregister 1899, Achtkarspelen

Historical events

Birthday June 27, 1865

  • The temperature on June 27, 1865 was about 14.5 °C. The air pressure was 1.5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 53%. 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 1865: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • April 14 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth; Lincoln died the next day.
    • April 27 » The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state's land grant institution.
    • May 26 » American Civil War: The Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last full general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.
    • June 28 » The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.
    • August 12 » Joseph Lister, British surgeon and scientist, performs 1st antiseptic surgery.
    • December 4 » North Carolina ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, followed soon by Georgia, and U.S. slaves were legally free within two weeks.

Day of marriage April 20, 1899

  • The temperature on April 20, 1899 was about 9.5 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 61%. 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, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1899: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • January 1 » Spanish rule ends in Cuba.
    • January 19 » Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
    • January 23 » The Malolos Constitution is inaugurated, establishing the First Philippine Republic. Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as its first President.
    • February 2 » The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital city, Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne.
    • September 23 » The American Asiatic Squadron destroys a Filipino battery at the Battle of Olongapo.
    • November 2 » The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.

Day of death May 24, 1948

  • The temperature on May 24, 1948 was between 3.8 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till September 4, 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
  • From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
  • In the year 1948: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.7 million citizens.
    • April 7 » The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
    • June 7 » Anti-Jewish riots in Oujda and Jerada take place.
    • June 7 » Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing the Ninth-of-May Constitution, making his nation a Communist state.
    • June 26 » Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.
    • September 18 » Operation Polo is terminated after the Indian Army accepts the surrender of the army of Hyderabad.
    • October 30 » A luzzu fishing boat overloaded with passengers capsizes and sinks in the Gozo Channel off Qala, Gozo, Malta, killing 23 of the 27 people on board.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

  • 1862 » May Irwin, Canadian-American actress and singer († 1938)
  • 1865 » John Monash, Australian engineer and general († 1931)
  • 1869 » Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-Canadian philosopher and activist († 1940)
  • 1869 » Hans Spemann, German embryologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1941)
  • 1869 » Kate Carew, American illustrator and journalist († 1961)
  • 1870 » Frank Rattray Lillie, American zoologist and embryologist († 1947)

Source: Wikipedia


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