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Personal data Wieger Westra 


Household of Wieger Westra

He is married to Jantje Waltje.

They got married on August 1, 1918 at Achtkarspelen (Fr), he was 23 years old.Source 3


Child(ren):

  1. Jan Westra  1921-2003
  2. Wobbe Westra  1924-2006
  3. (Not public)

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Wieger Westra

Jan Hylkes Westra
1823-1906
Minke Wobbes Reitsma
1826-1867
Taeke Tjerks Riemersma
1825-1901
Pietje Jans Bos
1822-1901

Wieger Westra
1894-1986

1918

Jantje Waltje
1894-1979

Jan Westra
1921-2003
Wobbe Westra
1924-2006
(Not public)

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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister 1894, Kollumerland c.a.
  2. https://www.graftombe.nl/names/info/251421/westra
  3. Huwelijksregister 1918, Achtkarspelen

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Historical events

Birthday November 3, 1894

  • The temperature on November 3, 1894 was about 10.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. 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 August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • 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 1894: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • February 12 » Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into the Cafe Terminus in Paris, killing one person and wounding 20.
    • March 16 » Jules Massenet's opera Thaïs is first performed.
    • May 1 » Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C.
    • May 21 » The Manchester Ship Canal in the United Kingdom is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.
    • July 4 » The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
    • September 1 » Over 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.

Day of marriage August 1, 1918

  • The temperature on August 1, 1918 was between 5.8 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 13.9 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1918: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.6 million citizens.
    • January 9 » Battle of Bear Valley: The last battle of the American Indian Wars.
    • February 5 » Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane; this is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.
    • June 22 » The Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 and injures 127 near Hammond, Indiana.
    • August 29 » World War I: Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive.
    • November 11 » Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power.
    • November 21 » The Flag of Estonia, previously used by pro-independence activists, is formally adopted as the national flag of the Republic of Estonia.

Day of death July 3, 1986

  • The temperature on July 3, 1986 was between 14.8 °C and 26.8 °C and averaged 20.6 °C. There was 9.9 hours of sunshine (59%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1986: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
    • January 13 » A month-long violent struggle begins in Aden, South Yemen between supporters of Ali Nasir Muhammad and Abdul Fattah Ismail, resulting in thousands of casualties.
    • March 15 » Collapse of Hotel New World: Thirty-three people die when the Hotel New World in Singapore collapses.
    • April 26 » A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in the Soviet Union, creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.
    • June 4 » Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
    • July 6 » Davis Phinney becomes the first American cyclist to win a road stage of the Tour de France.
    • November 26 » The trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of committing war crimes as a guard at the Nazi Treblinka extermination camp, starts in Jerusalem.


Same birth/death day

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