Family tree Weening » Douwe Terpstra (1915-1979)

Personal data Douwe Terpstra 


Household of Douwe Terpstra

He is married to Tjeerdje de Boer.

They got married on May 9, 1945 at Menaldumadeel, Friesland, Nederland, he was 29 years old.Source 3

Do you have supplementary information, corrections or questions with regards to Douwe Terpstra?
The author of this publication would love to hear from you!


With Quick Search you can search by name, first name followed by a last name. You type in a few letters (at least 3) and a list of personal names within this publication will immediately appear. The more characters you enter the more specific the results. Click on a person's name to go to that person's page.

  • You can enter text in lowercase or uppercase.
  • If you are not sure about the first name or exact spelling, you can use an asterisk (*). Example: "*ornelis de b*r" finds both "cornelis de boer" and "kornelis de buur".
  • It is not possible to enter charachters outside the standard alphabet (so no diacritic characters like ö and é).

Sources

  1. Geboorteregister 1915, Wymbritseradeel
  2. https://www.graftombe.nl/names/info/251414/terpstra
  3. Huwelijksregister 1945, Menaldumadeel

Historical events

  • The temperature on July 25, 1915 was between 8.9 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 6.8 mm of rain. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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 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 year 1915: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
    • April 5 » Boxing challenger Jess Willard knocks out Jack Johnson in Havana, Cuba to become the Heavyweight Champion of the World.
    • April 24 » The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
    • July 24 » The passenger ship SSEastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
    • September 5 » The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
    • September 30 » World War I: Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.
    • October 14 » World War I: Bulgaria joins the Central Powers.
  • The temperature on November 25, 1979 was between 1.8 °C and 5.7 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
  • 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 Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1979: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
    • March 16 » Sino-Vietnamese War: The People's Liberation Army crosses the border back into China, ends the war.
    • July 25 » In accord with the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty, Israel begins its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula.
    • October 26 » Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea, is assassinated by Korean CIA head Kim Jae-gyu.
    • November 19 » Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.
    • November 20 » Grand Mosque seizure: About 200 Sunni Muslims revolt in Saudi Arabia at the site of the Kaaba in Mecca during the pilgrimage and take about 6000 hostages. The Saudi government receives help from Pakistani special forces to put down the uprising.
    • December 4 » The Hastie fire in Hull kills three schoolboys and eventually leads police to arrest Bruce George Peter Lee.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

Source: Wikipedia


About the surname Terpstra

  • View the information that Genealogie Online has about the surname Terpstra.
  • Check the information Open Archives has about Terpstra.
  • Check the Wie (onder)zoekt wie? register to see who is (re)searching Terpstra.

The Family tree Weening publication was prepared by .contact the author
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin:
Hans Weening, "Family tree Weening", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-weening/I119283.php : accessed March 1, 2026), "Douwe Terpstra (1915-1979)".