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Personal data Taeke Westra 


Household of Taeke Westra

He is married to Trijntje Postma.

They got married on May 8, 1915 at Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland, he was 28 years old.Source 3


Child(ren):

  1. Wobbe Westra  1916-1981
  2. Jan Westra  1919-2003

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Taeke Westra

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

Taeke Westra
1887-1960

1915

Trijntje Postma
1895-1974

Wobbe Westra
1916-1981
Jan Westra
1919-2003

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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister 1887, Kollumerland c.a.
  2. Overlijdensregister Groningen 1960
  3. Huwelijksregister 1915, Kollumerland c.a.

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Historical events

Birthday February 22, 1887

  • The temperature on February 22, 1887 was about 2.2 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. 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 April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1887: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • January 20 » The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
    • April 4 » Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
    • June 23 » The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park.
    • July 26 » Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.
    • October 1 » Balochistan is conquered by the British Empire.
    • November 9 » The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

Day of marriage May 8, 1915

  • The temperature on May 8, 1915 was between 8.2 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 year 1915: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
    • February 8 » D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
    • May 17 » The last British Liberal Party government (led by H. H. Asquith) falls.
    • May 22 » Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, the only volcano besides Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous U.S. during the 20th century.
    • July 28 » The United States begins a 19-year occupation of Haiti.
    • August 27 » Attempted assassination of Bishop Patrick Heffron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona by Rev. Louis M. Lesches.
    • September 5 » The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.

Day of death March 24, 1960

  • The temperature on March 24, 1960 was between 2.7 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (81%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1960: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 11.4 million citizens.
    • January 21 » Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board.
    • July 1 » Independence of Somalia.
    • September 5 » Poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is the first elected President of Senegal.
    • September 22 » The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
    • October 4 » An airliner crashes on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing 62 people.
    • October 29 » In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.


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