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Personal data Willem Alkes Meetstra 


Household of Willem Alkes Meetstra

He is married to Jitske Ottes Hogeveen.

They got married on May 25, 1871 at Grootegast (Gr), he was 28 years old.Source 4


Child(ren):

  1. Jantje Meetstra  1871-1947 
  2. Auktje Meetstra  1873-1965 
  3. Otto Hepke Meetstra  1876-1965 


Notes about Willem Alkes Meetstra

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De broers Willem, Geert en Fokke Meetstra bewoonden een boerderij op 't Dorp, een buurtschap in de buurt van Doezum. Toen Willem Meetstra ging trouwen, bleven Geert en Fokke op de boerderij aan het eind van de Doezumertocht wonen. Passerende schippers in de Doezumertocht moesten aan hen tol betalen. Geert en Fokke waren niet onbemiddeld en leenden geld uit aan buurtgenoten. In 1925 gingen Geert en Fokke Meetstra met hun huishoudster Rieke Snip in Lutjegast wonen. Daar zijn de beide broers ook overleden.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Willem Alkes Meetstra

Taeke Fokkes Meetstra
± 1765-1845
Trientje Reerts
1768-1843
Willem Garmts Renkema
1761-1840
Geertje Alles Roda
± 1772-< 1809

Willem Alkes Meetstra
1842-1920

1871

Jitske Ottes Hogeveen
1843-1919

Jantje Meetstra
1871-1947
Auktje Meetstra
1873-1965
Otto Hepke Meetstra
1876-1965

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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister Grootegast 1842
  2. Overlijdensregister Grootegast 1920
  3. https://www.graftombe.nl/names/info/33687/meedstra
  4. Huwelijksregister Grootegast 1871

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Historical events

Birthday August 20, 1842

  • The temperature on August 20, 1842 was about 18.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: half bewolkt. Source: KNMI
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    De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
  • In the year 1842: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
    • January 13 » Dr. William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British East India Company Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 4,500 men and 12,000 camp followers when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
    • March 28 » First concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Otto Nicolai.
    • May 16 » The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail from Elm Grove, Missouri, with 100 pioneers.
    • August 1 » The Lombard Street riot erupts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
    • August 9 » The Webster–Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States–Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains.
    • August 29 » Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War.

Day of marriage May 25, 1871

  • The temperature on May 25, 1871 was about 23.9 °C. The air pressure was 16 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south east. The atmospheric humidity was 22%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
  • In The Netherlands , there was from January 4, 1871 to July 6, 1872 the cabinet Thorbecke III, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1871: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
    • January 18 » Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed Kaiser Wilhelm in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles (France) towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War. Wilhelm already had the title of German Emperor since the constitution of 1 January 1871, but he had hesitated to accept the title.
    • March 18 » Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders the evacuation of Paris.
    • March 22 » In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
    • April 1 » The 3rd Duke of Buckingham opened the Brill Tramway, a short railway line to transport goods between his lands and the national rail network.
    • July 29 » The Connecticut Valley Railroad opens between Old Saybrook, Connecticut and Hartford, Connecticut in the United States.
    • November 10 » Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?".

Day of death November 4, 1920

  • The temperature on November 4, 1920 was between -4.0 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged -0.2 °C. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-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 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 1920: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.8 million citizens.
    • January 23 » The Netherlands refuses to surrender the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies.
    • March 13 » The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
    • March 14 » In the second of the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites, about 80% of the population in Zone II votes to remain part of Weimar Germany.
    • June 4 » Hungary loses 71% of its territory and 63% of its population when the Treaty of Trianon is signed in Paris.
    • August 16 » Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit on the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and dies early the next day. Chapman was the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.
    • November 28 » Irish War of Independence: Kilmichael Ambush: The Irish Republican Army ambush a convoy of British Auxiliaries and kill seventeen.


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