Family tree Weening » Pieter Abels Westra (± 1746-1820)

Personal data Pieter Abels Westra 

  • He was born about 1746 in -.
  • He died on June 5, 1820 in Nieuwkruisland, gem. Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland.Source 1
  • A child of Abel Jans and Rinske Reitses
  • This information was last updated on December 27, 2021.

Household of Pieter Abels Westra

He is married to Dettje Doekes Smits.

They got married on February 27, 1791 at Munnekezijl, gem. Kollumerland c.a. (Fr).Source 2


Child(ren):

  1. Doeke Pieters Westra  1793-1856 

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Pieter Abels Westra

Abel Jans
± 1720-????
Rinske Reitses
± 1720-????

Pieter Abels Westra
± 1746-1820

1791

Dettje Doekes Smits
-1823

Doeke Pieters Westra
1793-1856

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Sources

  1. Overlijdensregister 1817-1824, Kollumerland c.a.
  2. Trouwregister Hervormde gemeente Burum Munnekezijl, aktenummer 328

Historical events

Day of marriage February 27, 1791

  • The temperature on February 27, 1791 was about 1.0 °C. There was 48 mm of rainWind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: betrokken sneeuw. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1791: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 18 » Congress passes a law admitting the state of Vermont to the Union, effective 4 March, after that state had existed for 14 years as a de facto independent largely unrecognized state.
    • March 2 » Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
    • July 17 » Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing scores of people.
    • August 22 » Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue, Haiti.
    • August 26 » John Fitch is granted a United States patent for the steamboat.
    • September 30 » The first performance of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute takes place two months before his death.

Day of death June 5, 1820

  • The temperature on June 5, 1820 was about 11.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west. Weather type: betrokken regen. Source: KNMI
  •  This page is only available in Dutch.
    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 1820: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 27 » A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent, approaching the Antarctic coast.
    • January 30 » Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica.
    • February 23 » Cato Street Conspiracy: A plot to murder all the British cabinet ministers is exposed.
    • March 6 » The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, brings Maine into the Union as a free state, and makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.
    • April 12 » Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece.
    • October 9 » Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.


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