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Personal data Jitze Merkus 


Household of Jitze Merkus

(1) He is married to Jifke Pieters Storm.

They got married on May 16, 1896 at Achtkarspelen (Fr), he was 25 years old.Source 4


Child(ren):

  1. Grietje Merkus  1897-1972


(2) He is married to Antje Batema.

They got married on September 16, 1905 at Achtkarspelen (Fr), he was 34 years old.Source 5

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Jitze Merkus

Hylke Jelles Merkus
1781-1859
Aaltje Popes Zijlstra
1781-1853
Jan Wopkes Hoekstra
1815-1864
Antje Lammerts Landman
1809-1859

Jitze Merkus
1871-1943

(1) 1896

Jifke Pieters Storm
1867-1900

Grietje Merkus
1897-1972
(2) 1905

Antje Batema
1871-1954


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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister 1871, Achtkarspelen
  2. Overlijdensregister 1943, Achtkarspelen
  3. http://www.graftombe.nl/names/info/253818/merkus
  4. Huwelijksregister 1896, Achtkarspelen
  5. Huwelijksregister 1905, Achtkarspelen

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Historical events

Birthday February 15, 1871

  • The temperature on February 15, 1871 was about 5.8 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The atmospheric humidity was 81%. 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.
    • May 21 » French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week", some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested.
    • July 2 » Victor Emmanuel II of Italy enters Rome after having conquered it from the Papal States.
    • July 20 » British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.
    • 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?".
    • December 26 » Thespis, the first Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration, debuts. It does modestly well, but the two would not collaborate again for four years and the score has been lost.

Day of marriage September 16, 1905

  • The temperature on September 16, 1905 was between 1.9 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1905: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
    • August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: Peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
    • September 1 » Alberta and Saskatchewan join the Canadian confederation.
    • September 8 » The 7.2 Mw  Calabria earthquake shakes southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 557 and 2,500 people.
    • October 30 » Czar Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, granting the Russian peoples basic civil liberties and the right to form a duma. (October 17 in the Julian calendar)
    • November 25 » Prince Carl of Denmark arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway.
    • November 28 » Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland.

Day of death August 2, 1943

  • The temperature on August 2, 1943 was between 13.1 °C and 23.4 °C and averaged 18.0 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1943: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.1 million citizens.
    • January 24 » World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca.
    • April 18 » World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island.
    • July 22 » World War II: Allied forces capture Palermo during the Allied invasion of Sicily.
    • July 25 » World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by the Grand Council of Fascism and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
    • October 13 » World War II: Marshal Pietro Badoglio announces that Italy has officially declared war on Germany.
    • November 24 » World War II: At the battle of Makin the USSLiscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men.


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Source: Wikipedia

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