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Personal data Sake Merkus 


Household of Sake Merkus

(1) He is married to Fokje Overzet.

They got married on May 19, 1894 at Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland, he was 31 years old.Source 3


Child(ren):

  1. Poppe Hylke Merkus  1896-1954 
  2. Antje Merkus  1898-1967 
  3. Feye Merkus  1900-1951


(2) He is married to Lutske Kootstra.

They got married on May 13, 1905 at Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland, he was 42 years old.Source 4

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Sake Merkus

Hylke Jelles Merkus
1781-1859
Aaltje Popes Zijlstra
1781-1853
Sytze Alberts van der Werf
± 1797-1865
Antje Gerrits Visser
± 1799-1858

Sake Merkus
1862-1941

(1) 1894

Fokje Overzet
1865-1900

Poppe Hylke Merkus
1896-1954
Antje Merkus
1898-1967
Feye Merkus
1900-1951
(2) 1905

Lutske Kootstra
1877-1933


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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister 1862, Dantumadeel
  2. Overlijdensregister 1941, Kollumerland c.a.
  3. Huwelijksregister 1894, Kollumerland c.a.
  4. Huwelijksregister 1905, Kollumerland c.a.

Historical events

Birthday July 20, 1862

  • The temperature on July 20, 1862 was about 18.7 °C. The air pressure was 17 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 50%. 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 March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
  • In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1862: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • February 10 » American Civil War: A Union naval flotilla destroys the bulk of the Confederate Mosquito Fleet in the Battle of Elizabeth City on the Pasquotank River in North Carolina.
    • April 7 » American Civil War: The Union's Army of the Tennessee and the Army of the Ohio defeat the Confederate Army of Mississippi near Shiloh, Tennessee.
    • August 5 » American Civil War: Battle of Baton Rouge: Along the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Confederate troops attempt to take the city, but are driven back by fire from Union gunboats.
    • September 17 » American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the single largest civilian disaster during the war.
    • November 5 » American Indian Wars: In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to hang. 38 are ultimately executed and the others reprieved.
    • December 31 » American Civil War: The Battle of Stones River begins near Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

Day of marriage May 13, 1905

  • The temperature on May 13, 1905 was between 5.0 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
    • February 23 » Chicago attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world's first service club.
    • June 30 » Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
    • September 5 » Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, United States, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
    • 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 18 » Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway.
    • December 11 » A workers' uprising occurs in Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire), and establishes the Shuliavka Republic.

Day of death September 13, 1941

  • The temperature on September 13, 1941 was between 9.0 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (15%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • 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 1941: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.9 million citizens.
    • April 15 » In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Luftwaffe attack Belfast, killing around one thousand people.
    • May 20 » World War II: Battle of Crete: German paratroops invade Crete.
    • June 27 » Romanian authorities launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iași, resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews.
    • July 4 » World War II: The Burning of the Riga synagogues: The Great Choral Synagogue in German occupied Riga is burnt with 300 Jews locked in the basement.
    • December 17 » World War II: Japanese forces land in Northern Borneo.
    • December 25 » Admiral Émile Muselier seizes the archipelago of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, which become the first part of France to be liberated by the Free French Forces.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

Source: Wikipedia


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