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Household of Lijsbert Jans Merkus

She is married to Johannes Gerlofs Zijlstra.

They got married on May 25, 1865 at Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland, she was 26 years old.Source 3

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Lijsbert Jans Merkus

Harmen Jelles Merkus
1771-1848
Lijsbeth Jans
1773-1826
Jacob Ymkes Meyer
± 1788-1826
Antje Meinderts Dantuma
± 1793-1857

Lijsbert Jans Merkus
1839-1866

1865

Johannes Gerlofs Zijlstra
1836-1927


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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister 1839, Dantumadeel
  2. Overlijdensregister 1866, Dokkum
  3. Huwelijksregister 1865, Dantumadeel

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Birthday February 24, 1839

  • The temperature on February 24, 1839 was about 4.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: half bewolkt winderig. 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 1839: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
    • January 6 » The Night of the Big Wind, the most damaging storm in 300 years, sweeps across Ireland, damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in Dublin.
    • January 9 » The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
    • August 19 » The French government announces that Louis Daguerre's photographic process is a gift "free to the world".
    • September 5 » The United Kingdom declares war on the Qing dynasty of China.
    • November 4 » Newport Rising: The last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.
    • November 25 » A cyclone slams into south-eastern India, with high winds and a 40-foot storm surge destroying the port city of Coringa (which has never been completely rebuilt). The storm wave swept inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths resulted from the disaster.

Day of marriage May 25, 1865

  • The temperature on May 25, 1865 was about 18.9 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 54%. 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 February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1865: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • April 20 » Astronomer Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, the L'Immaculata Concezion.
    • April 27 » The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state's land grant institution.
    • April 27 » The Sultana explodes and sinks in the United States' worst maritime disaster.
    • May 5 » American Civil War: The Confederate District of the Gulf surrenders about 4,000 men at Citronelle, Alabama.
    • May 9 » American Civil War: President Andrew Johnson issues a proclamation ending belligerent rights of the rebels and enjoining foreign nations to intern or expel Confederate ships.
    • December 1 » Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Day of death March 23, 1866

  • The temperature on March 23, 1866 was about 4.2 °C. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 63%. 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 February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from February 10, 1866 to June 1, 1866 the cabinet Fransen van de Putte, with I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • From June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
  • In the year 1866: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • January 12 » The Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London.
    • May 22 » Oliver Winchester founded the Winchester Repeating Arms
    • June 3 » The Fenians are driven out of Fort Erie, Ontario back into the United States.
    • July 25 » The United States Congress passes legislation authorizing the rank of General of the Army. Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to be promoted to this rank.
    • July 30 » Armed Confederate veterans in New Orleans riot against a meeting of Radical Republicans, killing 48 people and injuring another 100.
    • September 22 » The Battle of Curupayty is Paraguay's only significant victory in the Paraguayan War.


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