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Personal data Gerrit Hekstra 


Household of Gerrit Hekstra

He is married to Gertje Ros.

They got married on May 13, 1916 at Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland, he was 21 years old.Source 4

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Gerrit Hekstra

Gerrit Wybes Hekstra
1829-1899
Grietje Romkes van der Veen
1835-1931
Pieter Eelkes Monsma
1840-1873
Trijntje Bos
1842-1936
Romke Hekstra
1867-1944
Antje Monsma
1873-1958

Gerrit Hekstra
1895-1942

1916

Gertje Ros
1895-1970


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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister 1895, Dantumadeel
  2. Overlijdensregister 1942, Dantumadeel
  3. https://www.graftombe.nl/names/info/196187/hekstra
  4. Huwelijksregister 1916, Dantumadeel

Historical events

Birthday April 15, 1895

  • The temperature on April 15, 1895 was about 4.1 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1895: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • March 19 » Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
    • March 22 » Before the Société pour L'Encouragement à l'Industrie, brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology publicly for the first time.
    • June 27 » The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
    • September 18 » The Atlanta Exposition Speech on race relations is delivered by Booker T. Washington.
    • October 4 » Horace Rawlins wins the first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship.
    • October 22 » In Paris an express train derails after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing almost 30 metres (100ft) of concourse before crashing through a wall and falling 10 metres (33ft) to the road below.

Day of marriage May 13, 1916

  • The temperature on May 13, 1916 was between 7.4 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1916: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
    • March 9 » Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against the border town of Columbus, New Mexico.
    • April 29 » Easter Rising: After six days of fighting, Irish rebel leaders surrender to British forces in Dublin, bringing the Easter Rising to an end.
    • May 6 » Twenty-one Lebanese nationalists are executed in Martyrs' Square, Beirut by Djemal Pasha.
    • August 27 » World War I: The Kingdom of Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary, entering the war as one of the Allied nations.
    • September 3 » World War I: Leefe Robinson destroys the German airship Schütte-Lanz SL 11 over Cuffley, north of London; the first German airship to be shot down on British soil.
    • September 11 » The Quebec Bridge's central span collapses, killing 11 men. The bridge previously collapsed completely on August 29, 1907.

Day of death January 29, 1942

  • The temperature on January 29, 1942 was between -3.8 °C and 2.2 °C and averaged -0.3 °C. There was 3.2 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1942: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
    • February 8 » World War II: Japan invades Singapore.
    • February 10 » World War II: Imperial Japanese Army capture Banjarmasin, capital of Borneo in Dutch East Indies.
    • March 26 » World War II: The first female prisoners arrive at Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland.
    • May 8 » World War II: The German 11th Army begins Operation Trappenjagd (Bustard Hunt) and destroys the bridgehead of the three Soviet armies defending the Kerch Peninsula.
    • May 12 » World War II: Second Battle of Kharkov: In eastern Ukraine, Red Army forces under Marshal Semyon Timoshenko launch a major offensive from the Izium bridgehead, only to be encircled and destroyed by the troops of Army Group South two weeks later.
    • July 1 » The Australian Federal Government becomes the sole collector of income tax in Australia as State Income Tax is abolished.


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Source: Wikipedia


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