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Personal data Tjipke Westra 


Household of Tjipke Westra

He is married to Sytske Veenstra.

They got married on May 14, 1910 at Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland, he was 23 years old.Source 4


Child(ren):

  1. Fokje Westra  1913-1965
  3. Gosse Westra  1917-1993 

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Tjipke Westra

Anne Tjipkes Westra
± 1796-1877
Fokje Hendriks de Jong
± 1805-1880
Anne Jans Lourens
1822-1899
Hinke Haayes Postma
1824-1888

Tjipke Westra
1887-1951

1910

Sytske Veenstra
1888-1970

Fokje Westra
1913-1965
Grietje Westra
1915-????
Gosse Westra
1917-1993

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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister 1887, Dantumadeel
  2. Overlijdensregister 1951, Dantumadeel
  3. https://www.graftombe.nl/names/info/195428/westra
  4. Huwelijksregister 1910, Kollumerland c.a.

Historical events

Birthday February 20, 1887

  • The temperature on February 20, 1887 was about 1.4 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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 April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1887: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • February 2 » In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
    • February 8 » The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
    • April 28 » A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, French police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of William I, German Emperor, defusing a possible war.
    • June 23 » The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park.
    • July 4 » The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
    • November 11 » August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed as a result of the Haymarket affair.

Day of marriage May 14, 1910

  • The temperature on May 14, 1910 was between 6.1 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (38%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1910: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.9 million citizens.
    • July 16 » John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia.
    • July 24 » The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.
    • October 6 » Eleftherios Venizelos is elected prime minister of Greece for the first of seven times.
    • October 15 » Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
    • November 14 » Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia, taking off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
    • November 20 » Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero issues the Plan de San Luis Potosí, denouncing Mexican President Porfirio Díaz, calling for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico, effectively starting the Mexican Revolution.

Day of death August 2, 1951

  • The temperature on August 2, 1951 was between 16.3 °C and 24.1 °C and averaged 19.6 °C. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (65%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
  • In The Netherlands , there was from March 15, 1951 to September 2, 1952 the cabinet Drees I, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1951: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 10.2 million citizens.
    • March 20 » Fujiyoshida, a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in the center of the Japanese main island of Honshū is founded.
    • May 3 » The United States Senate Committee on Armed Services and United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations begin their closed door hearings into the relief of Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry Truman.
    • July 10 » Korean War: Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong.
    • July 16 » King Leopold III of Belgium abdicates in favor of his son, Baudouin I of Belgium.
    • September 4 » The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.
    • September 28 » CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

Source: Wikipedia


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