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Personal data Metje van der Meulen 


Household of Metje van der Meulen

She is married to Anne Leegstra.

They got married on September 9, 1937 at Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland, she was 20 years old.Source 4

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Metje van der Meulen

Jelle van der Meulen
1864-1909
Jitske van der Wal
1866-1941
Arjen Koonstra
1861-1937
Mettje Bosma
1867-1927

Metje van der Meulen
1916-1947

1937

Anne Leegstra
1915-1983


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Sources

  1. Bevolkingsregister Dantumadeel
  2. Overlijdensregister 1947, Kollumerland c.a.
  3. https://www.graftombe.nl/names/info/179625/meulen_van_der
  4. Huwelijksregister 1937, Tietjerksteradeel

Historical events

Birthday October 21, 1916

  • The temperature on October 21, 1916 was between -3.7 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 1.4 °C. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 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.
    • February 3 » The Centre Block of the Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada burns down with the loss of 7 lives.
    • April 24 » Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the crew of the sunken Endurance.
    • April 25 » Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at ANZAC Cove.
    • August 25 » The United States National Park Service is created.
    • September 8 » In a bid to prove that women were capable of serving as military dispatch riders, Augusta and Adeline Van Buren arrive in Los Angeles, completing a 60-day, 5,500 mile cross-country trip on motorcycles.
    • September 27 » Iyasu V is proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his aunt Zewditu.

Day of marriage September 9, 1937

  • The temperature on September 9, 1937 was between 6.5 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1937: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
    • May 6 » Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed.
    • May 21 » A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
    • May 26 » Walter Reuther and members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) clashed with Ford Motor Company security guards at the River Rouge Complex complex in Dearborn, Michigan, during the Battle of the Overpass.
    • June 15 » A German expedition led by Karl Wien loses sixteen members in an avalanche on Nanga Parbat. It is the worst single disaster to occur on an 8000m peak.
    • October 2 » Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of Haitians living in the northwestern region of the Dominican Republic.
    • November 9 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Army withdraws from the Battle of Shanghai.

Day of death July 25, 1947

  • The temperature on July 25, 1947 was between 13.9 °C and 28.2 °C and averaged 21.2 °C. There was 9.9 hours of sunshine (62%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
    • January 1 » Cold War: The American and British occupation zones in Allied-occupied Germany, after World War II, merge to form the Bizone, which later (with the French zone) became part of West Germany.
    • January 1 » The Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 comes into effect, converting British subjects into Canadian citizens. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes the first Canadian citizen.
    • June 24 » Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington, leading to the coining of the phrase "flying saucer".
    • July 26 » Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council.
    • August 2 » A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile. The wreckage would not be found until 1998.
    • November 29 » Partition Plan: The United Nations General Assembly approves a plan for the partition of Palestine.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

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  • 1917 » Dizzy Gillespie, American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader († 1993)
  • 1918 » Albertina Sisulu, South African anti-apartheid activist († 2011)
  • 1918 » Milton Himmelfarb, American sociologist and author († 2006)
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Source: Wikipedia


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