Family tree Weening » Gertje Wytses Westra (± 1762-1826)

Personal data Gertje Wytses Westra 


Household of Gertje Wytses Westra

She is married to Folkert Bienses.

They got married on May 11, 1788 at Akkerwoude, gem. Dantumadeel (Fr).Source 2


Child(ren):

  1. Wytze Folkerts Westra  1791-1862 
  2. Jurjen Folkerts Westra  ± 1804-1882 

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Gertje Wytses Westra

Gertje Wytses Westra
± 1762-1826

1788

Folkert Bienses
± 1762-1809

Wytze Folkerts Westra
1791-1862
Jurjen Folkerts Westra
± 1804-1882

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Sources

  1. Overlijdensregister 1826, Dantumadeel
  2. Trouwregister Hervormde gemeente Akkerwoude Murmerwoude, aktenummer 634

Historical events

Day of marriage May 11, 1788

  • The temperature on May 11, 1788 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1788: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 20 » The third and main part of First Fleet arrives at Botany Bay. Arthur Phillip decides that Port Jackson is a more suitable location for a colony.
    • January 26 » The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sails into Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on Australia. Commemorated as Australia Day.
    • March 6 » The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
    • March 21 » A fire in New Orleans leaves most of the town in ruins.
    • June 21 » New Hampshire becomes the ninth state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.
    • July 26 » New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th state of the United States.

Day of death October 15, 1826

  • The temperature on October 15, 1826 was about 15.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southeast. Weather type: half bewolkt. 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 1826: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 11 » University College London is founded as University of London.
    • March 13 » Pope Leo XII publishes the apostolic constitution Quo Graviora in which he renewed the prohibition on Catholics joining freemasonry.
    • April 1 » Samuel Morey received a patent for a compressionless "Gas or Vapor Engine".
    • June 21 » Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas.
    • August 18 » Major Gordon Laing becomes the first non-Muslim to enter Timbuktu.
    • September 11 » Captain William Morgan, an ex-freemason is arrested in Batavia, New York for debt after declaring that he would publish The Mysteries of Free Masonry, a book against Freemasonry. This sets into motion the events that lead to his mysterious disappearance.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia


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