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Personal data Geertje Nicolai 


Household of Geertje Nicolai

She is married to Jan Hofkamp.

They got married on June 1, 1862 at Groningen (Gr), she was 25 years old.Source 3


Child(ren):

  2. Albert Hofkamp  1866-1936
  3. Harm Hofkamp  1868-1869
  4. Lammert Hofkamp  1870-1933
  5. Gerke Hofkamp  1873-1901
  6. Harm Hofkamp  1874-1875

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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister Grootegast 1837
  2. Overlijdensregister Vries, 1912
  3. Huwelijksregister Groningen 1862

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Historical events

Birthday February 19, 1837

  • The temperature on February 19, 1837 was about 9.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: half bewolkt regen bui. 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 1837: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
    • May 10 » Panic of 1837: New York City banks suspend the payment of specie, triggering a national banking crisis and an economic depression whose severity was not surpassed until the Great Depression.
    • July 4 » Grand Junction Railway, the world's first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool.
    • September 18 » Tiffany & Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City. The store is called a "stationery and fancy goods emporium".
    • November 7 » In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead by a mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.
    • November 8 » Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which later becomes Mount Holyoke College.
    • November 17 » An earthquake in Valdivia, south-central Chile, causes a tsunami that leads to significant destruction along Japan's coast.

Day of marriage June 1, 1862

  • The temperature on June 1, 1862 was about 20.3 °C. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 64%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • From March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
  • 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 1862: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • January 16 » Hartley Colliery disaster: Two hundred and four men and boys killed in a mining disaster, prompting a change in UK law which henceforth required all collieries to have at least two independent means of escape.
    • February 15 » American Civil War: Confederates commanded by Brig. Gen. John B. Floyd attack General Ulysses S. Grant's Union forces Fort Donelson, Tennessee. Unable to break the fort's encirclement, Lloyd surrenders the following day.
    • February 21 » American Civil War: Battle of Valverde is fought near Fort Craig in New Mexico Territory.
    • June 4 » American Civil War: Confederate troops evacuate Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, leaving the way clear for Union troops to take Memphis, Tennessee.
    • November 14 » American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln approves General Ambrose Burnside's plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, leading to the Battle of Fredericksburg.
    • December 12 » American Civil War: USSCairo sinks on the Yazoo River.

Day of death June 29, 1912

  • The temperature on June 29, 1912 was between 10.3 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 8.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1912: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
    • January 4 » The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Empire by royal charter.
    • February 29 » The Piedra Movediza (Moving Stone) of Tandil falls and breaks.
    • September 2 » Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America.
    • October 7 » The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
    • October 19 » Italo-Turkish War: Italy takes possession of what is now Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
    • November 27 » Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.


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