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Personal data Harrit Dirks Boonstra 

  • He was born on February 17, 1786 in Bergum, gem. Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland.Source 1
  • He was christened on April 9, 1786 in Bergum, gem. Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland.
  • He died on April 1, 1863 in Bergum, gem. Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland, he was 77 years old.Source 2
  • This information was last updated on May 5, 2024.

Household of Harrit Dirks Boonstra

He is married to Eelkjen Jans de Lang.

They got married on April 1, 1810 at Bergum, gem. Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland, he was 24 years old.Source 3


Child(ren):

  3. Jan Harrits Boonstra  1817-1890 
  4. Bein Harrits Boonstra  1820-1900 

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Sources

  1. Herv. gem. Bergum, doop 1679-1811
  2. Overlijdensregister 1863, Tietjerksteradeel
  3. Trouwregister Hervormde gemeente Bergum 1679-1811

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Historical events

Birthday February 17, 1786

  • The temperature on February 17, 1786 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: omtrent helder. 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 1786: Source: Wikipedia
    • May 1 » In Vienna, Austria, Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro is performed for the first time.
    • August 7 » The first federal Indian Reservation is created by the United States.
    • August 11 » Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia.
    • August 29 » Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
    • November 7 » The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
    • November 30 » The Grand Duchy of Tuscany, under Pietro Leopoldo I, becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty (later commemorated as Cities for Life Day).

Christening day April 9, 1786

  • The temperature on April 9, 1786 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. 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 1786: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 16 » Virginia enacts the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.
    • May 1 » In Vienna, Austria, Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro is performed for the first time.
    • June 10 » A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.
    • June 29 » Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
    • August 7 » The first federal Indian Reservation is created by the United States.
    • August 8 » Mont Blanc on the French-Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard.

Day of marriage April 1, 1810

  • The temperature on April 1, 1810 was about 3.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly east. 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 1810: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 1 » Major-General Lachlan Macquarie officially becomes Governor of New South Wales.
    • June 7 » The newspaper Gazeta de Buenos Ayres is first published in Argentina.
    • June 23 » John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.
    • August 26 » The former viceroy Santiago de Liniers of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata is executed after the defeat of his counter-revolution.
    • August 28 » Battle of Grand Port: The French accept the surrender of a British Navy fleet.
    • October 27 » United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.

Day of death April 1, 1863

  • The temperature on April 1, 1863 was about 9.6 °C. The air pressure was 1.5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 37%. 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 February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1863: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • January 8 » American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield.
    • May 18 » American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg begins.
    • October 26 » The Football Association is founded.
    • October 30 » Danish Prince Vilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes.
    • November 16 » American Civil War: Battle of Campbell's Station near Knoxville, Tennessee: Confederate troops unsuccessfully attack Union forces.
    • November 18 » King Christian IX of Denmark signs the November constitution that declares Schleswig to be part of Denmark. This is seen by the German Confederation as a violation of the London Protocol and leads to the German–Danish war of 1864.


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