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Personal data Willem Kornelis Brands 


Household of Willem Kornelis Brands

He is married to Geertje Alma.

They got married on May 14, 1915 at Adorp (Gr), he was 24 years old.Source 3


Child(ren):

  3. Gerlof Jan Brands  1925-1950

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Willem Kornelis Brands

Willem Kornelis Brands
1829-1910
Roelfke Harms van der Molen
1826-1914
Harm Brands
1863-1925

Willem Kornelis Brands
1891-1939

1915

Geertje Alma
1893-1966

Harm Lambertus Brands
1916-1983
Lambertus Harm Brands
1918-1970
Gerlof Jan Brands
1925-1950

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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister Bedum 1891
  2. Overlijdensregister Groningen 1939
  3. Huwelijksregister Adorp 1915

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Historical events

Birthday February 11, 1891

  • The temperature on February 11, 1891 was about 2.6 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1891: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • March 10 » Almon Strowger patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
    • March 17 » SSUtopia collides with HMSAnson in the Bay of Gibraltar and sinks, killing 562 of the 880 passengers on board.
    • April 1 » The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
    • May 15 » Pope Leo XIII defends workers' rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum novarum, the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching.
    • August 16 » The Basilica of San Sebastian, Manila, the first all-steel church in Asia, is officially inaugurated and blessed.
    • October 1 » Stanford University opens its doors in California, United States.

Day of marriage May 14, 1915

  • The temperature on May 14, 1915 was between 2.5 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 10.4 mm of rain. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the 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 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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
    • January 19 » Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
    • May 6 » Babe Ruth, then a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, hits his first major league home run.
    • May 27 » HMS Princess Irene exploded and sank off Sheerness, Kent with the loss of 352 lives.
    • July 7 » Colombo Town Guard officer Henry Pedris is executed in British Ceylon for allegedly inciting persecution of Muslims.
    • August 17 » Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia after a 13-year-old girl is murdered.
    • September 12 » French soldiers rescue over 4,000 Armenian Genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh.

Day of death September 28, 1939

  • The temperature on September 28, 1939 was between -1.0 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (57%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from July 25, 1939 to August 10, 1939 the cabinet Colijn V, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1939: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.7 million citizens.
    • April 4 » Faisal II becomes King of Iraq.
    • April 14 » The Grapes of Wrath, by American author John Steinbeck is first published by the Viking Press.
    • September 14 » World War II: The Estonian military boards the Polish submarine ORPOrzeł in Tallinn, sparking a diplomatic incident that the Soviet Union will later use to justify the annexation of Estonia.
    • November 4 » World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons by belligerents.
    • December 17 » World War II: Battle of the River Plate: The Admiral Graf Spee is scuttled by Captain Hans Langsdorff outside Montevideo.
    • December 18 » World War II: The Battle of the Heligoland Bight, the first major air battle of the war, takes place.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

  • 1881 » Carlo Carrà, Italian painter († 1966)
  • 1897 » Emil Leon Post, Polish-American mathematician and logician (d.1954)
  • 1898 » Leo Szilard, Hungarian-American physicist and academic († 1964)
  • 1900 » Ellen Broe, Danish nurse, pioneer in nursing education († 1994)
  • 1900 » Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher and scholar († 2002)
  • 1900 » Jōsei Toda, Japanese educator and activist († 1958)

Source: Wikipedia


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