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Personal data Riemkje Posthuma 


Household of Riemkje Posthuma

She is married to Hendrik Wijkstra.

They got married on May 11, 1861 at Marum (Gr), she was 26 years old.Source 3


Child(ren):

  1. Aukje Wijkstra  1861-1935 
  2. Hendrikje Wijkstra  1877-1950 

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Riemkje Posthuma

Roelf Hendriks Posthuma
1761-1824
Hiltje Geerts
1766-< 1824
Wobbe Egberts Alkema
± 1781-1846
Riemkje Onnes Zwart
± 1784-1854

Riemkje Posthuma
1834-1916

1861

Hendrik Wijkstra
1836-1894

Aukje Wijkstra
1861-1935
Hendrikje Wijkstra
1877-1950

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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister Marum 1834
  2. Overlijdensregister 1916, Opsterland
  3. Huwelijksregister Marum 1861

Historical events

Birthday November 6, 1834

  • The temperature on November 6, 1834 was about 15.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: betrokken regen winderig. 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 1834: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
    • February 3 » Wake Forest University is established (as Wake Forest Institute) in North Carolina, United States.
    • March 6 » York, Upper Canada, is incorporated as Toronto.
    • March 18 » Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.
    • May 30 » Minister of Justice Joaquim António de Aguiar issues a law seizing "all convents, monasteries, colleges, hospices and any other houses" from the Catholic religious orders in Portugal, earning him the nickname of "The Friar-Killer".
    • July 7 » In New York City, four nights of rioting against abolitionists began.
    • July 15 » The Spanish Inquisition is officially disbanded after nearly 356 years.

Day of marriage May 11, 1861

  • The temperature on May 11, 1861 was about 7.8 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. 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 February 23, 1860 till March 14, 1861 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Van Heemstra with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. S. baron Van Heemstra (liberaal).
  • 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 year 1861: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • January 19 » American Civil War: Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in declaring secession from the United States.
    • February 9 » American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama.
    • February 18 » In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
    • April 13 » American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces.
    • July 26 » American Civil War: George B. McClellan assumes command of the Army of the Potomac following a disastrous Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run.
    • November 7 » The first Melbourne Cup horse race is held in Melbourne, Australia.

Day of death March 13, 1916

  • The temperature on March 13, 1916 was between 2.7 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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.
    • March 15 » United States President Woodrow Wilson sends 4,800 United States troops over the U.S.–Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa.
    • May 6 » Twenty-one Lebanese nationalists are executed in Martyrs' Square, Beirut by Djemal Pasha.
    • May 16 » The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the French Third Republic sign the secret wartime Sykes-Picot Agreement partitioning former Ottoman territories such as Iraq and Syria.
    • June 4 » World War I: Russia opens the Brusilov Offensive with an artillery barrage of Austro-Hungarian lines in Galicia.
    • July 19 » World War I: Battle of Fromelles: British and Australian troops attack German trenches as part of the Battle of the Somme.
    • November 7 » Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.


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