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Personal data Gerk Sjoerds Postma 


Household of Gerk Sjoerds Postma

(1) He is married to Tieke Ypes Poppinga.

They got married on March 2, 1850 at Achtkarspelen (Fr), he was 32 years old.Source 3


Child(ren):

  1. Ype Gerks Postma  1851-1930 


(2) He is married to Jeltje Remmelts Poelstra.

They got married on May 28, 1859 at Achtkarspelen (Fr), he was 41 years old.Source 4


(3) He is married to Sjoukje Eerdes van der Tuin.

They got married on January 25, 1878 at Achtkarspelen (Fr), he was 59 years old.Source 5

Bruidegom is weduwnaar van Jeltje Remmelts Poelstra

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Gerk Sjoerds Postma

Wieger Sjoerds
± 1746-1811
Tjitske Harmens Postma
± 1757-1842
Gerk Atzes Huisma
± 1768-1841
Engeltje Rones Bloembergen
1765-1846

Gerk Sjoerds Postma
1818-1894

(1) 1850

Tieke Ypes Poppinga
1813-1857

Ype Gerks Postma
1851-1930
(2) 1859

Jeltje Remmelts Poelstra
1816-1876

(3) 1878

Sjoukje Eerdes van der Tuin
1840-1912


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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister 1818, Tietjerksteradeel
  2. Overlijdensregister 1894, Achtkarspelen
  3. Huwelijksregister 1850, Achtkarspelen
  4. Huwelijksregister 1859, Achtkarspelen
  5. Huwelijksregister 1878, Achtkarspelen

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Birthday February 17, 1818

  • The temperature on February 17, 1818 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southeast. Weather type: half bewolkt. Source: KNMI
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    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 1818: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 2 » The British Institution of Civil Engineers is founded by a group of six engineers; Thomas Telford would later become its first president.
    • January 15 » A paper by David Brewster is read to the Royal Society, belatedly announcing his discovery of what we now call the biaxial class of doubly-refracting crystals. On the same day, Augustin-Jean Fresnel signs a "supplement" (submitted four days later) on reflection of polarized light.
    • March 16 » In the Second Battle of Cancha Rayada, Spanish forces defeated Chileans under José de San Martín.
    • April 20 » The case of Ashford v Thornton ends, with Abraham Thornton allowed to go free rather than face a retrial for murder, after his demand for trial by battle is upheld.
    • July 29 » French physicist Augustin Fresnel submits his prizewinning "Memoir on the Diffraction of Light", precisely accounting for the limited extent to which light spreads into shadows, and thereby demolishing the oldest objection to the wave theory of light.
    • September 7 » Carl III of Sweden–Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.

Day of marriage January 25, 1878

  • The temperature on January 25, 1878 was about 1.3 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. 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 November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1878: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
    • January 4 » Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Sofia is liberated from Ottoman rule and designated the capital of Liberated Bulgaria.
    • February 18 » John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
    • February 22 » In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
    • March 15 » Restoration of the Scottish Catholic hierarchy, broken off back in 1603.
    • May 14 » The last witchcraft trial held in the United States begins in Salem, Massachusetts, after Lucretia Brown, an adherent of Christian Science, accused Daniel Spofford of attempting to harm her through his mental powers.
    • September 3 » Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.

Day of death January 15, 1894

  • The temperature on January 15, 1894 was about 4.7 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. 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 August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1894: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • January 9 » New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
    • May 21 » The Manchester Ship Canal in the United Kingdom is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.
    • July 4 » The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
    • August 1 » The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
    • September 15 » First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats Qing dynasty China in the Battle of Pyongyang.
    • September 17 » Battle of the Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.


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