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Personal data Grietje Douwsma 


Household of Grietje Douwsma

She is married to Hindrik Balkema.

They got married on May 23, 1889 at Leens (Gr), she was 20 years old.Source 3


Child(ren):

  1. Pieterke Balkema  1899-????

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Grietje Douwsma

Fokke Douwes Douwsma
± 1787-1824
Evertje Jans Tinga
-1870
Sibrand Alberts Lanting
1798-1866
Elsina Kristina Smit
1806-1885

Grietje Douwsma
1869-1957

1889

Hindrik Balkema
1867-1946

Pieterke Balkema
1899-????
Gaaije Balkema
1901-????

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Sources

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  2. Overlijdensregister Winsum 1957
  3. Huwelijksregister Leens 1889

Historical events

Birthday March 19, 1869

  • The temperature on March 19, 1869 was about 5.7 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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 June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
  • In the year 1869: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • February 5 » The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.
    • March 6 » Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
    • April 28 » Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay ten miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
    • July 10 » Gävle, Sweden, is largely destroyed in a fire; 80% of its 10,000 residents are left homeless.
    • November 11 » The Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act is enacted in Australia, giving the government control of indigenous people's wages, their terms of employment, where they could live, and of their children, effectively leading to the Stolen Generations.
    • November 22 » In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched

Day of marriage May 23, 1889

  • The temperature on May 23, 1889 was about 26.2 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 35%. 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 April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1889: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • February 9 » US president Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency.
    • May 31 » Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam fails and sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
    • July 8 » The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published.
    • August 13 » William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut is granted United States Patent Number 408,709 for "Coin-controlled apparatus for telephones."
    • November 11 » The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd state of the United States.
    • November 23 » The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.

Day of death April 23, 1957

  • The temperature on April 23, 1957 was between 5.4 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1957: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 11.0 million citizens.
    • January 22 » Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula.
    • April 11 » United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
    • July 11 » Prince Karim Husseini Aga Khan IV inherits the office of Imamat as the 49th Imam of Shia Imami Ismai'li worldwide, after the death of Sir Sultan Mahommed Shah Aga Khan III.
    • September 29 » The Kyshtym disaster is the third-worst nuclear accident ever recorded.
    • October 10 » U.S. President Eisenhower apologizes to Ghanaian finance minister Gbedemah after he is refused service in a Delaware restaurant.
    • November 8 » Pan Am Flight 7 disappears between San Francisco and Honolulu. Wreckage and bodies are discovered a week later.


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