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Personal data Jan Poppema 


Household of Jan Poppema

He is married to Riemke Boomsma.

They got married on May 20, 1916 at Oostdongeradeel, Friesland, Nederland, he was 32 years old.Source 3


Child(ren):

  1. Jacob Poppema  1917-1997

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Jan Poppema

Berend Jans Poppema
1818-1878
Martje de Boer
1821-1853
Jan Klazes de Groot
1800-1875
Antje Klazes Wiersma
± 1809-1894
Jakob Poppema
1847-1936

Jan Poppema
1883-1949

1916

Riemke Boomsma
1892-1965

Jacob Poppema
1917-1997

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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister 1883, Kollumerland c.a.
  2. Overlijdensregister 1949, Kollumerland c.a.
  3. Huwelijksregister 1916, Oostdongeradeel

Historical events

Birthday May 29, 1883

  • The temperature on May 29, 1883 was about 20.7 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 64%. 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 August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1883: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • January 19 » The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
    • March 28 » Tonkin Campaign: French victory in the Battle of Gia Cuc.
    • August 12 » The last quagga dies at the Natura Artis Magistra, a zoo in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
    • August 17 » The first public performance of the Dominican Republic's national anthem, Himno Nacional.
    • September 8 » The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana. Former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final "golden spike" in an event attended by rail and political luminaries.
    • October 22 » The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust.

Day of marriage May 20, 1916

  • The temperature on May 20, 1916 was between 3.8 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 12.5 hours of sunshine (79%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak 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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
    • January 12 » Both Oswald Boelcke and Max Immelmann, for achieving eight aerial victories each over Allied aircraft, receive the German Empire's highest military award, the Pour le Mérite as the first German aviators to earn it.
    • June 30 » World War I: In "the day Sussex died", elements of the Royal Sussex Regiment take heavy casualties in the Battle of the Boar's Head at Richebourg-l'Avoué in France.
    • August 28 » World War I: Germany declares war on Romania.
    • August 29 » The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act.
    • December 29 » A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, was first published as a book by an American publishing house B. W. Huebschis after it had been serialized in The Egoist (1914–15).
    • December 30 » The last coronation in Hungary is performed for King Charles IV and Queen Zita.

Day of death July 4, 1949

  • The temperature on July 4, 1949 was between 11.5 °C and 26.2 °C and averaged 19.4 °C. There was 15.0 hours of sunshine (90%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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)
  • From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
  • In the year 1949: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.9 million citizens.
    • March 30 » Cold War: A riot breaks out in Austurvöllur square in Reykjavík, when Iceland joins NATO.
    • March 31 » The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.
    • June 14 » Albert II, a rhesus monkey, rides a V-2 rocket to an altitude of 134km (83mi), thereby becoming the first monkey in space.
    • September 21 » The People's Republic of China is proclaimed.
    • October 1 » The People's Republic of China is established.
    • November 18 » The Iva Valley Shooting occurs after the coal miners of Enugu in Nigeria go on strike over withheld wages; 21 miners are shot dead and 51 are wounded by police under the supervision of the British colonial administration of Nigeria.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

  • 1873 » Rudolf Tobias, Estonian organist and composer († 1918)
  • 1874 » G. K. Chesterton, English essayist, poet, and playwright († 1936)
  • 1880 » Oswald Spengler, German historian and philosopher († 1936)
  • 1892 » Alfonsina Storni, Swiss-Argentinian poet and author († 1938)
  • 1893 » Max Brand, American journalist and author († 1944)
  • 1894 » Beatrice Lillie, Canadian-English actress, singer and writer († 1989)

Source: Wikipedia


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