Family tree Weening » Jan Klazes Postma (± 1791-1861)

Personal data Jan Klazes Postma 

  • He was born about 1791 in Wierum, gem. Westdongeradeel, Friesland, Nederland.
  • Profession: arbeider.
  • He died on August 11, 1861 in Wierum, gem. Westdongeradeel, Friesland, Nederland.Source 1
  • This information was last updated on January 23, 2025.

Household of Jan Klazes Postma

He is married to Janke Jans Elzinga.

They got married on November 5, 1815 at Westdongeradeel, Friesland, Nederland.Source 2


Child(ren):

  1. Jan Jans Postma  1817-1861 

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Jan Klazes Postma

Jan Klazes Postma
± 1791-1861

1815

Janke Jans Elzinga
± 1791-1862

Jan Jans Postma
1817-1861

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Sources

  1. Overlijdensregister 1861, Westdongeradeel
  2. Huwelijksregister 1815 Nes, Westdongeradeel

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Historical events

Day of marriage November 5, 1815

  • The temperature on November 5, 1815 was about 10.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: half bewolkt bui. 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 1815: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 1 » Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba.
    • March 9 » Francis Ronalds describes the first battery-operated clock in the Philosophical Magazine.
    • March 30 » Joachim Murat issues the Rimini Proclamation which would later inspire Italian unification.
    • April 23 » The Second Serbian Uprising: A second phase of the national revolution of the Serbs against the Ottoman Empire, erupts shortly after the annexation of the country to the Ottoman Empire.
    • May 30 » The East Indiaman Arniston is wrecked during a storm at Waenhuiskrans, near Cape Agulhas, in present-day South Africa, with the loss of 372 lives.
    • June 16 » Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before the Battle of Waterloo.

Day of death August 11, 1861

  • The temperature on August 11, 1861 was about 21.1 °C. The air pressure was 2.5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 79%. 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 29 » Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
    • March 3 » Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs.
    • March 4 » The first national flag of the Confederate States of America (the "Stars and Bars") is adopted.
    • April 12 » American Civil War: Battle of Fort Sumter. The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.
    • April 15 » President Abraham Lincoln calls for 75,000 Volunteers to quell the insurrection that soon became the American Civil War.
    • December 4 » The 109 Electors of the several states of the Confederate States of America unanimously elect Jefferson Davis as President and Alexander H. Stephens as Vice President.


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