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Personal data Menno Harkema 


Household of Menno Harkema

He is married to Aaltje Bessinger.

They got married on September 4, 1861 at Bedum (Gr), he was 27 years old.Source 4


Child(ren):

  1. Geertruida Harkema  1865-1929 

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Menno Harkema

Menno Harkema
1833-1915

1861

Aaltje Bessinger
1839-1910

Geertruida Harkema
1865-1929
Berend Haaije Harkema
1867-1941

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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister Leens 1833
  2. Overlijdensregister Leens 1915
  3. https://graftombe.nl/names/info/2011858/harkema
  4. Huwelijksregister Bedum 1861

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Birthday October 6, 1833

  • The temperature on October 6, 1833 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: helder. 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 1833: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
    • January 2 » Captain James Onslow, in the Clio, arrives at Port Egmont to reassert British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands.
    • January 3 » The United Kingdom claims sovereignty over the Falkland Islands.
    • January 13 » United States President Andrew Jackson writes to Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina's defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis.
    • May 25 » The Chilean Constitution of 1833 is promulgated.
    • July 5 » Admiral Charles Napier vanquishes the navy of the Portuguese usurper Dom Miguel at the third Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
    • December 18 » The national anthem of the Russian Empire, "God Save the Tsar!", is first performed.

Day of marriage September 4, 1861

  • The temperature on September 4, 1861 was about 19.3 °C. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 63%. 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 9 » Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union before the outbreak of the American Civil War.
    • 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 23 » President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C., after the thwarting of an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland.
    • April 15 » President Abraham Lincoln calls for 75,000 Volunteers to quell the insurrection that soon became the American Civil War.
    • August 5 » American Civil War: In order to help pay for the war effort, the United States government levies the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 (3% of all incomes over US$800; rescinded in 1872).
    • October 9 » American Civil War: Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens.

Day of death April 29, 1915

  • The temperature on April 29, 1915 was between 4.4 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. There was 12.8 hours of sunshine (87%). 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 1915: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
    • January 19 » Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
    • January 25 » Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
    • February 12 » In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
    • May 17 » The last British Liberal Party government (led by H. H. Asquith) falls.
    • July 28 » The United States begins a 19-year occupation of Haiti.
    • August 29 » US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.


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