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Personal data Aaltje Bessinger 


Household of Aaltje Bessinger

She is married to Menno Harkema.

They got married on September 4, 1861 at Bedum (Gr), she was 21 years old.Source 4


Child(ren):

  1. Geertruida Harkema  1865-1929 

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Aaltje Bessinger

Aaltje Bessinger
1839-1910

1861

Menno Harkema
1833-1915

Geertruida Harkema
1865-1929
Berend Haaije Harkema
1867-1941

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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister Bedum 1839
  2. Overlijdensregister Leens 1910
  3. https://graftombe.nl/names/info/2011859/bessinger
  4. Huwelijksregister Bedum 1861

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Historical events

Birthday November 3, 1839

  • The temperature on November 3, 1839 was about 6.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: half bewolkt mist. 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 1839: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
    • January 6 » The Night of the Big Wind, the most damaging storm in 300 years, sweeps across Ireland, damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in Dublin.
    • April 19 » The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom and guarantees its neutrality.
    • September 4 » Battle of Kowloon: British vessels open fire on Chinese war junks enforcing a food sales embargo on the British community in China in the first armed conflict of the First Opium War.
    • September 5 » The United Kingdom declares war on the Qing dynasty of China.
    • September 9 » John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
    • November 11 » The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.

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.
    • April 29 » American Civil War: Maryland's House of Delegates votes not to secede from the Union.
    • July 26 » American Civil War: George B. McClellan assumes command of the Army of the Potomac following a disastrous Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run.
    • October 24 » The first transcontinental telegraph line across the United States is completed.
    • November 9 » The first documented football match in Canada is played at University College, Toronto.
    • November 20 » American Civil War: A secession ordinance is filed by Kentucky's Confederate government.
    • December 26 » American Civil War: The Trent Affair: Confederate diplomatic envoys James Murray Mason and John Slidell are freed by the United States government, thus heading off a possible war between the United States and the United Kingdom.

Day of death September 9, 1910

  • The temperature on September 9, 1910 was between 9.8 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1910: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.9 million citizens.
    • May 6 » George V becomes King of Great Britain, Ireland, and many overseas territories, on the death of his father, Edward VII.
    • August 20 » Extremely dry and windy weather in the Inland Northwest of the United States causes several small wildfires to coalesce into the Great Fire of 1910, burning approximately 3million acres (12,000km) and killing 87 people.
    • August 29 » The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, becomes effective, officially starting the period of Japanese rule in Korea.
    • September 12 » Premiere performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in Munich (with a chorus of 852 singers and an orchestra of 171 players. Mahler's rehearsal assistant conductor was Bruno Walter).
    • September 20 » The ocean liner SSFrance, later known as the "Versailles of the Atlantic", is launched.
    • November 20 » Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero issues the Plan de San Luis Potosí, denouncing Mexican President Porfirio Díaz, calling for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico, effectively starting the Mexican Revolution.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

Source: Wikipedia


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