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Personal data Grietje Smit 


Household of Grietje Smit

She is married to Douwe Sipkes Veenstra.

They got married on September 26, 1878 at Leens (Gr), she was 32 years old.Source 3


Child(ren):

  1. Jacob Veenstra  1881-1966 

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Grietje Smit

Grietje Smit
1845-1934

1878

Douwe Sipkes Veenstra
1855-1932

Jacob Veenstra
1881-1966

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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister Winsum 1845
  2. Overlijdensregister Winschoten 1934
  3. Huwelijksregister Leens 1878

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Historical events

Birthday November 22, 1845

  • The temperature on November 22, 1845 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: half bewolkt regen . 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 1845: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
    • May 19 » Captain Sir John Franklin and his ill-fated Arctic expedition depart from Greenhithe, England.
    • July 4 » Henry David Thoreau moves into a small cabin on Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau's account of his two years there, Walden, will become a touchstone of the environmental movement.
    • July 19 » Great New York City Fire of 1845: The last great fire to affect Manhattan begins early in the morning and is subdued that afternoon. The fire kills four firefighters and 26 civilians and destroys 345 buildings.
    • September 9 » Possible start of the Great Potato Famine.
    • December 2 » Manifest destiny: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President James K. Polk proposes that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.
    • December 27 » Journalist John L. O'Sullivan, writing in his newspaper the New York Morning News, argues that the United States had the right to claim the entire Oregon Country "by the right of our manifest destiny".

Day of marriage September 26, 1878

  • The temperature on September 26, 1878 was about 14.9 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. 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 November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1878: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
    • January 16 » Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Battle of Philippopolis: Captain Aleksandr Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule.
    • February 21 » The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
    • May 14 » The last witchcraft trial held in the United States begins in Salem, Massachusetts, after Lucretia Brown, an adherent of Christian Science, accused Daniel Spofford of attempting to harm her through his mental powers.
    • June 4 » Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
    • September 3 » Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
    • December 18 » The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar.

Day of death April 14, 1934

  • The temperature on April 14, 1934 was between 5.3 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1934: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.3 million citizens.
    • April 21 » The "Surgeon's Photograph", the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail (in 1999, it is revealed to be a hoax).
    • August 2 » Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg.
    • August 22 » Bill Woodfull of Australia becomes the only cricket captain to twice regain The Ashes.
    • September 1 » The first Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animated cartoon, The Discontented Canary, is released to movie theatres.
    • September 26 » The ocean liner RMSQueen Mary is launched.
    • December 5 » Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the city.


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