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Personal data Sjoerd Gerlofs Westra 


Household of Sjoerd Gerlofs Westra

(1) He is married to Elisabeth Klazes Westerterp.

They got married on May 23, 1862 at Utingeradeel, Friesland, Nederland, he was 26 years old.Source 3


Child(ren):

  1. Klaas Westra  1863-1944
  2. Gerlof Westra  1864-1877
  3. Ietzen Westra  1867-1871


(2) He is married to Aafke Lubberts Vaatstra.

They got married on September 4, 1869 at Utingeradeel, Friesland, Nederland, he was 33 years old.Source 4


Child(ren):

  2. Ietje Westra  1871-1889
  3. Eelkje Westra  1874-1948 
  4. Gerlofje Westra  1877-1947
  6. Jacoba Westra  1882-1936

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Sjoerd Gerlofs Westra

Westra
± 1739-1826
Durkje Gerlofs
± 1766-1826
Sjoerd Jakobs
± 1765-1801
Marijke Annes
1764-1827

Sjoerd Gerlofs Westra
1835-1909

(1) 1862

Elisabeth Klazes Westerterp
1841-1868

Klaas Westra
1863-1944
Gerlof Westra
1864-1877
Ietzen Westra
1867-1871
(2) 1869

Aafke Lubberts Vaatstra
1842-1926

Lubbert Ybele Westra
1870-1944
Ietje Westra
1871-1889
Eelkje Westra
1874-1948
Gerlofje Westra
1877-1947
Jantje Bontje Westra
1879-????
Jacoba Westra
1882-1936
Bontje Jantje Westra
1885-1888

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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister 1835, Achtkarspelen
  2. Overlijdensregister 1909, Kollumerland c.a.
  3. Huwelijksregister 1861-1864, Utingeradeel
  4. Huwelijksregister 1869, Utingeradeel

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Birthday November 11, 1835

  • The temperature on November 11, 1835 was about 0.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: half bewolkt regenachtig. 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 1835: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
    • January 7 » HMSBeagle, with Charles Darwin on board, drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.
    • January 24 » Slaves in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, stage a revolt, which is instrumental in ending slavery there 50 years later.
    • February 20 » The 1835 Concepción earthquake destroys Concepción, Chile.
    • May 5 » The first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen.
    • June 2 » P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States.
    • October 2 » Texas Revolution: Mexican troops attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.

Day of marriage September 4, 1869

  • The temperature on September 4, 1869 was about 21.4 °C. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 39%. 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 June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
  • In the year 1869: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • April 17 » Morelos is admitted as the 27th state of Mexico.
    • July 10 » Gävle, Sweden, is largely destroyed in a fire; 80% of its 10,000 residents are left homeless.
    • August 29 » The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first mountain-climbing rack railway.
    • September 24 » Gold prices plummet after President Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.
    • October 16 » The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".
    • November 6 » In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey), 6–4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game.

Day of death December 4, 1909

  • The temperature on December 4, 1909 was between 2.8 °C and 6.1 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 12.4 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 1909: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.8 million citizens.
    • January 25 » Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
    • February 12 » The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
    • February 20 » Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
    • March 4 » U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State.
    • April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
    • August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.


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