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Personal data Harmen Geerts Zwol 


Household of Harmen Geerts Zwol

He is married to Harmke Willems.

They got married on December 14, 1766 at Sintjohannesga, gem. Schoterland (Fr).Source 1


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Notes about Harmen Geerts Zwol

http://rogerhiemstra.com/2008/10/12/harmen-reinders-geertz-zwolle-swole-into-the-water-we-go/

Harmen Reinders Geertz (Zwolle) Swole -Into the Water We Go!
October 12, 2008 at 8:20 pm (Hiemstra Genealogy Information)

Harmen Reinders Geerts (Zwol) (Zwolle) Swolle, the great great grandfather of Willem Kornelius Hiemstra through his mother’s side, was born around 1740 in Suidveen, a small village near the town of Steenwijk in Overrijssel. He was married to Harmtje Willems. In the years between 1764 and 1769 he moved to Rotsterhaule. In 1769 he was listed as an owner of a peat bog and also as shop owner. Although Harmen had moved from Steenwijk, he remained friendly with people there, so it is known in 1769that he borrowed 1100 carolus guilders from Harmen Deddes, who lived in Steenwijkerwold, a village near Steenwijk.

Zwolle, Swol, Swolle, and then Zwolstra, are the names used by Harmen descendants. It is likely that Harmen and his ancestors came from the town Zwolle, the capital of the province, Overijssel. He or his ancestors moved to Suidveen and Harmen movedas a peat owner from Suidveen to Rotsterhaule, because in the area of Rotsterhaule and the Tijnje there was many peat bog areas. If they dug away the peat bog, there remained no dry land, such as in the peat moor areas of Witveen, Surhuisterveen, and Zevenhuizen, because the water table was above the bottom of the peat bog. Thus, when people worked in the peat bog they were always standing in water.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Harmen Geerts Zwol

Reint Geerts Zwol
1676-1742
Aagje Dirks
± 1680-????
Lijsbeth Jans Jans
± 1710-????

Harmen Geerts Zwol
1740-????

1766

Harmke Willems
± 1740-????

Willem Harmens Zwolstra
1769-1833

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Sources

  1. Trouwregister Hervormde gemeente St. Johannesga Delfstrahuizen Rohel Rotsterhaule 1744-1811

Historical events

Christening day January 17, 1740

  • The temperature on January 17, 1740 was about -5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east. Weather type: zeer betrokken. Source: KNMI
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    Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
  • In the year 1740: Source: Wikipedia
    • April 8 » War of Jenkins' Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate Princesa, taken into service as HMSPrincess.
    • June 13 » Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.
    • June 26 » A combined force of Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
    • August 17 » Pope Benedict XIV, previously known as Prospero Lambertini, succeeds Clement XII as the 247th Pope.
    • October 9 » Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin massacring the ethnic Chinese population in Batavia, eventually killing 10,000.
    • October 20 » France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction, and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.

Day of marriage December 14, 1766

  • The temperature on December 14, 1766 was about 0.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: helder. Special wheather fenomena: ijs. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1766: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 5 » Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
    • May 22 » A large earthquake causes heavy damage and loss of life in Istanbul and the Marmara region.
    • July 1 » François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France.
    • December 2 » Swedish parliament approved the Swedish Freedom of the Press Act and implemented it as a ground law, thus being first in the world with freedom of speech.
    • December 5 » In London, auctioneer James Christie holds his first sale.
    • December 25 » Mapuches in Chile launch a series of surprise attacks against the Spanish starting the Mapuche uprising of 1766.

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