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Personal data Harke Douwes Smits 


Household of Harke Douwes Smits

He is married to Aukje Johans de Boer.

They got married on June 22, 1864 at Leek (Gr), he was 27 years old.Source 3


Child(ren):

  1. Douwe Smits  1865-1920
  4. Lucia Smits  1869-1869
  5. Lucia Smits  1870-1881
  7. Harke Smits  1875-1939 
  8. Metje Smits  1877-1878
  9. Metje Margrietha Smits  1879-???? 
  11. Lucia Grietje Smits  1885-1964

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Harke Douwes Smits

Harke Douwes Smits
1837-1916

1864

Aukje Johans de Boer
1841-1886

Douwe Smits
1865-1920
Johan Christiaan Smits
1866-1866
Cornelia Sisa Anna Smits
1867-1922
Lucia Smits
1869-1869
Lucia Smits
1870-1881
Johanna Christina Smits
1872-1950
Harke Smits
1875-1939
Metje Smits
1877-1878
Metje Margrietha Smits
1879-????
Johan Christiaan Smits
1881-1954
Lucia Grietje Smits
1885-1964

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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister 1837, Franeker
  2. (Not public)
  3. Huwelijksregister Leek 1864

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Historical events

Birthday May 10, 1837

  • The temperature on May 10, 1837 was about 6.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north. Weather type: half bewolkt hagel . 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 1837: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
    • May 10 » Panic of 1837: New York City banks suspend the payment of specie, triggering a national banking crisis and an economic depression whose severity was not surpassed until the Great Depression.
    • July 1 » A system of civil registration of births, marriages and deaths is established in England and Wales.
    • November 8 » Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which later becomes Mount Holyoke College.
    • November 17 » An earthquake in Valdivia, south-central Chile, causes a tsunami that leads to significant destruction along Japan's coast.
    • November 22 » Canadian journalist and politician William Lyon Mackenzie calls for a rebellion against the United Kingdom in his essay "To the People of Upper Canada", published in his newspaper The Constitution.
    • December 17 » A fire in the Winter Palace of Saint Petersburg kills 30 guards.

Day of marriage June 22, 1864

  • The temperature on June 22, 1864 was about 20.8 °C. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 53%. 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 February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1864: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • April 12 » American Civil War: The Battle of Fort Pillow: Confederate forces kill most of the African American soldiers that surrendered at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.
    • May 21 » American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends.
    • June 3 » American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor: Union forces attack Confederate troops in Hanover County, Virginia.
    • October 2 » American Civil War: Confederates defeat a Union attack on Saltville, Virginia. A massacre of wounded Union prisoners (most of them are from a Black cavalry unit) ensues.
    • November 15 » American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins Sherman's March to the Sea.
    • December 8 » Pope Pius IX promulgates the encyclical Quanta cura and its appendix, the Syllabus of Errors, outlining the authority of the Catholic Church and condemning various liberal ideas.

Day of death January 21, 1916

  • The temperature on January 21, 1916 was between 4.9 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 1916: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
    • May 6 » Twenty-one Lebanese nationalists are executed in Martyrs' Square, Beirut by Djemal Pasha.
    • May 16 » The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the French Third Republic sign the secret wartime Sykes-Picot Agreement partitioning former Ottoman territories such as Iraq and Syria.
    • June 15 » United States President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter.
    • August 28 » World War I: Germany declares war on Romania.
    • November 19 » Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.
    • November 21 » Mines from SM U-73 sink the HMHS Britannic, the largest ship lost in the First World War.


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Source: Wikipedia

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