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Personal data Gelske Meerstra 


Household of Gelske Meerstra

(1) She is married to Hendrik van der Bij.

They got married on December 10, 1892 at Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland, she was 30 years old.Source 3

Met legitimatie van een kind

Child(ren):

  1. Grietje van der Bij  1894-1984


Child(ren):

  1. Aaltje van der Bij  1885-???? 


Child(ren):

  1. Jarig van der Bij  1888-1940 

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Gelske Meerstra

Jinke Hendriks Hopperus
1799-1863
Aan Hendriks Wijma
1788-1847
Gelske Keimpes Kempenaar
1791-1860

Gelske Meerstra
1862-1897

(1) 1892

Hendrik van der Bij
1872-1940

Grietje van der Bij
1894-1984


Onbekend

Aaltje van der Bij
1885-????


Onbekend

Jarig van der Bij
1888-1940

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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister 1862, Kollumerland c.a.
  2. Overlijdensregister 1897, Kollumerland c.a.
  3. Huwelijksregister 1892, Kollumerland c.a.

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Historical events

Birthday August 30, 1862

  • The temperature on August 30, 1862 was about 20.3 °C. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 57%. 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 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 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 1862: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • June 8 » American Civil War: Battle of Cross Keys: Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson save the Army of Northern Virginia from a Union assault on the James Peninsula led by General George B. McClellan.
    • August 6 » American Civil War: The Confederate ironclad CSSArkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering catastrophic engine failure near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
    • August 28 » American Civil War: Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of Second Manassas. The battle ends on August 30.
    • August 30 » American Civil War: Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout Union forces under General William "Bull" Nelson.
    • September 18 » The Confederate States celebrate for the first and only time a Thanksgiving Day.
    • November 7 » American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside was assigned to command the Army of the Potomac in Antietam, Maryland. After Union General George B. McClellan refused to pursue Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia after their retreat from the Battle of Antietam.

Day of marriage December 10, 1892

  • The temperature on December 10, 1892 was about -3.4 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1892: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • January 1 » Ellis Island begins processing immigrants into the United States.
    • January 15 » James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball.
    • March 18 » Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup as an award for the best hockey team in Canada; it was later named after him as the Stanley Cup.
    • July 26 » Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
    • August 4 » The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. She was tried and acquitted for the crimes a year later.
    • September 8 » The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.

Day of death August 2, 1897

  • The temperature on August 2, 1897 was about 20.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1897: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • April 30 » J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory announces his discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle, over 1,800 times smaller than a proton (in the atomic nucleus), at a lecture at the Royal Institution in London.
    • May 26 » The original manuscript of William Bradford's history, "Of Plymouth Plantation" is returned to the Governor of Massachusetts by the Bishop of London after being taken during the American Revolutionary War.
    • June 16 » A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
    • June 22 » British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.
    • November 1 » The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the public; the library had previously been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.
    • December 9 » Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper La Fronde in Paris.


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