Family tree Weening » Symon Popkes Veenstra (1830-1908)
Personal data Symon Popkes Veenstra
- He was born on March 17, 1830 in Rottevalle, gem. Achtkarspelen (Fr).Source 1
- Occupations:
- tapper.
- tolgaarder.
- wagenaar.
- He died on September 2, 1908 in Drachten, gem. Smallingerland (Fr), he was 78 years old.Source 2
- A child of Popke Symens Veenstra and Martjen Harmens Ferwerda
- This information was last updated on April 5, 2024.
Household of Symon Popkes Veenstra
(1) He is married to Bontje Jans Kuperus.
They got married on April 7, 1858 at Leeuwarden (Fr), he was 28 years old.Source 3
Child(ren):
- Jan Symons Veenstra 1859-1859
- Jan Veenstra 1860-1860
- Martje Veenstra 1861-1863
- Elisabeth Veenstra 1863-1863
- Martje Veenstra 1864-1912
- Jan Veenstra 1868-1953
(2) He is married to Trijntje Annes Witzenburg.
They got married on March 31, 1876 at Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland, he was 46 years old.Source 4
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Birthday March 17, 1830
- The temperature on March 17, 1830 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: betrokken regen winderig. Source: KNMI
- This page is only available in Dutch.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 1830: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 2.6 million citizens.
- March 10 » The Royal Netherlands East Indies Army is created.
- March 26 » The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.
- May 3 » The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway is opened; it is the first steam-hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel.
- May 13 » Ecuador gains its independence from Gran Colombia.
- September 24 » A revolutionary committee of notables forms the Provisional Government of Belgium.
- November 27 » Saint Catherine Labouré experiences a Marian apparition.
Day of marriage March 31, 1876
- The temperature on March 31, 1876 was about 16.3 °C. The air pressure was 11 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 75 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 August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
- In the year 1876: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
- April 17 » Catalpa rescue: The rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Prison in Western Australia.
- April 20 » The April Uprising begins. Its suppression shocks European opinion, and Bulgarian independence becomes a condition for ending the Russo-Turkish War.
- June 17 » American Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud: 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook's forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.
- August 8 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
- November 17 » Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Slavonic March" is given its premiere performance in Moscow, Russia.
- December 29 » The Ashtabula River railroad disaster occurs, leaving 64 injured and 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio.
Day of death September 2, 1908
- The temperature on September 2, 1908 was between 6.3 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 6.5 mm of rain. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
- 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 1908: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
- January 24 » The first Boy Scout troop is organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell.
- April 8 » Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.
- April 14 » Hauser Dam, a steel dam on the Missouri River in Montana, U.S., fails, sending a surge of water 25 to 30 feet (7.6 to 9.1m) high downstream.
- April 20 » Opening day of competition in the New South Wales Rugby League.
- September 17 » The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality.
- November 22 » The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.
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- 1910 » Henri Rousseau, French painter (b. 1844)
- 1918 » John Forrest, Australian politician, 1st Premier of Western Australia (b. 1847)
- 1921 » Henry Austin Dobson, English poet and critic (b. 1840)
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