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Household of Jan Rieuwerts Kerkstra

Waarschuwing Attention: Wife (Jantje Reins van der Mei) is also his cousin.

He is married to Jantje Reins van der Mei.

They got married on May 20, 1871 at Grijpskerk (Gr), he was 30 years old.Source 3

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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister 1840, Kollumerland c.a.
  2. Overlijdensregister Grijpskerk 1918
  3. Huwelijksregister Grijpskerk 1871

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Historical events

Birthday September 4, 1840

  • The temperature on September 4, 1840 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: half bewolkt regen. 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 1840: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
    • January 13 » The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives.
    • February 6 » Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, establishing New Zealand as a British colony.
    • February 11 » Gaetano Donizetti's opera La fille du régiment receives its first performance in Paris, France.
    • May 7 » The Great Natchez Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi killing 317 people. It is the second deadliest tornado in United States history.
    • June 20 » Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
    • October 7 » Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.

Day of marriage May 20, 1871

  • The temperature on May 20, 1871 was about 14.5 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The atmospheric humidity was 64%. 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 Netherlands , there was from January 4, 1871 to July 6, 1872 the cabinet Thorbecke III, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1871: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
    • January 3 » In the Battle of Bapaume, an engagement in the Franco-Prussian War, General Louis Faidherbe's forces bring about a Prussian retreat.
    • August 29 » Emperor Meiji orders the abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centers of administration. (Traditional Japanese date: July 14, 1871).
    • September 20 » Bishop John Coleridge Patteson, first bishop of Melanesia, is martyred on Nukapu, now in the Solomon Islands.
    • October 8 » The Great Chicago Fire and the much deadlier Peshtigo Fire break out.
    • November 10 » Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?".
    • December 26 » Thespis, the first Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration, debuts. It does modestly well, but the two would not collaborate again for four years and the score has been lost.

Day of death December 28, 1918

  • The temperature on December 28, 1918 was between 4.9 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 3.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1918: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.6 million citizens.
    • February 5 » Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane; this is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.
    • February 21 » The last Carolina parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.
    • August 13 » Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established as a public company in Germany.
    • October 12 » A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Minnesota.
    • November 23 » Heber J. Grant succeeds Joseph F. Smith as the seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
    • December 28 » Constance Markievicz, while detained in Holloway prison, became the first woman to be elected MP to the British House of Commons.


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