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Personal data Jacob Gerlofs Zijlstra 


Household of Jacob Gerlofs Zijlstra

He is married to Ybeltje Jans van der Veen.

They got married on March 29, 1867 at Dokkum (Fr), he was 26 years old.Source 3


Child(ren):

  1. Gerlof Zijlstra  1868-1927 
  2. Jan Zijlstra  1871-???? 
  3. Sape Zijlstra  1882-1949

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Jacob Gerlofs Zijlstra

Jan Sierks Zijlstra
± 1768-1830
Gepke Jacobs Stienstra
± 1771-1828
Johannes Heeres Kemp
1770-1813
Aukje Jochems van der Veen
1774-1828

Jacob Gerlofs Zijlstra
1840-1933

1867

Ybeltje Jans van der Veen
± 1845-1917

Gerlof Zijlstra
1868-1927
Jan Zijlstra
1871-????
Sape Zijlstra
1882-1949

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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister 1840, Dokkum
  2. Overlijdensregister 1933, Dokkum
  3. Huwelijksregister 1867, Dokkum

Historical events

Birthday November 6, 1840

  • The temperature on November 6, 1840 was about 10.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: betrokken 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.
    • February 6 » Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, establishing New Zealand as a British colony.
    • February 10 » Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
    • 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.
    • May 20 » York Minster is badly damaged by fire.
    • June 20 » Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.

Day of marriage March 29, 1867

  • The temperature on March 29, 1867 was about 11.3 °C. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 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)
  • From June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
  • In the year 1867: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • January 15 » Forty people die when ice covering the boating lake at Regent's Park, London, collapses.
    • April 1 » Singapore becomes a British crown colony.
    • May 15 » Canadian Bank of Commerce opens for business in Toronto, Ontario. The bank would later merge with Imperial Bank of Canada to become what is CIBC in 1961.
    • May 29 » The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 ("the Compromise") is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
    • September 28 » Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario, having also been the capital of Ontario's predecessors since 1796.
    • December 2 » At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.

Day of death December 3, 1933

  • The temperature on December 3, 1933 was between -8.4 °C and 0.5 °C and averaged -3.6 °C. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1933: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.2 million citizens.
    • February 3 » Adolf Hitler announces that the expansion of Lebensraum into Eastern Europe, and its ruthless Germanisation, are the ultimate geopolitical objectives of Third Reich foreign policy.
    • August 16 » Christie Pits riot takes place in Toronto, Ontario.
    • September 12 » Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
    • October 12 » The military Alcatraz Citadel becomes the civilian Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary.
    • November 7 » Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.
    • November 15 » Thailand has its first election.


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Source: Wikipedia

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