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Personal data Durk Posthuma 


Household of Durk Posthuma

He is married to Ankje Dirks Hoekstra.

They got married on May 15, 1836 at Leeuwarden (Fr).Source 2


Child(ren):

  1. Jantje Durks Posthuma  1841-1886 

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Durk Posthuma

Durk Posthuma
± 1801-1878

1836

Ankje Dirks Hoekstra
1806-????

Jantje Durks Posthuma
1841-1886

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Sources

  1. Overlijdensregister 1878-1880, Sneek
  2. Huwelijksregister 1836, Leeuwarden

Historical events

Day of marriage May 15, 1836

  • The temperature on May 15, 1836 was about 10.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: half bewolkt. 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 1836: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
    • March 27 » Texas Revolution: On the orders of General Antonio López de Santa Anna, the Mexican army massacres 342 Texas POWs at Goliad, Texas.
    • April 21 » Texas Revolution: The Battle of San Jacinto: Republic of Texas forces under Sam Houston defeat troops under Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
    • May 14 » The Treaties of Velasco are signed in Velasco, Texas.
    • June 15 » Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U.S. state.
    • July 29 » Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France.
    • October 22 » Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.

Day of death June 6, 1878

  • The temperature on June 6, 1878 was about 10.6 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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 November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1878: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
    • January 9 » Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
    • January 28 » Yale Daily News becomes the first independent daily college newspaper in the United States.
    • February 19 » Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
    • February 21 » The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
    • March 24 » The British frigate HMSEurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
    • December 31 » Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879.


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