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Personal data Jan Melles Kootstra 


Household of Jan Melles Kootstra

He is married to Sytske Sytzes Reitsma.

They got married on May 11, 1901 at Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland, he was 27 years old.Source 3


Child(ren):

  1. Melle Kootstra  1903-1981

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Jan Melles Kootstra

Hylke Gaukes Kootstra
1812-1857
Lijsbeth Sytses Reitsma
1806-1885
Jan Hylkes Tadema
1823-1911
Froukjen Jelles Brouwer
1826-1899

Jan Melles Kootstra
1873-1954

1901

Sytske Sytzes Reitsma
1870-1933

Melle Kootstra
1903-1981

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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister 1873, Tietjerksteradeel
  2. Overlijdensregister 1954, Kollumerland c.a.
  3. Huwelijksregister 1901, Tietjerksteradeel

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Historical events

Birthday August 8, 1873

  • The temperature on August 8, 1873 was about 20.3 °C. There was 7 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. 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 July 6, 1872 till August 27, 1874 the Netherlands had a cabinet De Vries - Fransen van de Putte with the prime ministers Mr. G. de Vries Azn. (liberaal) and I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal).
  • In the year 1873: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
    • February 11 » King Amadeo I of Spain abdicates.
    • March 3 » Censorship in the United States: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene literature and articles of immoral use" through the mail.
    • May 23 » The Canadian Parliament establishes the North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
    • June 5 » Sultan Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar closes the great slave market under the terms of a treaty with Great Britain.
    • August 4 » American Indian Wars: While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Cheyenne and Lakota people near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed.
    • October 9 » A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.

Day of marriage May 11, 1901

  • The temperature on May 11, 1901 was between 3.2 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (62%). 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 July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1901: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
    • January 1 » Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
    • January 1 » The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
    • February 15 » The association football club Alianza Lima is founded in Lima, Peru, under the name Sport Alianza.
    • September 6 » Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
    • October 29 » In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
    • November 18 » Britain and the United States sign the Hay–Pauncefote Treaty, which nullifies the Clayton–Bulwer Treaty and withdraws British objections to an American-controlled canal in Panama.

Day of death September 11, 1954

  • The temperature on September 11, 1954 was between 12.6 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 6.9 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (28%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1954: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 10.6 million citizens.
    • February 23 » The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.
    • March 26 » Nuclear weapons testing: The Romeo shot of Operation Castle is detonated at Bikini Atoll. Yield: 11 megatons.
    • April 22 » Red Scare: Witnesses begin testifying and live television coverage of the Army–McCarthy hearings begins.
    • June 18 » Carlos Castillo Armas leads an invasion force across the Guatemalan border, setting in motion the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état.
    • August 13 » Radio Pakistan broadcasts the "Qaumī Tarāna", the national anthem of Pakistan for the first time.
    • November 27 » Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.


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