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Personal data Jan Smits 


Household of Jan Smits

He is married to Feikje Bruining.

They got married on May 15, 1909 at Grootegast (Gr), he was 23 years old.Source 3


Child(ren):

  1. Abel Jan Smits  1914-2008

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Jan Smits

Jan Dirks Smits
1816-1883
Fenne Karstens Pot
1818-1874
Pieter Ariens Teninga
± 1811-1867
Aike Johannes Bril
1806-1876
Abel Smits
1853-1913

Jan Smits
1886-1918

1909

Feikje Bruining
1885-1949

Abel Jan Smits
1914-2008

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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister Grootegast 1886
  2. Overlijdensregister Grootegast 1918
  3. Huwelijksregister Grootegast 1909

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Historical events

Birthday February 26, 1886

  • The temperature on February 26, 1886 was about -0.1 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. 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 April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1886: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • January 18 » Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
    • March 1 » The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham.
    • April 8 » William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
    • May 4 » Haymarket affair: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.
    • September 4 » American Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrenders to General Nelson Miles in Arizona.
    • November 30 » The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.

Day of marriage May 15, 1909

  • The temperature on May 15, 1909 was between -0.4 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1909: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.8 million citizens.
    • January 28 » United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish–American War.
    • February 26 » Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
    • April 13 » The military of the Ottoman Empire reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
    • April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
    • July 16 » Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar is forced out as Shah of Persia and is replaced by his son Ahmad Shah Qajar.
    • August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.

Day of death October 29, 1918

  • The temperature on October 29, 1918 was between 6.6 °C and 14.5 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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.
    • July 9 » In Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express, killing 101 and injuring 171 people, making it the deadliest rail accident in United States history.
    • August 11 » World War I: The Battle of Amiens ends.
    • October 10 » RMS Leinster is torpedoed and sunk by UB-123, killing 564, the worst-ever on the Irish Sea.
    • October 28 » First World War: A new Polish government in western Galicia is established, triggering the Polish–Ukrainian War.
    • November 10 » The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, receives a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa and Washington, D.C.) that said on November 11, 1918, all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.
    • November 11 » World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne.


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