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Personal data Broer Jans Veenstra 


Household of Broer Jans Veenstra

He is married to Wikke Geerts.

They got married on May 23, 1772 at Westergeest, gem. Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland.Source 2


Child(ren):

  2. Geert Broers  1783-????

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Broer Jans Veenstra

Jan Berents
± 1710-????
Grietje Broers
± 1710-????

Broer Jans Veenstra
± 1737-1818

1772

Wikke Geerts
± 1750-< 1818

Grietje Broers Veenstra
1778-1859
Geert Broers
1783-????

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Sources

  1. Overlijdensregister 1817-1824, Kollumerland c.a.
  2. www.allefriezen.nl

Historical events

Day of marriage May 23, 1772

  • The temperature on May 23, 1772 was about 12.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east by north. Weather type: omtrent helder. Special wheather fenomena: veel dauw. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1772: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 1 » The first traveler's cheques, which could be used in 90 European cities, were issued by the London Credit Exchange Company.
    • June 9 » The British schooner Gaspee is burned in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island.
    • June 12 » French explorer Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne and 25 of his men killed by Māori in New Zealand.
    • August 19 » Gustav III of Sweden stages a coup d'état, in which he assumes power and enacts a new constitution that divides power between the Riksdag and the King.
    • August 21 » King Gustav III completes his coup d'état by adopting a new Constitution, ending half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden and installing himself as an enlightened despot.
    • September 1 » The Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is founded in San Luis Obispo, California.

Day of death January 9, 1818

  • The temperature on January 9, 1818 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: half bewolkt omtrent betrokken. 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 1818: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 12 » Bernardo O'Higgins formally approves the Chilean Declaration of Independence near Concepción, Chile.
    • July 29 » French physicist Augustin Fresnel submits his prizewinning "Memoir on the Diffraction of Light", precisely accounting for the limited extent to which light spreads into shadows, and thereby demolishing the oldest objection to the wave theory of light.
    • October 20 » The Convention of 1818 is signed between the United States and the United Kingdom, which settles the Canada–United States border on the 49th parallel for most of its length.
    • December 3 » Illinois becomes the 21st U.S. state.
    • December 13 » Cyril VI of Constantinople resigns from his position as Ecumenical Patriarch.
    • December 24 » The first performance of "Silent Night" takes place in the church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf, Austria.


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Source: Wikipedia


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