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Personal data Johannes Jans Westra 


Household of Johannes Jans Westra

He is married to Ytje Folkerts Roorda.

They got married on May 15, 1873 at Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland, he was 29 years old.Source 4


Child(ren):

  1. Antje Westra  1875-1947 
  2. Gepke Westra  1879-1966
  3. Hendrika Westra  1881-1947 
  4. Folkedina Westra  1889-1958

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Johannes Jans Westra

Metske Jans Westra
1779-1852
Johanna Jacobs Visser
1788-1848
Pieter Hendriks Hazenberg
1786-1856
Femke Arends de Boer
1787-1834

Johannes Jans Westra
1844-1909

1873

Ytje Folkerts Roorda
1853-1906

Antje Westra
1875-1947
Gepke Westra
1879-1966
Hendrika Westra
1881-1947
Folkedina Westra
1889-1958

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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister 1844, Kollumerland c.a.
  2. Overlijdensregister 1909, Kollumerland c.a.
  3. https://www.graftombe.nl/names/info/176664/westra
  4. Huwelijksregister 1873, Kollumerland c.a.

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Historical events

Birthday February 9, 1844

  • The temperature on February 9, 1844 was about 2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken dampig. Source: KNMI
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    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 1844: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
    • February 28 » A gun on USSPrinceton explodes while the boat is on a Potomac River cruise, killing six people, including two United States Cabinet members.
    • March 30 » One of the most important battles of the Dominican War of Independence from Haiti takes place near the city of Santiago de los Caballeros.
    • May 1 » Hong Kong Police Force, the world's second modern police force and Asia's first, is established.
    • June 6 » The Glaciarium, the world's first mechanically frozen ice rink, opens.
    • June 27 » Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are killed by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail.
    • September 28 » Oscar I of Sweden–Norway is crowned king of Sweden.

Day of marriage May 15, 1873

  • The temperature on May 15, 1873 was about 10.8 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 58%. 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.
    • July 21 » At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West.
    • August 30 » Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.

Day of death September 3, 1909

  • The temperature on September 3, 1909 was between 4.6 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (79%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 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.
    • February 12 » The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
    • February 15 » The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
    • February 22 » The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USSConnecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
    • April 11 » The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
    • July 25 » Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom in 37 minutes.
    • September 30 » The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

  • 1834 » Felix Dahn, German lawyer, historian, and author († 1912)
  • 1837 » José Burgos, Filipino priest and revolutionary († 1872)
  • 1839 » Silas Adams, American colonel, lawyer, and politician († 1896)
  • 1846 » Whitaker Wright, English businessman and financier († 1904)
  • 1846 » Wilhelm Maybach, German engineer and businessman, founded Maybach († 1929)
  • 1847 » Hugh Price Hughes, Welsh-English clergyman and theologian († 1902)

Source: Wikipedia


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