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Personal data Berend Wijkstra 


Household of Berend Wijkstra

He is married to Roelfke Tienstra.

They got married on July 23, 1870 at Marum (Gr), he was 30 years old.Source 4


Child(ren):

  1. Grietje Wijkstra  1874-1942 
  2. Jantje Wijkstra  1877-1918 
  3. Hendrik Wijkstra  1879-1958 
  4. Etje Wijkstra  1880-1949 
  5. Wietske Wijkstra  1887-1961
  6. Eite Wijkstra  1891-1973 

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Berend Wijkstra

Eite Alberts Wijkstra
± 1767-1845
Martje Hendriks Offringa
± 1771-1847
Eije Berends Bonnema
1740-1822
Grietje Meinderts
1759-1826

Berend Wijkstra
1840-1936

1870

Roelfke Tienstra
1851-1922

Grietje Wijkstra
1874-1942
Jantje Wijkstra
1877-1918
Hendrik Wijkstra
1879-1958
Etje Wijkstra
1880-1949
Wietske Wijkstra
1887-1961
Eite Wijkstra
1891-1973

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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister Grootegast 1840
  2. Overlijdensregister Grootegast 1936
  3. https://www.graftombe.nl/names/info/2028771/wijkstra
  4. Huwelijksregister Marum 1870

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Historical events

Birthday January 3, 1840

  • The temperature on January 3, 1840 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-southwest. Weather type: betrokken regen. 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 1840: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
    • January 13 » The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives.
    • February 6 » Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, establishing New Zealand as a British colony.
    • May 1 » The Penny Black, the first official adhesive postage stamp, is issued in the United Kingdom.
    • June 20 » Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
    • October 7 » Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
    • October 11 » The Maronite leader Bashir Shihab II surrenders to the Ottoman Empire and later is sent to Malta in exile.

Day of marriage July 23, 1870

  • The temperature on July 23, 1870 was about 22.0 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 77 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 June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
  • In the year 1870: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • January 3 » Construction work begins on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, United States.
    • February 23 » Reconstruction Era: Post-U.S. Civil War military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
    • February 25 » Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in Congress.
    • July 18 » The First Vatican Council decrees the dogma of papal infallibility.
    • July 19 » Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia.
    • November 1 » In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.

Day of death October 15, 1936

  • The temperature on October 15, 1936 was between 10.5 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1936: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.5 million citizens.
    • January 15 » The first building to be completely covered in glass, built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, is completed in Toledo, Ohio.
    • May 21 » Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her handbag. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
    • May 26 » In the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, Tommy Henderson begins speaking on the Appropriation Bill. By the time he sits down in the early hours of the following morning, he had spoken for ten hours.
    • June 28 » The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.
    • July 26 » Spanish Civil War: Germany and Italy decide to intervene in the war in support for Francisco Franco and the Nationalist faction.
    • November 20 » José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange, is killed by a republican execution squad.


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