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Personal data Johannes Postma 


Household of Johannes Postma

He is married to Grietje Koster.

They got married on September 2, 1905 at Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland, he was 28 years old.Source 4


Child(ren):

  1. Wybe Postma  1906-1936
  2. Roelof Postma  1909-1988
  3. Sjoerd Postma  1912-1971
  4. Aaltje Postma  1917-2001

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Johannes Postma

Johannes Wybes Postma
1818-1876
Ytje Doeyes Dijkstra
1814-1893
Roel Jochums Zandstra
1794-1856
Jantje Gooitzens Wobbes
1820-1891

Johannes Postma
1877-1947

1905

Grietje Koster
1885-1968

Wybe Postma
1906-1936
Roelof Postma
1909-1988
Sjoerd Postma
1912-1971
Aaltje Postma
1917-2001

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Sources

  1. Geboorteregister 1877, Dantumadeel
  2. Overlijdensregister 1947, Dantumadeel
  3. https://www.graftombe.nl/names/info/195541/postma
  4. Huwelijksregister 1905, Dantumadeel

Historical events

Birthday January 1, 1877

  • The temperature on January 1, 1877 was about 12.3 °C. The air pressure was 58 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%. 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 August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
  • In The Netherlands , there was from November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1877: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
    • January 1 » Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Empress of India.
    • March 2 » Just two days before inauguration, the U.S. Congress declares Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the 1876 U.S. presidential election even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote.
    • May 5 » American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
    • July 14 » The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 began in Martinsburg, West Virginia, when wages of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers were cut for the third time in a year. The strike was ended on Sept 4 by local and state militias, and federal troops.
    • November 24 » Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published.
    • November 29 » Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.

Day of marriage September 2, 1905

  • The temperature on September 2, 1905 was between 11.2 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 4 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 August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1905: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
    • May 15 » Las Vegas is founded when 110 acres (0.45km), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
    • June 30 » Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
    • August 20 » Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary, forms the first chapter of T'ung Meng Hui, a union of all secret societies determined to bringing down the Manchus.
    • October 26 » King Oscar II recognizes the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden.
    • November 25 » Prince Carl of Denmark arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway.
    • December 15 » The Pushkin House is established in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to preserve the cultural heritage of Alexander Pushkin.

Day of death May 23, 1947

  • The temperature on May 23, 1947 was between 10.6 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
    • March 12 » Cold War: The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
    • April 28 » Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to demonstrate that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
    • June 24 » Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington, leading to the coining of the phrase "flying saucer".
    • July 26 » Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council.
    • September 9 » First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
    • November 20 » The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, who becomes the Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey in London.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

Source: Wikipedia


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