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Personal data Wiert Freerks van Dijk 


Household of Wiert Freerks van Dijk

He is married to Willemke Berends Grimmenga.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Wiert Freerks van Dijk

Wiert Freerks van Dijk
1775-1847


Willemke Berends Grimmenga
1779-1855

Antje Wierts van Dijk
1801-1883
Anje Wierts van Dijk
1804-????

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Sources

  1. Doop- en trouwboek 1713-1811 - Kerkelijke gemeente Nieuwolda
  2. Overlijdensregister Nieuwolda 1847

Historical events

Birthday March 28, 1775

  • The temperature on March 28, 1775 was about 5.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: regen hagel. 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 1775: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 23 » American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his speech – "Give me liberty, or give me death!" – at St. John's Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia.
    • April 20 » American Revolutionary War: The Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord.
    • August 23 » American Revolutionary War: King George III delivers his Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St James's stating that the American colonies have proceeded to a state of open and avowed rebellion.
    • October 18 » American Revolutionary War: The Burning of Falmouth (now Portland, Maine).
    • November 10 » The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas.
    • December 5 » At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Christening day March 31, 1775

  • The temperature on March 31, 1775 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: hagel sneeuw. 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 1775: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 26 » The British East India Company factory on Balambangan Island is destroyed by Moro pirates.
    • April 20 » American Revolutionary War: The Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord.
    • May 10 » American Revolutionary War: The Second Continental Congress takes place in Philadelphia.
    • September 25 » American Revolution: Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec sets off.
    • November 7 » John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters to fight with Murray and the British.
    • December 31 » American Revolutionary War: Battle of Quebec: British forces repulse an attack by Continental Army General Richard Montgomery.

Day of death May 11, 1847

  • The temperature on May 11, 1847 was about 14.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: 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 1847: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
    • March 29 » Mexican–American War: United States forces led by General Winfield Scott take Veracruz after a siege.
    • July 24 » Richard March Hoe, American inventor, patented the rotary-type printing press.
    • July 26 » Liberia declares its independence.
    • September 12 » Mexican–American War: the Battle of Chapultepec begins.
    • November 19 » The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railroad, is opened.
    • November 29 » The Sonderbund is defeated by the joint forces of other Swiss cantons under General Guillaume-Henri Dufour.


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