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Personal data Willem Alberts Ligger 


Household of Willem Alberts Ligger

He is married to Grietje Aaldriks.

They were married in church on April 12, 1773 at Nieuw Beerta.


Child(ren):

  1. Antje Willems Liggers  ± 1774-1864 
  2. Aaldrik Willems Timmer  1777-1847 
  3. Albert Willems Ligger  1779-1860 
  5. Hilke Willems Timmer  1785-1839 


Notes about Willem Alberts Ligger

Ze kopen op 31 mei 1775 een stuk land met behuizing van Willem Elzes en erfgenamen. Een en ander ligt in Ekamp onder Oostwold.

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Historical events

Christening day July 10, 1740

  • The temperature on July 10, 1740 was about 21.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
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    Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
  • In the year 1740: Source: Wikipedia
    • April 8 » War of Jenkins' Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate Princesa, taken into service as HMSPrincess.
    • June 13 » Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.
    • June 26 » A combined force of Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
    • August 17 » Pope Benedict XIV, previously known as Prospero Lambertini, succeeds Clement XII as the 247th Pope.
    • October 9 » Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin massacring the ethnic Chinese population in Batavia, eventually killing 10,000.
    • October 20 » France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction, and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.

Day of marriage April 12, 1773

  • The temperature on April 12, 1773 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: omtrent helder zeer betrokken. 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 1773: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 17 » Captain James Cook leads the first expedition to sail south of the Antarctic Circle.
    • June 1 » Wolraad Woltemade rescues 14 sailors at the Cape of Good Hope from the sinking ship De Jonge Thomas by riding his horse into the sea seven times. He drowned on his eighth attempt.
    • June 17 » Cúcuta, Colombia, is founded by Juana Rangel de Cuéllar.
    • October 12 » America's first insane asylum opens.
    • October 14 » The first recorded ministry of education, the Commission of National Education, is formed in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
    • December 16 » American Revolution: Boston Tea Party: Members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawk Indians dump hundreds of crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the Tea Act.

Day of death June 11, 1792

  • The temperature on June 11, 1792 was about 16.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly south by east. Weather type: zeer betrokken. 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 1792: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 20 » The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by United States President George Washington.
    • May 17 » The New York Stock Exchange is formed under the Buttonwood Agreement.
    • June 1 » Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
    • September 2 » During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
    • October 3 » A militia departs from the Spanish stronghold of Valdivia to quell a Huilliche uprising in southern Chile.
    • October 29 » Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who sighted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.

Day of burial June 14, 1792

  • The temperature on June 14, 1792 was about 14.0 °C. There was 132 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken regen. 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 1792: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 25 » The London Corresponding Society is founded.
    • April 21 » Tiradentes, a revolutionary leading a movement for Brazil's independence, is hanged, drawn and quartered.
    • May 11 » Robert Gray commands the first expedition to sail into the Columbia River.
    • August 16 » Maximilien de Robespierre presents the petition of the Commune of Paris to the Legislative Assembly, which demanded the formation of a revolutionary tribunal.
    • September 20 » French troops stop an allied invasion of France at the Battle of Valmy.
    • September 21 » French Revolution: The National Convention abolishes the monarchy.


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