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Personal data Gerrit Leijen 


Household of Gerrit Leijen

He is married to Maartje Wit.

They got married on July 27, 1873 at Winkel, Noord-Holland, Nederland, he was 22 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Aagje Leijen  1873-1879
  2. Maartje Leijen  1876-1879
  3. Klaas Leijen  1877-????
  4. Jan Leijen  1880-????
  5. Aagje Leijen  1881-????
  6. Gerrit Leijen  1885-????


Notes about Gerrit Leijen

Gerrit LEIJEN
Individual Individual

* Birth 3 December 1850 - Winkel
* Died

Parents Parents

* Jan LEIJEN 1821
* Maartje BAKKER 1820

Spouse(s) and child(ren) Spouse(s) and child(ren)

* Married 27 April 1873, Winkel, to Maartje WIT 1851 (Parents : Klaas Kasperszoon WIT 1816 & Aafje (Aagje) DE WIT 1824) (
huwelijk: Getuige: Hendrik Koorn, arbeider 30 jaar, Nieuwe Niedorp, zwager vande bruidegom.),
o Aagje LEIJEN 1873-1879
o Maartje LEIJEN 1876-1879
o Klaas LEIJEN 1877
o Jan LEIJEN 1880
o Aagje LEIJEN 1881
o Gerrit LEIJEN 1885

Siblings Siblings

* Maartje LEIJEN 1844
* Aafje LEIJEN 1846
* Cornelia LEIJEN 1848-1877
* Gerrit LEIJEN 1850
* Levenloos LEIJEN 1853-1853
* Jan LEIJEN 1856-1857
* Dieuwertje LEIJEN 1858
* Geertje LEIJEN 1860
* Jantje LEIJEN 1862
* Jan LEIJEN 1864-1864
* Jansje LEIJEN 1865

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Gerrit Leijen

Gerrit Leijen
1850-????

1873

Maartje Wit
1851-????

Aagje Leijen
1873-1879
Maartje Leijen
1876-1879
Klaas Leijen
1877-????
Jan Leijen
1880-????
Aagje Leijen
1881-????
Gerrit Leijen
1885-????

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Historical events

Birthday December 3, 1850

  • The temperature on December 3, 1850 was about 1.0 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. 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 Netherlands , there was from November 1, 1849 to April 19, 1853 the cabinet Thorbecke I, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1850: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
    • March 5 » The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened.
    • April 4 » A large part of the English village of Cottenham burns to the ground in suspicious circumstances.
    • June 29 » Autocephaly officially granted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Church of Greece.
    • September 9 » California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.
    • September 9 » The Compromise of 1850 transfers a third of Texas's claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) to federal control in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas's pre-annexation debt.
    • November 24 » Danish troops defeat a Schleswig-Holstein force in the town of Lottorf, Schleswig-Holstein.

Day of marriage July 27, 1873

  • The temperature on July 27, 1873 was about 23.4 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 60%. 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 1 » E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.
    • April 4 » The Kennel Club is founded, the oldest and first official registry of purebred dogs in the world.
    • April 13 » The Colfax massacre, in which more than 60 black men are murdered, takes place.
    • August 2 » The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system.
    • September 15 » Franco-Prussian War: The last Imperial German Army troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity.


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