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Personal data Cornelis Snels 


Household of Cornelis Snels

He is married to Johanna Klijs.

They got married on October 22, 1883 at Goirle, Gemeente Goirle, Noord-Brabant, Nederland, he was 39 years old.


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Notes about Cornelis Snels

Cornelis Snels, textielfabrikant, geboren te Goirle op 6 januari 1844, overleed aldaar op 5 juli 1929. Hij trouwde te Goirle op 22 oktober 1883 met Johanna Klijs, geboren te Oosterhout op 12 juni 1851
, dochter van Pieter Klijs en Geertruda Driessen. Kees Snels was een zoon van Peter Snels en Johanna Voskens. Als weduwe begon zijn moeder met de fabricage van- en handel in wortel- en behangsellinnen
. Deze producten werden vervaardigd door thuiswevers. In 1866 werd door haar de firma Wed. P. Snels & Zonen opgericht. Daarnaast dreef de familie Snels een kruidenierswinkel en een bakkerij. Kees Snel
s had in Goirle de bijaam 'd'n bisschop'.

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Birthday January 6, 1844

  • The temperature on January 6, 1844 was about 8.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: half bewolkt 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 1844: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
    • March 8 » King Oscar I ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
    • May 1 » Hong Kong Police Force, the world's second modern police force and Asia's first, is established.
    • May 23 » Declaration of the Báb the evening before the 23rd: A merchant of Shiraz announces that he is a Prophet and founds a religious movement that would later be brutally crushed by the Persian government. He is considered to be a forerunner of the Bahá'í Faith; Bahá'ís celebrate the day as a holy day.
    • June 6 » The Glaciarium, the world's first mechanically frozen ice rink, opens.
    • July 3 » The last pair of great auks is killed.
    • September 28 » Oscar I of Sweden–Norway is crowned king of Sweden.

Day of marriage October 22, 1883

  • The temperature on October 22, 1883 was about 11.6 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1883: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • March 28 » Tonkin Campaign: French victory in the Battle of Gia Cuc.
    • June 5 » The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris.
    • August 17 » The first public performance of the Dominican Republic's national anthem, Himno Nacional.
    • September 8 » The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana. Former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final "golden spike" in an event attended by rail and political luminaries.
    • October 4 » First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
    • December 21 » The Royal Canadian Dragoons and The Royal Canadian Regiment, the first Permanent Force cavalry and infantry regiments of the Canadian Army, are formed.

Day of death July 5, 1929

  • The temperature on July 5, 1929 was between 9.6 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1929: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
    • February 21 » In the first battle of the Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong against the Nationalist government of China, a 24,000-strong rebel force led by Zhang Zongchang was defeated at Zhifu by 7,000 NRA troops.
    • August 16 » The 1929 Palestine riots break out in Mandatory Palestine between Palestinian Arabs and Jews and continue until the end of the month. In total, 133 Jews and 116 Arabs are killed.
    • October 7 » Photius II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
    • October 29 » The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or "Black Tuesday", ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.
    • November 3 » The Gwangju Student Independence Movement occurred.
    • December 19 » The Indian National Congress promulgates the Purna Swaraj (the Declaration of the Independence of India).


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