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Personal data Jan Willem Racer 

  • He was born June 1736 in Delden.
  • Occupations:
    • in the year 1758 advocaat.
    • in the year 1786 burgemeester in / van Gemeente Oldenzaal.
    • between 1795 and 1799 provisioneel verwalter-drost in / van Drostambt Twente.
  • He died on October 2, 1816 in Oldenzaal, he was 80 years old.

Household of Jan Willem Racer

He is married to Anna Jacoba Willemina Werndlij.

They got married on August 13, 1760 at Coevorden, he was 24 years old.


Child(ren):

  3. Anna Jacoba Racer  1770-1807
  5. Willem Samuel Racer  1776-1818


Notes about Jan Willem Racer

zoon van Georg Racer en Aleida van den Berg

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Day of marriage August 13, 1760

  • The temperature on August 13, 1760 was about 18.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west-northwest. Weather type: omtrent helder. 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)
  • Regent Lodewijk Ernst (Hertog van Brunswijk-Wolfenbüttel) was from 1759 till 1766 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1760: Source: Wikipedia
    • January 9 » Ahmad Shah Durrani defeats the Marathas in the Battle of Barari Ghat.
    • July 8 » British forces defeat French forces in the last naval battle in New France.
    • August 15 » Seven Years' War: Battle of Liegnitz: Frederick the Great's victory over the Austrians under Ernst Gideon von Laudon.
    • October 9 » Seven Years' War: Russian and Austrian troops briefly occupy Berlin.
    • October 25 » King George III succeeds to the British throne on death of his grandfather George II
    • November 15 » The secondly-built Castellania in Valletta is officially inaugurated with the blessing of the interior Chapel of Sorrows.

Day of death October 2, 1816

  • The temperature on October 2, 1816 was about 15.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken 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 1816: Source: Wikipedia
    • April 10 » The Federal government of the United States approves the creation of the Second Bank of the United States.
    • April 14 » Bussa, a slave in British-ruled Barbados, leads a slave rebellion and is killed. For this, he is remembered as the first national hero of Barbados.
    • May 22 » A mob in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, riots over high unemployment and rising grain costs, and the riots spread to Ely the next day.
    • August 5 » The British Admiralty dismisses Francis Ronalds's new invention of the first working electric telegraph as "wholly unnecessary", preferring to continue using the semaphore.
    • September 5 » Louis XVIII has to dissolve the Chambre introuvable ("Unobtainable Chamber").
    • December 30 » The Treaty of St. Louis between the United States and the united Ottawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi Indian tribes is proclaimed.


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