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Household of Metje van Willigen

She is married to Andries van Giezen.

They got married on August 6, 1897 at Gorinchem, she was 23 years old.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Metje van Willigen

Huibert van Willigen
1802-1873
Metje van der Wal
1807-1890
Jan (2) van Willigen (van Wilgen)
1796-1875
Maria van der Wal
1805-1866

Metje van Willigen
1873-1912

1897

Andries van Giezen
1866-1909


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    Birthday September 9, 1873

    • The temperature on September 9, 1873 was about 12.5 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. 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.
      • April 4 » The Kennel Club is founded, the oldest and first official registry of purebred dogs in the world.
      • May 23 » The Canadian Parliament establishes the North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
      • June 5 » Sultan Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar closes the great slave market under the terms of a treaty with Great Britain.
      • June 18 » Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
      • August 2 » The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system.
      • August 30 » Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.

    Day of marriage August 6, 1897

    • The temperature on August 6, 1897 was about 18.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1897: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
      • February 1 » Shinhan Bank, the oldest bank in South Korea, opens in Seoul.
      • April 30 » J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory announces his discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle, over 1,800 times smaller than a proton (in the atomic nucleus), at a lecture at the Royal Institution in London.
      • August 2 » Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states.
      • September 11 » After months of pursuit, generals of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki Sherocho, the last king of Kaffa, bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.
      • November 1 » The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the public; the library had previously been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.
      • December 9 » Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper La Fronde in Paris.

    Day of death February 2, 1912

    • The temperature on February 2, 1912 was between -11.0 °C and -1.7 °C and averaged -6.6 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1912: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
      • April 14 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
      • June 4 » Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
      • July 8 » Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
      • August 14 » U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.
      • October 3 » U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.
      • December 28 » The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.
    

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    • 1876 » Frank Chance, American baseball player and manager († 1924)
    • 1877 » James Agate, English journalist, author, and critic († 1947)
    • 1878 » Adelaide Crapsey, American poet and critic († 1914)
    • 1878 » Arthur Fox, English-American fencer († 1958)

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