Vandenberg Tree » Willem Pelle (1827-1865)
Personal data Willem Pelle
Sources 1, 2, 3, 4- He was born on January 27, 1827 in Dreischor.
- He died on June 26, 1865, he was 38 years old.
- A child of Krijn Pelle and Maria Vandenberg
Household of Willem Pelle
He is married to Adriaantje Oole.Source 2
They got married on April 1, 1853 at Drieschor Netherlands, he was 26 years old.Sources 1, 3
Child(ren):
- Marinus Pelle ± 1854-1928
- Martinus Pelle ± 1855-1865
- Abraham Pelle ± 1857-1865
- Levenloos Pelle 1857-1857
- Jan Pelle ± 1862-1939
Notes about Willem Pelle
DEATH: Drowned aboard SS Wm Nelson.
About the ship William Nelson
The US ship "William Nelson" was built in Somerset Mass. in the year
1850, and was financed by William Witlock Jr. of the City of New York.
The Wm Nelson, sailed its last from port of Antwerp on June 1st, 1865,
on the 26th of June, 1865 the ship caught fire, burned and sank with
426 German and Swiss emigrants. The Captain, Levi Smith and his crew
were the first to abandon the ship, leaving a mutitude of men woman
and children in a fiery misery and confusion. Peter J. Schaps-Birgden Ger.
was the Eldest of 7 children and traveling with family, nineteen in all,
was the families only known survivor. He emigrated to Albany Minnesota
and became proprietor of Albany Roller Mills. It is my understanding
that there is considerably more information recorded at the National
Archives of the illfated voyage, in the file of William H. Seward,
Secretary of State.
While looking for something else, I found a story much too long
to copy in the New York Times for Sunday, July 23, 1865.
The liner Lafayette was sailing from New York to Havre when she
found two boats from the American emigrant ship, William Nelson,
which was carrying several hundred emigrants from Antwerp to NY.
She had caught fire while being fumigated as there was fever on
board and all passengers had to take to the boats.
A search located another boat but there was heavy loss of life.
The Lafayette was a steam ship, the William Nelson a sailing ship.
BIRTH: The birth of Willem was recorded by Anthony Verjaal, 43 y.,
bricklayer. Maria was still living in house no. 23 and she was
mentioned as: abandoned wife of Krijn Pelle ("verlaten
huisvrouw van
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Sources
- (Not public)
- GEDCOM File : combined.ged, Jon Edward Vandenberg, January 12, 2003
- (Not public)
- Family site (GenCircles), A.F.F.H. Gommers, Willem Pelle, April 15, 2013
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Historical events
Birthday January 27, 1827
- The temperature on January 27, 1827 was about -6.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: helder. 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 year 1827: Source: Wikipedia
- February 28 » The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.
- March 7 » Brazilian marines unsuccessfully attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina.
- April 7 » John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match that he had invented the previous year.
- July 4 » Slavery is abolished in the State of New York.
- August 22 » José de la Mar becomes President of Peru.
- October 1 » Russo-Persian War: The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination of Armenia.
Day of marriage April 1, 1853
- The temperature on April 1, 1853 was about 10.9 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The atmospheric humidity was 79%. 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.
- From April 19, 1853 till July 1, 1856 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Donker Curtius with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. D. Donker Curtius (conservatief-liberaal).
- In the year 1853: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
- January 4 » After having been kidnapped and sold into slavery in the American South, Solomon Northup regains his freedom; his memoir Twelve Years a Slave later becomes a national bestseller.
- January 19 » Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome.
- March 19 » The Taiping reform movement occupies and makes Nanjing its capital until 1864.
- July 8 » The Perry Expedition arrives in Edo Bay with a treaty requesting trade.
- December 30 » Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest.
- December 31 » A dinner party is held inside a life-size model of an iguanodon created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in south London, England.
Day of death June 26, 1865
- The temperature on June 26, 1865 was about 14.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 5.5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. 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 February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1865: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
- January 31 » American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
- April 26 » Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, in Virginia.
- May 5 » American Civil War: The Confederate government was declared dissolved at Washington, Georgia.
- June 28 » The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.
- December 4 » North Carolina ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, followed soon by Georgia, and U.S. slaves were legally free within two weeks.
- December 17 » First performance of the Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert.
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Jon Vandenberg, "Vandenberg Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/vandenberg-tree/R156.php : accessed December 24, 2025), "Willem Pelle (1827-1865)".