Achterhoek Ancestors

Janna Geertruid ten Pas

Female 1802 -


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   Date  Event(s)
1809 
  • 1809: King Lodewijk Napoleon Bonaparte visits Bredevoort.
1811 
  • 1811: With the introduction of the civil registration, all inhabitants are forced to chose a fixed family name. The practice of farm names is now officially abolished, although it is still in use informally today.
1812 
  • 1812: Many conscripted soldiers die during Napoleon's disastrous march to Moscow.
1813 
  • 1813: The Cossacks drive out the French occupiers.
1818 
  • 1818: The municipalities of Bredevoort and Aalten are combined into the new municipality of Aalten.
1822 
  • 1822: In the night of September 27, a fire in Winterswijk destroyed five houses, leaving 15 people homeless.
1824 
  • 1824: In Winterswijk, new taxes on slaughtering animals cause a riot.
1827 
  • 1827: Start of the division of the common grounds.
1834 
  • 1834: The Winterswijk church gets a new organ by the famous organ builder Naber.
10 1835 
  • 1835: Jan Willem Meijerink starts the first textile factory on the Lappenbrink in Winterswijk.
11 1844 
  • 1844: The first emigrants leave Winterswijk and Aalten for North-America.
12 1845 
  • 1845: Winterswijk Seceders get their own church at the Zonnebrink.
13 1847 
  • 1847: On Lake Michigan in the US, the ship 'Phoenix' perishes. On board were 250 emigrants, mostly from Winterswijk, Aalten and Varsseveld.
14 1856 
  • 1856: The emigrant vessel Ocean Home perishes in the English Channel off Lizard Point. 70 people drown, including several emigrants from Dinxperlo.
15 1880 
  • 1880: The railroad from Winterswijk to Bocholt in Germany is opened.
  • 1880: Piet Mondriaan, then 8 years old, moves to Winterswijk and grows up there. He would later become a famous painter.
16 1884 
  • 1884: The railroad from Winterswijk to Neede is opened.
17 1885 
  • 1885: The railroad from Winterswijk to Zevenaar, including stations at Bredevoort, Aalten and Varsseveld, was opened.
18 1890 
  • 1890: An ancient cannon has been found in Bredevoort. When this is fired during a celebration, it explodes killing two children.
  • 1890: An horse-drawn omnibus starts a regular service between Dinxperlo and Terborg. Each trip could take 10 people and 250 kg of cargo.
19 1891 
  • 1891: Dinxperlo gets its own department of the 'Geldersch-Overijsselse Maatschappij van Landbouw', a society to improve agriculture techniques.
20 1896 
  • 1896: A dairy processor is opened in Dinxperlo.
21 1902 
  • 1902: A cooperative bank is established in Dinxperlo.
22 1903 
  • 1903: About 2/3 of the workers are involved in a railroad strike in Winterswijk to improve working conditions and wages.
23 1908 
  • 1908: The hamlet of De Heurne near Dinxperlo gets their own church.
24 1911 
  • 1911: The smallest church in the Netherlands, de Rietstap, is built in Dinxperlo. The owner had inherited money on the provision he would build a church.