Achterhoek Ancestors

Berendina Hendrika Lammers

Female 1824 - 1895  (~ 71 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
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.
1835 
  • 1835: Jan Willem Meijerink starts the first textile factory on the Lappenbrink in Winterswijk.
1844 
  • 1844: The first emigrants leave Winterswijk and Aalten for North-America.
1845 
  • 1845: Winterswijk Seceders get their own church at the Zonnebrink.
1847 
  • 1847: On Lake Michigan in the US, the ship 'Phoenix' perishes. On board were 250 emigrants, mostly from Winterswijk, Aalten and Varsseveld.
1856 
  • 1856: The emigrant vessel Ocean Home perishes in the English Channel off Lizard Point. 70 people drown, including several emigrants from Dinxperlo.
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.
10 1884 
  • 1884: The railroad from Winterswijk to Neede is opened.
11 1885 
  • 1885: The railroad from Winterswijk to Zevenaar, including stations at Bredevoort, Aalten and Varsseveld, was opened.
12 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.
13 1891 
  • 1891: Dinxperlo gets its own department of the 'Geldersch-Overijsselse Maatschappij van Landbouw', a society to improve agriculture techniques.