Achterhoek Ancestors

Wesselina Lankhof

Female 1813 - 1864  (50 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
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.
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.
10 1847 
  • 1847: On Lake Michigan in the US, the ship 'Phoenix' perishes. On board were 250 emigrants, mostly from Winterswijk, Aalten and Varsseveld.
11 1856 
  • 1856: The emigrant vessel Ocean Home perishes in the English Channel off Lizard Point. 70 people drown, including several emigrants from Dinxperlo.