Djurre Sakes Veenstra (1761 - 1825)

Born Sep 1761 in Drachten, Friesland, Nederland

Husband of Trijntje Reinders Reindersma — married 15 Jan 1786 in Drachten, Friesland, Nederland

Descendants

Died 8 Dec 1825 at age 64 in Akkrum, Friesland, Nederland

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Biography

Djurre Sakes (Veenstra), born abt. 1761^[1]. He drowned 8 December 1825^[2] in a ditch in Akkrum.

Djurre Sakes married 15 January 1786^[3] in Drachten with Trijntje Reinders

Djurre Sakes was a Mennonite preacher. He became a member of the Mennonite church of Drachten and Ureterp after his adult baptism on 31 December 1783^[4]. The Mennonite Lieuwe Jans de Jong from Oldeboorn writes in his Diary on December 8, 1825 about the death that the story goes that Sake Djurres would have committed suicide, but there are also stories that contradict this^[5]

Children

Mother: Trijntje Reinders (Reindersma)

1. Grietje Djurres Veenstra, born 7 April 1794 in Akkrum. She was a seamstress when she married 19 June 1819 in Utingeradeel with Eesge Klases de Groot, merchant, born 23 september 1791 in Nes, son of Klaas Eesges (de Groot) and Berber Jelmers (Huisman.
2. Sake Djurres Veenstra, born 15 June 1797 in Akkrum. He was baker; Sake Djurres married (1) 30 May 1822 in Utingeradeel with Fokjen Tjeerds Arendsz, 20 years old, born in Drachten, daughter of Tjeerd Arends zand Grietje Pieters. Fokjen Tjeerds died 30 December 1825. Sake Djurres married (2) 23 January 1830 in Utingeradeel with Sjouwkjen Wytzes van der Ende, seamstress, born 29 December 1806 in Akkrum, daughter of Wytze Johannes (van der Ende) and Afke Jacobs (Dijkstra)

Sources

• Found in WieWasWie the marriages of the children Grietje and Sake.
• Death announcement, Leeuwarder courant, 13 December 1825

1. ↑ Birth: calculated from his death record
2. ↑ Death: Civil Registration Nederland, Friesland, Utingeradeel, Deaths 1825, page 15
3. ↑ Marriage: Netherlands, Friesland Province, Church Records, 1543-1911," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99WK-883G?cc=2040000&wc=SBNQ-7M9%3A382150501%2C382254301%2C382979202 : 30 January 2015), Nederlands Hervormd > Drachten > Dopen 1674-1782 Dopen 1782-1811 Trouwen 1674-1811 Lidmaten 1674-1721, 1740-1850 > image 357 of 580; Nederlands Rijksarchiefdienst, Den Haag (Netherlands National Archives, The Hague)
4. ↑ Membership and baptism Mennonite church Drachten & Ureterp
5. ↑ De Dagboeken (1825-1855) van Lieuwe Jans de Jong, boer te Poppenhuizen onder Oldeboorn; bewerkt door L.J. de Jong, 1998, page 11

This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import. Veenstra-250 was created by Robert Carter through the import of Simple GED data Carter Truncated.GED on Nov 30, 2015.