When Grietje Hindriks Lever was born on 20 September 1821, in Wildervank, Groningen, Netherlands, her father, Hindrik Hindriks Lever, was 24 and her mother, Geertje Jacobs Hagen, was 20. She married Hendrik Willems Schuur on 5 January 1843, in Wildervank, Groningen, Netherlands. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. She died on 1 March 1902, in Veendam, Groningen, Netherlands, at the age of 80.
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Belgium rebelled against Netherlands.
Birth of Vincent van Gogh.
The Dutch abolished slavery in Suriname. The Dutch were among the last Europeans to abolish slavery.
English (of Norman origin): nickname for a fleet-footed or timid person, from Old French levre ‘hare’ (from Latin lepus, genitive leporis). It may also have been a metonymic occupational name for a hunter of hares.
English: topographic name for someone who lived in a place thickly grown with rushes, from Old English lǣfer ‘rush, reed, iris’. Compare Laver . Great and Little Lever in Greater Manchester are named with this word (in a collective sense), so the surname may also be a habitational name from these places.
Dutch and North German: from the medieval personal names Lever, a variant of Liever (see Lieber ), and Levert, a variant of Lievert (see Liebhart ). This surname is very rare in Germany.
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