When Elisabeth Giesen was born on 15 May 1795, in Gennep, Limburg, Netherlands, her father, Albertus Giesen, was 32 and her mother, Anna Willemina Deudeling, was 28. She married Johannes Artz on 3 June 1820, in Gennep, Limburg, Netherlands. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 8 November 1861, in Mook, Limburg, Netherlands, at the age of 66.
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The United East India Company is liquidated.
The Dutch defeated the French.
Following the Napoleonic Era, the great powers (the United Kingdom, Prussia, the Austrian Empire, the Russian Empire and France) united the region with the new Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1815.
German and Dutch: patronymic from Gies or Giese .
German: habitational name from Giessen in Hesse, which derives its name from a castle ze den Giezzen ‘on the streams’ or from any other place called Giesen (Baden-Württemberg, Lower Saxony, former Brandenburg, Pomerania).
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