When Elisabet Jacobs Koiter was born about 1767, in Zuidwolde, Bedum, Groningen, Netherlands, her father, Jacob Warners Koiter, was 39 and her mother, Trientje Jans, was 36. She married Jurjen Swiers on 25 May 1788, in Termunten, Groningen, Netherlands. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 12 October 1832, in Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, at the age of 66.
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A four year war with England was fought.
An alliance between Britain, Prussia and the Netherlands was ratified at the Hague.
France declared war on Britain and the Netherlands.
German:
metonymic occupational name for a maker of quilts and comforters, from Middle High German kulter, kolter ‘quilt’ (from Latin culcitra).
from Middle High German, Middle Low German kolter ‘plowshare’ (from Latin culter), hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of plows or for a plowman. Compare Colter .
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