When Gerrit Erenst Broekema was born on 21 May 1778, in Veendam, Groningen, Netherlands, his father, Erenst Gerrits Broekema, was 30 and his mother, Jetske Geerts, was 29. He married Ida Tjalling Wolthuis on 27 January 1805, in Veendam, Groningen, Netherlands. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 9 daughters.
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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.
The Dutch defeated the French.
West Frisian: patronymic, formed with the suffix -ma ‘(one of the) men of’, from the personal name Bronke, a pet form of Bruno .
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