Brief Life History of Margaretha
When Margaretha Benjamins was born on 16 March 1823, in Hollandscheveld, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Netherlands, her father, Jan Otten Goosens Benjamins, was 36 and her mother, Wubbigje Harms Meiboom, was 35. She married Gerrit Jans Mink on 17 April 1845, in Ambt Hardenberg, Overijssel, Netherlands. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She died on 14 January 1889, in Ambt Hardenberg, Overijssel, Netherlands, at the age of 65.
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- Margaretha Benjamins, "Netherlands, Archival Indexes, Vital Records" birth
- Margaretha Benjamins, "Netherlands, Archival Indexes, Vital Records" marriage 1845
- Margaretha Benjamins, "Netherlands, Archival Indexes, Vital Records" death
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1830
Belgium rebelled against Netherlands.
1853
Birth of Vincent van Gogh.
1863
The Dutch abolished slavery in Suriname. The Dutch were among the last Europeans to abolish slavery.
Name Meaning
Jewish (Sephardic and Ashkenazic), English, French, West Indian (mainly Haiti), and African (mainly Nigeria and Tanzania); Hungarian (Benjámin): from the Hebrew male personal name Binyāmīn ‘Son of the South’. In the Book of Genesis, it is treated as meaning ‘Son of the Right Hand’. The two senses are connected, since in Hebrew the south is thought of as the right-hand side of a person who is facing east. Benjamin was the youngest and favorite son of Jacob and supposed progenitor of one of the twelve tribes of Israel (Genesis 35:16-18; 42:4). The personal name was not common among Gentiles in the Middle Ages, but its use was sanctioned by virtue of having been borne by a Christian saint martyred in Persia in about AD 424. In some cases in medieval Europe it was also applied as a byname or nickname to the youngest (and beloved) son of a large family; this is the sense of modern French benjamin. In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Assyrian/Chaldean Benyamin and Italian Beniamino.
History: John Benjamin (1598–1645) came from England to Watertown, MA, in 1632. Jean-Baptiste Benjamin dit Saint-Aubin from France married Jeanne Allard in QC in 1704.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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