When Geert Jans Braaksma was born on 19 April 1791, in Niawier, Friesland, Netherlands, his father, Jan Lubberts Braaksma, was 40 and his mother, Tjetske IJnzes, was 38. He married Aaltje Siegers Jaalstra on 30 November 1818, in East-Dongeradeel, Friesland, Netherlands. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 21 February 1847, in East-Dongeradeel, Friesland, Netherlands, at the age of 55.
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France declared war on Britain and the Netherlands.
France and Napoleon conquered the Netherlands.
The Dutch defeated the French.
West Frisian and Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived by a piece of wasteland or newly cultivated land, from Frisian, Dutch braak ‘fallow, waste’ or ‘place where a dike burst’ + the Frisian suffix -ma, which originally denoted ‘(one of the) men of’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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