When Gosse Botes Bruinsma was born on 5 January 1783, in Molkwerum, Friesland, Netherlands, his father, Bote Gosses Bruinsma, was 40 and his mother, Sijbrig Piers Kleiterp, was 27. He married Antje Joostes Gercama on 6 May 1804, in Tjum, Friesland, Netherlands. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 31 December 1847, in Tjum, Friesland, Netherlands, at the age of 64, and was buried in Franekeradeel, Friesland, Netherlands.
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An alliance between Britain, Prussia and the Netherlands was ratified at the Hague.
France declared war on Britain and the Netherlands.
The Dutch defeated the French.
West Frisian: patronymic, formed with the suffix -ma ‘(one of the) men of’, from a genitivized form of the personal name Bruin .
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