When Wichertje Derks Bleeker was born about 1801, in Wildervank, Groningen, Netherlands, her father, Derk Alberts Bleeker, was 46 and her mother, Jantje Jans Blaak, was 36. She married Jan Jacobs Blaak about 1822, in Wildervank, Groningen, Netherlands. She died on 1 August 1837, in her hometown, at the age of 37.
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The Dutch defeated the French.
In 1810, when Louis Bonaparte resigned from the throne, the Netherlands was annexed from the French. Finally in 1814, the Netherlands became sovereign and independent.
Belgium rebelled against Netherlands.
Dutch: occupational name for a bleacher of textiles, Middle Dutch ble(e)kere. Compare Bleecker .
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