Born: 11 March 1816

    Noordwijk aan Zee, Zuid Holland, NL

Married: Hester Aries Duindam - 19 Oct 1839

Noordwijk aan Zee, Zuid Holland, NL

    

Children:

   * Johannes Plug (b, 1840  d. 1927)

    Neeltje Plug (b. 1842  d. 1848)

    Pieter Plug (b. 1844  d. 1913)

    Willem Plug (b. 1847  d. 1847)  

    Arie Plug (b. 1848  d. 1917)

    Neeltje Plug (b.1851)

    Antje Plug (b. 1854  d. 1917)

    Leuntje Plug (b. 1856  d. 1895)

    

Died: 6 June 1884

    Noordwijk aan Zee, Zuid Holland, NL

Farmer??

Parents:

1. -Jan Plug (b.1789  d.1831)
   

2. -Leuntje Pieters Waasdorp (b.1791 d.1855)

Historical Context:

1. -1814/1815: The Kingdom of the Netherlands formed
   

2. -1815: Napoleon is defeated at Waterloo
   

3. -1815: Willem I proclaimed King
   

4. -1816: Year without a Summer (due to 1815 volcanic eruption of Mount Tambora)
   

5. -1816: Argentina declares independence from Spain
   

6. -1819: First steam propelled vessel crosses the Atlantic Ocean
   

7. -1822: Brazil declares its independence from Portugal
   

8. -1824: Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
   

9. -1825 February: Great Flood (800 people die in Gronigen, Friesland and Overijssel)
   

10. -1836: The Rapids is renamed Port Sarnia
    

11. -1837: birth of Abraham Kuyper, Dutch journalist, theologian and statesman. PM of The Netherlands 1901 - 1905.
    

12. -1839: first railroad in Netherlands is constructed from Amsterdam to Haarlem
    

13. -1840: Abdication of Willem I and Willem II crowned king
    

14. -1842: work resumes on Cologne cathedral
    

15. -1843: Wagner’s “The Flying Dutchman” opera premieres
    

16. -1845/46: Potato Famine:
    

17. -1846: Mass migration “Landverhuizing” of Netherlanders to USA. Driven by the potato famine, instigated by religious secession (Afscheiding) and led by Van Raalte and Scholte, many Gereformeerde adherents migrate to Michigan and Iowa.
    

18. -1848: Constitution of The Netherlands: Ministerial Responsibility/Constitutional Monarchy
    

19. -1848: Saratoga CA founded by Wm Campbell
    

20. -1849:  Willem II dies and Willem III is crowned king
    

    Thorbecke: First Prime Minister

1. -1853: Vincent van Gogh is born
   

2. -1857: Town of Sarnia is incorporated (with approximately 1,000 inhabitants)
   

3. -1859: Darwin publishes “Origin of the Species”
   

4. -1867: Confederation of Canada
   

    ..Population of Canada: 3.5 million

- 1873: Heineken Family (Noordwijk) founds Heineken Breweries

1. -1876: Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone

Willem I

Willem of Orange

comes ashore at Scheveningen

(30 November 1813)

Napoleon defeated at Waterloo