Ancestral Trails 2016 » Benjamin Richard May WOOD (1882-1954)

Personal data Benjamin Richard May WOOD 

  • He was born in the year 1882 in Hastings, Battle, East Sussex.Source 1
  • (Probate Date) on June 30, 1954 in London, Middlesex.Source 2
  • He died on June 6, 1954 in 3 Olven Road, Plumstead, London S E 18, he was 72 years old.

Household of Benjamin Richard May WOOD

He is married to Ethel Laws RANSOM.

They got married on August 4, 1917 at St Peter, Acton Green, Ealing, Middlesex, he was 35 years old.Source 3

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Sources

  1. BMD Index
    Jun Qtr 1882 Hastings 2b 37
    / www.findmypast.co.uk
  2. England & Wales, National Probate Calender (Index of Wills & Administrations), 1861-1941
    Benjamin Riichard May WOOD of 3 Olven Road Plumstead London SE18 died 6 June 1954 Probate London 30 June to Pauline Alma COLVER married woman. Effects £251
    / www.ancestry.com
  3. London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921, Ancestry.com
    Benjamin Richard May WOOD 36 bachelor ammunition maker 16 Whellock Road Action Green, father Benjamin Richard May WOOD deceased stone mason. Ethel Lawes RANSOM 28 spinster clerk 44 Withdale Road Plumstead, father Henry RANSOM carpenter. Banns. Witnesses C H M WOOD W E RANSOM
    / Ancestry.com

Historical events

Day of death June 6, 1954

  • The temperature on June 6, 1954 was between 9.7 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 9.0 mm of rain during 4.7 hours. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (11%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1954: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 10.6 million citizens.
    • February 13 » Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game.
    • February 19 » Transfer of Crimea: The Soviet Politburo of the Soviet Union orders the transfer of the Crimean Oblast from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR.
    • March 1 » Armed Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.
    • July 5 » The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.
    • September 26 » The Japanese rail ferry Tōya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan, killing 1,172.
    • November 27 » Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

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  • 1951 » Olive Tell, American actress (b. 1894)
  • 1954 » Fritz Kasparek, Austrian mountaineer and author (b. 1910)
  • 1955 » Max Meldrum, Scottish-Australian painter and educator (b. 1875)
  • 1961 » Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist (b. 1875)

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