Birrell family tree » James Birrell (1898-1976)
Personal data James Birrell
Sources 1, 2Sources 3, 4- He was born May 26 1898 in Edinburgh Scotland.Sources 2, 3
- Resident in the year 1901: Edinburgh St Michael, Midlothian, Scotland.Source 3
- He died on February 23, 1976 in Edinburgh Scotland, he was 78 years old.Sources 2, 4
- He is buried on February 27, 1976 in Edinburgh, Scotland.Source 4
- A child of James Griffith Birrell and Jessie Dewar Morland
Household of James Birrell
He is married to Mary Jane Haffie.
They got married Dec 16 1921 at Edinburgh Scotland, he was 23 years old.
Child(ren):
Notes about James Birrell
Member of the 10Th Scottish Rifles. His sister Maggie was a witness at his wedding.
Timeline James Birrell
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Sources
- British Army World War I Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920, Page 1 - British Army World War I Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920 / https://www.fold3.com
- Personal Knowledge
He was my Grandfather
- 1901 Scotland Census, Ancestry.com
Birth date: abt 1899
/ Ancestry.com
Birth place: Edinburgh
Residence date: 1901
Residence place: Edinburgh St Michael, Midlothian, Scotland - Web: UK, Burial and Cremation Index, 1576-2014, Ancestry.com, Deceased Online; United Kingdom; Deceased Online Burial Indexes / Ancestry.com
Historical events
Day of death February 23, 1976
- The temperature on February 23, 1976 was between 0.4 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
- In the year 1976: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 13.7 million citizens.
- January 15 » Gerald Ford's would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison.
- April 9 » The EMD F40PH diesel locomotive enters revenue service with Amtrak.
- July 28 » The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 moment magnitude flattens Tangshan in the People's Republic of China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.
- August 18 » In the Korean Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjom, the Axe murder incident results in the death of two US soldiers.
- September 11 » A bomb planted by a Croatian terrorist, Zvonko Bušić, is found at New York's Grand Central Terminal; one NYPD officer is killed trying to defuse it.
- October 11 » George Washington is posthumously promoted to the grade of General of the Armies.
Day of burial February 27, 1976
- The temperature on February 27, 1976 was between 1.6 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
- In the year 1976: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 13.7 million citizens.
- April 7 » Member of Parliament and suspected spy John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party (UK) after being arrested for faking his own death.
- April 11 » The Apple I is created.
- April 13 » Forty workers die in an explosion at the Lapua ammunition factory, the deadliest accidental disaster in modern history in Finland.
- June 28 » The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
- July 21 » Christopher Ewart-Biggs, the British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.
- September 17 » The Space Shuttle Enterprise is unveiled by NASA.
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