Birrell family tree » John Douglas Grieve (1850-1933)
Personal data John Douglas Grieve
Sources 1, 2- He was born Oct 18 1850 in Westminster Twp, Middlesex Co, Ont.Sources 1, 2, 3
- Resident: Ontario, Canada.Source 2
- He died on February 4, 1933 in Plympton Twp, Lambton Co, Ont, he was 83 years old.Sources 2, 4
Age: 82
- A child of Elliot Grieve and Elizabeth Douglas
Household of John Douglas Grieve
He is married to Eleanor Frances Elliott.
They got married on June 22, 1876 at Middlesex, Ontario, Canada, he was 26 years old.Source 1
Child(ren):
- Mary Elliott Grieve 1877-1967
- Elliot C Grieve 1879-1962
- William F Grieve 1884-1963
- Arthur Douglas Grieve 1886-1960
- James Murray Grieve 1888-1944
- Eleanor M Grieve 1895-1976
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Sources
- Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1801-1928, Ancestry.com and Genealogical Research Library (Brampton, Ontario, Canada), Archives of Ontario; Series: MS932; Reel: 21 / Ancestry.com
- Ontario, Canada, Deaths, 1869-1938 and Deaths Overseas, 1939-1947, Ancestry.com, Archives of Ontario; Series: MS935; Reel: 466 / Ancestry.com
- 1901 Canadian Census, Canadian Government
- Familysearch.org
Historical events
Day of marriage June 22, 1876
- The temperature on June 22, 1876 was about 17.9 °C. There was 6 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. Source: KNMI
- Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
- In the year 1876: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
- February 14 » Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.
- February 26 » Japan and Korea sign a treaty granting Japanese citizens extraterritoriality rights, opening three ports to Japanese trade, and ending Korea's status as a tributary state of Qing dynasty China.
- April 17 » Catalpa rescue: The rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Prison in Western Australia.
- May 2 » The April Uprising breaks out in Ottoman Bulgaria.
- May 30 » Ottoman sultan Abdülaziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murad V.
- August 8 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
Day of death February 4, 1933
- The temperature on February 4, 1933 was between 0.9 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 6.8 mm of rain during 8.0 hours. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
- In The Netherlands , there was from May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1933: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 8.2 million citizens.
- January 5 » Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
- February 20 » The U.S. Congress approves the Blaine Act to repeal federal Prohibition in the United States, sending the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution to state ratifying conventions for approval.
- March 4 » The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure - Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates an authoritarian rule by decree.
- March 5 » Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections, which allows the Nazis to later pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship.
- March 23 » The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
- April 5 » U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs two executive orders: 6101 to establish the Civilian Conservation Corps, and 6102 "forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates" by U.S. citizens.
Same birth/death day
- 1926 » İskilipli Âtıf Hodja, Turkish author and scholar (b. 1875)
- 1928 » Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
- 1933 » Archibald Sayce, English linguist and educator (b. 1846)
- 1940 » Nikolai Yezhov, Russian police officer and politician (b. 1895)
- 1943 » Frank Calder, English-Canadian ice hockey player and journalist (b. 1877)
- 1944 » Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian author and translator (b. 1872)
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