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Personal data Merritt John Murphy 

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Household of Merritt John Murphy

He is married to Margaret Rodger Henry.

They got married May 15 1942 at Edinburgh Scotland, he was 27 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. (Not public)
  2. John Merritt Murphy  1945-2013 
  3. (Not public)
  4. (Not public)

The couple are divorced.


Notes about Merritt John Murphy

Worked for Canada Customs. WW2 was a Motor Mechanic Royal Canadian Ordanance Corps.

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    Sources

    1. Henry Family Tree, Patrick Henry
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    2. Canada, Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
    3. New Brunswick Vital Statistics, Government of New Brunswick
      Birth CertificateRS141A1b Index to Late Registration of Births Child MURPHY, MERRITT Sex M Date of Birth 1914 | 12 | 08 (Y-M-D) Place PLASTER ROCK County VICTORIA Father MURPHY, MERRITT KINGSLEY Mother BURGOYNE, SADIE Code 1914--802340 Microfilm F24537
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    Historical events

    Birthday December 8, 1914

    • The temperature on December 8, 1914 was between 6.6 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1914: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
      • August 15 » The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SSAncon.
      • August 20 » World War I: Brussels is captured during the German invasion of Belgium.
      • August 27 » World War I: Battle of Étreux: A British rearguard action by the Royal Munster Fusiliers during the Great Retreat.
      • September 16 » World War I: The Siege of Przemyśl (present-day Poland) begins.
      • October 27 » First World War: The new British battleship HMS Audacious is sunk by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.
      • November 7 » The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.

    Day of death October 24, 1997

    • The temperature on October 24, 1997 was between 2.3 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1997: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
      • March 26 » Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven's Gate mass suicides.
      • May 17 » Troops of Laurent Kabila march into Kinshasa. Zaire is officially renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo.
      • June 28 » Holyfield–Tyson II: Mike Tyson is disqualified in the third round for biting a piece off Evander Holyfield's ear.
      • June 30 » The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty over Hong Kong to China.
      • October 4 » The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs in North Carolina
      • November 27 » Twenty-five people are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria.
    

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