Carter-Aaron tree » Ada Gertrude Willis (1914-1997)
Personal data Ada Gertrude Willis
- She was born on July 30, 1914 in Stepney (RD), London.
- She was baptized on August 16, 1914 in St. Peter, Wapping Lane, Wapping, London.
- Census in the year 1939, 105 Sandringham Rd, Barking, Essex.
- She died in the year 1997 in Redbridge (RD), Essex, she was 82 years old.
- A child of William John Willis and Jane Sawyer
Household of Ada Gertrude Willis
She is married to William Alfred Read.
They got married in the year 1939 at Stepney (RD), London, she was 24 years old.
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Historical events
Birthday July 30, 1914
- The temperature on July 30, 1914 was between 11.6 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 20.0 mm of rain. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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.
- February 13 » Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
- May 29 » The Ocean liner RMSEmpress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with the loss of 1,012 lives.
- June 12 » Massacre of Phocaea: Turkish irregulars slaughter 50 to 100 Greeks and expel thousands of others in an ethnic cleansing operation in the Ottoman Empire.
- June 23 » Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta.
- December 15 » A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hōjō coal mine, in Kyushu, Japan, kills 687.
- December 16 » World War I: Admiral Franz von Hipper commands a raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby.
Christening day August 16, 1914
- The temperature on August 16, 1914 was between 10.9 °C and 22.5 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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.
- January 9 » The Phi Beta Sigma fraternity is founded by African-American students at Howard University in Washington D.C., United States.
- April 21 » Ypiranga incident: A German arms shipment to Mexico is intercepted by the U.S. Navy near Veracruz.
- August 24 » World War I: German troops capture Namur.
- August 29 » World War I: Start of the Battle of St. Quentin in which the French Fifth Army counter-attacked the invading Germans at Saint-Quentin, Aisne.
- September 22 » A German submarine sinks three British cruisers over a seventy-minute period, killing almost 1500 sailors.
- November 9 » SMSEmden is sunk by HMASSydney in the Battle of Cocos.
Same birth/death day
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- 1913 » Lou Darvas, American soldier and cartoonist († 1987)
- 1914 » Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, Irish journalist and author, 6th President of the International Olympic Committee († 1999)
- 1920 » Walter Schuck, German lieutenant and pilot († 2015)
- 1921 » Grant Johannesen, American pianist and educator († 2005)
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Dave Aaron, "Carter-Aaron tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/carter-aaron-tree/I2187.php : accessed December 18, 2025), "Ada Gertrude Willis (1914-1997)".