Carter-Aaron tree » Matilda Jane Willis (1918-2002)
Personal data Matilda Jane Willis
- She was born on July 24, 1918 in Stepney (RD), London.
- She was baptized on August 18, 1918 in St. Peter, Wapping Lane, Wapping, London.
- (Electoral Roll) in the year 2002 in 1 Deer Park Ave, Teignmouth, Devon, TQ14 9HB.
- She died in the year 2002 in Teignbridge (RD), Devon, she was 83 years old.
- A child of William John Willis and Jane Sawyer
Household of Matilda Jane Willis
She is married to Frank E. Best.
They got married in the year 1940 at Stepney (RD), London, she was 21 years old.
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Historical events
Birthday July 24, 1918
- The temperature on July 24, 1918 was between 12.4 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (57%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 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 Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1918: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 6.6 million citizens.
- July 26 » Emmy Noether's paper, which became known as Noether's theorem was presented at Göttingen, Germany, from which conservation laws are deduced for symmetries of angular momentum, linear momentum, and energy.
- October 3 » King Boris III of Bulgaria accedes to the throne.
- October 4 » World War I: An explosion kills more than 100 people and destroys a Shell Loading Plant in New Jersey.
- October 31 » World War I: The Aster Revolution terminates the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, and Hungary achieves full sovereignty.
- November 12 » Austria becomes a republic. After the proclamation, a coup attempt by the communist Red Guard is defeated by the social-democratic Volkswehr.
- November 26 » The Montenegran Podgorica Assembly votes for a "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia.
Christening day August 18, 1918
- The temperature on August 18, 1918 was between 14.6 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (14%). 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 Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1918: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 6.6 million citizens.
- January 8 » U.S. President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I.
- February 5 » SSTuscania is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland; it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk.
- March 27 » The National Council of Bessarabia proclaims union with the Kingdom of Romania.
- July 4 » Bolsheviks kill Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family (Julian calendar date).
- October 11 » The 7.1 Mw San Fermín earthquake shakes Puerto Rico. The quake and resulting tsunami kill up to 116 people.
- November 10 » The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, receives a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa and Washington, D.C.) that said on November 11, 1918, all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.
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Dave Aaron, "Carter-Aaron tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/carter-aaron-tree/I2189.php : accessed February 1, 2026), "Matilda Jane Willis (1918-2002)".