Carter-Aaron tree » William Gager Hobbs (1851-1910)
Personal data William Gager Hobbs
Sources 1, 2- He was born in the year 1851 in Dullingham, Cambridgeshire.
- He was baptized on January 26, 1851 in Dullingham, Cambridgeshire.
- Census in the year 1891, 6 Egbert Place, St Pancras, London.
Railway Servant
- Census in the year 1901, 5 Egbert Place, St Pancras, London.
Railway servant
- Census in the year 1851, High St, Dullingham, Cambridgeshire.
- Census in the year 1861, Stoney St, Dullingham, Cambridgeshire.
Scholar
- Census in the year 1871, Railway Terrace, Hertford, Hertfordshire.
Stationary engine driver
- Census in the year 1881, 6 Craddock St, St. Pancras, London.
Carriage Cleaner (Railway)
- He died on January 15, 1910 in St. George Hanover Square (RD), London, he was 59 years old.
- A child of George Hobbs and Susan Jaggard
Household of William Gager Hobbs
He is married to Eliza E. Foster.
They got married December 1873 at Pancras (RD), London, he was 22 years old.
Child(ren):
- Louisa Mary Hobbs 1876-????
- William G. Hobbs 1881-????
- Joseph Edward Hobbs 1882-1955
- Kate Edith Hobbs 1891-????
- Zillah May Hobbs 1895-1929
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Sources
- Beeks Family Tree Web Site, Gareth Beeks, William Hobbs, July 30, 2017
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- Finch Web Site, Ken Finch, William Hobbs, July 30, 2017
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Historical events
Christening day January 26, 1851
- The temperature on January 26, 1851 was about 1.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%. Source: KNMI
- This page is only available in Dutch.De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
- In The Netherlands , there was from November 1, 1849 to April 19, 1853 the cabinet Thorbecke I, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1851: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
- January 28 » Northwestern University becomes the first chartered university in Illinois.
- June 5 » Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly, starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.
- July 29 » Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia.
- August 22 » The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America.
- September 11 » Christiana Resistance: Escaped slaves led by William Parker fight off and kill a slave owner who, with a federal marshal and an armed party, sought to seize three of his former slaves in Christiana, Pennsylvania, thereby creating a cause célèbre between slavery proponents and abolitionists.
- December 22 » India's first freight train is operated in Roorkee, India.
Day of death January 15, 1910
- The temperature on January 15, 1910 was between 1.9 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (67%). 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
- In the year 1910: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.9 million citizens.
- January 1 » Captain David Beatty is promoted to Rear admiral, and becomes the youngest admiral in the Royal Navy (except for Royal family members) since Horatio Nelson.
- June 2 » Charles Rolls, a co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.
- August 20 » Extremely dry and windy weather in the Inland Northwest of the United States causes several small wildfires to coalesce into the Great Fire of 1910, burning approximately 3million acres (12,000km) and killing 87 people.
- August 22 » Korea is annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II.
- August 29 » The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, becomes effective, officially starting the period of Japanese rule in Korea.
- September 12 » Premiere performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in Munich (with a chorus of 852 singers and an orchestra of 171 players. Mahler's rehearsal assistant conductor was Bruno Walter).
Same birth/death day
- 1896 » Mathew Brady, American photographer and journalist (b. 1822)
- 1905 » George Thorn, Australian politician, 6th Premier of Queensland (b. 1838)
- 1909 » Arnold Janssen, German priest and missionary (b. 1837)
- 1916 » Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian playwright and translator (b. 1850)
- 1919 » Karl Liebknecht, German politician (b. 1871)
- 1919 » Rosa Luxemburg, German economist, theorist, and philosopher (b. 1871)
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