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Personal data Richard Skinner Finson 

  • He was born in the year 1834 in Shaldon with Ringmore, Devon.
  • He was baptized on April 20, 1834 in St. Nicholas, Devon.
  • Occupations:
  • Census in the year 1851, Shaldon, St. Nicholas, Newton Abbot, Devon.
    Fishing
  • Census in the year 1881, The Green, St. Nicholas, Newton Abbot, Devon.
    Mariner & Merchant Seaman
  • Census in the year 1891, Middle St, St. Nicholas, Newton Abbot, Devon.
    Mariner
  • Census in the year 1901, Middle St, Shaldon, St. Nicholas, Newton Abbot, Devon.
    Retired mariner
  • (Electoral Roll) between 1893 and 1901 in Middle St, Shaldon, St. Nicholas, Newton Abbot, Devon.
  • He died in the year 1902 in Newton Abbot (RD), Devon, he was 68 years old.
  • He is buried on August 15, 1902 in Shaldon and Ringmore, Devon.
  • A child of John Finson and Elizabeth

Household of Richard Skinner Finson

He is married to Eliza Jane Wakeham.

They got married on September 21, 1862 at Shaldon with Ringmore, Devon, he was 28 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Constance Finson  1864-????
  2. John R. Finson  1866-????
  3. Bertha Wakeham Finson  1867-1954 
  4. Emma Edith Finson  1876-????
  5. Thomas W. Finson  1879-????

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Richard Skinner Finson

John Finson
1803-????
Elizabeth
????-< 1851

Richard Skinner Finson
1834-1902

1862

Eliza Jane Wakeham
1836-????

Constance Finson
1864-????
John R. Finson
1866-????
Bertha Wakeham Finson
1867-1954
Emma Edith Finson
1876-????
Thomas W. Finson
1879-????

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Christening day April 20, 1834

  • The temperature on April 20, 1834 was about 12.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: helder. 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 year 1834: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
    • February 3 » Wake Forest University is established (as Wake Forest Institute) in North Carolina, United States.
    • March 6 » York, Upper Canada, is incorporated as Toronto.
    • March 18 » Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.
    • May 30 » Minister of Justice Joaquim António de Aguiar issues a law seizing "all convents, monasteries, colleges, hospices and any other houses" from the Catholic religious orders in Portugal, earning him the nickname of "The Friar-Killer".
    • October 9 » Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.
    • October 28 » The Pinjarra massacre occurs in the Swan River Colony. An estimated 30 Noongar people are killed by British colonists.

Day of marriage September 21, 1862

  • The temperature on September 21, 1862 was about 14.2 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. 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 March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
  • In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1862: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • January 30 » The first American ironclad warship, the USSMonitor is launched.
    • March 7 » American Civil War: Union forces engage Confederate troops at the Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.
    • May 20 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law, opening 84million acres of public land to settlers.
    • June 4 » American Civil War: Confederate troops evacuate Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, leaving the way clear for Union troops to take Memphis, Tennessee.
    • July 1 » Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, second daughter of Queen Victoria, marries Prince Louis of Hesse, the future Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse.
    • August 6 » American Civil War: The Confederate ironclad CSSArkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering catastrophic engine failure near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Day of burial August 15, 1902

  • The temperature on August 15, 1902 was between 5.8 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 12.4 hours of sunshine (84%). 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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1902: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
    • January 30 » The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
    • March 7 » Second Boer War: Boers, led by Koos de la Rey, inflict the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war, at Tweebosch.
    • April 14 » James Cash Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
    • May 20 » Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.
    • August 22 » Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
    • November 29 » The Pittsburgh Stars defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 11–0 to win the first championship associated with an American national professional football league.

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