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Personal data Johannes Hubertus Theunissen Dreyer b4c2d1e2f4 


Household of Johannes Hubertus Theunissen Dreyer b4c2d1e2f4

He is married to Maria Magdalena Elizabeth Uys.

They got married on May 4, 1871 at Durbanville Cape South Africa, he was 28 years old.


Child(ren):

  3. Petrus Johannes Dreyer  1876-1966 


Notes about Johannes Hubertus Theunissen Dreyer b4c2d1e2f4

My own( Peter Dreyer`s)grandfather J. H. T. (Joe) Dreyer b3c2d1e2f4g1h1 was manager of the White House Hotel on Strand Street in Cape Town, yet when I lived there, I never even bothered to go inside. What an idiot I must have been! There's a great anecodote about Joe arranging for all the hotel bars to close when the next Australian troop ship docked during World War I (because the Australians regularly wrecked them). When the troops came ashore, they were surprised to find no bars open, but since they were used to weird licensing laws back in Oz, they assumed it was just something like that. Then they came across an old drunk who explained that there was this man named Joe Dreyer who had organized it . . . Unfortunate consequences followed for the White House and especially its barmaids (barmaids?? that's what I remember). Joe himself apparently escaped by locking himself in the lavatories, or something like that. The only record of this now seems to be in my memory, although I suppose a search of the Cape Times or Argus files of that era might turn something up.

It was Joe who started the process of anglicizing our branch of the family. When his father was killed in that threshing machine accident, he found himself with a stepfather he didn't get on with, ran off to Cape Town, and got a job in a hotel, it seems

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    Birthday December 23, 1842

    • The temperature on December 23, 1842 was about 7.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken regen. Source: KNMI
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      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 1842: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
      • January 13 » Dr. William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British East India Company Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 4,500 men and 12,000 camp followers when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
      • February 21 » John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine.
      • March 9 » The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.
      • March 28 » First concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Otto Nicolai.
      • August 9 » The Webster–Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States–Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains.
      • August 29 » Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War.

    Day of marriage May 4, 1871

    • The temperature on May 4, 1871 was about 7.3 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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 June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
    • In The Netherlands , there was from January 4, 1871 to July 6, 1872 the cabinet Thorbecke III, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1871: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
      • January 28 » Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
      • March 21 » Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
      • May 21 » French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week", some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested.
      • July 20 » British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.
      • October 8 » The Great Chicago Fire and the much deadlier Peshtigo Fire break out.
      • October 10 » Chicago burns after a barn accident. The fire lasts from October 8–10.

    Day of death July 10, 1920

    • The temperature on July 10, 1920 was between 8.7 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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 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 1920: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 6.8 million citizens.
      • January 10 » The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I.
      • March 22 » Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attacked the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh).
      • April 28 » Azerbaijan is added to the Soviet Union.
      • July 12 » The Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty is signed, by which Soviet Russia recognizes the independence of Lithuania.
      • September 1 » The Fountain of Time opens as a tribute to the 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent.
      • October 30 » The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.
    

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