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Personal data Maria Catharina Magdalena " May" (Maria Catharina Magdalena, " May") Dreyer 


Household of Maria Catharina Magdalena " May" (Maria Catharina Magdalena, " May") Dreyer

She is married to Andries Jacobus Petrus vander Westhuizen.

They got married on May 3, 1921, she was 26 years old.


Child(ren):

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Notes about Maria Catharina Magdalena " May" (Maria Catharina Magdalena, " May") Dreyer


On her mother's death notice in 1946, she was already listed as a "widow".

 

Maria Catharina Magdalena Dreyer <https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XKHL-S6D>

South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers, 1660-1970birth: 1895 residence: 03 May 1921 Kaapstad marriage: 03 May 1921 Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa tspouse: Andries Jacobus Petrus Van Der Westhuize

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    Historical events

    Birthday May 26, 1894

    • The temperature on May 26, 1894 was about 11.0 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 61%. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1894: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
      • January 7 » Thomas Edison makes a kinetoscopic film of someone sneezing. On the same day, his employee, William Kennedy Dickson, receives a patent for motion picture film.
      • January 9 » New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
      • May 21 » The Manchester Ship Canal in the United Kingdom is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.
      • June 28 » Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
      • September 17 » Battle of the Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
      • November 1 » Buffalo Bill, 15 of his Indians, and Annie Oakley were filmed by Thomas Edison in his Black Maria Studio in West Orange, New Jersey.

    Day of marriage May 3, 1921

    • The temperature on May 3, 1921 was between 0.2 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 1921: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
      • March 1 » Following mass protests in Petrograd demanding greater freedom in the RSFSR, the Kronstadt rebellion began, with sailors and citizens taking up arms against the Bolsheviks.
      • March 19 » Irish War of Independence: One of the biggest engagements of the war takes place at Crossbarry, County Cork. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
      • March 20 » The Upper Silesia plebiscite was a plebiscite mandated by the Versailles Treaty to determine a section of the border between Weimar Germany and Poland.
      • September 21 » A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500–600 people.
      • October 5 » The World Series is the first to be broadcast on radio.
      • October 13 » Soviet republics sign the Treaty of Kars to formalize the borders between Turkey and the South Caucasus states.
    

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