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Household of Willem Petrus Dreyer b4c2d4e1f8

(1) He is married to Anna Louisa Helena Louw.

They got married on March 11, 1890 at Noorder Paarl, Paarl, Cape Province, South Africa, he was 27 years old.


Child(ren):

  3. Baba Dreyer  1893-1893


(2) He is married to Geertruida Elizabeth Roux.

They got married on March 12, 1895 at Paarl, WC, South Africa, he was 32 years old.


Child(ren):

  2. Paul Roux Dreyer  1897-1981 


(3) He is married to Jacoba Hendrika van Niekerk.

They got married on April 2, 1912 at Kaapstad, Kaap de Goede Hoop, Suid-Afrika, he was 49 years old.


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    1. Archives Cape, Death notice 289/55 - Cape
      Death notice 13688 - Cape

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    Birthday December 22, 1862

    • The temperature on December 22, 1862 was about 2.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 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.
      • May 15 » President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law creating the United States Bureau of Agriculture. It is later renamed the United States Department of Agriculture.
      • May 31 » American Civil War: Peninsula Campaign: Confederate forces under Joseph E. Johnston and G.W. Smith engage Union forces under George B. McClellan outside Richmond, Virginia.
      • June 5 » As the Treaty of Saigon is signed, ceding parts of southern Vietnam to France, the guerrilla leader Trương Định decides to defy Emperor Tự Đức of Vietnam and fight on against the Europeans.
      • September 5 » American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia crosses the Potomac River at White's Ford in the Maryland Campaign.
      • October 8 » American Civil War: The Confederate invasion of Kentucky is halted at the Battle of Perryville.
      • November 9 » American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed.

    Day of marriage April 2, 1912

    • The temperature on April 2, 1912 was between 1.9 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (48%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1912: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
      • April 15 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.
      • April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
      • May 4 » Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
      • May 5 » Pravda, the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg.
      • May 18 » The first Indian film, Shree Pundalik by Dadasaheb Torne, is released in Mumbai.
      • December 19 » William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after ​3⁄2 years in Sing Sing prison.

    Day of death January 9, 1955

    • The temperature on January 9, 1955 was between -4.1 °C and -3.1 °C and averaged -3.6 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1955: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 10.7 million citizens.
      • April 3 » The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.
      • April 18 » Twenty-nine nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference.
      • May 25 » First ascent of Mount Kangchenjunga: A British expedition led by Charles Evans, Joe Brown and George Band reaches the summit of the third-highest mountain in the world (8,586 meters); Norman Hardie and Tony Streather join them the following day.
      • July 15 » Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
      • October 29 » The Soviet battleshipNovorossiysk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.
      • November 5 » After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio.
    

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