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Personal data Willem Petrus Dreyer b4c2d4e1f8 

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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

    Historical events

    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.
      • April 7 » American Civil War: The Union's Army of the Tennessee and the Army of the Ohio defeat the Confederate Army of Mississippi near Shiloh, Tennessee.
      • May 12 » American Civil War: U.S. federal troops occupy Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
      • June 19 » The U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying Dred Scott v. Sandford.
      • 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.
      • July 15 » The CSS Arkansas, the most effective ironclad on the Mississippi River, battles with Union ships commanded by Admiral David Farragut, severely damaging three ships and sustaining heavy damage herself. The encounter changed the complexion of warfare on the Mississippi and helped to reverse Rebel fortunes on the river in the summer of 1862.
      • November 7 » American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside was assigned to command the Army of the Potomac in Antietam, Maryland. After Union General George B. McClellan refused to pursue Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia after their retreat from the Battle of Antietam.

    Day of marriage April 2, 1912

    • The temperature on April 2, 1912 was between 2.2 °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.
      • February 12 » The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
      • March 6 » Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces become the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles drop bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 6,000 feet.
      • May 5 » Pravda, the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg.
      • August 14 » U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.
      • September 28 » Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash.
      • November 7 » The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.

    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 18 » Twenty-nine nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference.
      • May 18 » Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends.
      • June 2 » The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.
      • August 20 » Battle of Philippeville: In Morocco, a force of Berbers from the Atlas Mountains region of Algeria raid two rural settlements and kill 77 French nationals.
      • August 28 » Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement.
      • December 5 » The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL–CIO.
    

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