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Thomas Henry Rex was educated in Cape Town ; after leaving the college he entered the Civil Service ; thereafter took up farming at Rexford also known as the “NEW PLACE” .He interested himself in horse breeding and Merino sheep.


Ref George Rex of Knysna by Sanni Metelerkamp (great -grand- daughter)


 

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Thomas Henry Rex

John Rex
1726-1792
Sarah Creasy
1729-1803
Hendrik Christiaan Ungerer
Johanna Rosina van de Caap
1772-1814
George Rex
1765-1839

Thomas Henry Rex
1834-1874


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    Birthday July 24, 1834

    • The temperature on July 24, 1834 was about 18.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northwest. 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 1834: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
      • March 18 » Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.
      • July 7 » In New York City, four nights of rioting against abolitionists began.
      • July 15 » The Spanish Inquisition is officially disbanded after nearly 356 years.
      • August 1 » Slavery is abolished in the British Empire as the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force, although it remains legal in the possessions of the East India Company until the passage of the Indian Slavery Act, 1843.
      • October 9 » Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.
      • October 16 » Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London burns to the ground.

    Day of death September 25, 1874

    • The temperature on September 25, 1874 was about 21.2 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%. 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 July 6, 1872 till August 27, 1874 the Netherlands had a cabinet De Vries - Fransen van de Putte with the prime ministers Mr. G. de Vries Azn. (liberaal) and I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal).
    • From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
    • In the year 1874: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
      • February 28 » One of the longest cases ever heard in an English court ends when the defendant is convicted of perjury for attempting to assume the identity of the heir to the Tichborne baronetcy.
      • March 18 » Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trade rights.
      • July 1 » The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale.
      • July 14 » The Chicago Fire of 1874 burns down 47 acres of the city, destroying 812 buildings, killing 20, and resulting in the fire insurance industry demanding municipal reforms from Chicago's city council.
      • August 5 » Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in the United Kingdom.
      • October 9 » The Universal Postal Union is created by the Treaty of Bern.
    

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