From Castles to America » Matilda Focht (1810-1884)
Personal data Matilda Focht
- She was born on July 10, 1810 in Schuylkill Co.Pennsylvania.
Attention: Age at marriage (??-??-1825) below 16 years (15). - She died on June 28, 1884 in Anthony Twn.Montour Co.Pennsylvania, she was 73 years old.
- She is buried June 1884 in Lutheran Church Cemetery, Washingtonville, Montour Co., Pa..
- A child of Johann Adam Focht and Susuannah Furry
- This information was last updated on June 2, 2015.
Household of Matilda Focht
She is married to James D. Bitler.
They got married in the year 1825 at Pennsylvania, she was 14 years old.
Child(ren):
- Joel Bitler 1833-????
- James D. Bitler 1851-1923
Notes about Matilda Focht
2ND COUSIN 5 TIMES REMOVED TO MARSHA
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Historical events
Birthday July 10, 1810
- The temperature on July 10, 1810 was about 20.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: half bewolkt. Source: KNMI
- This page is only available in Dutch.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 1810: Source: Wikipedia
- January 1 » Major-General Lachlan Macquarie officially becomes Governor of New South Wales.
- February 4 » Napoleonic Wars: Britain seizes Guadeloupe.
- May 25 » May Revolution: Citizens of Buenos Aires expel Viceroy Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros during the "May Week", starting the Argentine War of Independence.
- August 21 » Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.
- September 16 » With the Grito de Dolores, Father Miguel Hidalgo begins Mexico's fight for independence from Spain.
- October 27 » United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
Day of death June 28, 1884
- The temperature on June 28, 1884 was about 20.8 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%. Source: KNMI
- Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
- In the year 1884: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
- March 27 » A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury which had returned a verdict of manslaughter in what was seen as a clear case of murder; over the next few days the mob would riot and eventually destroy the courthouse.
- April 20 » Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus.
- May 1 » The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions demands the eight-hour work day in the United States.
- June 16 » The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
- July 5 » Germany takes possession of Cameroon.
- October 14 » George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
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