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Household of Arthur Thomas TORPEY

He is married to Elsie Jean McINNES.

They got married on July 10, 1940 at Caulfield, Victoria, Australia, he was 30 years old.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Arthur Thomas TORPEY

William Henry TREGENNA
1843-1928
Cecilia HALL
1853-1939
(Not public)

Arthur Thomas TORPEY
1909-1978

1940

Elsie Jean McINNES
1915-2004


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Sources

  1. E-mail correspondence. Ruth Torpey [(E-ADDRESS) FOR PRIVATE USE,], e-mail<., Ruth Torpey, Torpey, Ruth, >

Historical events

Birthday September 14, 1909

  • The temperature on September 14, 1909 was between 11.5 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 1909: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.8 million citizens.
    • January 16 » Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
    • January 28 » United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish–American War.
    • February 12 » New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SSPenguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
    • June 26 » The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
    • August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
    • December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Day of marriage July 10, 1940

  • The temperature on July 10, 1940 was between 14.3 °C and 25.3 °C and averaged 20.1 °C. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (52%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1940: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.8 million citizens.
    • April 9 » Vidkun Quisling seizes power in Norway.
    • May 27 » World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 99 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops; two survive.
    • June 15 » World War II: Operation Ariel begins: Allied troops start to evacuate France, following Germany's takeover of Paris and most of the nation.
    • June 26 » World War II: Under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and the northern part of Bukovina.
    • August 3 » World War II: Italian forces begin the invasion of British Somaliland.
    • August 20 » World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes the fourth of his famous wartime speeches, containing the line "Never was so much owed by so many to so few".

Day of death November 2, 1978

  • The temperature on November 2, 1978 was between 4.6 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain during 3.5 hours. The heavily clouded 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 Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1978: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 13.9 million citizens.
    • May 8 » The first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler.
    • June 28 » The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions.
    • July 11 » Los Alfaques disaster: A truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain killing 216 tourists.
    • August 7 » U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been disposed of negligently.
    • August 10 » Three members of the Ulrich family are killed in an accident. This leads to the Ford Pinto litigation.
    • November 23 » Cyclone kills about 1000 people in eastern Sri Lanka.


Same birth/death day

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  • 1910 » Jack Hawkins, English actor and producer († 1973)
  • 1910 » Lehman Engel, American composer and conductor († 1982)
  • 1910 » Rolf Liebermann, Swiss-French composer and manager († 1999)
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Source: Wikipedia


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