Kennedy Family Tree » Walter Thornhill (1878-1917)

Personal data Walter Thornhill 

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Household of Walter Thornhill

He is married to Mary Ellen Preston.

They got married on April 2, 1901 at Wigan, Lancashire, England, he was 22 years old.Source 8


Child(ren):

  1. Elizabeth Thornhill  1901-1982 

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Walter Thornhill

Thomas William Thornhill
1814-1881
Elizabeth Rimmer
1815-1880
William Hayes
1804-1868
Elizabeth Lunt
1810-1867

Walter Thornhill
1878-1917

1901

Mary Ellen Preston
1888-1920

Elizabeth Thornhill
1901-1982

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    Sources

    1. Ancestry Family Trees, Ancestry Family Tree
      http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=108831291&pid=14340
      / Ancestry.com
    2. Lancashire, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1911, Ancestry.com
    3. London, England, Poor Law School District Registers, 1852-1918, Ancestry.com, London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Reference Number: SMSD/160 / Ancestry.com
    4. England & Wales, Christening Index, 1530-1980, Ancestry.com
    5. England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915, FreeBMD
    6. England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975, Ancestry.com
    7. England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915, FreeBMD
    8. Wigan, England, Church of England Marriages, 1754-1926, Ancestry.com, Wigan Archives Services; Wigan, England; Reference Numbers: D/P28/1/12 / Ancestry.com

    Historical events

    Christening day October 20, 1878

    • The temperature on October 20, 1878 was about 10.5 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east. 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)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1878: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
      • January 28 » Yale Daily News becomes the first independent daily college newspaper in the United States.
      • March 24 » The British frigate HMSEurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
      • June 10 » League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stefano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in the Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Greece.
      • July 1 » Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
      • July 13 » Treaty of Berlin: The European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman Empire.
      • December 31 » Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879.

    Day of marriage April 2, 1901

    • The temperature on April 2, 1901 was between 0.3 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (62%). 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 July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1901: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
      • January 1 » Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
      • January 22 » Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
      • February 15 » The association football club Alianza Lima is founded in Lima, Peru, under the name Sport Alianza.
      • August 5 » Peter O'Connor sets the first IAAF recognised long jump world record of 24ft 11.75in (7.6137m), a record that would stand for 20 years.
      • August 21 » Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
      • September 14 » U.S. President William McKinley dies after being mortally wounded on September 6 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz and is succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.

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