Kennedy Family Tree » Robt Sessions (1841-1916)
Personal data Robt Sessions
Source 1Sources 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8- He was born in the year 1841 in Farnborough, Kent, England.Sources 2, 7
- He was baptized on February 23, 1840 in Farnborough, Kent, England.Source 4
Attention: Baptized (February 23, 1840) before born (??-??-1841) . - Resident: Whitechapel, Middlesex, England.Source 6
- He died on February 27, 1916 in Kent, England, he was 75 years old.Sources 2, 5
- A child of Robert Sessions and Mary Button
Household of Robt Sessions
He is married to Emily Emma Hampton.
They got married on April 24, 1864 at Whitechapel, Middlesex, England, he was 23 years old.Sources 3, 6
Child(ren):
- Mary K Sessions 1868-????
- Minnie E Sessions 1874-????
- Alice J Sessions 1877-????
Timeline Robt Sessions
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Sources
- Ancestry Family Trees, Ancestry Family Tree
http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=108831291&pid=16103
/ Ancestry.com - England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007, Ancestry.com
- London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921, Ancestry.com, London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Reference Number: P93/MRY1/050
- England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975, Ancestry.com
- England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995, Ancestry.com
- England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973, Ancestry.com
- England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915, FreeBMD
- England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915, FreeBMD
Historical events
Christening day February 23, 1840
- The temperature on February 23, 1840 was about -1 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: helder winderig. 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 1840: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 2.9 million citizens.
- January 13 » The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives.
- February 11 » Gaetano Donizetti's opera La fille du régiment receives its first performance in Paris, France.
- May 20 » York Minster is badly damaged by fire.
- May 22 » The penal transportation of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished.
- June 20 » Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
- July 23 » The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union.
Day of marriage April 24, 1864
- The temperature on April 24, 1864 was about 12.6 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 54%. 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 February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1864: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
- March 16 » American Civil War: During the Red River Campaign, Union troops reach Alexandria, Louisiana.
- April 25 » American Civil War: The Battle of Marks' Mills.
- June 3 » American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor: Union forces attack Confederate troops in Hanover County, Virginia.
- July 19 » Taiping Rebellion: Third Battle of Nanking: The Qing dynasty finally defeats the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
- August 31 » During the American Civil War, Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta.
- October 30 » The Treaty of Vienna is signed, by which Denmark relinquishes one province each to Prussia and Austria.
Day of death February 27, 1916
- The temperature on February 27, 1916 was between -1.4 °C and 4.9 °C and averaged 1.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1916: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
- February 24 » The Governor-General of Korea establishes a clinic called Jahyewon in Sorokdo to segregate Hansen's disease patients.
- May 10 » Sailing in the lifeboat James Caird, Ernest Shackleton arrives at South Georgia after a journey of 800 nautical miles from Elephant Island.
- May 16 » The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the French Third Republic sign the secret wartime Sykes-Picot Agreement partitioning former Ottoman territories such as Iraq and Syria.
- July 7 » The New Zealand Labour Party was founded in Wellington.
- August 5 » World War I: Battle of Romani: Allied forces, under the command of Archibald Murray, defeat an attacking Ottoman army under the command of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, securing the Suez Canal and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai Peninsula.
- September 19 » World War I: During the East African Campaign, colonial forces of the Belgian Congo (Force Publique) under the command of Charles Tombeur capture the town of Tabora after heavy fighting.
Same birth/death day
- 1902 » Harry "Breaker" Morant, English-Australian lieutenant (b. 1864)
- 1921 » Schofield Haigh, English cricketer and umpire (b. 1871)
- 1931 » Chandra Shekhar Azad, Indian revolutionary (b. 1906)
- 1936 » Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1849)
- 1936 » Joshua W. Alexander, American judge and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of Commerce (b. 1852)
- 1937 » Hosteen Klah, Navajo artist, medicine man, and weaver (b. 1867)
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Brian Kennedy, "Kennedy Family Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/kennedy-family-tree/P16103.php : accessed April 30, 2025), "Robt Sessions (1841-1916)".