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Personal data Thomas Watkins Leigh 

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  • He was born on December 13, 1846 in Virginia, United States of America.
  • He died on 23 October.

Household of Thomas Watkins Leigh

He is married to Mary Elizabeth Faulkner.

They got married on November 18, 1874 at Halifax, Virginia, he was 27 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Sarah L Leigh  1877-1963
  2. Mary Grammer Leigh  1881-1959 
  3. William Leigh  1883-1940
  5. Rebecca Leigh  1887-1966

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Thomas Watkins Leigh

Thomas Watkins Leigh
1846-????

1874

Mary Elizabeth Faulkner
1850-1926

Sarah L Leigh
1877-1963
Mary Grammer Leigh
1881-1959
William Leigh
1883-1940
Thomas Watkins Leigh
1885-1949
Rebecca Leigh
1887-1966
Leander Faulkner Leigh
1891-1962

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Historical events

Birthday December 13, 1846

  • The temperature on December 13, 1846 was about -5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: betrokken zwaar mist. 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 1846: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
    • January 23 » Slavery in Tunisia is abolished.
    • February 10 » First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon: British defeat Sikhs in the final battle of the war.
    • May 7 » The Cambridge Chronicle, America's oldest surviving weekly newspaper, is published for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
    • June 16 » The Papal conclave of 1846 elects Pope Pius IX, beginning the longest reign in the history of the papacy.
    • July 7 » US troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the US conquest of California.
    • December 28 » Iowa is admitted as the 29th U.S. state.

Day of marriage November 18, 1874

  • The temperature on November 18, 1874 was about 9.5 °C. There was 7 mm of rain. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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.
    • May 27 » The first group of Dorsland trekkers under the leadership of Gert Alberts leaves Pretoria.
    • June 29 » Greek politician Charilaos Trikoupis publishes a manifesto in the Athens daily Kairoi entitled "Who's to Blame?" leveling complaints against King George. Trikoupis is elected Prime Minister of Greece the next year.
    • July 31 » Dr. Patrick Francis Healy became the first African-American inaugurated as president of a predominantly white university, Georgetown University.
    • August 5 » Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in the United Kingdom.
    • November 7 » A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party.


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