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Personal data William Sidney WIGSTON 

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Household of William Sidney WIGSTON

He is married to Mary MCPHERSON.

They got married on April 21, 1896 at Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.Source 3

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Ancestors (and descendant) of William Sidney WIGSTON

John WIGSTON
1810-1874
Sarah INGRAM
1812-1879
James HIAM
1807-1885
Sarah DAVIS
1807-1883
John WIGSTON
1837-1882
Anne HIAM
1838-1910

William Sidney WIGSTON
± 1874-1909

1896

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Sources

  1. 1881 England Census, Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Class: RG11; Piece: 3101; Folio: 13; Page: 17; GSU roll: 1341739 / Ancestry.com
  2. Canada, Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
  3. Web: Manitoba, Marriage Index, 1881-1937, Ancestry.com, Manitoba Consumer and Corporate Affairs; Manitoba, Canada / Ancestry.com
  4. Web: Manitoba, Death Index, 1871-1947, Ancestry.com, Manitoba Consumer and Corporate Affairs; Manitoba, Canada / Ancestry.com

Historical events

  • The temperature on April 21, 1896 was about 9.7 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 73%. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1896: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • January 18 » An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.
    • January 28 » Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8mph (13km/h), thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2mph (3.2km/h).
    • April 6 » In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman emperor Theodosius I.
    • June 4 » Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
    • September 22 » Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
    • November 17 » The Western Pennsylvania Hockey League, which later became the first ice hockey league to openly trade and hire players, began play at Pittsburgh's Schenley Park Casino.
  • The temperature on July 4, 1909 was between 10.3 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 5.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 25 » Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
    • March 23 » Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
    • April 13 » The military of the Ottoman Empire reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
    • May 13 » The first Giro d'Italia starts from Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna will be the winner.
    • July 16 » Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar is forced out as Shah of Persia and is replaced by his son Ahmad Shah Qajar.
    • October 16 » William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.


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