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Personal data Dorothy Winnifred Mitchell 

Sources 1, 2, 3, 4

Household of Dorothy Winnifred Mitchell

She is married to Louis Henry Davis Sherren.

They got married on October 19, 1935 at Mount Stewart, Queens Co., Prince Edward Island, Canada, she was 25 years old.Source 2


Child(ren):

  1. Mary Winona Sherren  1936-1997 
  3. (Not public)
  5. (Not public)
  6. (Not public)
  7. (Not public)
  8. (Not public)
  9. Alan Wendell Sherren  1951-1991 
  10. (Not public)


Notes about Dorothy Winnifred Mitchell

Dorothy, was born in England, and moved to Canada with her mother when she was only a small child. She was the daughter of Alfred George Mitchell and Winnifred Ethel Daisy Wray. Her father was a prominent lawyer, builder and horse enthusiast in London, England, She and her mother immigrated to Canada with Alfred Taylor, who was also a lawyer and close friend of her father.

They first settled in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Later, when her mother married Albert Best, they moved to Prince Edward Island to a farm in Donaldson. They eventually retired to the village of Hampton which borders near Crapaud. Dorothy also has a half brother, Clifford Best, born in 1920.

Dorothy graduated from the Registered Nursing program at the Saint John General Hospital of New Brunswick in 1933. After returning to P.E.I.,, she held various positions in hospitals located near Summerside and Charlottetown.

Later in Dorothy´s nursing career she specialized in psychiatric medicine. She worked at the Riverside Mental Hospital in Charlottetown, where she was eventually promoted to the position of Supervisor of nursing.

Source: Joseph C. Sherren's book, page 122

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Sources

  1. England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915, FreeBMD
    Birth date: Oct 1910 Birth place: Middlesex, United Kingdom
    / Ancestry.ca
  2. Prince Edward Island, Canada, Baptisms, Marriages, Burials, 1780-1983, Ancestry.com, Microtech Supply and Services; Death, Bur, Mar, Bap, Comm, Mem, Hist, Article, Min; Mt Stewart; 1871-1962, 1982-83; Author: Prince Edward Island Public Archives; Mt. Stewart Circuit Presbyterian Church in Canada; St. John United Church of Canada (Mt. Stewa / Ancestry.com
  3. Canada, Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
  4. Web: International, Find A Grave Index, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com

Historical events

Birthday September 8, 1910

  • The temperature on September 8, 1910 was between 8.3 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 1910: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.9 million citizens.
    • January 13 » The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the operas Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci are sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.
    • April 29 » The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public.
    • June 17 » Aurel Vlaicu pilots an A. Vlaicu nr. 1 on its first flight.
    • September 26 » Indian journalist Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai is arrested after publishing criticism of the government of Travancore and is exiled.
    • October 11 » Piloted by Arch Hoxsey, Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane.
    • November 7 » The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.

Day of marriage October 19, 1935

  • The temperature on October 19, 1935 was between 8.6 °C and 13.3 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 3.2 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the 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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1935: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 8.4 million citizens.
    • January 28 » Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
    • May 6 » New Deal: Under the authority of the newly-enacted Federal Emergency Relief Administration, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 7034 to create the Works Progress Administration.
    • May 31 » A 7.7 Mw  earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan killing 40,000.
    • July 16 » The world's first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
    • August 15 » Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed after their aircraft develops engine problems during takeoff in Barrow, Alaska.
    • September 15 » The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship.

Day of death September 18, 1972

  • The temperature on September 18, 1972 was between 7.0 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (60%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1972: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 13.3 million citizens.
    • January 30 » Pakistan leaves the Commonwealth of Nations in protest of its recognition of breakaway Bangladesh.
    • March 2 » The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.
    • June 29 » The United States Supreme Court rules in the case Furman v. Georgia that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
    • June 30 » The first leap second is added to the UTC time system.
    • July 31 » The Troubles: In Operation Motorman, the British Army re-takes the urban no-go areas of Northern Ireland. It is the biggest British military operation since the Suez Crisis of 1956, and the biggest in Ireland since the Irish War of Independence. Later that day, nine civilians are killed by car bombs in the village of Claudy.
    • September 29 » China–Japan relations: Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China.


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