Sherren Family Tree » Donald Haigh Pontefract (1902-1991)

Personal data Donald Haigh Pontefract 

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Household of Donald Haigh Pontefract

He is married to Mary Claughton.

They got married on September 2, 1925 at Bradford Road, Stanningley, Leeds, West Riding, Yorkshire, England, he was 23 years old.Sources 1, 2, 6


Child(ren):

  1. Alan Pontefract  1926-1974 
  2. (Not public)

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Donald Haigh Pontefract

George Henry Pontefract
1847-1915
Ellen Boothroyd
1845-1921
Walter Haigh
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Sarah Jane Johnson
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Donald Haigh Pontefract
1902-1991

1925

Mary Claughton
1900-2000

Alan Pontefract
1926-1974
(Not public)

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Sources

  1. West Yorkshire, Non-Conformist Records, 1646-1985, Ancestry.com, MR75/1 / Ancestry.com
  2. England & Wales, Marriage Index, 1916-2005, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
  3. West Yorkshire, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1910, Ancestry.com, West Yorkshire Archive Service; Wakefield, Yorkshire, England; Yorkshire Parish Records; New Reference Number: WDP56/1/1/4 / Ancestry.ca
  4. England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915, FreeBMD / Ancestry.com
  5. England & Wales, Death Index, 1916-2006, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
  6. Blandford/Branes-Austin Family Tree, Adsetts/Pontefract Family Tree (Owner: dapont1) / Ancestry.ca

Historical events

Birthday January 4, 1902

  • The temperature on January 4, 1902 was between 5.5 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. 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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1902: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
    • March 6 » Real Madrid CF is founded.
    • April 2 » "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
    • April 14 » James Cash Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
    • April 20 » Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
    • May 31 » Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
    • August 9 » Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Christening day July 20, 1902

  • The temperature on July 20, 1902 was between 8.8 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (6%). 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 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1902: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
    • April 2 » "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
    • April 2 » Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, Saint Petersburg.
    • May 17 » Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
    • August 22 » Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
    • October 24 » Guatemala's Santa María Volcano begins to erupt, becoming the third-largest eruption of the 20th century.
    • December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.

Day of marriage September 2, 1925

  • The temperature on September 2, 1925 was between 11.6 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1925: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.3 million citizens.
    • January 21 » Albania declares itself a republic.
    • May 5 » Scopes Trial: Serving of an arrest warrant on John T. Scopes for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
    • May 14 » Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is published.
    • July 10 » Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins of John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
    • July 21 » Malcolm Campbell becomes the first man to exceed 150mph (241km/h) on land. At Pendine Sands in Wales, he drives Sunbeam 350HP built by Sunbeam at a two-way average speed of 150.33mph (242km/h).
    • July 21 » Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching human evolution in class and fined $100.


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Source: Wikipedia


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