Sherren Family Tree » Frank Leslie Pontefract (1893-1975)

Personal data Frank Leslie Pontefract 

Sources 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Household of Frank Leslie Pontefract

He is married to Emily Booth.

They got married on June 7, 1922 at Stanningley, Yorkshire, England, he was 28 years old.Sources 1, 6, 7


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Ancestors (and descendant) of Frank Leslie Pontefract

George Henry Pontefract
1847-1915
Ellen Boothroyd
1845-1921
Walter Haigh
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Sarah Jane Johnson
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Frank Leslie Pontefract
1893-1975

1922

Emily Booth
1893-1971

James Howard Pontefract
1922-1988
Daughter Pontefract
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Sources

  1. England & Wales, Marriage Index, 1916-2005, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
  2. England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915, FreeBMD / Ancestry.com
  3. British Army WWI Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.ca
  4. England & Wales, Death Index, 1916-2006, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
  5. 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
  6. West Yorkshire, England, Marriages and Banns, 1813-1935, Ancestry.com, West Yorkshire Archive Service; Wakefield, Yorkshire, England; Yorkshire Parish Records; Old Reference Number: P97/4 / Ancestry.ca
  7. Blandford/Branes-Austin Family Tree, Adsetts/Pontefract Family Tree (Owner: dapont1) / Ancestry.ca

Historical events

Birthday September 12, 1893

  • The temperature on September 12, 1893 was about 13.1 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 68%. 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 August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1893: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • May 1 » The World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago.
    • June 5 » The trial of Lizzie Borden for the murder of her father and step-mother begins in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
    • June 20 » Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.
    • July 11 » The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kōkichi Mikimoto.
    • September 16 » Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
    • November 7 » Women's suffrage: Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote, the second state to do so.

Christening day January 3, 1897

  • The temperature on January 3, 1897 was about -2.6 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. 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 Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1897: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • April 30 » J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory announces his discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle, over 1,800 times smaller than a proton (in the atomic nucleus), at a lecture at the Royal Institution in London.
    • May 26 » Dracula, a Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, is published.
    • August 2 » Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states.
    • August 31 » Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
    • November 1 » The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the public; the library had previously been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.
    • December 30 » The British Colony of Natal annexes Zululand.

Day of marriage June 7, 1922

  • The temperature on June 7, 1922 was between 7.8 °C and 22.2 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 14.2 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • 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 year 1922: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.0 million citizens.
    • February 27 » A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett.
    • April 20 » The Soviet government creates South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within Georgian SSR.
    • June 17 » Portuguese naval aviators Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral complete the first aerial crossing of the South Atlantic.
    • June 29 » France grants 1km at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes".
    • July 1 » The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins in the United States.
    • November 4 » In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.


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