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Personal data Russell William Townsend 

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Household of Russell William Townsend

(1) He is married to Nancy Kathryn Elliott.

They got married on June 24, 1929 at Salisbury, Wicomico, Maryland, USA, he was 19 years old.


Child(ren):



(2) He had a relationship with Bernice Miller.


Child(ren):

  1. John Martin Townsend  1936-2008 
  2. (Not public)

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Russell William Townsend

Eva D Philips
± 1884-1945

Russell William Townsend
1910-1983

(1) 1929

Nancy Kathryn Elliott
1913-2015

Ranny Preston Townsend
1930-2010
(2) 

Bernice Miller
1917-1984

John Martin Townsend
1936-2008
(Not public)

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Sources

  1. Ancestry Family Trees, Ancestry Family Tree
    http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=28064322&pid=14964
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  2. 1910 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1910; Census Place: Trappe, Wicomico, Maryland; Roll: T624_570; Page: 26A; Enumeration District: 0111; FHL microfilm: 1374583 / Ancestry.com
  3. Web: Maryland, Find A Grave Index, 1637-2012, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
  4. U.S. City Directories (Beta), Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
  5. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1700s-Current, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
  6. U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
  7. Social Security Death Index, Ancestry.com, Number: 214-10-6096; Issue State: Maryland; Issue Date: Before 1951 / Ancestry.com
  8. 1920 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1920; Census Place: Trappe, Wicomico, Maryland; Roll: T625_678; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 125; Image: 957 / Ancestry.com
  9. 1940 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1940; Census Place: Wicomico, Maryland; Roll: T627_1563; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 23-16 / Ancestry.com

Historical events

Birthday April 15, 1910

  • The temperature on April 15, 1910 was between 6.6 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
    • March 8 » French aviator Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license.
    • March 28 » Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
    • 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.
    • August 22 » Korea is annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II.
    • November 14 » Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia, taking off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.

Day of marriage June 24, 1929

  • The temperature on June 24, 1929 was between 9.0 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (45%). 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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1929: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
    • January 17 » Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by E. C. Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.
    • February 9 » Members of the Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang assassinated the labor recruiter Bazin, prompting a crackdown by French colonial authorities.
    • February 14 » Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago.
    • August 24 » Second day of two-day Hebron massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attacks on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, result in the death of 65–68 Jews; the remaining Jews are forced to flee the city.
    • November 3 » The Gwangju Student Independence Movement occurred.
    • November 18 » Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on the Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula.

Day of death January 4, 1983

  • The temperature on January 4, 1983 was between 3.9 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 12.0 mm of rain during 9.0 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1983: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 14.3 million citizens.
    • March 11 » Bob Hawke is appointed Prime Minister of Australia.
    • July 15 » An attack at Orly Airport in Paris is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA, leaving eight people dead and 55 injured.
    • November 2 » U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
    • December 4 » US Navy aircraft from USS John F. Kennedy and USS Independence attack Syrian Missile sites in Lebanon in response to an F-14 being fired on by an SA-7. One A-6 Intruder and A-7 Corsair are shot down. 1 American pilot was killed, one was rescued and one is captured.
    • December 19 » The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
    • December 27 » Pope John Paul II visits Mehmet Ali Ağca in Rebibbia's prison and personally forgives him for the 1981 attack on him in St. Peter's Square.


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Source: Wikipedia

Source: Wikipedia


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