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Personal data William Rutter Cowans 

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Household of William Rutter Cowans

He is married to Elizabeth Potter Cowans.

They got married July 1922 at Morpeth, Northumberland, England.Source 4


Child(ren):

  1. Cowans  
  2. Cowans  
  3. George A Cowans  1923-1923

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Ancestors (and descendant) of William Rutter Cowans

William Rutter Cowans
1845-1906
Jane Patterson
1843-1912

William Rutter Cowans
± 1892-1960

1922

Elizabeth Potter Cowans
1900-1964

Cowans
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Cowans
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George A Cowans
1923-1923
Elizabeth M (Betty) Cowans
1926-1961
William Rutter Cowans
1927-1929

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    Sources

    1. England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007, Ancestry.com, General Register Office; United Kingdom; Volume: 1b; Page: 491 / Ancestry.com
    2. 1901 England Census, Ancestry.com, Class: RG13; Piece: 4593; Folio: 69; Page: 9 / Ancestry.com
    3. 1911 England Census, Ancestry.com, Class: RG14; Piece: 31041 / Ancestry.com
    4. England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005, Ancestry.com, General Register Office; United Kingdom; Volume: 10b; Page: 866 / Ancestry.com
    5. UK, World War I Service Medal and Award Rolls, 1914-1920, Ancestry.com, The National Archives of the UK; Kew, Surrey, England; War Office and Air Ministry: Service Medal and Award Rolls, First World War. WO329; Ref: 113 / Ancestry.com
    6. England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
    7. 1939 England and Wales Register, Ancestry.com, The National Archives; Kew, London, England; 1939 Register; Reference: RG 101/2957C / Ancestry.com

    Historical events

    Christening day July 4, 1891

    • The temperature on July 4, 1891 was about 17.9 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 82%. 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 April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
    • 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 1891: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
      • January 29 » Liliuokalani is proclaimed the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
      • March 3 » Shoshone National Forest is established as the first national forest in the US and world.
      • March 10 » Almon Strowger patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
      • May 15 » Pope Leo XIII defends workers' rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum novarum, the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching.
      • May 20 » History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.
      • August 24 » Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.

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