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Personal data Petrus Johannes "Piet" van Gils 

  • Nickname is Piet.
  • He was born on April 30, 1870 in Oosterhout.
    BRON: Gemeente Oosterhout, Brontype boek, Registernaam Geboorteregister 1870, Code OTH_G_1870
    Periode register 1870, Aktenummer 96, Plaats geboorte Oosterhout, Datum geboorte 30-04-1870
    Kind Petrus Johannes van Gils, Kind geslacht m, Vader Nicolaas van Gils, Moeder Elisabeth de Jong
  • He died on September 12, 1947 in Goirle, he was 77 years old.
  • A child of Nicolaas van Gils and Elisabeth de Jong
  • This information was last updated on September 7, 2010.

Household of Petrus Johannes "Piet" van Gils

He is married to Maria Johanna Catharina Schouten.

They got married on October 15, 1894 at Goirle, he was 24 years old.

Gemeente Goirle
Brontype boek
Registernaam Huwelijksregister 1894
Code GLE_H_1894
Periode register 1894
Aktenummer 17
Plaats huwelijk Goirle
Datum huwelijk 15-10-1894
Bruidegom Petrus Johannes van Gils
Bruidegom leeftijd 24 jaar
Bruidegom plaats geboorte Oosterhout
Bruidegom datum geboorte 30-04-1870
Vader bruidegom Nicolaas van Gils
Moeder bruidegom Elisabeth de Jong
Bruid Maria Johanna Catharina Schouten
Bruid leeftijd 23 jaar
Bruid plaats geboorte Goirle
Bruid datum geboorte 09-02-1871
Vader bruid Peter Schouten
Moeder bruid Elisabeth Walschots

Child(ren):

  5. Elisabeth van Gils  1901-1988
  8. Karel van Gils  1906-1907

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Birthday April 30, 1870

  • The temperature on April 30, 1870 was about 11.1 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
  • In the year 1870: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • February 9 » US president Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.
    • June 26 » The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
    • August 8 » The Republic of Ploiești, a failed Radical-Liberal rising against Domnitor Carol of Romania.
    • August 18 » Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Gravelotte is fought.
    • September 1 » Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Sedan is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.
    • October 27 » Franco-Prussian War: Marshal Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at the conclusion of the Siege of Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers.

Day of marriage October 15, 1894

  • The temperature on October 15, 1894 was about 6.1 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. 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 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 year 1894: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • January 9 » New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
    • February 12 » Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into the Cafe Terminus in Paris, killing one person and wounding 20.
    • March 16 » Jules Massenet's opera Thaïs is first performed.
    • July 25 » The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
    • August 25 » Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
    • November 17 » H. H. Holmes, one of the first modern serial killers, is arrested in Boston, Massachusetts.

Day of death September 12, 1947

  • The temperature on September 12, 1947 was between 14.6 °C and 24.7 °C and averaged 19.4 °C. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
    • January 1 » The Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 comes into effect, converting British subjects into Canadian citizens. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes the first Canadian citizen.
    • March 29 » Malagasy Uprising against French colonial rule in Madagascar.
    • April 9 » The Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
    • July 8 » Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico in what became known as the Roswell UFO incident.
    • November 29 » First Indochina War: French forces carry out a massacre at Mỹ Trạch, Vietnam.
    • December 17 » First flight of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic bomber.


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