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Personal data Cornelius Spruit 

Source 1
  • He was born on February 13, 1867 in Wissenkerke, Zeeland, Nederland.Source 1
  • Immigrated in the year 1887.
  • Resident:
    • in the year 1900: Precinct 3 Grand Rapids city Ward 3, Kent, Michigan, United States.
    • in the year 1910: Grand Rapids Ward 3, Kent, Michigan, United States.
  • He died on December 10, 1955 in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States, he was 88 years old.Source 1
  • He is buried in Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan, United States of America.Source 1

Household of Cornelius Spruit

He is married to Pieternella Lena de Looff.

They got married on April 18, 1889 at Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, he was 22 years old.Source 2


Child(ren):

  1. Marinus Spruit  1890-1890
  2. Johannes Spruit  1890-1890
  3. Marinus Spruit  1901-1971
  5. Cornella Spruit  1889-1964
  6. John Spruit  1893-????

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Cornelius Spruit

Cornelius Spruit
1867-1955

1889

Pieternella Lena de Looff
1867-1924

Marinus Spruit
1890-1890
Johannes Spruit
1890-1890
Marinus Spruit
1901-1971
Marinus " Martin" Spruit
1896-1896
Cornella Spruit
1889-1964
John Spruit
1893-????

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Sources

  1. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
  2. FamilySearch Family Tree, FamilySearch.org, "Michigan Births and Christenings, 1775-1995," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F45C-9JJ : 11 February 2018), Nellie Sprint in entry for Johannes Sprint, 09 Dec 1890; citing Kent, Michigan, reference ; FHL microfilm 2,321,265.
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Historical events

Birthday February 13, 1867

  • The temperature on February 13, 1867 was about 9.7 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
  • In the year 1867: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
    • February 28 » Seventy years of Holy See–United States relations are ended by a Congressional ban on federal funding of diplomatic envoys to the Vatican and are not restored until January 10, 1984.
    • March 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act.
    • August 28 » The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll.
    • September 2 » Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō, thereafter known as Empress Shōken.
    • November 3 » Giuseppe Garibaldi and his followers are defeated in the Battle of Mentana and fail to end the Pope's Temporal power in Rome (it would be achieved three years later).
    • November 9 » Tokugawa shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.

Day of marriage April 18, 1889

  • The temperature on April 18, 1889 was about 10.0 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 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 year 1889: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • January 22 » Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
    • May 2 » Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs the Treaty of Wuchale, giving Italy control over Eritrea.
    • May 11 » An attack upon a U.S. Army paymaster and escort results in the theft of over $28,000 and the award of two Medals of Honor.
    • June 3 » The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles (23km) between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
    • June 6 » The Great Seattle Fire destroys all of downtown Seattle.
    • August 13 » William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut is granted United States Patent Number 408,709 for "Coin-controlled apparatus for telephones."

Day of death December 10, 1955

  • The temperature on December 10, 1955 was between 7.1 °C and 9.5 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 7.5 mm of rain during 8.5 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (5%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1955: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 10.7 million citizens.
    • April 24 » The Bandung Conference ends: Twenty-nine non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.
    • May 18 » Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends.
    • July 15 » Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
    • September 25 » The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
    • October 29 » The Soviet battleshipNovorossiysk strikes a World War II mine in the harbor at Sevastopol.
    • November 15 » The first part of Saint Petersburg Metro is opened.


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