Family tree Eric Esterhuizen » Elsje Sophia Susara BESTER (1859-????)

Personal data Elsje Sophia Susara BESTER 

  • She was born in the year 1859.

    Waarschuwing Attention: Age at marriage (June 15, 1874) below 16 years (15).

  • This information was last updated on October 2, 2010.

Household of Elsje Sophia Susara BESTER

(1) She is married to Johannes Christoffel PRETORIUS.

They got married on June 15, 1874 at Kroonstad, she was 15 years old.


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(2) She is married to Lukas Adriaan van ASWEGEN.

They got married on August 31, 1909 at Heilbron, she was 50 years old.

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Historical events

Day of marriage August 31, 1909

  • The temperature on August 31, 1909 was between 8.4 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 11.8 mm of rain. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 1909: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.8 million citizens.
    • March 31 » Serbia formally withdraws its opposition to Austro-Hungarian actions in the Bosnian Crisis.
    • May 31 » The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), convenes for the first time.
    • June 26 » The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
    • September 7 » Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.
    • December 4 » The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, the oldest surviving professional hockey franchise in the world, is founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association.
    • December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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