Family tree Eric Esterhuizen » Colin Cranstoun BROWN (1884-1953)

Personal data Colin Cranstoun BROWN 


Household of Colin Cranstoun BROWN

He is married to Maude Anette POTTERTON.

They got married on January 7, 1919 at Ireland, he was 34 years old.


Child(ren):

  2. (Not public)
  3. Robert Cranstoun BROWN  1921-1992 
  5. (Not public)


Notes about Colin Cranstoun BROWN

Farmer Glen Avon, Somerset East
6/9/22032 R304
Name of Deceased: Colin Cranstoun BROWN
Place of Birth: Durban, Natal, South Africa
Age of Deceased: 69 years 3 months
Occupation: Farmer
Ordinary Place of Residence: 'Glen Avon', Somerset East, Cape Province
Married
Surviving Spouse: Maude Anette POTTERTON
Place of last Marriage: Ireland 7 January 1919
Date of Death: 10 November 1953
Place of Death: Grand Hotel, Port Elizabeth, Cape Province
Names of Children:
Robert Cranstoun BROWN
Kathleen Cranstoun PAYNE (born BROWN)
Orea Cranston VAN NIEKERK (born BROWN)
Annette Cranston BROWN
Signed: R.C. Brown, Son.

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    Historical events

    Birthday August 20, 1884

    • The temperature on August 20, 1884 was about 19.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 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)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1884: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
      • February 1 » The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
      • March 27 » A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury which had returned a verdict of manslaughter in what was seen as a clear case of murder; over the next few days the mob would riot and eventually destroy the courthouse.
      • May 1 » Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
      • May 31 » The arrival at Plymouth of Tāwhiao, King of Maoris, to claim the protection of Queen Victoria.
      • July 3 » Dow Jones & Company publishes its first stock average.
      • August 5 » The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.

    Day of marriage January 7, 1919

    • The temperature on January 7, 1919 was between 3.2 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1919: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 6.7 million citizens.
      • January 5 » The German Workers' Party, which would become the Nazi Party, is founded in Munich.
      • February 6 » The five-day Seattle General Strike begins, as more than 65,000 workers in the city of Seattle, Washington, walk off the job.
      • May 19 » Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, initiating what is later termed the Turkish War of Independence.
      • May 27 » The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
      • June 28 » The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending the state of war between Germany and the Allies of World War I.
      • December 1 » Lady Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. (She had been elected to that position on November 28.)

    Day of death November 10, 1953

    • The temperature on November 10, 1953 was between 3.3 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (78%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 1953: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 10.4 million citizens.
      • March 5 » Joseph Stalin, the longest serving leader of the Soviet Union, dies at his Volynskoe dacha in Moscow after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage four days earlier.
      • April 29 » The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
      • June 17 » Cold War: East Germany Workers Uprising: In East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.
      • July 27 » Cessation of hostilities is achieved in the Korean War when the United States, China, and North Korea sign an armistice agreement. Syngman Rhee, President of South Korea, refuses to sign but pledges to observe the armistice.
      • August 19 » Cold War: The CIA and MI6 help to overthrow the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran and reinstate the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
      • September 12 » U.S. Senator and future President John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island.
    

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