Family tree Eric Esterhuizen » Cornelis VREY (1865-1953)

Personal data Cornelis VREY 

  • He was born May 1865 in Holfontein, Randfontein.
  • He died on April 10, 1953 in Witfontein, Randfontein, he was 87 years old.
  • A child of Cornelis VREY and Gesina NEL
  • This information was last updated on July 30, 2010.

Household of Cornelis VREY

Waarschuwing Attention: Wife (Anna Magdalena VREY) is also his cousin.

He is married to Anna Magdalena VREY.

They got married at Potchefstroom.


Child(ren):

  1. Willem Jacobus VREY  1908-1963 


Notes about Cornelis VREY

MHG 2482/53 87j 11m
Farmer Witfontein, Randfontein

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Historical events

  • The temperature on April 10, 1953 was between 2.9 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 11.0 hours of sunshine (81%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
    • January 13 » An article appears in Pravda accusing some of the most prestigious and prominent doctors, mostly Jews, in the Soviet Union of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership.
    • January 19 » Almost 72 percent of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
    • February 11 » The Soviet Union breaks off diplomatic relations with Israel.
    • June 9 » The Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence kills 94 people in Massachusetts.
    • 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 10 » First Indochina War: The French Union withdraws its forces from Operation Camargue against the Viet Minh in central Vietnam.


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