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Personal data Harry Edward French 


Household of Harry Edward French

(1) He is married to Margaret Emily Gradidge.

They got married on March 29, 1946 at Durban, Natal, South Africa, he was 52 years old.

Harry was a widower when he married Margeret. She was a divorcee.

(2) He is married to Ivy Lily Sewell.

They got married on April 17, 1917 at Durban, Natal, South Africa, he was 24 years old.Source 1

The couple was married in the Durban Magistrates Office by Marriage Officer Percy Binns. Wittnesses were Enilia Swell (Bride's mother) and Allan B.Smedley.

Lilly was a minor at the time of the wedding.

Notes about Harry Edward French

Harry Edward was baptised at the St Paul's Church in Durban by A.H.D.Edwards
Witnesses were M.R.Francois and Lily Francois and F.L.French

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Harry Edward French

Harry Edward French
1893-????

(1) 1946

Margaret Emily Gradidge
1896-1956

(2) 1917

Ivy Lily Sewell
1901-1938


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Sources

  1. "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, \i FamilySearch\i0  , FamilySearch, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, accessed 12 Feb 2023), entry for Harry Edward French.
    "South Africa, Natal Province, Civil Marriages, 1845-1955," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KDCR-B1Y : 19 February 2021), Harry Edward French and Ivy Lilly Swell, 17 Apr 1917; citing Durban, Natal, South Africa; 00040; National Archives and Records Service of South Africa, Pretoria; 1,795,577.

Historical events

Birthday April 7, 1893

  • The temperature on April 7, 1893 was about 14.3 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 58%. 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 year 1893: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • February 28 » The USSIndiana, the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time, is launched.
    • June 20 » Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.
    • September 16 » Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
    • September 19 » In New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor, giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.
    • November 28 » Women's suffrage in New Zealand concludes with the 1893 New Zealand general election.
    • December 23 » The opera Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is first performed.

Christening day June 29, 1893

  • The temperature on June 29, 1893 was about 18.6 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%. 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 year 1893: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • January 13 » U.S. Marines land in Honolulu, Hawaii from the USSBoston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.
    • January 21 » The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, is formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana.
    • March 1 » Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
    • August 1 » Henry Perky patents shredded wheat.
    • August 15 » Ibadan area becomes a British Protectorate after a treaty signed by Fijabi, the Baale of Ibadan with the British acting Governor of Lagos, George C. Denton.
    • December 4 » First Matabele War: A patrol of 34 British South Africa Company soldiers is ambushed and annihilated by more than 3,000 Matabele warriors on the Shangani River in Matabeleland.

Day of marriage April 17, 1917

  • The temperature on April 17, 1917 was between -0.4 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 3.2 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1917: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
    • January 19 » Silvertown explosion: A blast at a munitions factory in London kills 73 and injures over 400. The resulting fire causes over £2,000,000 worth of damage.
    • January 22 » World War I: President Woodrow Wilson of the still-neutral United States calls for "peace without victory" in Europe.
    • July 17 » King George V issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear the surname Windsor.
    • August 30 » Vietnamese prison guards led by Trịnh Văn Cấn mutiny at the Thái Nguyên penitentiary against local French authority.
    • November 2 » The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.
    • November 7 » The Gregorian calendar date of the October Revolution, which gets its name from the Julian calendar date of 25 October. On this date in 1917, the Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia


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