The Brown Tree » Grace Ann DARLING (1888-1961)
Personal data Grace Ann DARLING
Sources 1, 2, 3, 4, 5Sources 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8- She was born on February 7, 1888 in Blackburn, Lancashire, England.Sources 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8
- She was baptized on April 21, 1889 in Blackburn, St Paul, Lancashire, England.Source 6
- Resident:
- in the year 1891: Blackburn, Lancashire, England.Source 1
- in the year 1915: .Source 4
- in the year 1939: Lancashire, England.Source 2
- in the year 1901: Blackburn, Lancashire, England.Source 5
- in the year 1891: Blackburn, Lancashire, England.
- She died December 1961 in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, she was 73 years old.Source 8
- A child of Isaac DARLING and Harriet HILL
Household of Grace Ann DARLING
She is married to Frank Johnson.
They got married on September 8, 1910 at Blackburn, St Michael and All Angels, Lancashire, England, she was 22 years old.Sources 3, 4
Child(ren):
- Jessie Johnson 1911-
- Eric I Johnson 1913-
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Sources
- 1891 England Census, Ancestry.com, The National Archives of the UK (TNA); Kew, Surrey, England; Class: RG12; Piece: 3399; Folio: 63; Page: 19
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- Lancashire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1936, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
- British Army WWI Pension Records 1914-1920, Ancestry.com, WO364; Piece: 1914 / Ancestry.com
- 1901 England Census, Ancestry.com, Class: RG13; Piece: 3911; Folio: 60; Page: 24 / Ancestry.com
- Lancashire, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1911, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
- England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915, FreeBMD / Ancestry.com
- England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
Historical events
Birthday February 7, 1888
- The temperature on February 7, 1888 was about 2.3 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. 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 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 1888: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
- March 23 » In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional association football league, meets for the first time.
- April 3 » The first of eleven unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.
- August 14 » An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.
- August 21 » The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
- September 8 » In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found.
- December 22 » The Christmas Meeting of 1888, considered to be the official start of the Faroese independence movement.
Christening day April 21, 1889
- The temperature on April 21, 1889 was about 14.8 °C. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 57%. 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.
- February 11 » Meiji Constitution of Japan is adopted.
- April 22 » At noon, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Rush of 1889. Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed with populations of at least 10,000.
- 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.
- November 11 » The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd state of the United States.
- November 15 » Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
- November 23 » The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
Day of marriage September 8, 1910
- The temperature on September 8, 1910 was between 7.5 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 1910: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.9 million citizens.
- June 2 » Charles Rolls, a co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.
- August 22 » Korea is annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II.
- October 1 » A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building, killing 21.
- October 21 » HMSNiobe arrives in Halifax Harbour to become the first ship of the Royal Canadian Navy.
- November 10 » The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, although the official founding date is November 23, 1910.
- December 21 » An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.
Same birth/death day
- 1885 » Hugo Sperrle, German field marshal († 1953)
- 1885 » Sinclair Lewis, American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1951)
- 1887 » Eubie Blake, American pianist and composer († 1983)
- 1889 » Harry Nyquist, Swedish-American engineer and theorist († 1976)
- 1893 » Joseph Algernon Pearce, Canadian astrophysicist and astronomer († 1988)
- 1893 » Nicanor Abelardo, Filipino pianist, composer and teacher († 1934)
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