The Brown Tree » Cyril Raymond PURVEY (1892-1973)
Personal data Cyril Raymond PURVEY
Source 1Source 2- He was born on September 24, 1892 in Haywards Heath, Sussex, England.
- Resident:
- Haywards Heath, Sussex Or Scaford, Sussex.
- in the year 1901: Haywards Heath, Sussex, England.
- He died on May 10, 1973 in Coquitlam, he was 80 years old.
- Alternative: He died on May 10, 1973 in Coquitlam, British Columbia, he was 80 years old.
- A child of George PURVEY and Nina Eleanor BUTTON
Household of Cyril Raymond PURVEY
He is married to Lily ARCHER.
They got married October 1915 at Oxfordshire, he was 23 years old.
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Sources
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- Canada, Ledgers of CEF Officers Transferring to Royal Flying Corps, 1915-1919, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
Historical events
Birthday September 24, 1892
- The temperature on September 24, 1892 was about 14.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. 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 1892: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
- June 7 » Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
- June 11 » The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
- August 9 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
- September 22 » Lindal Railway Incident, providing inspiration for "The Lost Special" by A.C. Doyle and the TV serial Lost.
- September 28 » The first night game for American football takes place in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal.
- December 18 » Premiere performance of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Day of death May 10, 1973
- The temperature on May 10, 1973 was between 4.4 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 8.7 mm of rain during 6.7 hours. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (38%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
- In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
- In the year 1973: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 13.4 million citizens.
- May 3 » The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1,451 feet as the world's tallest building.
- May 14 » Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.
- August 2 » A flash fire kills 51 people at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.
- October 31 » Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape. Three Provisional Irish Republican Army members escape from Mountjoy Prison, Dublin aboard a hijacked helicopter that landed in the exercise yard.
- December 9 » British and Irish authorities sign the Sunningdale Agreement in an attempt to establish a power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive and a cross-border Council of Ireland.
- December 18 » Soviet Soyuz Programme: Soyuz 13, crewed by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Pyotr Klimuk, is launched from Baikonur in the Soviet Union.
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- 1974 » Hal Mohr, American director and cinematographer (b. 1894)
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Wesley Brown, "The Brown Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/the-brown-tree/P2994.php : accessed January 31, 2026), "Cyril Raymond PURVEY (1892-1973)".