The Brown Tree » Gilbert Laurence BUTTON (1893-1994)
Personal data Gilbert Laurence BUTTON
Source 1Sources 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7- He was born on February 25, 1893 in Haywards Heath, Sussex, England.Sources 3, 4, 5, 7
- Alternative: He was born on February 25, 1893 in Haywards Heath, Sussex.Source 6
- Alternative: He was born in the year 1893 in Haywards Heath, Sussex.
- Resident:
- on April 2, 1911: Haywards Heath, Sussex, England.Source 4
- in the year 1901: Haywards Heath, Sussex, England.Source 6
- in the year 1901: Haywards Heath, Sussex, England.
- in the year 1901: Haywards Heath, Sussex, England.
- on April 2, 1911: Haywards Heath, Sussex, England.
- (Arrival) on March 10, 1921 in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.Sources 3, 5
- (Departure) in the year 1921 in Liverpool, England.Source 5
- (Departure) in Liverpool, England.Source 3
- He died December 1994 in Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada, he was 101 years old.
Attention: Age above 100 years (101). - A child of Ernest Llewellyn Walter Button and Jane PURVEY
Household of Gilbert Laurence BUTTON
He is married to Doris Gwendolyn TILBURY.
They got married on May 7, 1923 at Leeds, Ontario, Canada, he was 30 years old.Source 7
They got married on May 7, 1923 at Leeds,Ontario,Canada, he was 30 years old.Notes about Gilbert Laurence BUTTON
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- Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
- 1911 England Census, Ancestry.com, Class: RG14; Piece: 5002; Schedule Number: 355 / Ancestry.com
- Canada, Ocean Arrivals (Form 30A), 1919-1924, Ancestry.com, Library and Archives Canada; Form 30A Ocean Arrivals (Individual Manifests), 1919-1924; Rolls: T-14939 - T-15248 / Ancestry.com
- 1901 England Census, Ancestry.com, Class: RG13; Piece: 908; Folio: 53; Page: 27 / Ancestry.com
- Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1801-1928, 1933-1934, Ancestry.com and Genealogical Research Library (Brampton, Ontario, Canada), Archives of Ontario; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Registrations of Marriages, 1869-1928; Series: MS932; Reel: 652 / Ancestry.com
Historical events
Birthday February 25, 1893
- The temperature on February 25, 1893 was about 1.1 °C. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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 6 » The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
- 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.
- March 1 » Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
- May 1 » The World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago.
- July 9 » Daniel Hale Williams, American heart surgeon, performs the first successful open-heart surgery in United States without anesthesia.
- September 20 » Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
Day of marriage May 7, 1923
- The temperature on May 7, 1923 was between 9.8 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 5.1 mm of rain. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1923: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 7.1 million citizens.
- January 9 » Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebel against the League of Nations' decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control.
- April 28 » Wembley Stadium is opened, named initially as the Empire Stadium.
- July 24 » The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in World War I.
- September 9 » Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People's Party.
- September 12 » Southern Rhodesia, today called Zimbabwe, is annexed by the United Kingdom.
- September 26 » The German government accepts the occupation of the Ruhr.
Same birth/death day
- 1885 » Princess Alice of Battenberg, mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh († 1969)
- 1888 » John Foster Dulles, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 52nd United States Secretary of State († 1959)
- 1890 » Myra Hess, English pianist and educator († 1965)
- 1894 » Meher Baba, Indian spiritual master († 1969)
- 1898 » William Astbury, physicist and molecular biologist († 1961)
- 1901 » Vince Gair, Australian politician, 27th Premier of Queensland († 1980)
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