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Personal data Florence HIGGINS 

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Household of Florence HIGGINS

She is married to William SHEANE.

They got married in the year 1907 at Dublin, Ireland, she was 33 years old.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Florence HIGGINS

Joel HIGGINS
± 1794-1877
Jane STEPHENS
1804-1887
James HIGGINS
1842-1920

Florence HIGGINS
1873-1947

1907

William SHEANE
1867-1943


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    2. Web: Ireland, Census, 1911, Ancestry.com, Class: RG14 / Ancestry.com

    Historical events

    Birthday April 30, 1873

    • The temperature on April 30, 1873 was about 9.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%. Source: KNMI
    • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • From July 6, 1872 till August 27, 1874 the Netherlands had a cabinet De Vries - Fransen van de Putte with the prime ministers Mr. G. de Vries Azn. (liberaal) and I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal).
    • In the year 1873: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
      • February 18 » Bulgarian revolutionary leader Vasil Levski is executed by hanging in Sofia by the Ottoman authorities.
      • March 3 » Censorship in the United States: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene literature and articles of immoral use" through the mail.
      • May 9 » Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
      • May 20 » Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
      • July 21 » At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West.
      • September 1 » Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.

    Day of death May 6, 1947

    • The temperature on May 6, 1947 was between 4.6 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 10.6 hours of sunshine (70%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1947: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 9.5 million citizens.
      • January 22 » KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood.
      • April 16 » An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
      • May 31 » Ferenc Nagy, the democratically elected Prime Minister of Hungary, resigns from office after blackmail from the Hungarian Communist Party accusing him of being part of a plot against the state. This grants the Communists effective control of the Hungarian government.
      • August 7 » Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
      • September 30 » Pakistan joins the United Nations.
      • November 25 » Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.
    

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