The Brown Tree » Robert Crawford HARRIS (1901-1978)
Personal data Robert Crawford HARRIS
Source 1Sources 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8- He was born on May 8, 1901 in Dundalk, Louth, Ireland.Sources 2, 6, 7
- Resident:
- in the year 1963: Plymouth, Hampshire, Devon, Cornwall.Source 4
- in the year 1936: Plymstock, Norfolk, Essex, Berkshire, Surrey, Hertfordshire, Sussex, Kent, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Devon, Glamorganshire, Wales (1880-1946).Source 4
- in the year 1937: Plymouth, Norfolk, Essex, Berkshire, Surrey, Hertfordshire, Sussex, Kent, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Devon, Glamorganshire, Wales (1880-1946).Source 4
- on April 2, 1911: Ballynahinch, Down, Ireland.Source 2
- He died on December 8, 1978 in Plymouth, Devon, England, he was 77 years old.Sources 5, 7
- A child of Joseph HARRIS and Annie HENRY
Household of Robert Crawford HARRIS
He is married to Gwendoline Harnell CLARK.
They got married on July 5, 1924 at St Germans, Cornwall, he was 23 years old.Source 3
Child(ren):
- Moya P HARRIS 1934-1934
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Sources
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- Web: Ireland, Census, 1911, Ancestry.com, Class: RG14 / Ancestry.com
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- England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
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- England & Wales, Death Index, 1916-2007, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
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Historical events
Birthday May 8, 1901
- The temperature on May 8, 1901 was between 3.3 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (39%). 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 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
- In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
- In the year 1901: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
- February 15 » The association football club Alianza Lima is founded in Lima, Peru, under the name Sport Alianza.
- September 6 » Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
- September 7 » The Boxer Rebellion in Qing dynasty (modern-day China) officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
- October 12 » President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
- October 29 » In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
- November 13 » The 1901 Caister lifeboat disaster.
Day of marriage July 5, 1924
- The temperature on July 5, 1924 was between 11.0 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 5.6 mm of rain. There was 10.2 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 1924: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 7.2 million citizens.
- April 1 » Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years imprisonment for his participation in the "Beer Hall Putsch" but spends only nine months in jail.
- May 21 » University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".
- June 2 » U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
- June 10 » Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
- September 9 » Hanapepe massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
- November 4 » Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female elected as governor in the United States.
Day of death December 8, 1978
- The temperature on December 8, 1978 was between -2.7 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. There was 4.0 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1978: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 13.9 million citizens.
- March 16 » Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped. (He is later murdered by his captors.)
- March 23 » The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line.
- May 3 » The first unsolicited bulk commercial email (which would later become known as "spam") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.
- June 9 » The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens its priesthood to "all worthy men", ending a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men.
- June 11 » Altaf Hussain founds the student political movement All Pakistan Muhajir Students Organisation (APMSO) in Karachi University.
- November 15 » A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.
Same birth/death day
- 1899 » Arthur Q. Bryan, American actor, voice actor, comedian and radio personality († 1959)
- 1899 » Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate († 1992)
- 1899 » Jacques Heim, French fashion designer († 1967)
- 1901 » Turkey Stearnes, American baseball player († 1979)
- 1902 » André Michel Lwoff, French microbiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1994)
- 1903 » Fernandel, French actor and singer († 1971)
- 1975 » Gary Thain, New Zealand bass player (b. 1948)
- 1978 » Golda Meir, Ukrainian-Israeli educator and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1898)
- 1980 » John Lennon, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940)
- 1982 » André Kamperveen, Surinamese footballer and manager (b. 1924)
- 1982 » Bram Behr, Surinamese journalist and politician (b. 1951)
- 1982 » Marty Robbins, American singer-songwriter and race car driver (b. 1925)
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Wesley Brown, "The Brown Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/the-brown-tree/P436.php : accessed January 16, 2026), "Robert Crawford HARRIS (1901-1978)".