The Brown Tree » Elizabeth Cleary (1876-1961)
Personal data Elizabeth Cleary
Sources 1, 2Source 1- She was born on February 21, 1876 in Maddenstown, Co. Kildare, Ireland.Source 1
- She died on June 23, 1961 in Newbridge, Co. Kildare, Ireland, she was 85 years old.
- A child of Patrick Cleary and Bridget Galvin
Household of Elizabeth Cleary
She is married to George HALFORD.
They got married in the year 1903 at Newbridge, Co. Kildare, Ireland, she was 26 years old.
Child(ren):
- Ellen (Nellie) Halford 1904-
- George Halford 1907-
- Frances Mary Halford 1910-1962
- William Joseph Halford 1913-
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Sources
- Ireland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1620-1911, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
- (Not public)
Historical events
Birthday February 21, 1876
- The temperature on February 21, 1876 was about 10.1 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 17 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. 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 August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
- In the year 1876: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
- February 14 » Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.
- March 7 » Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".
- April 17 » Catalpa rescue: The rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Prison in Western Australia.
- June 4 » An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.
- June 17 » American Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud: 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook's forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.
- July 8 » The Hamburg massacre prior to the 1876 United States presidential election results in the deaths of six African-Americans of the Republican Party, along with one white assailant.
Day of death June 23, 1961
- The temperature on June 23, 1961 was between 11.9 °C and 21.6 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 11.8 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 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 May 19, 1959 to July 24, 1964 the cabinet De Quay, with Prof. dr. J.E. de Quay (KVP) as prime minister.
- In the year 1961: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 11.6 million citizens.
- June 1 » The Canadian Bank of Commerce and Imperial Bank of Canada merge to form the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, the largest bank merger in Canadian history.
- August 13 » Cold War: East Germany closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin to thwart its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the West, and construction of the Berlin Wall is started.
- September 1 » The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate.
- October 17 » Directed by their chief Maurice Papon, Paris police massacre scores of Algerian protesters.
- November 29 » Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission: Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbits the Earth twice and splashes down off the coast of Puerto Rico.
- December 17 » Niterói circus fire: Fire breaks out during a performance by the Gran Circus Norte-Americano in the city of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, killing more than 500.
Same birth/death day
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- 1867 » Otto Hermann Kahn, German banker and philanthropist († 1934)
- 1875 » Jeanne Calment, French super-centenarian, oldest verified person ever († 1997)
- 1878 » Mirra Alfassa, French-Indian spiritual leader († 1973)
- 1881 » Kenneth J. Alford, English soldier, bandmaster, and composer († 1945)
- 1885 » Sacha Guitry, Russian-French actor, director, and playwright († 1957)
- 1953 » Albert Gleizes, French painter (b. 1881)
- 1954 » Salih Omurtak, Turkish general (b. 1889)
- 1956 » Reinhold Glière, Russian composer and educator (b. 1875)
- 1959 » Boris Vian, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1920)
- 1959 » Hidir Lutfi, Iraqi poet. (b. 1880)
- 1969 » Volmari Iso-Hollo, Finnish runner (b. 1907)
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Wesley Brown, "The Brown Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/the-brown-tree/P6460.php : accessed January 28, 2026), "Elizabeth Cleary (1876-1961)".