The Orys and Cook Family Tree » Maxwell Douglas Thornton (1916-2008)
Personal data Maxwell Douglas Thornton
- He was born on May 20, 1916 in Calne Wiltshire, England.
Name: Mr Maxwell Douglas Thornton
Gender: Male
Age: 92
Birth Date: 1 Nov 1916
Last Residence: Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
Postal Code District: Fk8
Death Date: 7 Feb 2008
Name: Maxwell D Thornton
Registration Date: Apr 1916
[May 1916]
[Jun 1916]
Registration Quarter: Apr-May-Jun
Registration District: Calne
Inferred County: Wiltshire
Mother's Maiden Name: Blair
Volume Number: 5a
Page Number: 135 - Resident:
- in the year 1938: 59 Novar Drive, Glasgow, Scotland.
Name: Maxwell D Thornton with both parents and Muriel J Thornton.
Residence Year: 1938
Address: 59 Novar Drive Glasgow
Residence Place: Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Parliamentary Division: Glasgow - from 1945 till 1952: 1 Partickhill Road, Glasgow, Scotland.
Name: Maxwell D Thornton with his mother.
Residence Year: 1947 & 1949
Residence Place: Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Parliamentary Division: Glasgow - in the year 1955: 39 Courthill Avenue, Glasgow, S.4.
Name: Maxwell D Thornton
Residence Year: 1955
Address: Court
Residence Place: Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Parliamentary Division: Glasgow - from 2003 till 2008: 12, Bellfield Road, Stirling, FK8 2AN.
Name: Mr Maxwell Thornton
Birth Date: 1915-1917
Residence Date: 2003-2008
Address: 12, Bellfield Road, FK8 2AN
Residence Place: Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland - He died on February 7, 2008 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland, he was 91 years old.
Name: Mr Maxwell Douglas Thornton
Gender: Male
Age: 92
Birth Date: 1 Nov 1916
Last Residence: Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
Postal Code District: Fk8
Death Date: 7 Feb 2008 - A child of Andrew Small Thornton and Sarah Douglas Winifred Blair
- This information was last updated on June 16, 2022.
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Birthday May 20, 1916
- The temperature on May 20, 1916 was between 4.3 °C and 20.9 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 12.5 hours of sunshine (79%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1916: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 6.4 million citizens.
- June 29 » British diplomat turned Irish nationalist Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
- August 14 » Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary.
- August 16 » The Migratory Bird Treaty between Canada and the United States is signed.
- August 27 » World War I: The Kingdom of Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary, entering the war as one of the Allied nations.
- September 27 » Iyasu V is proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his aunt Zewditu.
- October 27 » Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasu V, is defeated by Fitawrari abte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zewditu I.
Day of death February 7, 2008
- The temperature on February 7, 2008 was between -0.8 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 4.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
- In the year 2008: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 16.4 million citizens.
- April 20 » Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race.
- May 2 » Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Burma killing over 138,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless.
- May 31 » Usain Bolt breaks the world record in the 100m sprint, with a wind-legal (+1.7m/s) 9.72 seconds
- September 27 » CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk.
- September 28 » Falcon 1 becomes the first privately developed liquid-fuel ground-launched vehicle to put a payload into orbit.
- December 14 » Muntadhar al-Zaidi throws his shoes at then-U.S. President George W. Bush during a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq.
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