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Personal data John Leonard Whitman 

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Household of John Leonard Whitman

He is married to Eunice Jewers.

They got married on April 27, 1854 at Marie Joseph, Guysborough Co., N.S., Canada, he was 45 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Sarah Ann Whitman  1854-????
  2. John Abdeen Whitman  1856-1939
  5. Mary Sophia Whitman  1862-????

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    1. LeBlanc Web Site, George LeBlanc, March 1, 2018
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    2. SIMPSON Web Site, FRANK SIMPSON, John Leonard Whitman, June 3 2016
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    Historical events

    Day of marriage April 27, 1854

    • The temperature on April 27, 1854 was about 8.0 °C. There was 11 mm of rain. The atmospheric humidity was 88%. Source: KNMI
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      De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
    • From April 19, 1853 till July 1, 1856 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Donker Curtius with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. D. Donker Curtius (conservatief-liberaal).
    • In the year 1854: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
      • February 23 » The official independence of the Orange Free State is declared.
      • February 24 » A Penny Red with perforations was the first perforated postage stamp to be officially issued for distribution.
      • March 20 » The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin, US.
      • March 31 » Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Convention of Kanagawa with the Tokugawa Shogunate, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade.
      • April 1 » Charles Dickens' novel Hard Times begins serialisation in his magazine Household Words.
      • October 21 » Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses are sent to the Crimean War.

    Day of death September 24, 1880

    • The temperature on September 24, 1880 was about 14.3 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. Source: KNMI
    • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1880: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
      • February 13 » Thomas Edison observes Thermionic emission.
      • May 13 » In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
      • June 24 » First performance of O Canada at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français. The song would later become the national anthem of Canada.
      • September 1 » The army of Mohammad Ayub Khan is routed by the British at the Battle of Kandahar, ending the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
      • September 16 » The Cornell Daily Sun prints its first issue in Ithaca, New York. The Sun is the United States' oldest, continuously-independent college daily.
      • December 16 » Outbreak of the First Boer War between the Boer South African Republic and the British Empire.
    

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