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Personal data George F. Rafuse 

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Household of George F. Rafuse

He is married to Anna Catherine Matilda Eisenhauer.

They got married about 1860 at Lunenburg, NS, Canada.


Child(ren):

  1. Uriah Rafuse  1848-1938
  2. Sophia Rafuse  1852-1921
  3. Bethiah Rafuse  1854-????
  4. Levinia Rafuse  1858-????
  5. Zephaniah Rafuse  1859-1931
  6. Achsah R. Rafuse  1861-1892
  8. Hezekiah Rafuse  ± 1865-1924

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  1. Hancock Web Site, Kelly Hancock, George Rafuse, March 4, 2016
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    MyHeritage family tree Family site: Hancock Web Site Family tree: 190176982-4
  2. FamilySearch Family Tree, via https://www.myheritage.com/research/coll...
    George F. RafuseBirth names: George RafuseGeorge Rafuse ;Sr.;IiJohn George RafuseGeorge F. RafuseGender: MaleBirth: Oct 15 1820 - Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, CanadaMarriage: Spouse: Matilda Eisenhauer - Circa 1860 - Lunenburg, NS, CanadaDeath: May 22 1909 - Parkdale Falkland, Foster Settlement, Lunenburg, Nova ScotiaBurial: Parkdale,Nova Scotia,(Pioneer Cem.)Parents: John George Rafuse, Mary Magdalena Rafuse (born Speidel)Wife: Matilda Rafuse (born Eisenhauer)Children: Zaphaniah Rafuse, Uriah Rafuse, Levinia Rafuse, Bethiah Burke (born Rafuse), Achsah R. Wentzell (born Rafuse), Matilda Magdalene (" Tillie") Rhodenizer (born Rafuse), Sophia Saunders (born Rafuse), Hezekiah RafuseSiblings: Stephen Rafuse, Jonathan Rafuse, John Jacob Rafuse, Johan Ephraim Rafuse, John Nicholas Rafuse, Simeon Rafuse, Jacob Rafuse  Additional information: TitleOfNobility: II
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Historical events

Birthday October 15, 1820

  • The temperature on October 15, 1820 was about 13.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: half bewolkt . 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).
  • In the year 1820: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 6 » The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society depart New York to start a settlement in present-day Liberia.
    • March 3 » The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.
    • March 15 » Maine becomes the 23rd U.S. state.
    • April 12 » Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece.
    • September 15 » Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal.
    • November 20 » An 80-ton sperm whale attacks and sinks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America. (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story.)

Day of death May 22, 1909

  • The temperature on May 22, 1909 was between 11.7 °C and 27.1 °C and averaged 18.7 °C. There was 12.3 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1909: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.8 million citizens.
    • January 9 » Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180km; 112mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
    • January 16 » Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
    • February 12 » New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SSPenguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
    • July 25 » Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom in 37 minutes.
    • September 30 » The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years.
    • October 16 » William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.


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