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Parents
| Father | Date of Birth | Mother | Date of Birth |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Preece | 1824 |  Elizabeth Pickering | 1833 |
Partners & Children
| Partners | Date of Birth | Children |
|---|---|---|
| Annie ? | 1878 |
Events
| Event Type | Date | Place | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birth | 1876 | Newbold, Chesterfield |
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Kinships
| Name | Degree of Kinship | Date of Birth | Place of Birth | Date of Death | Place of Death |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Partners | |||||
| Annie ? | Wife | 1878 | Chesterfield, Derbys. | ||
| Siblings | |||||
| Susannah Preece | Sister | 1857 | Kingswinford, Staffs. | ||
| Ellen Preece | Sister | 1858 | Kingswinford, Staffs. | ||
| Thomas Preece | Brother | 1860 | Kingswinford, Staffs. | ||
| James Preece | Brother | 1863 | Walton, Chesterfield | ||
| Priscilla Preece | Sister | 1865 | Walton, Chesterfield | ||
| Samuel Preece | Brother | 1867 | Walton, Chesterfield | ||
| Christopher Preece | Brother | 1868 | Walton, Chesterfield | ||
| Richard Preece | Brother | 1871 | Walton, Chesterfield | ||
| Mary Preece | Sister | 1873 | Newbold, Chesterfield | ||
| Allen Preece | Brother | 1874 | Newbold, Chesterfield | ||
| Jane Preece | Sister | 1877 | Newbold, Chesterfield | ||
| Parents | |||||
| Thomas Preece | Father | 1824 | Bitterley, Shropshire | 1888 | Chesterfield, Derbys. |
| Elizabeth Pickering | Mother | 1833 | Brierley, Staffordshire | 1908 | Chesterfield, Derbys. |
| Grandparents | |||||
| Thomas Preece | Grandfather | 1777 | Stoke St. Milbrow, Shropshire | ||
| Ann ? | Grandmother | 1780 | Bitterley, Shropshire | ||
| Brothers/Sisters in-law | |||||
| Sarah Ann Handbury | Sister in-law | ||||
| Richard Gascoyne | Brother in-law | 1853 | Newbold, Chesterfield | ||
| Matthew Levers | Brother in-law | 1856 | Derbyshire | ||
| Emma Lorina Graham | Sister in-law | 3 DEC 1860 | Holt, Norfolk | 3 APR 1923 | Chesterfield, Derbys. |
| Maria Cooper | Sister in-law | 1865 | |||
| Mary Wardle | Sister in-law | 1871 | |||
| Alfred Samuel Olley | Brother in-law | 1874 | |||
| Elizabeth Sturgess | Sister in-law | 1874 | |||
| Nephew & Nieces | |||||
| Emma Preece | Niece | ||||
| Michael Ian Preece | Grand Nephew | born 2.Q.1930 ref. Chesterfield 7b.1237 | 25 APR 2002 | Macclesfield | |
| Sheila Margaret Preece | Grand Niece | ||||
| Gillian Anne Preece | Grand Niece | ||||
| Alice Gascoyne | Niece | 1875 | Whittington, Derbys. | ||
| William H. Levers | Nephew | 1876 | Newbold, Chesterfield | ||
| Thomas J. Gascoyne | Nephew | 1877 | Whittington, Derbys. | ||
| Elizabeth Gascoyne | Niece | 1880 | Whittington, Derbys. | ||
| Thomas Levers | Nephew | 1880 | Newbold, Chesterfield | ||
| Thomas George Preece | Nephew | 1881 | Newbold, Chesterfield | ||
| Lillian Preece | Niece | 1884 | Newbold, Chesterfield | ||
| Edith Preece | Niece | 1885 | Newbold, Chesterfield | ||
| Ethel Preece | Niece | 1887 | Chesterfield, Derbys. | ||
| Charles Preece | Nephew | 1889 | Newbold, Chesterfield | ||
| Harold Preece | Nephew | 11 SEP 1890 | Newbold, Chesterfield | 21 MAR 1960 | Scarsdale Hospital, Chesterfield |
| Minnie Preece | Niece | 1891 | Chesterfield, Derbys. | ||
| Alice Preece | Niece | 1892 | Newbold, Chesterfield | ||
| Albert Preece | Nephew | 1894 | |||
| Christopher Preece | Nephew | 1894 | Chesterfield, Derbys. | ||
| Emma Laurina Preece | Niece | 1896 | Newbold, Chesterfield | ||
| Allen Preece | Nephew | 20 OCT 1900 | Brampton, Derbys. | ||
| Alice Gertrude Preece | Niece | 11 NOV 1902 | Brampton, Derbys. | ||
| Elsie Preece | Niece | 13 JUL 1905 | Brampton, Derbys. | ||
| William Preece | Nephew | 3 MAR 1907 | Brampton, Derbys. | ||
| Robert Graham Preece | Grand Nephew | 28 FEB 1919 | Chesterfield | 5 APR 1985 | Honiton, Devon |
| Anthony Lansdall Preece | Grand Nephew | ||||
| Margaret Preece | Grand Niece | ||||
| Glenys Mary Preece | Grand Niece | ||||
World History
| Date | Age | Event | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2/12/1809 - 4/19/1882 | (-66.9) - 6.3 | Life of Charles Robert Darwin | Personalities |
| 12/13/1816 - 12/6/1892 | (-59.1) - 16.9 | Life of Werner von Siemens | Personalities |
| 12/30/1819 - 9/20/1890 | (-56.0) - 14.7 | Life of Theodor Fontane | Personalities |
| 12/15/1832 - 12/27/1923 | (-43.1) - 48.0 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
| 3/17/1834 - 3/6/1900 | (-41.8) - 24.2 | Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler | Personalities |
| 7/8/1838 - 3/8/1917 | (-37.5) - 41.2 | Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Personalities |
| 12/11/1843 - 5/27/1910 | (-32.1) - 34.4 | Life of Robert Koch | Personalities |
| 11/25/1844 - 4/4/1929 | (-31.1) - 53.3 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
| 2/11/1847 - 10/18/1931 | (-28.9) - 55.8 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
| 3/3/1847 - 8/1/1922 | (-28.9) - 46.6 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
| 5/6/1856 - 9/23/1939 | (-19.7) - 63.8 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
| 9/23/1861 - 3/12/1942 | (-14.3) - 66.2 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
| 7/30/1863 - 4/7/1947 | (-12.4) - 71.3 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
| 10/16/1863 - 3/17/1937 | (-12.2) - 61.2 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
| 1868 - 1878 | (-8.0) - 2.0 | Ten Years' War ('Great War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 3/4/1869 - 3/4/1877 | (-6.8) - 1.2 | President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant | USA - Presidents |
| 9/5/1869 - 1884 | (-6.3) - 8.0 | Construction period of the Neuschwanstein Castle | Monuments |
| 4/22/1870 - 1/21/1924 | (-5.7) - 48.1 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
| 1/18/1871 - 3/9/1888 | (-5.0) - 12.2 | German Emperor: Wilhelm I | Germany |
| 11/30/1874 - 1/24/1965 | (-1.1) - 89.1 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
| 1/5/1876 - 4/19/1967 | 0.0 - 91.4 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
| 3/4/1877 - 3/4/1881 | 1.2 - 5.2 | President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes | USA - Presidents |
| 1878 | 2.0 | Establishment of Bell Telephone Company | Companies |
| 1878 - 1881 | 2.0 - 5.0 | Second Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 12/31/1878 | 3.0 | First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine | Automobile History |
| 1879 | 3.0 | Discovery of cholera vaccine | Medicine |
| 1879 | 3.0 | Discovery of plague vaccine | Medicine |
| 1879 | 3.0 | Anglo-Zulu War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 3/14/1879 - 4/18/1955 | 3.2 - 79.3 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
| 12/20/1880 - 3/23/1881 | 5.0 - 5.2 | First Boer War ('First South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 3/4/1881 - 9/19/1881 | 5.2 - 5.7 | President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield | USA - Presidents |
| 8/6/1881 - 3/11/1955 | 5.6 - 79.2 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
| 9/19/1881 - 3/4/1885 | 5.7 - 9.2 | President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur | USA - Presidents |
| 1882 | 6.0 | Britain occupies Egypt | Discoveries & Colonization |
| 1882 | 6.0 | Establishment of Peugeot | Companies |
| 1884 | 8.0 | First controlled flight of a Zeppelin | Aviation History |
| 1/21/1884 - 12/12/1963 | 8.1 - 88.0 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
| 11/15/1884 - 2/26/1885 | 8.9 - 9.2 | Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') | Discoveries & Colonization |
| 3/4/1885 - 3/4/1889 | 9.2 - 13.2 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
| 1886 | 10.0 | Establishment of the Coca Cola Company | Companies |
| 1886 | 10.0 | Establishment of Johnson & Johnson | Companies |
| 10/28/1886 | 10.8 | Construction period of the Statue of Liberty | Monuments |
| 1887 | 11.0 | Huang He Flood | Disasters |
| 1887 - 1889 | 11.0 - 13.0 | Construction period of the Eiffel Tower | Monuments |
| 1888 | 12.0 | First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz | Automobile History |
| 3/9/1888 - 6/15/1888 | 12.2 - 12.5 | German Emperor: Friedrich III | Germany |
| 6/15/1888 - 11/9/1918 | 12.5 - 42.9 | German Emperor: Wilhelm II | Germany |
| 3/4/1889 - 3/4/1893 | 13.2 - 17.2 | President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison | USA - Presidents |
| 4/20/1889 - 4/30/1945 | 13.3 - 69.4 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
| 1890 | 14.0 | Establishment of Daimler | Companies |
| 1890 | 14.0 | Establishment of General Electric | Companies |
| 10/14/1890 - 3/28/1969 | 14.8 - 93.3 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
| 3/4/1893 - 3/4/1897 | 17.2 - 21.2 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
| 1896 | 20.0 | Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') | Companies |
| 1896 - 1897 | 20.0 - 21.0 | Matabele Wars ('Ndebele-Matabele-Krieg') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 3/4/1897 - 9/14/1901 | 21.2 - 25.7 | President of the United States of America: William McKinley | USA - Presidents |
| 10/11/1899 - 5/31/1902 | 23.8 - 26.4 | Second Boer War ('Second South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 9/8/1900 | 24.7 | Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas | Disasters |
| 9/14/1901 - 3/4/1909 | 25.7 - 33.2 | President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
| 10/19/1901 | 25.8 | First motorized zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
| 12/5/1901 - 12/15/1966 | 25.9 - 91.0 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
| 6/16/1903 | 27.5 | Establishment of Ford Motor Company | Companies |
| 12/16/1903 | 28.0 | First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers | Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 | 28.0 - 32.0 | Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4/18/1906 | 30.3 | San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 | Disasters |
| 1907 | 31.0 | First helicopter flight | Aviation History |
| 9/16/1908 | 32.7 | Establishment of General Motors | Companies |
| 9/27/1908 | 32.8 | Introduction of the Ford Model T | Automobile History |
| 1909 | 33.0 | Discovery of antibiotics | Medicine |
| 3/4/1909 - 3/4/1913 | 33.2 - 37.2 | President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft | USA - Presidents |
| 5/30/1911 | 35.4 | First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis | Automobile History |
| 5/30/1911 | 35.4 | One in seven families in the US owns a car | Automobile History |
| 10/23/1911 | 35.8 | First military use of an airplane | Aviation History |
| 3/4/1913 - 3/4/1921 | 37.2 - 45.2 | President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson | USA - Presidents |
| 6/14/1914 - 6/15/1914 | 38.5 | First transatlantic flight | Aviation History |
| 6/28/1914 - 11/11/1918 | 38.5 - 42.9 | World War I | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 8/6/1914 - 11/25/1918 | 38.6 - 42.9 | East African Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 9/13/1914 - 7/9/1915 | 38.7 - 39.5 | South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 10/14/1914 - 10/24/1914 | 38.8 | Maritz Rebellion | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1916 | 40.0 | Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) | Companies |
| 4/24/1916 - 4/30/1916 | 40.3 - 40.4 | Easter Rising | Great Britain |
| 1917 - 1923 | 41.0 - 47.0 | Russian Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 3/8/1917 - 3/12/1917 | 41.2 | Russian February Revolution | Russia |
| 5/29/1917 - 11/22/1963 | 41.4 - 87.9 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
| 11/7/1917 | 41.9 | Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic | Russia |
| 11/9/1918 | 42.9 | German Revolution | Germany |
| 1919 | 43.0 | First trans-atlantic zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
| 2/11/1919 - 2/28/1925 | 43.1 - 49.2 | President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert | Germany |
| 2/13/1919 - 6/20/1919 | 43.1 - 43.5 | Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann | Germany |
| 5/6/1919 - 8/8/1919 | 43.4 - 43.6 | Third Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 8/11/1919 | 43.6 | Adoption of the Weimar Constitution | Germany |
| 9/10/1919 | 43.7 | Treaty of Saint-Germain | Italy |
| 3/4/1921 - 8/2/1923 | 45.2 - 47.6 | President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding | USA - Presidents |
| 12/6/1921 | 46.0 | Anglo-Irish Treaty | Great Britain |
| 10/28/1922 | 46.9 | Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy | Italy |
| 8/2/1923 - 3/4/1929 | 47.6 - 53.2 | President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge | USA - Presidents |
| 8/13/1923 - 11/23/1923 | 47.6 - 47.9 | Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann | Germany |
| 9/13/1923 | 47.7 | Establishing of the military dictatorship | Spain |
| 5/12/1925 - 8/2/1934 | 49.4 - 58.6 | President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg | Germany |
| 1928 | 52.0 | Discovery of penicillin | Medicine |
| 6/14/1928 - 10/9/1967 | 52.5 - 91.8 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities |
| 1/15/1929 - 4/4/1968 | 53.1 - 92.3 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities |
| 3/4/1929 - 3/4/1933 | 53.2 - 57.2 | President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover | USA - Presidents |
| 10/25/1929 | 53.8 | 'Black Friday' | USA |
| 1/22/1930 - 5/1/1931 | 54.1 - 55.4 | Construction period of the Empire State Building | Monuments |
| 3/30/1930 - 5/30/1932 | 54.3 - 56.4 | Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning | Germany |
| 8/5/1930 - Today | 54.6 | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities |
| 1931 | 55.0 | Establishment of Porsche | Companies |
| 4/14/1931 | 55.3 | Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic | Spain |
| 12/11/1931 | 56.0 | Statute of Westminster | Great Britain |
| 6/1/1932 - 11/17/1932 | 56.5 - 56.9 | Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen | Germany |
| 12/3/1932 - 1/28/1933 | 57.0 - 57.1 | Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher | Germany |
| 1/30/1933 - 4/30/1945 | 57.1 - 69.4 | Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler | Germany |
| 2/28/1933 - 3/23/1933 | 57.2 - 57.3 | 'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & Begin of Nazi Dictatorship | Germany |
| 3/4/1933 - 4/12/1945 | 57.2 - 69.3 | President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
| 1935 | 59.0 | Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remainaing free territory in Africa. | Discoveries & Colonization |
| 12/11/1936 - 2/6/1952 | 61.0 - 76.1 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' | Great Britain |
| 1937 | 61.0 | Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge | Monuments |
| 5/6/1937 | 61.4 | Hindenburg disaster | Aviation History |
| 8/27/1939 | 63.7 | First flight of turbine-equipped jetplane | Aviation History |
| 9/1/1939 - 1945 | 63.7 - 69.0 | World War II | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 5/14/1940 | 64.4 | Establishment of McDonald's | Companies |
| 12/7/1941 | 66.0 | Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor | USA |
| 4/12/1945 - 1/20/1953 | 69.3 - 77.1 | President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman | USA - Presidents |
| 4/25/1945 | 69.4 | Establishment of the United Nations | World |
| 5/8/1945 | 69.4 | Unconditional Surrender of the German Empire | Germany |
| 8/6/1945 - 8/9/1945 | 69.6 | Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | USA |
| 10/14/1946 | 70.8 | Begin of the 4th French Republic | France |
| 10/14/1947 | 71.8 | First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 | Aviation History |
| 12/21/1948 | 73.0 | Republic of Ireland Act | Great Britain |
| 1949 | 73.0 | Establishment of Circuit City | Companies |
| 5/23/1949 | 73.4 | Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany | Germany |
| 9/15/1949 - 10/16/1963 | 73.8 - 87.8 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer | Germany - Chancellors |
| 10/7/1949 | 73.8 | Establishment of the German Democratic Repulbic | Germany |
| 10/11/1949 - 9/7/1960 | 73.8 - 84.7 | Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR | GDR |
| 1950 - 1953 | 74.0 - 77.1 | Korean War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 6/17/1950 | 74.5 | First successful organ transplant | Medicine |
| 1/22/1952 | 76.1 | First jet airliner in regular commercial use | Aviation History |
| 2/6/1952 - Today | 76.1 | Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II | Great Britain |
| 1/20/1953 - 1/20/1961 | 77.1 - 85.1 | President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower | USA - Presidents |
| 6/17/1953 | 77.5 | Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany | Germany |
| 2/24/1955 - Today | 79.2 | Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs | Personalities |
| 10/4/1957 | 81.8 | Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit | Technology |
| 10/5/1958 | 82.8 | Begin of the 5th French Republic | France |
| 1959 - 4/30/1975 | 83.1 - 99.4 | Vietnam War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1960 - 1973 | 84.1 - 97.1 | Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
| 1/20/1961 - 11/22/1963 | 85.1 - 87.9 | President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy | USA - Presidents |
| 4/12/1961 | 85.3 | First human in space | Technology |
| 5/25/1961 - 7/24/1975 | 85.5 - 99.6 | Apollo Space Program | Technology |
| 10/11/1962 - 12/8/1965 | 86.8 - 90.0 | Second Vatican Council | World |
| 10/16/1962 - 10/28/1962 | 86.8 - 86.9 | Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') | USA |
| 8/13/1963 | 87.7 | Construction of the Berlin Wall | Germany |
| 10/16/1963 - 12/1/1966 | 87.8 - 91.0 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard | Germany - Chancellors |
| 11/22/1963 - 1/20/1969 | 87.9 - 93.1 | President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson | USA - Presidents |
| 1966 - 1973 | 90.1 - 97.1 | Construction period of the World Trade Center | Monuments |