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Parents
| Father | Date of Birth | Mother | Date of Birth |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher Preece | 1868 |  Sarah Ann Handbury |
Partners & Children
| Partners | Date of Birth | Children |
|---|
Events
| Event Type | Date | Place | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birth | 3 MAR 1907 | Brampton, Derbys. |
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Kinships
| Name | Degree of Kinship | Date of Birth | Place of Birth | Date of Death | Place of Death |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Siblings | |||||
| Christopher Preece | Brother | 1894 | Chesterfield, Derbys. | ||
| Allen Preece | Brother | 20 OCT 1900 | Brampton, Derbys. | ||
| Alice Gertrude Preece | Sister | 11 NOV 1902 | Brampton, Derbys. | ||
| Elsie Preece | Sister | 13 JUL 1905 | Brampton, Derbys. | ||
| Parents | |||||
| Sarah Ann Handbury | Mother | ||||
| Christopher Preece | Father | 1868 | Walton, Chesterfield | ||
| Grandparents | |||||
| Thomas Preece | Grandfather | 1824 | Bitterley, Shropshire | 1888 | Chesterfield, Derbys. |
| Elizabeth Pickering | Grandmother | 1833 | Brierley, Staffordshire | 1908 | Chesterfield, Derbys. |
| Great Grand Parents | |||||
| Thomas Preece | Great Grandfather | 1777 | Stoke St. Milbrow, Shropshire | ||
| Ann ? | Great Grandmother | 1780 | Bitterley, Shropshire | ||
| Brothers/Sisters in-law | |||||
| Betsy Roberts | Sister in-law | ||||
| Uncle and Aunts | |||||
| Richard Gascoyne | Uncle | 1853 | Newbold, Chesterfield | ||
| Matthew Levers | Uncle | 1856 | Derbyshire | ||
| Susannah Preece | Aunt | 1857 | Kingswinford, Staffs. | ||
| Ellen Preece | Aunt | 1858 | Kingswinford, Staffs. | ||
| Thomas Preece | Uncle | 1860 | Kingswinford, Staffs. | ||
| Emma Lorina Graham | Aunt | 3 DEC 1860 | Holt, Norfolk | 3 APR 1923 | Chesterfield, Derbys. |
| James Preece | Uncle | 1863 | Walton, Chesterfield | ||
| Maria Cooper | Aunt | 1865 | |||
| Priscilla Preece | Aunt | 1865 | Walton, Chesterfield | ||
| Samuel Preece | Uncle | 1867 | Walton, Chesterfield | ||
| Mary Wardle | Aunt | 1871 | |||
| Richard Preece | Uncle | 1871 | Walton, Chesterfield | ||
| Mary Preece | Aunt | 1873 | Newbold, Chesterfield | ||
| Alfred Samuel Olley | Uncle | 1874 | |||
| Elizabeth Sturgess | Aunt | 1874 | |||
| Allen Preece | Uncle | 1874 | Newbold, Chesterfield | ||
| Wilfred Preece | Uncle | 1876 | Newbold, Chesterfield | ||
| Jane Preece | Aunt | 1877 | Newbold, Chesterfield | ||
| Annie ? | Aunt | 1878 | Chesterfield, Derbys. | ||
| Cousins 1st Grade | |||||
| Emma Preece | First Cousin | ||||
| Alice Gascoyne | First Cousin | 1875 | Whittington, Derbys. | ||
| William H. Levers | First Cousin | 1876 | Newbold, Chesterfield | ||
| Thomas J. Gascoyne | First Cousin | 1877 | Whittington, Derbys. | ||
| Elizabeth Gascoyne | First Cousin | 1880 | Whittington, Derbys. | ||
| Thomas Levers | First Cousin | 1880 | Newbold, Chesterfield | ||
| Thomas George Preece | First Cousin | 1881 | Newbold, Chesterfield | ||
| Lillian Preece | First Cousin | 1884 | Newbold, Chesterfield | ||
| Edith Preece | First Cousin | 1885 | Newbold, Chesterfield | ||
| Ethel Preece | First Cousin | 1887 | Chesterfield, Derbys. | ||
| Charles Preece | First Cousin | 1889 | Newbold, Chesterfield | ||
| Harold Preece | First Cousin | 11 SEP 1890 | Newbold, Chesterfield | 21 MAR 1960 | Scarsdale Hospital, Chesterfield |
| Minnie Preece | First Cousin | 1891 | Chesterfield, Derbys. | ||
| Alice Preece | First Cousin | 1892 | Newbold, Chesterfield | ||
| Albert Preece | First Cousin | 1894 | |||
| Emma Laurina Preece | First Cousin | 1896 | Newbold, Chesterfield | ||
World History
| Date | Age | Event | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/15/1832 - 12/27/1923 | (-74.3) - 16.8 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
| 7/8/1838 - 3/8/1917 | (-68.7) - 10.0 | Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Personalities |
| 12/11/1843 - 5/27/1910 | (-63.3) - 3.2 | Life of Robert Koch | Personalities |
| 11/25/1844 - 4/4/1929 | (-62.3) - 22.1 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
| 2/11/1847 - 10/18/1931 | (-60.1) - 24.6 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
| 3/3/1847 - 8/1/1922 | (-60.0) - 15.4 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
| 5/6/1856 - 9/23/1939 | (-50.9) - 32.6 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
| 9/23/1861 - 3/12/1942 | (-45.5) - 35.0 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
| 7/30/1863 - 4/7/1947 | (-43.6) - 40.1 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
| 10/16/1863 - 3/17/1937 | (-43.4) - 30.1 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
| 4/22/1870 - 1/21/1924 | (-36.9) - 16.9 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
| 11/30/1874 - 1/24/1965 | (-32.3) - 57.9 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
| 1/5/1876 - 4/19/1967 | (-31.2) - 60.2 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
| 3/14/1879 - 4/18/1955 | (-28.0) - 48.2 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
| 8/6/1881 - 3/11/1955 | (-25.6) - 48.1 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
| 1/21/1884 - 12/12/1963 | (-23.1) - 56.8 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
| 6/15/1888 - 11/9/1918 | (-18.7) - 11.7 | German Emperor: Wilhelm II | Germany |
| 4/20/1889 - 4/30/1945 | (-17.9) - 38.2 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
| 10/14/1890 - 3/28/1969 | (-16.4) - 62.1 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
| 9/14/1901 - 3/4/1909 | (-5.5) - 2.0 | President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
| 12/5/1901 - 12/15/1966 | (-5.2) - 59.8 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
| 1904 - 1908 | (-3.2) - 0.8 | Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 9/16/1908 | 1.5 | Establishment of General Motors | Companies |
| 9/27/1908 | 1.6 | Introduction of the Ford Model T | Automobile History |
| 1909 | 1.8 | Discovery of antibiotics | Medicine |
| 3/4/1909 - 3/4/1913 | 2.0 - 6.0 | President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft | USA - Presidents |
| 5/30/1911 | 4.2 | First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis | Automobile History |
| 5/30/1911 | 4.2 | One in seven families in the US owns a car | Automobile History |
| 10/23/1911 | 4.6 | First military use of an airplane | Aviation History |
| 3/4/1913 - 3/4/1921 | 6.0 - 14.0 | President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson | USA - Presidents |
| 6/14/1914 - 6/15/1914 | 7.3 | First transatlantic flight | Aviation History |
| 6/28/1914 - 11/11/1918 | 7.3 - 11.7 | World War I | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 8/6/1914 - 11/25/1918 | 7.4 - 11.7 | East African Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 9/13/1914 - 7/9/1915 | 7.5 - 8.4 | South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 10/14/1914 - 10/24/1914 | 7.6 | Maritz Rebellion | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1916 | 8.8 | Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) | Companies |
| 4/24/1916 - 4/30/1916 | 9.2 | Easter Rising | Great Britain |
| 1917 - 1923 | 9.8 - 15.8 | Russian Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 3/8/1917 - 3/12/1917 | 10.0 | Russian February Revolution | Russia |
| 5/29/1917 - 11/22/1963 | 10.2 - 56.8 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
| 11/7/1917 | 10.7 | Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic | Russia |
| 11/9/1918 | 11.7 | German Revolution | Germany |
| 1919 | 11.8 | First trans-atlantic zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
| 2/11/1919 - 2/28/1925 | 12.0 - 18.0 | President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert | Germany |
| 2/13/1919 - 6/20/1919 | 12.0 - 12.3 | Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann | Germany |
| 5/6/1919 - 8/8/1919 | 12.2 - 12.4 | Third Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 8/11/1919 | 12.4 | Adoption of the Weimar Constitution | Germany |
| 9/10/1919 | 12.5 | Treaty of Saint-Germain | Italy |
| 3/4/1921 - 8/2/1923 | 14.0 - 16.4 | President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding | USA - Presidents |
| 12/6/1921 | 14.8 | Anglo-Irish Treaty | Great Britain |
| 10/28/1922 | 15.7 | Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy | Italy |
| 8/2/1923 - 3/4/1929 | 16.4 - 22.0 | President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge | USA - Presidents |
| 8/13/1923 - 11/23/1923 | 16.5 - 16.7 | Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann | Germany |
| 9/13/1923 | 16.5 | Establishing of the military dictatorship | Spain |
| 5/12/1925 - 8/2/1934 | 18.2 - 27.4 | President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg | Germany |
| 1928 | 20.8 | Discovery of penicillin | Medicine |
| 6/14/1928 - 10/9/1967 | 21.3 - 60.6 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities |
| 1/15/1929 - 4/4/1968 | 21.9 - 61.1 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities |
| 3/4/1929 - 3/4/1933 | 22.0 - 26.0 | President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover | USA - Presidents |
| 10/25/1929 | 22.7 | 'Black Friday' | USA |
| 1/22/1930 - 5/1/1931 | 22.9 - 24.2 | Construction period of the Empire State Building | Monuments |
| 3/30/1930 - 5/30/1932 | 23.1 - 25.3 | Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning | Germany |
| 8/5/1930 - Today | 23.4 | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities |
| 1931 | 23.8 | Establishment of Porsche | Companies |
| 4/14/1931 | 24.1 | Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic | Spain |
| 12/11/1931 | 24.8 | Statute of Westminster | Great Britain |
| 6/1/1932 - 11/17/1932 | 25.3 - 25.7 | Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen | Germany |
| 12/3/1932 - 1/28/1933 | 25.8 - 25.9 | Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher | Germany |
| 1/30/1933 - 4/30/1945 | 25.9 - 38.2 | Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler | Germany |
| 2/28/1933 - 3/23/1933 | 26.0 - 26.1 | 'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & Begin of Nazi Dictatorship | Germany |
| 3/4/1933 - 4/12/1945 | 26.0 - 38.1 | President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
| 1935 | 27.9 | Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remainaing free territory in Africa. | Discoveries & Colonization |
| 12/11/1936 - 2/6/1952 | 29.8 - 45.0 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' | Great Britain |
| 1937 | 29.9 | Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge | Monuments |
| 5/6/1937 | 30.2 | Hindenburg disaster | Aviation History |
| 8/27/1939 | 32.5 | First flight of turbine-equipped jetplane | Aviation History |
| 9/1/1939 - 1945 | 32.5 - 37.9 | World War II | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 5/14/1940 | 33.2 | Establishment of McDonald's | Companies |
| 12/7/1941 | 34.8 | Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor | USA |
| 4/12/1945 - 1/20/1953 | 38.1 - 45.9 | President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman | USA - Presidents |
| 4/25/1945 | 38.2 | Establishment of the United Nations | World |
| 5/8/1945 | 38.2 | Unconditional Surrender of the German Empire | Germany |
| 8/6/1945 - 8/9/1945 | 38.5 | Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | USA |
| 10/14/1946 | 39.6 | Begin of the 4th French Republic | France |
| 10/14/1947 | 40.6 | First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 | Aviation History |
| 12/21/1948 | 41.8 | Republic of Ireland Act | Great Britain |
| 1949 | 41.9 | Establishment of Circuit City | Companies |
| 5/23/1949 | 42.3 | Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany | Germany |
| 9/15/1949 - 10/16/1963 | 42.6 - 56.7 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer | Germany - Chancellors |
| 10/7/1949 | 42.6 | Establishment of the German Democratic Repulbic | Germany |
| 10/11/1949 - 9/7/1960 | 42.6 - 53.6 | Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR | GDR |
| 1950 - 1953 | 42.9 - 45.9 | Korean War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 6/17/1950 | 43.3 | First successful organ transplant | Medicine |
| 1/22/1952 | 44.9 | First jet airliner in regular commercial use | Aviation History |
| 2/6/1952 - Today | 45.0 | Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II | Great Britain |
| 1/20/1953 - 1/20/1961 | 45.9 - 53.9 | President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower | USA - Presidents |
| 6/17/1953 | 46.3 | Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany | Germany |
| 2/24/1955 - Today | 48.0 | Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs | Personalities |
| 10/4/1957 | 50.6 | Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit | Technology |
| 10/5/1958 | 51.6 | Begin of the 5th French Republic | France |
| 1959 - 4/30/1975 | 51.9 - 68.2 | Vietnam War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1960 - 1973 | 52.9 - 65.9 | Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
| 1/20/1961 - 11/22/1963 | 53.9 - 56.8 | President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy | USA - Presidents |
| 4/12/1961 | 54.1 | First human in space | Technology |
| 5/25/1961 - 7/24/1975 | 54.3 - 68.4 | Apollo Space Program | Technology |
| 10/11/1962 - 12/8/1965 | 55.6 - 58.8 | Second Vatican Council | World |
| 10/16/1962 - 10/28/1962 | 55.7 | Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') | USA |
| 8/13/1963 | 56.5 | Construction of the Berlin Wall | Germany |
| 10/16/1963 - 12/1/1966 | 56.7 - 59.8 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard | Germany - Chancellors |
| 11/22/1963 - 1/20/1969 | 56.8 - 61.9 | President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson | USA - Presidents |
| 1966 - 1973 | 58.9 - 65.9 | Construction period of the World Trade Center | Monuments |
| 12/1/1966 - 10/21/1969 | 59.8 - 62.7 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger | Germany - Chancellors |
| 1967 | 59.9 | Founding of the European Community (EC) | Europian Union |
| 1/20/1969 - 8/9/1974 | 61.9 - 67.5 | President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon | USA - Presidents |
| 6/20/1969 | 62.3 | First Man on the Moon | Technology |
| 10/21/1969 - 5/7/1974 | 62.7 - 67.2 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt | Germany - Chancellors |
| 10/31/1969 | 62.7 | Establishment of Wal Mart | Companies |
| 7/21/1972 | 65.4 | Bloody Friday | Great Britain |
| 1973 - 1976 | 65.9 - 68.9 | Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
| 5/16/1974 - 10/1/1982 | 67.2 - 75.6 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt | Germany - Chancellors |
| 8/9/1974 - 1/20/1977 | 67.5 - 69.9 | President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford | USA - Presidents |
| 11/20/1975 | 68.8 | Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime | Spain |
| 1976 - 1989 | 68.9 - 81.9 | Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
| 4/1/1976 | 69.1 | Apple Computer is established | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1/20/1977 - 1/20/1981 | 69.9 - 73.9 | President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter | USA - Presidents |
| 4/16/1977 | 70.2 | Introduction of the Apple II | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 8/24/79 | 72.5 | Mount Vesuvius volcano eruption destroys Pompeii and Herculaneum | Disasters |
| 12/27/1979 - 2/15/1989 | 72.9 - 82.0 | Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 9/22/1980 - 8/20/1988 | 73.6 - 81.5 | First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1/20/1981 - 1/20/1989 | 73.9 - 81.9 | President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan | USA - Presidents |
| 4/2/1982 - 6/14/1982 | 75.1 - 75.3 | Falklands War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 10/1/1982 - 10/27/1998 | 75.6 - 91.7 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Kohl | Germany - Chancellors |
| 1983 | 75.9 | Discovery of HIV | Medicine |
| 1/19/1983 | 75.9 | Introduction of the Apple Lisa | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1/24/1984 | 76.9 | Introduction of the Macintosh | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1/20/1989 - 1/20/1993 | 81.9 - 85.9 | President of the United States of America: George H. W. Bush | USA - Presidents |
| 10/18/1989 - 12/3/1989 | 82.7 - 82.8 | Egon Krenz - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
| 8/2/1990 - 2/28/1991 | 83.5 - 84.0 | Second Gulf War ('Operation Desert Shield', 'Operation Desert Storm') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 10/3/1990 | 83.6 | German reunification | Germany |
| 12/8/1991 | 84.8 | Signing of the Belavezha Accords, declaring the Soviet Union dissolved | Russia |
| 1992 - 1996 | 84.9 - 88.9 | Afghan Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1/20/1993 - 1/20/2001 | 85.9 - 94.0 | President of the United States of America: Bill Clinton | USA - Presidents |
| 8/4/1993 | 86.5 | Introduction of the Apple Newton | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 11/1/1993 | 86.7 | Founding of the European Union (EU) | Europian Union |
| 1994 - 1996 | 86.9 - 88.9 | First Chechen War ('War in Chechnya') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1/17/1995 | 87.9 | Kobe Earthquake | Disasters |