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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Betsy Roberts |
Events
| Event Type | Date | Place | Country | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birth | 1894 | Chesterfield, Derbys. |
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Kinships
| Name | Degree of Kinship | Date of Birth | Place of Birth | Date of Death | Place of Death |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Partners | |||||
| Betsy Roberts | Wife | ||||
| Siblings | |||||
| 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. | ||
| William Preece | Brother | 3 MAR 1907 | 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 | ||
| 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 | (-61.1) - 30.0 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
| 3/17/1834 - 3/6/1900 | (-59.8) - 6.2 | Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler | Personalities |
| 7/8/1838 - 3/8/1917 | (-55.5) - 23.2 | Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Personalities |
| 12/11/1843 - 5/27/1910 | (-50.1) - 16.4 | Life of Robert Koch | Personalities |
| 11/25/1844 - 4/4/1929 | (-49.1) - 35.3 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
| 2/11/1847 - 10/18/1931 | (-46.9) - 37.8 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
| 3/3/1847 - 8/1/1922 | (-46.9) - 28.6 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
| 5/6/1856 - 9/23/1939 | (-37.7) - 45.8 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
| 9/23/1861 - 3/12/1942 | (-32.3) - 48.2 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
| 7/30/1863 - 4/7/1947 | (-30.4) - 53.3 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
| 10/16/1863 - 3/17/1937 | (-30.2) - 43.2 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
| 4/22/1870 - 1/21/1924 | (-23.7) - 30.1 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
| 11/30/1874 - 1/24/1965 | (-19.1) - 71.1 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
| 1/5/1876 - 4/19/1967 | (-18.0) - 73.3 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
| 3/14/1879 - 4/18/1955 | (-14.8) - 61.3 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
| 8/6/1881 - 3/11/1955 | (-12.4) - 61.2 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
| 1/21/1884 - 12/12/1963 | (-10.0) - 70.0 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
| 6/15/1888 - 11/9/1918 | (-5.6) - 24.9 | German Emperor: Wilhelm II | Germany |
| 4/20/1889 - 4/30/1945 | (-4.7) - 51.4 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
| 10/14/1890 - 3/28/1969 | (-3.2) - 75.3 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
| 3/4/1893 - 3/4/1897 | (-0.8) - 3.2 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
| 1896 | 2.0 | Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') | Companies |
| 1896 - 1897 | 2.0 - 3.0 | Matabele Wars ('Ndebele-Matabele-Krieg') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 3/4/1897 - 9/14/1901 | 3.2 - 7.7 | President of the United States of America: William McKinley | USA - Presidents |
| 10/11/1899 - 5/31/1902 | 5.8 - 8.4 | Second Boer War ('Second South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 9/8/1900 | 6.7 | Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas | Disasters |
| 9/14/1901 - 3/4/1909 | 7.7 - 15.2 | President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
| 10/19/1901 | 7.8 | First motorized zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
| 12/5/1901 - 12/15/1966 | 7.9 - 73.0 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
| 6/16/1903 | 9.5 | Establishment of Ford Motor Company | Companies |
| 12/16/1903 | 10.0 | First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers | Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 | 10.0 - 14.0 | Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4/18/1906 | 12.3 | San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 | Disasters |
| 1907 | 13.0 | First helicopter flight | Aviation History |
| 9/16/1908 | 14.7 | Establishment of General Motors | Companies |
| 9/27/1908 | 14.7 | Introduction of the Ford Model T | Automobile History |
| 1909 | 15.0 | Discovery of antibiotics | Medicine |
| 3/4/1909 - 3/4/1913 | 15.2 - 19.2 | President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft | USA - Presidents |
| 5/30/1911 | 17.4 | First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis | Automobile History |
| 5/30/1911 | 17.4 | One in seven families in the US owns a car | Automobile History |
| 10/23/1911 | 17.8 | First military use of an airplane | Aviation History |
| 3/4/1913 - 3/4/1921 | 19.2 - 27.2 | President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson | USA - Presidents |
| 6/14/1914 - 6/15/1914 | 20.5 | First transatlantic flight | Aviation History |
| 6/28/1914 - 11/11/1918 | 20.5 - 24.9 | World War I | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 8/6/1914 - 11/25/1918 | 20.6 - 24.9 | East African Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 9/13/1914 - 7/9/1915 | 20.7 - 21.5 | South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 10/14/1914 - 10/24/1914 | 20.8 | Maritz Rebellion | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1916 | 22.0 | Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) | Companies |
| 4/24/1916 - 4/30/1916 | 22.3 | Easter Rising | Great Britain |
| 1917 - 1923 | 23.0 - 29.0 | Russian Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 3/8/1917 - 3/12/1917 | 23.2 | Russian February Revolution | Russia |
| 5/29/1917 - 11/22/1963 | 23.4 - 69.9 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
| 11/7/1917 | 23.9 | Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic | Russia |
| 11/9/1918 | 24.9 | German Revolution | Germany |
| 1919 | 25.0 | First trans-atlantic zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
| 2/11/1919 - 2/28/1925 | 25.1 - 31.2 | President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert | Germany |
| 2/13/1919 - 6/20/1919 | 25.1 - 25.5 | Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann | Germany |
| 5/6/1919 - 8/8/1919 | 25.4 - 25.6 | Third Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 8/11/1919 | 25.6 | Adoption of the Weimar Constitution | Germany |
| 9/10/1919 | 25.7 | Treaty of Saint-Germain | Italy |
| 3/4/1921 - 8/2/1923 | 27.2 - 29.6 | President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding | USA - Presidents |
| 12/6/1921 | 27.9 | Anglo-Irish Treaty | Great Britain |
| 10/28/1922 | 28.8 | Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy | Italy |
| 8/2/1923 - 3/4/1929 | 29.6 - 35.2 | President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge | USA - Presidents |
| 8/13/1923 - 11/23/1923 | 29.6 - 29.9 | Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann | Germany |
| 9/13/1923 | 29.7 | Establishing of the military dictatorship | Spain |
| 5/12/1925 - 8/2/1934 | 31.4 - 40.6 | President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg | Germany |
| 1928 | 34.0 | Discovery of penicillin | Medicine |
| 6/14/1928 - 10/9/1967 | 34.5 - 73.8 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities |
| 1/15/1929 - 4/4/1968 | 35.1 - 74.3 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities |
| 3/4/1929 - 3/4/1933 | 35.2 - 39.2 | President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover | USA - Presidents |
| 10/25/1929 | 35.8 | 'Black Friday' | USA |
| 1/22/1930 - 5/1/1931 | 36.1 - 37.4 | Construction period of the Empire State Building | Monuments |
| 3/30/1930 - 5/30/1932 | 36.3 - 38.4 | Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning | Germany |
| 8/5/1930 - Today | 36.6 | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities |
| 1931 | 37.0 | Establishment of Porsche | Companies |
| 4/14/1931 | 37.3 | Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic | Spain |
| 12/11/1931 | 38.0 | Statute of Westminster | Great Britain |
| 6/1/1932 - 11/17/1932 | 38.4 - 38.9 | Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen | Germany |
| 12/3/1932 - 1/28/1933 | 38.9 - 39.1 | Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher | Germany |
| 1/30/1933 - 4/30/1945 | 39.1 - 51.4 | Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler | Germany |
| 2/28/1933 - 3/23/1933 | 39.2 | 'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & Begin of Nazi Dictatorship | Germany |
| 3/4/1933 - 4/12/1945 | 39.2 - 51.3 | President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
| 1935 | 41.0 | Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remainaing free territory in Africa. | Discoveries & Colonization |
| 12/11/1936 - 2/6/1952 | 43.0 - 58.1 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' | Great Britain |
| 1937 | 43.0 | Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge | Monuments |
| 5/6/1937 | 43.4 | Hindenburg disaster | Aviation History |
| 8/27/1939 | 45.7 | First flight of turbine-equipped jetplane | Aviation History |
| 9/1/1939 - 1945 | 45.7 - 51.0 | World War II | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 5/14/1940 | 46.4 | Establishment of McDonald's | Companies |
| 12/7/1941 | 48.0 | Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor | USA |
| 4/12/1945 - 1/20/1953 | 51.3 - 59.1 | President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman | USA - Presidents |
| 4/25/1945 | 51.3 | Establishment of the United Nations | World |
| 5/8/1945 | 51.4 | Unconditional Surrender of the German Empire | Germany |
| 8/6/1945 - 8/9/1945 | 51.6 | Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | USA |
| 10/14/1946 | 52.8 | Begin of the 4th French Republic | France |
| 10/14/1947 | 53.8 | First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 | Aviation History |
| 12/21/1948 | 55.0 | Republic of Ireland Act | Great Britain |
| 1949 | 55.0 | Establishment of Circuit City | Companies |
| 5/23/1949 | 55.4 | Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany | Germany |
| 9/15/1949 - 10/16/1963 | 55.7 - 69.8 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer | Germany - Chancellors |
| 10/7/1949 | 55.8 | Establishment of the German Democratic Repulbic | Germany |
| 10/11/1949 - 9/7/1960 | 55.8 - 66.7 | Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR | GDR |
| 1950 - 1953 | 56.0 - 59.0 | Korean War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 6/17/1950 | 56.5 | First successful organ transplant | Medicine |
| 1/22/1952 | 58.1 | First jet airliner in regular commercial use | Aviation History |
| 2/6/1952 - Today | 58.1 | Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II | Great Britain |
| 1/20/1953 - 1/20/1961 | 59.1 - 67.1 | President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower | USA - Presidents |
| 6/17/1953 | 59.5 | Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany | Germany |
| 2/24/1955 - Today | 61.2 | Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs | Personalities |
| 10/4/1957 | 63.8 | Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit | Technology |
| 10/5/1958 | 64.8 | Begin of the 5th French Republic | France |
| 1959 - 4/30/1975 | 65.0 - 81.4 | Vietnam War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1960 - 1973 | 66.0 - 79.1 | Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
| 1/20/1961 - 11/22/1963 | 67.1 - 69.9 | President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy | USA - Presidents |
| 4/12/1961 | 67.3 | First human in space | Technology |
| 5/25/1961 - 7/24/1975 | 67.4 - 81.6 | Apollo Space Program | Technology |
| 10/11/1962 - 12/8/1965 | 68.8 - 72.0 | Second Vatican Council | World |
| 10/16/1962 - 10/28/1962 | 68.8 - 68.9 | Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') | USA |
| 8/13/1963 | 69.7 | Construction of the Berlin Wall | Germany |
| 10/16/1963 - 12/1/1966 | 69.8 - 73.0 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard | Germany - Chancellors |
| 11/22/1963 - 1/20/1969 | 69.9 - 75.1 | President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson | USA - Presidents |
| 1966 - 1973 | 72.0 - 79.1 | Construction period of the World Trade Center | Monuments |
| 12/1/1966 - 10/21/1969 | 73.0 - 75.9 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger | Germany - Chancellors |
| 1967 | 73.0 | Founding of the European Community (EC) | Europian Union |
| 1/20/1969 - 8/9/1974 | 75.1 - 80.7 | President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon | USA - Presidents |
| 6/20/1969 | 75.5 | First Man on the Moon | Technology |
| 10/21/1969 - 5/7/1974 | 75.9 - 80.4 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt | Germany - Chancellors |
| 10/31/1969 | 75.9 | Establishment of Wal Mart | Companies |
| 7/21/1972 | 78.6 | Bloody Friday | Great Britain |
| 1973 - 1976 | 79.1 - 82.1 | Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
| 5/16/1974 - 10/1/1982 | 80.4 - 88.8 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt | Germany - Chancellors |
| 8/9/1974 - 1/20/1977 | 80.7 - 83.1 | President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford | USA - Presidents |
| 11/20/1975 | 81.9 | Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime | Spain |
| 1976 - 1989 | 82.1 - 95.1 | Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
| 4/1/1976 | 82.3 | Apple Computer is established | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1/20/1977 - 1/20/1981 | 83.1 - 87.1 | President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter | USA - Presidents |
| 4/16/1977 | 83.3 | Introduction of the Apple II | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 8/24/79 | 85.7 | Mount Vesuvius volcano eruption destroys Pompeii and Herculaneum | Disasters |
| 12/27/1979 - 2/15/1989 | 86.0 - 95.2 | Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 9/22/1980 - 8/20/1988 | 86.8 - 94.7 | First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1/20/1981 - 1/20/1989 | 87.1 - 95.1 | President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan | USA - Presidents |
| 4/2/1982 - 6/14/1982 | 88.3 - 88.5 | Falklands War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 10/1/1982 - 10/27/1998 | 88.8 - 104.9 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Kohl | Germany - Chancellors |
| 1983 | 89.1 | Discovery of HIV | Medicine |
| 1/19/1983 | 89.1 | Introduction of the Apple Lisa | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |