Brief Life History of Albertus
When Albertus Davidson was born on 30 March 1898, in Wijk aan Zee, Wijk aan Zee en Duin, North Holland, Netherlands, his father, Salomon Davidson, was 45 and his mother, Maaike Visser, was 36. He had at least 3 sons with Dirkje Jaring. He died on 24 May 1960, in Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States.
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- Albert Davidson, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Albertus Davidson, "Find A Grave Index"
- Albertus Davidson, "Idaho, Jefferson Star, County Cemetery Records, 1800-2000"
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World Events (8)
1899 · Hague Peace Convention
The Hague Peace Convention was a series conferences that produced treaties and declarations. The convention took place in Hague, Netherlands. The conferences were among the first formal statements of the laws of war and war crimes in secular international law.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Name Meaning
Scottish, northern English, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from the personal name David + -son. As a Jewish name, the last element comes from German Sohn ‘son’.
Irish (Down) and Scottish: adopted for Gaelic Mac Daibhéid ‘son of David’; see McDevitt .
Americanized form (and a rare Swedish variant) of Swedish Davidsson: patronymic from the personal name David .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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