When Philip Alexandre Cordrey was born on 16 July 1924, in California, United States, his father, Felix Alexander Cordray, was 29 and his mother, Christie Marie Briscoe, was 25. He lived in Pacific Grove, Monterey, California, United States in 1950. He died on 16 April 1975, in Carmel-by-the-Sea, Monterey, California, United States, at the age of 50.
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Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Alcatraz Island officially became Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on August 11, 1934. The island is situated in the middle of frigid water and strong currents of the San Francisco Bay, which deemed it virtually inescapable. Alcatraz became known as the toughest prison in America and was seen as a “last resort prison.” Therefore, Alcatraz housed some of America’s most notorious prisoners such as Al Capone and Robert Franklin Stroud. Due to the exorbitant cost of running the prison, and the deterioration of the buildings due to salt spray, Alcatraz Island closed as a penitentiary on March 21, 1963.
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
English (of Norman origin): variant of Cordray . Alternatively, possibly derived from Old French corderie ‘ropery, rope-walk’, taken to mean a worker at a ropery.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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