1945 Atomic bomb detonated (Hiroshima) 1950 Korean War begins 1964 - 1973 Vietnam War 1969 Armstrong first person on moon 1986 Nuclear disaster at Chernobyl | 1903 Wright brothers 1st plane flight 1912 Titanic sinks on maiden voyage 1914 - 1918 World War I 1922 USSR formed by Soviet states 1939 - 1945 World War II | 1854 Crimean War with Russia 1869 Opening of Suez Canal 1871 Franco - Prussian War 1895 Marconi invents wireless telegraphy 1899 Boer War begins |
William Thomas Joseph Phelan b.1917 d.2001 | ||||||||
D W Phelan b. d. | William Christopher Pocklington b.1857 Thornhill, Middsx, Eng. d.1926 Te Kopuru, NZ. | |||||||
William Richard Owen Pocklington b.1882 d. | Martha Jenkyns b.1859 Kaipara, NZ d.1931 Auckland, NZ. | |||||||
M E M Pocklington b. d. | Frederick George Russell b. d. | |||||||
Sarah Ann Russell b.1884 d.1971 | Susan Waters b. d. | |||||||