Nancy Elizabeth Griffiths (1916 - 2010)

Nancy's immediate relatives including parents, siblings, partnerships and children in the Griffiths family tree.

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Nancy's Parents

William John Griffiths

Ruth Emma (Quick) Griffiths

Nancy Elizabeth Griffiths

Balcombe Griffiths

Parents:

William John Griffiths

Unknown - Unknown

Ruth Emma (Quick) Griffiths

Unknown - Unknown

Siblings:

Balcombe Griffiths

Unknown - Unknown

Relationships:

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Nancy Elizabeth Griffiths & August Krafft George Christian Tesdorpf

Nancy Elizabeth Griffiths

August Krafft George Christian Tesdorpf

Spouse:

August Krafft George Christian Tesdorpf

Unknown - 1939

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Nancy Elizabeth Griffiths & Kraft Christian Tesdorpf

Nancy Elizabeth Griffiths

Kraft Christian Tesdorpf

Nicholas William Tesdorf

Spouse:

Kraft Christian Tesdorpf

Unknown - Unknown

Children:

Nicholas William Tesdorf

Aug 21, 1940 - Unknown

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Nicholas Tesdorf

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Nancy Elizabeth Griffiths married Kraft Christian Tesdorpf and they had a son named Nicholas William Tesdorf in August 21 1940.

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In 1916, in the year that Nancy Elizabeth Griffiths was born, visiting nurse Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S. at 46 Amboy St. in Brooklyn New York. Ten days after the clinic opened, Sanger was arrested for "violating laws against giving out birth control information" which was defined as obscenity. The clinic was not handing out birth control - just information about sex and birth control methods. (The Comstock law categorized information about abortion, family planning, and contraception as “obscene”.) The clinics and organizations that Sanger established later evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

In 1925, at the age of only 9 years old, Nancy was alive when gangster Al "Scarface" Capone took over the Chicago bootlegging racket at age 26. Previously right hand man to boss Johnny Torrio, Capone took over when Torrio was shot and severely injured and decided to resign. The bootlegging and brothel organization was massive and when asked what he did, Capone often replied "I am just a businessman, giving the people what they want".

In 1944, when she was 28 years old, on November 7th, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was reelected to a fourth term as President of the United States. Running against Thomas Dewey, Governor of New York, Roosevelt won 53.4 of the popular vote, Dewey got 45.9%.

In 1989, when she was 73 years old, on November 9th, the Berlin Wall fell. The Wall was built by the East Germans to keep East Berliners from escaping into West Berlin, separating families and friends. When the head of the East German Communist Party announced that day that East Berliners could cross whenever they pleased, happy crowds surged across the border. People brought tools and took parts of the hated wall.

In 1997, when she was 81 years old, on August 31st, Princess Diana of Great Britain was killed when her car crashed into a pillar in the tunnel under the Pont de l'Alma bridge in Paris. The car she was riding in was trying to evade the paparazzi but it was also discovered later that the driver of the car, who was also killed, had three times the legal limit of alcohol which likely contributed to the accident.