| 1914 - 1918 World War I 1922 USSR formed by Soviet states 1939 - 1945 World War II 1945 Atomic bomb detonated (Hiroshima) 1950 Korean War begins  | 1871 Franco - Prussian War 1895 Marconi invents wireless telegraphy 1899 Boer War begins 1903 Wright brothers 1st plane flight 1912 Titanic sinks on maiden voyage  | 1815 Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon defeat 1830 French Revolution 1837 Queen Victoria assumes throne 1854 Crimean War with Russia 1869 Opening of Suez Canal  | 
![]()  |  Robert Travers b.1855 Timoleague, Ireland. d.1935  | |||||||
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![]()  | ![]()  |  Charles Lescombe b. Truro, Cornwall. d.  | ||||||
![]()  |  Edith M. Lescombe b. d.  | ![]()  |  Nathaniel Preston b.1813 Swainstown, Ireland. d.1853  | |||||
![]()  | ![]()  |  Frances Elizabeth Preston b.1842 d.1923  |  Margaret Winter b.1817 d.1845  | |||||
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