When Garnet Conrad Laycock was born on 7 January 1887, in Wollombi, New South Wales, Australia, his father, George Laycock, was 28 and his mother, Ada Emily Cobcroft, was 29. He married Freda Rudstone Potter on 24 September 1912, in Wyalong, New South Wales, Australia. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 4 May 1952, in Whittingham, New South Wales, Australia, at the age of 65, and was buried in Singleton, New South Wales, Australia.
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Coolgardie gold-field is discovered.
First Federal election.
Canberra is founded and designated as the capital. The Federal Capital Territory is established as an area of two 360 square kilometers in the Yass-Canberra district.
English (mainly Yorkshire): habitational name from Laycock in WestYorkshire or possibly from Lacock in Wiltshire. Both are recorded inDomesday Book as Lacoc and seem to be named with a diminutiveof Old English lacu ‘stream’.
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