When Archibald Ernest Gass was born in 1884, in Kokstad, Mount Currie, Cape Province, South Africa, his father, George Steele Gass, was 36 and his mother, Agnes Mary Capel, was 32. He married Martha Elizabeth Larsen on 4 June 1910, in Transvaal, South Africa. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 7 April 1937, in Transvaal, South Africa, at the age of 53, and was buried in Transvaal, South Africa.
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Gold discovered at Witwatersrand. Johannesburg established.
Part of Zululand incorporated into British colony of Natal. King Solomon ka Dinizulu exiled.
British troops gather on the Transvaal border and ignore an ultimatum to disperse. The second Anglo-Boer War begins.
South German, Swiss German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): topographic name for someone who lived in a street in a city, town, or village, Middle High German gazze, German Gasse, Yiddish gas ‘street, side street’.
Altered form of German Gast .
Scottish (southwestern): habitational name from Gasse (Kirkcudbrights).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesHis nickname was "Archie". He died at age 52 years and 9 months. He was a Blacksmith and a Miner.
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