Brief Life History of Edward Boyes
When Edward Boyes Gold was born on 15 April 1896, in Carluke, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, John Gold, was 24 and his mother, Margaret Hamilton Boyes, was 24. He married Mary Caskie in 1919, in New Zealand. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Auchterderran, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1901. He died on 19 April 1968, in Balclutha, Otago, New Zealand, at the age of 72, and was buried in Balclutha Old Cemetery, Balclutha, Otago, New Zealand.
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- Edward Gold in household of John Gold, "Scotland Census, 1901"
- Legacy NFS Source: Edward Boyes Gold - Government record: birth-name: Edward Boyes Gold
- Edward Boyes Gold, "Find A Grave Index"
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1902 · The Scottish National Antarctic Expedition
The Scottish National Antarctic Expedition was organized and led by William Speirs Bruce. Him along with Robert Falcon Scott’s Discovery Expedition completed an exploration of Antarctica. They established the first manned meteorological station, the Orcadas, in 1903 and discovered new land east of the Weddell Sea. The expedition was described as the most cost-effective and carefully planned scientific expedition of the Heroic Age. The Orcadas weather station has been in continuous operation ever since.
1907
The country becomes a dominion, or self-governing community, within the British empire.
1918
WWI ends in November with armistice. The number of UK war dead runs to several hundred thousand.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Jewish Emanuel, Meyer, Mayer, Hyman, Ari, Avram, Mendel, Moshe, Shraga, Aviva.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name from German Gold, Yiddish gold ‘gold’. In North America it is often a shortened form of one of the many compound artificial names of which Gold is the first element.
English and German: from Middle English go(u)ld, or Old English and Old High German gold ‘gold’, applied as a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked in gold, i.e. a refiner, jeweler, or gilder, or as a nickname for someone who either had many gold possessions or bright yellow hair.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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