Brief Life History of William
When William Hume was born in 1859, in Concord, New South Wales, Australia, his father, John Hume, was 30 and his mother, Susanna Hickson, was 24. He died on 13 April 1879, in New South Wales, Australia, at the age of 20, and was buried in Enfield, New South Wales, Australia.
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Family Time Line
Sources (1)
- William Hume, "Find A Grave Index"
Parents and Siblings
1829–1888 Male
1835–1881 Female
Siblings (10)
1856– Female
1857– Female
1859–1879 Male
1860–1864 Male
1862–1895 Female
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World Events (3)
1867
Age 8
1870
Age 11
1877
Age 18
Name Meaning
Scottish (Lowlands) and northern English: variant of Hulme , with loss of l before the bilabial consonant /m/, as in the vocabulary word calm. See Holm and Home .
Scottish: habitational name either from the barony of Home or from Hume (or Home) in Berwickshire, from which the barony took its name. The placename derives from Old English hōum, dative plural form of hōh ‘heel, spur of land’.
History: A family of this name (see 2 above) have held the Earldom of Home since 1605.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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