Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Hume was born about 1857, in Concord, New South Wales, Australia, her father, John Hume, was 29 and her mother, Susanna Hickson, was 23.
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Parents and Siblings
1829–1888 Male
1835–1881 Female
Siblings (10)
1856– Female
about 1857– Female
1859–1879 Male
1860–1864 Male
1862–1895 Female
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World Events (3)
1867
Age 10
1870
Age 13
1877
Age 20
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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