Brief Life History of Daphne Doreen
When Daphne Doreen Boyes Johnson was born on 20 November 1909, in Tasman, Tasman, New Zealand, her father, Frank George Boyes, was 26 and her mother, Ellen Ada Mary Carter, was 30. She married James William Arthur Johnson in 1931, in New Zealand. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 19 September 1993, in Katikati, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, at the age of 83, and was buried in Katikati Cemetery, Katikati, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand.
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- Daphne Doreen Boyes Johnson, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1914
Outbreak of World War I. New Zealand commits thousands of troops to the British war effort. They suffer heavy casualties in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey in 1915.
1923 · New Zealand's Claim to Antartica
The Ross Dependency is a New Zealand dependency located on the Antarctician Continent. It is the only settlement on the Antartica that is claimed by a sovereign nation. New Zealand still owns claim even after the Antarctic Treaty that was signed in 1959 by 11 other nations.
1939
WWII. Troops from New Zealand see action in Europe, North Africa and the Pacific during World War II.
Name Meaning
English (mainly Yorkshire) and Irish: variant of Boy , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
English and Scottish: variant of Boyce .
In some cases possibly also an Americanized form of French Bois .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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