When William Augustine Becker was born on 6 July 1871, in Saint Marys, Tasmania, Australia, his father, Godfried George Becker, was 22 and his mother, Sarah Matilda Walker, was 21. He married Jane Higgins on 28 August 1896, in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He died in June 1953, in Wellington, New Zealand, at the age of 81, and was buried in North Island, New Zealand.
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Australia and England play the first-ever cricket Test match in Melbourne.
Tongariro National Park was the sixth national park established in the world and the first in New Zealand. In the center of the park there lies three active volcanic mountains (Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, and Tongariro). it is home to the famed Tongariro Alpine Crossing day hike and has been recognized as a World Heritage Site for all its natural values.
New Zealand becomes world's first country to give women the vote.
German and Dutch: occupational name for a baker of bread, or brick and tiles, derived from Middle High German and Middle Dutch backen ‘to bake’. The German surname is also found in France (mainly Lorraine and Alsace).
Danish: occupational name for a baker, from bechere ‘baker’.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a baker, from German Bäcker (compare 1 and Backer ) or Yiddish beker ‘baker’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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