When Gertrude Maud Chisholm was born on 9 February 1895, in Semaphore, South Australia, Australia, her father, Alexander Gavin Chisholm, was 51 and her mother, Margaret Howie, was 40. She married Ernest Charles Roberts on 21 March 1913, in Port Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. She died on 29 November 1982, at the age of 87.
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First Federal election.
The Australian flag flown for the first time.
Australian troops sent to fight in South African War.
Scottish: habitational name from Chisholme near Hawick in southern Scotland, which derives its name from Old English c̄se, cēse ‘cheese’ (from Latin caseus) + holm ‘piece of dry land in a fen’ and refers to a waterside meadow good for dairy farming and hence for producing cheeses. In the 14th century members of this family migrated to the Highlands, settling in Strathglass, where their name was Gaelicized as Siosal.
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