Brief Life History of Thomas
When Thomas Beanland was born in 1872, in Williamstown, Victoria, Australia, his father, John Griffith Beanland, was 29 and his mother, Elizabeth Pickering Walton, was 28. He married Jessie Elizabeth Francis Smith in 1894. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 18 July 1950, in Auckland, New Zealand, at the age of 78, and was buried in Glen Eden, Auckland, New Zealand.
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- Thomas Beanland, "Find a Grave Index"
- Thomas Beanland, "New Zealand, Obituaries, 1844-1963"
- Thomas Beanland, "New Zealand, Obituaries, 1844-1963"
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1877
Australia and England play the first-ever cricket Test match in Melbourne.
1880
Originally the Glen Eden area had not been planned for close settlement. Early maps show the area cut up into blocks of 50 to 100 acres...Pre-1880, there were families living scattered in Glen Eden, then known as Waikumete. The Main occupation of the early settlers was farming and nursery work. The clay soils of Waikumete were conducive to the brick making that was done along the Whau creek...In later years Bullock teams were used to haul the logs from the foothills of the Waitakere Ranges.
1893
New Zealand becomes world's first country to give women the vote.
Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): topographic name for someone who lived by land on which beans were grown, from Middle English ben(e) ‘bean’ (Old English bēan) + land. The principal source appears to have been a locality near Keighley, Yorkshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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