When Jessie Mary Beanland was born in 1900, in Williamstown, Victoria, Australia, her father, Thomas Beanland, was 28 and her mother, Jessie Elizabeth Francis Smith, was 28. She had at least 1 son with Herbert Watts. She died on 13 March 1995, in Box Hill, Victoria, Australia, at the age of 95.
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At the beginning of 1901, following a proclamation by Queen Victoria, Victoria ceased to be an independent colony and became a state in the Commonwealth of Australia.
Australia joins Britain in declaration of war on Germany.
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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