Brief Life History of Ernest Frederick
When Ernest Frederick Andrews was born on 23 June 1882, in Port Sorell, Tasmania, Australia, his father, Edward Andrews, was 32 and his mother, Esther Cox, was 37. He married Ethel Walker in 1905, in Tasmania, Australia. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 18 June 1965, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, at the age of 82, and was buried in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Ernest Frederick Andrews - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Ernest Frederick Andrews
- Ernest Frederick Andrews, "Australia Marriages, 1810-1980"
- Ernest Frederick Andrews, "Find A Grave Index"
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1892
Coolgardie gold-field is discovered.
1901
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.
1911
Canberra is founded and designated as the capital. The Federal Capital Territory is established as an area of two 360 square kilometers in the Yass-Canberra district.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Andrew , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This is the usual southern English patronymic form, also found in Wales; the Scottish and northern English form is Anderson . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates from other languages, e.g. Polish Andrzejewski , Slovenian Andrejčič, Serbian and Croatian Andrić (see Andric ), and Czech Ondráček (see Ondracek ).
Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Aindreis or Irish Mac Aindriú, see McAndrew .
History: This was a common name among the early settlers in New England. Robert Andrews emigrated in 1635 from Norwich, England, to Ipswich, MA. Even before 1635, one Thomas Andrews is recorded as being established in Hingham. A certain William Andrews was a member of John Davenport's company, which sailed from Boston in 1638 to found the New Haven colony.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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