Brief Life History of Mona Irene
When Mona Irene Culling was born in 1891, in New Zealand, her father, Thomas Shepherd Culling, was 37 and her mother, Fanny Eliza Grey, was 26. She married Leslie Alan Spedding in 1922, in New Zealand. She died in 1965, in her hometown, at the age of 74, and was buried in Purewa Cemetery, Meadowbank, Auckland, New Zealand.
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- Mona Irene Culling, "New Zealand, Civil Records Indexes, 1800-1966"
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World Events (8)
1893
New Zealand becomes world's first country to give women the vote.
1896 · National Council of Women
The National Council of Women of New Zealand was created as an organization after women won the right to vote. Today works to help achieve gender equality in New Zealand and in 2017 introduced Gender Equal NZ, which is fighting for Zealanders to have the freedom and opportunity to determine their own future no matter which gender they are.
1914
Outbreak of World War I. New Zealand commits thousands of troops to the British war effort. They suffer heavy casualties in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey in 1915.
Name Meaning
English (Norfolk): from the Middle English personal name Culling, perhaps to be identified with Colling .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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