When Ellen Tapi Harris was born about 1912, in Auckland, New Zealand, her father, Heremia Kuri Harris, was 21 and her mother, Ngarui Harris, was 27. She married John Puru in 1937, in Auckland, New Zealand. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 17 January 1952, in Pukekohe, Auckland, New Zealand, at the age of 41, and was buried in Pukekohe Public Cemetery, Auckland, New Zealand.
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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.
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WWII. Troops from New Zealand see action in Europe, North Africa and the Pacific during World War II.
English (southern England and south Wales): from the personal name Harry + genitival -s. This surname is also established in Ireland, taken there principally during the Plantation of Ulster. However, in some cases, particularly in families coming from County Mayo, Harris can be an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEarchadha. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
American shortened and altered form of Greek surnames begining with Cha(r)-, such as Chasandrinos (variant of Kassandrinos, a habitational name from the Kassandra peninsula of Chalkidiki), and various patronymics from the personal name Charalampos (see Charos ). In North America, the surname Harris may possibly also originate from a transferred use of the Greek personal (given) name Charis or Harris (shortened forms of Charalampos) as a surname (i.e. as a replacement of the original surname).
Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.
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