Brief Life History of John Joseph Ridgewell
When John Joseph Ridgewell Beard was born on 17 March 1863, in New South Wales, Australia, his father, Ridgewell Beard, was 22 and his mother, Sarah Ann Archer, was 19. He married Rebecca J Cooper in 1903, in Inverell, New South Wales, Australia. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He died on 29 July 1934, in Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia, at the age of 71, and was buried in Kempsey West Cemetery, West Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia.
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- John Joseph Beard, "Australia Births and Baptisms, 1792-1981"
- John Joseph Ridgewell Beard, "Find A Grave Index"
- John Joseph Beard, "Australia, Births and Baptisms, 1792-1981"
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World Events (7)
1867
End of transportation to Western Australia.
1870
British troops withdraw from Australia.
1892
Coolgardie gold-field is discovered.
Name Meaning
English:
nickname for a bearded man (from Middle English berd, Old English beard). To be clean-shaven was the norm in non-Jewish communities in northwestern Europe from the 12th to the 16th century, the crucial period for surname formation. There is a placename and other evidence to show that this word was used as a byname in the Old English period, when beards were the norm; in this period the byname would have referred to a large or noticeable beard. In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates and equivalents in other languages, in particular German Barth 1.
habitational name from a place called Beard in Derbyshire (now represented by Beard Hall and Beardwood Farms in New Mills parish), which derives its name by dissimilation from Old English brerd ‘rim, bank’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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