Brief Life History of Horace Stanley
When Horace Stanley Matthew was born on 2 October 1888, in Exeter, South Australia, Australia, his father, Thomas Matthew, was 52 and his mother, Jane Sketheway, was 44. He married Jeanie Annabella Goudie in 1914, in South Australia, Australia. He died on 16 February 1933, in Semaphore, South Australia, Australia, at the age of 44.
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- Horace Stanley Matthew, "Find a Grave Index"
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1892
Coolgardie gold-field is discovered.
1901
First Federal election.
1901
The Australian flag flown for the first time.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: from the Middle English personal name Ma(t)thew, a vernacular form of the Greek New Testament name Matthias, Matthaios, which is ultimately from the Hebrew personal name Matityahu ‘gift of God’. This was taken into Latin as Mat(t)hias and Matthaeus respectively, the former being used for the twelfth apostle (who replaced Judas Iscariot) and the latter for the author of the first Gospel. In many European languages this distinction is reflected in different name forms. The commonest vernacular forms of the personal name, including English Matthew, Old French Matheu, Spanish Mateo, Italian Matteo, Portuguese Mateus, Catalan and Occitan Mateu are generally derived from the form Matthaeus. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, including German Matthias , Greek Mathias and Mattheos, Assyrian/Chaldean Matti , Czech Matěj, Slovak, Croatian, and Slovenian Matej . The name Matthew is also found among Christians in southern India (compare Mathai ), but since South Indians traditionally do not have hereditary surnames, the southern Indian name was in most cases registered as such only after immigration of its bearers to the US. Compare Mathew , see also Matthews .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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