Brief Life History of Thomas Jans
When Thomas Jans Whiteman was born on 14 November 1858, in Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia, his father, Thomas Whiteman, was 36 and his mother, Sarah Jane Weeks, was 36. He married Emily Alice Evans in 1880, in Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 26 May 1929, in Auburn, New South Wales, Australia, at the age of 70, and was buried in Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia.
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Sources (3)
- Thomas Whiteman, "Find A Grave Index"
- Thomas Whiteman in entry for Emily Alice Whiteman, "Australia, Sydney Branch Genealogical Library, Cemetery Inscriptions, 1800-1960"
- Thomas Whiteman, "Australia, Sydney Branch Genealogical Library, Cemetery Inscriptions, 1800-1960"
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World Events (8)
1867
End of transportation to Western Australia.
1870
British troops withdraw from Australia.
1877
Australia and England play the first-ever cricket Test match in Melbourne.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Whitman .
Native American (also White Man): translation into English (and shortening) of a personal name based on a word, such as Lakota Sioux wašiču(ŋ), meaning ‘white man’.
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Weissmann .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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