Brief Life History of Emmeline Ann
When Emmeline Ann Wade was born on 12 January 1887, in Whitford, Auckland, New Zealand, her father, Charles Wade, was 41 and her mother, Georgina Doidge, was 34. She married William Herbert Cecil Twidle about 1910, in New Zealand. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 27 November 1918, in New Zealand, at the age of 31, and was buried in Ōtorohanga, Otorohanga, New Zealand.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Emmeline Ann Wade - Government record: birth-name: Emmeline Ann Wade
- Emmeline Ann Wade Twidle, "Find A Grave Index"
- Emmeline Ann Twidle, "New Zealand, Cemetery Transcriptions, 1840-1981"
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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.
1907
The country becomes a dominion, or self-governing community, within the British empire.
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Wade (Old English Wada or, via Norman French, from ancient Germanic Wado, of unclear origin but possibly related to Old English wadan ‘to go’).
English: topographic name from Middle English wade ‘ford’ (Old English (ge)wæd ‘ford, especially a tidal crossing’) for someone who lived by a ford, or a habitational name from a place so called, such as Wade Hall in North Cove (Suffolk).
Irish: shortened and altered from Mac Uaid, see McQuaid .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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