When Linda Eileen Pearl Fissenden was born in 1896, in Wairau Valley, Marlborough, New Zealand, her father, Philip Fissenden, was 53 and her mother, Elizabeth Emma DeBruce or Taylor, was 41. She had at least 1 son with William Merrifield. She died in 1950, in New Zealand, at the age of 54.
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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.
The country becomes a dominion, or self-governing community, within the British empire.
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.
English: see Fishenden .
Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland © University of the West of England 2016
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