When Emily Abigail Shipman was born on 9 August 1871, in Aberdeen, Graaff-Reinet, Cape Colony, South Africa, her father, George Shipman, was 36 and her mother, Charlotte Jane Cadle, was 25. She married Walter Mills Barber Cock on 29 April 1905, in Potchefstroom, Transvaal, South Africa. She died on 10 July 1928, in Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa, at the age of 56.
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Introduction of pass laws to control labor force in Kimberley diamond mines.
Britain claims Walvis Bay.
Part of Zululand incorporated into British colony of Natal. King Solomon ka Dinizulu exiled.
English: occupational name for a boatman or mariner, or perhaps for a boatbuilder, from Middle English schipman ‘ship man’.
English: occupational name for a shepherd, from Middle English schep, ship ‘sheep’ + -man.
Americanized form (translation into English) of Dutch Schepman or of its already extinct variant Schipman, cognates of 1 above.
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