Brief Life History of Emily Abigail
When Emily Abigail Shipman was born on 9 August 1871, in South Africa, her father, George Shipman, was 39 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 in her hometown.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Emily Abigail Shipman - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Emily Abigail Shipman
- Emily Abigail Shipman, "South Africa, Transvaal, Civil Marriages, 1870-1930"
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1872
Introduction of pass laws to control labor force in Kimberley diamond mines.
1878
Britain claims Walvis Bay.
1902
Treaty of Vereeniging ends the second Anglo-Boer War. The Transvaal and Orange Free State are made self-governing colonies of the British Empire.
Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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