When William Henry Bywaters was born in 1868, in Ararat, Victoria, Australia, his father, John Bywaters, was 33 and his mother, Elizabeth Selina Moysey, was 21. He married Mary Monica O'Dea on 5 December 1906, in Newcastle, Western Australia, Australia. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He died in 1944, in Goomalling, Western Australia, Australia, at the age of 76.
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British troops withdraw from Australia.
Australia and England play the first-ever cricket Test match in Melbourne.
Coolgardie gold-field is discovered.
English (London and Bedfordshire): variant of Bywater , with post-medieval excrescent -s. There is no evidence to indicate an original plural, Middle English bi the waters ‘by the streams or waters’.
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