Brief Life History of Mary Anne
When Mary Anne Waters was born in 1867, in Osborns Flat, Victoria, Australia, her father, Thomas Beaumont Waters, was 33 and her mother, Alice Wheeler, was 25. She married James Harris in 1891, in Corryong, Victoria, Australia. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 1 March 1908, in Corryong, Victoria, Australia, at the age of 41, and was buried in Corryong Cemetery, Corryong, Victoria, Australia.
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Family Time Line
Sources (4)
- Australia Marriage Index
- Australia Death Index
- Probate
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World Events (5)
1867
End of transportation to Western Australia.
1870
British troops withdraw from Australia.
1892
Coolgardie gold-field is discovered.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: variant of Water 1 and 2, with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish: when not the English surname, this is an Anglicized form of various Gaelic names taken to be derived from uisce ‘water’ (see for example Haskin , Hiskey ).
History: James Waters came from London, England, to Salem, MA, in 1630. Lawrence Waters came to Charlestown, MA, from Lancaster, England, in 1675.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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