Nellie Norman

Brief Life History of Nellie

When Nellie Norman was born about 1894, in Pukepoto, Far North, New Zealand, her father, Henare Romana, was 19 and her mother, Huria Te Waha Hotu, was 19. She married Reihana William Piri Murray about 1874, in Pukepoto, Far North, New Zealand. She died on 17 October 1921, in Te Hāpua, Far North, New Zealand, at the age of 28, and was buried in Pukepoto, Far North, New Zealand.

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Reihana William Piri Murray
1902–1992
Nellie Norman
1894–1921

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    World Events (5)

    1893

    New Zealand becomes world's first country to give women the vote.

    1896 · National Council of Women

    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.

    1907

    The country becomes a dominion, or self-governing community, within the British empire.

    Name Meaning

    English, Irish (Dublin and Cork), and Scottish: ethnic or habitational name applied either to a Scandinavian or to someone from Normandy in northern France. The Scandinavian adventurers of the Dark Ages called themselves northmenn ‘men from the North’. Before 1066, Scandinavian settlers in England were already fairly readily absorbed, and Northman and Normann came to be used as bynames and later as personal names, even among the Saxon inhabitants. The term gained a new use from 1066 onward, when England was settled by invaders from Normandy, who were likewise of Scandinavian origin but by now largely integrated with the native population and speaking a Romance language, retaining only their original ancient Germanic name.

    English: from the Middle English personal name Norman (recorded in the late Old English period as Northman), derived from northman ‘northerner’.

    Americanized form of German Normann .

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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