Brief Life History of Albert Edward
When Albert Edward Welsh was born on 24 October 1906, in Woodstock, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, his father, Thomas Henry Welsh, was 43 and his mother, Esther Ann Wills, was 42. He married Ellen Alice Hansen on 9 January 1940, in Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He died on 23 December 1998, in De Hoek, Cape Winelands, Western Cape, South Africa, at the age of 92.
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- Albert Edward Welsh, "South Africa, Civil Marriage Records, 1840-1973"
- Albert Edward Welsh in entry for Christopher Ian Welsh, "South Africa, Transvaal, Civil Death, 1869-1954"
- Albert Edward Welsh, "South Africa, Cape Province, Western Cape Archives Records, 1792-1992"
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1909
British Parliament enacts the South Africa Act, proposed constitution of Union of South Africa.
1910
Self-governing Union of South Africa established within British Commonwealth.
1934
South African parliament enacts Status of Union Act claiming full sovereignty for South Africa.
Name Meaning
Scottish, English, and Irish: ethnic name from Middle English welshe (Old English wēalisc, wēlisc) ‘foreign, Welsh’, for someone from Wales or a speaker of the Welsh language. Compare Walsh and Wallace .
Americanized form of German Welsch .
Americanized form of Ukrainian and Jewish (from Ukraine) Voloshin or its Polish variant Wołoszyn (see Woloszyn ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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