When Elsie Jane Campbell was born on 21 February 1904, in Molong, New South Wales, Australia, her father, John Edmunds Campbell, was 38 and her mother, Annie Parslow, was 24. She died on 28 October 1987, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, at the age of 83, and was buried in Woronora Memorial Park, Sutherland, New South Wales, Australia.
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Canberra is founded and designated as the capital. The Federal Capital Territory is established as an area of two 360 square kilometers in the Yass-Canberra district.
August: Australia becomes involved in World War One as Britain is preparing to declare war on Germany.
First cremation took place in 1934
Scottish: nickname from Gaelic cam ‘crooked, bent’ + beul ‘mouth’. As a result of folk etymology, the surname was often represented in Latin documents as de bello campo ‘of the fair field’, which led to the name sometimes being ‘translated’ into Anglo-Norman French as Beauchamp .
Irish (North Armagh): adopted for Gaelic Mac Cathmhaoil ‘son of Cathmhaol’ (literally ‘battle chief’): see Caulfield and Cowell .
English: variant of Camel , under the influence of the Scottish name (see 1 above).
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