Brief Life History of Bertram
When Bertram Greenland was born in 1883, in Bermondsey, London, England, United Kingdom, his father, Herbert Greenland, was 22 and his mother, Eliza Mann, was 23. He married Florence Annie Soar on 11 June 1905, in Westminster, London, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Lambeth, London, England, United Kingdom in 1911 and Merton, Surrey, England, United Kingdom in 1939. He died in 1965, in Surrey, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 82.
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- Bertram Greenland in household of Herbert Greenland, "England and Wales Census, 1891"
- Bertram Greenland in the London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1923
- Bertram Greenland in the Westminster, London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1935
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1884
Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).
1888 · The Whitehall Mystery
The Whitehall Mystery has some ties to Jack the Ripper, the victim was female and had been dismembered. The arms were found first; the headless torso to which they belonged was found a month later. The rest of the body was never discovered and the mystery was never solved.
1908
London, United Kingdom hosts Summer Olympic Games.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived ‘(by the) green meadow’, Middle English grene, grein + land, or a habitational name from a minor place so named.
Americanized form (translation into English) of Dutch Groenland and possibly also of German Grönland: habitational name from any of several farmsteads or hamlets so named, with the same meaning as 1 above, from Dutch groen, Low German grön ‘green’ + land ‘land’. The surname Grönland is very rare in Germany.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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