When Ivon Crispin Skelton was born on 11 August 1898, in Apia, Tuamasaga, Upolu, Samoa, his father, John Skelton, was 43 and his mother, Emmaline Letele'ausasala Fruean-Zimmermann, was 33. He died in 1923, in Lyttelton, Christchurch, New Zealand, at the age of 25, and was buried in Ōtamahua - Quail Island, New Zealand.
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Germany annexes Western Samoa, the U.S. takes over eastern Samoa and Britain withdraws its claim to the islands in accordance with treaty between Germany, Britain and the U.S.
The country becomes a dominion, or self-governing community, within the British empire.
The Dominion of New Zealand was brought about when New Zealand proclaimed itself a political independent government inside the British Empire. The Dominion of New Zealand allowed the British Government to shape its foreign policy, and it followed Britain into the First World War. Full independence was granted in 1931 and adopted by the New Zealand Parliament in 1947.
English (Yorkshire): habitational name mainly from Skelton in Cumberland, or any of various places called Skelton in Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, and East Yorkshire. The placenames probably all derive from Old English scelf ‘rock, ledge, shelf’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, with initial Sk-, instead of Sh-, due to Scandinavian influence. However, in some cases, the first element may be a lost river name, from Old Norse skjallr ‘resounding’; compare Skelding . This English surname has been established in Queen's County [Laois], Ireland, since the 16th century.
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