When Dorcas May Skinner was born in 1880, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, her father, Thomas Skinner, was 29 and her mother, Mary Ann Humphries, was 35.
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Coolgardie gold-field is discovered.
First Federal election.
The Australian flag flown for the first time.
English: occupational name for someone who stripped the hide from animals to be used in the production of fur garments, or to be tanned for leather, from Middle English skinner ‘skinner’, an agent derivative of Middle English skin(n) ‘hide, pelt’ (Old Norse skinn).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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