When Humphrey Dunster was born in 1878, in Kiama, New South Wales, Australia, his father, Humphrey Dunster, was 43 and his mother, Mary Ann Elizabeth King, was 31. He died on 25 October 1912, in Singleton, New South Wales, Australia, at the age of 34, and was buried in Singleton, New South Wales, Australia.
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Coolgardie gold-field is discovered.
First Federal election.
The Australian flag flown for the first time.
English: habitational name from Dunster in Somerset, recorded in 1138 as Dunestore, from the Old English personal name Dun(n) + torr ‘craggy pinnacle’.
History: Henry Dunster emigrated to MA in 1640 from Bury, Lancashire, England, and was made the first president of Harvard College (1640–54) almost immediately upon arrival in MA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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