Harriet Jean Coates
30 May 1920–1994 (Age 73)
Lowood, Queensland, Australia
The Life of Harriet Jean
When Harriet Jean Coates was born on 30 May 1920, in Lowood, Queensland, Australia, her father, Joseph Richardson Coates, was 42 and her mother, Charlotte Stewart, was 34. She died in 1994, in Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, at the age of 74.
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Family Time Line
Joseph Richardson Coates
1878–1953
Charlotte Stewart
1886–1970
Harriet Jean Coates
1920–1994
Parents and Siblings
Joseph Richardson Coates
1878–1953Male
Charlotte Stewart
1886–1970Female
siblings
(1)
1920–1994Female
World Events (8)
1921
Age 1
Edith Cowan is elected to the Western Australia Parlaiment. She is the first woman parliamentarian in Australia.
1939
Age 19
Australia joins Britain in declaration of war on Germany.
1940
Age 20
Australia declares war on Italy.
Name Meaning
1 English: status name for a cottager ( see Cotter 2), or a topographic name for someone who lived in a relatively humble dwelling (from Middle English cotes, plural (or genitive) of cote, cott), or a habitational name from any of the numerous places named with this word, especially Coates in Cambridgeshire and Cotes in Leicestershire.2 Scottish: variant of Coutts .3 Americanized spelling of German and Jewish Kotz or German Koths, from a variant of the medieval personal name Godo ( see Gottfried ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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