Ernest Roy Eastman

Male8 October 1893–1979

Brief Life History of Ernest Roy

Ernest Roy Eastman was born on 8 October 1893, in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia as the son of Fanny Augusta Eastman. He married Mary Field Atkins on 3 June 1916, in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. He died in 1979, in Tasmania, Australia, at the age of 86.

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Ernest Roy Eastman
1893–1979
Mary Field Atkins
1891–1917
Marriage: 3 June 1916

Sources (1)

  • Ernest Roy Eastman, "Australia, Tasmania, Civil Registration, 1803-1933"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    3 June 1916Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
  • Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (1)

    World Events (8)

    1901

    Age 8

    First Federal election.

    1901

    Age 8

    The Australian flag flown for the first time.

    1918

    Age 25

    Australian troops sent to fight in South African War.

    Name Meaning

    English: from the Middle English personal name Estmund (Old English Ēastmund, from ēast ‘east’ + mund ‘protection’). See also Esmond .

    English: occasionally a variant of Heasman, a topographic name for a dweller ‘(in the) brushwood’, from Old English hǣse ‘brushwood’ + mann (compare Hayes 3).

    Americanized form (translation into English) of Swedish Östman (see Ostman ) and North German Ostmann or Östmann (see Oestmann ).

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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