When Vera Mary Leigh Hunt Whitehead was born on 19 September 1895, in Punjab, India, her father, Gervase Frederick Whitehead, was 34 and her mother, Nellie Vera White, was 21. She married Lionel Thorngate Evans in 1926. She lived in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, United Kingdom in 1901 and Rudgwick, Sussex, England, United Kingdom in 1911. She died on 10 September 1992, at the age of 96.
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The Entente Cordiale was signed between Britain and France on April 8, 1904, to reconcile imperial interests and pave the way for future diplomatic cooperation. This ended hundreds of years of conflict between the two states.
London, United Kingdom hosts Summer Olympic Games.
British unemployment reached a post-war high in July 1921 of 2.5 million people.
English: nickname from Middle English whit ‘white’ + hed ‘head’ (Old English hwīt + hēafod), denoting a person with white or fair hair. Occasionally perhaps from Middle English whīt ‘white’ + hod ‘hood’ (Old English hwīt + hōd).
Irish: adopted by erroneous translation of Ó Ceanndubháin ‘descendant of the little black-headed one’ (see Canavan ), as if from Gaelic ceann ‘head’ + bán ‘white’.
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Weisshaupt (see Weishaupt ) or Weisskopf (see Weiskopf ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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