Brief Life History of Richard Horace
When Richard Horace Eaton was born in 1876, in Toodyay Shire, Western Australia, Australia, his father, Richard Thomas Eaton, was 35 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Brown, was 20. He married Pearl Alice Hoddy on 10 October 1910, in Northam Shire, Western Australia, Australia. He died on 30 April 1957, in Perth, Western Australia, Australia, at the age of 81, and was buried in Karrakatta Cemetery, Karrakatta, Western Australia, Australia.
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- Richard Horace Eaton, "Australia, Births and Baptisms, 1792-1981"
- Richard Horace Eaton, "Find A Grave Index"
- Richard Horace Thomas, "Australia, Births and Baptisms, 1792-1981"
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World Events (8)
1877
Australia and England play the first-ever cricket Test match in Melbourne.
1892
Coolgardie gold-field is discovered.
1901
First Federal election.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called Eaton or Eton, such as Eaton Socon (Bedfordshire), Eaton (Cheshire), or Eton (Buckinghamshire), named from either Old English ēa ‘river’ or ēg ‘island, low-lying land’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
History: Nathaneal Eaton, born in Coventry, England, c. 1609, came to MA in 1637 and was the first head of Harvard College, in 1638–39.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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