Gladys Rose Lawson

Brief Life History of Gladys Rose

When Gladys Rose Lawson was born on 7 September 1912, in New Zealand, her father, James Waterson Lawson, was 37 and her mother, Ivy Rose Sowry, was 19. She married William George Booth in 1937, in New Zealand. She died on 17 January 1979, in Auckland, New Zealand, at the age of 66, and was buried in Purewa Cemetery, Meadowbank, Auckland, New Zealand.

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Family Time Line

William George Booth
1913–1984
Gladys Rose Lawson
1912–1979
Marriage: 1937

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  • Gladys Rose Booth, "Find A Grave Index"

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World Events (8)

1914

Outbreak of World War I. New Zealand commits thousands of troops to the British war effort. They suffer heavy casualties in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey in 1915.

1923 · New Zealand's Claim to Antartica

The Ross Dependency is a New Zealand dependency located on the Antarctician Continent. It is the only settlement on the Antartica that is claimed by a sovereign nation. New Zealand still owns claim even after the Antarctic Treaty that was signed in 1959 by 11 other nations. 

1939

WWII. Troops from New Zealand see action in Europe, North Africa and the Pacific during World War II.

Name Meaning

Scottish and northern English: patronymic ‘son of Lawrence’; see Law 1. It is also found in Ireland since the 17th century.

Americanized form of Swedish Larsson and Danish, Norwegian or North German Larsen .

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

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