When Bertie Ivo Bligh was born on 31 August 1889, in Charleville, Queensland, Australia, his father, Richard John Blakeney Bligh, was 39 and his mother, Kate Angela O'Keefe, was 31. He married Mary Lucy Corcoran on 31 July 1913, in Charleville, Queensland, Australia. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Warwick, Queensland, Australia in 1945. He died on 23 July 1946, in Queensland, Australia, at the age of 56, and was buried in Warwick Cemetery, Warwick, Queensland, Australia.
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Coolgardie gold-field is discovered.
First Federal election.
Canberra is founded and designated as the capital. The Federal Capital Territory is established as an area of two 360 square kilometers in the Yass-Canberra district.
English (of Norman origin): variant of Blythe , with Anglo-Norman loss of th.
Irish and Manx: Anglicized form of Ó Blighe ‘descendant of Blighe’, probably a Gaelicized form of the Old Norse byname Blígr (from blígja ‘to gaze’).
Cornish: nickname from Cornish blyth ‘wolf’. Compare Blethen .
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