When Elizabeth Getty was born in 1913, in Ballymoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, her father, Robert Getty, was 21 and her mother, Ellen Moody, was 23. She had at least 1 son and 2 daughters with David Grealey. She died in 1980, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, at the age of 67.
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Outbreak of World War I. UK enters hostilities against Germany. Grueling trench warfare in Belgium and France.
WWI ends in November with armistice. The number of UK war dead runs to several hundred thousand.
Winston Churchill becomes prime minister. British fighter pilots repel German air attacks in the Battle of Britain. London and other cities badly damaged in German bombing raids.
Scottish (Renfrewshire and Lanarkshire) and Irish: habitational name from Dalgety, a parish in Fife. This surname is found mainly in counties Antrim and Down and is Gaelicized in Ireland as Mag Eitigh.
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