When Thelma Ethel May McCauley was born on 3 September 1915, in Clifton, Queensland, Australia, her father, Francis McCauley, was 25 and her mother, Lilian Isabel Free, was 26. She married John Edgar Maxwell on 22 January 1942, in Mundubbera, Queensland, Australia. She died on 3 October 1995, in Mundubbera, Queensland, Australia, at the age of 80, and was buried in Mundubbera Cemetery, Mundubbera, Queensland, Australia.
Scottish (Dumbartonshire) and Irish (Westmeath): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Amhalghaidh ‘son of Amhalghadh’, a personal name of uncertain origin. The best known family of Mac Amhalghaidh is from Westmeath, and there were families called Mac Amhlaoibh in counties Cork and Fermanagh (a branch of the Maguires), as well as a family in southwest Scotland which has migrated to Ulster. Compare the Scottish form Macaulay .
Scottish (Hebrides) and Irish (Fermanagh): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Amhlaoibh or Mac Amhlaidh ‘son of Olaf’, from Gaelic forms of the Old Norse personal name Áleifr, Óláfr (see Olafsen ). Compare McAuliffe .
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