Thelma Ethel May McCauley

Female3 September 1915–3 October 1995

Brief Life History of Thelma Ethel May

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.

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Family Time Line

John Edgar Maxwell
1912–1987
Thelma Ethel May McCauley
1915–1995
Marriage: 22 January 1942

Sources (2)

  • Thelma Ethel May Maxwell, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Thelma Ethel May Maxwell, "Australia Cemetery Inscriptions, 1802-2005"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    22 January 1942Mundubbera, Queensland, Australia
  • Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (1)

    World Events (8)

    1918

    Age 3

    Australian troops sent to fight in South African War.

    1918

    Age 3

    Battle on the Somme. Australian forces capture Mont St. Quentin.

    1939

    Age 24

    Australia joins Britain in declaration of war on Germany.

    Name Meaning

    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 .

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

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