Brief Life History of Clarence James Thomas
When Clarence James Thomas Waters was born on 4 August 1901, in Queensland, Australia, his father, James Robert Waters, was 22 and his mother, Mary Clark, was 25. He married Esma Rubine Rose on 26 July 1930, in Queensland, Australia. He died on 15 May 1978, in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, at the age of 76.
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1902
Gazetted a city
1911
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.
1939
Australia joins Britain in declaration of war on Germany.
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English and Scottish: variant of Water 1 and 2, with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish: when not the English surname, this is an Anglicized form of various Gaelic names taken to be derived from uisce ‘water’ (see for example Haskin , Hiskey ).
History: James Waters came from London, England, to Salem, MA, in 1630. Lawrence Waters came to Charlestown, MA, from Lancaster, England, in 1675.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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