Brief Life History of Seymour George Richard
When Seymour George Richard Small was born on 31 March 1905, in Foxton, Manawatū-Whanganui, New Zealand, his father, George Small, was 38 and his mother, Mary Gwillim Procter, was 31. He died on 11 July 1975, in Palmerston North, Manawatū-Whanganui, New Zealand, at the age of 70, and was buried in Foxton, Manawatū-Whanganui, New Zealand.
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- Seymour George Richard (Bob) Small, "BillionGraves Index"
- Seymour George Richard Or Bob Small, "New Zealand, Cemetery Transcriptions, 1840-1981"
- Seymour George Richard Small, "Find A Grave Index"
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1907
The country becomes a dominion, or self-governing community, within the British empire.
1907 · Dominion of New Zealand
The Dominion of New Zealand was brought about when New Zealand proclaimed itself a political independent government inside the British Empire. The Dominion of New Zealand allowed the British Government to shape its foreign policy, and it followed Britain into the First World War. Full independence was granted in 1931 and adopted by the New Zealand Parliament in 1947.
1939
WWII. Troops from New Zealand see action in Europe, North Africa and the Pacific during World War II.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish (Angus): nickname for a person of slender build or diminutive stature, from Middle English smal(e), smel(e) ‘small, slender, thin’ (Old English smæl).
Irish (Down): adopted for Beag ‘small’; see Begg .
Americanized form (translation into English) of any of various European surnames meaning ‘small’, e.g. German Klein and Schmal , Polish Mały, Czech and Slovak Malý (see Maly 1).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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