When Helen Walker Strang was born on 19 April 1869, in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, Matthew Archibald Strang, was 21 and her mother, Margaret Jane Johnstone Goodall, was 21. She married Charles McKinnon Groves in 1895. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Milton, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1871 and Everton, Liverpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1881. She died on 26 July 1962, in Perth, Western Australia, Australia, at the age of 93, and was buried in Karrakatta, Western Australia, Australia.
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British troops withdraw from Australia.
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Scottish (Lanarkshire): variant of Strong .
German: topographic name from Middle High German stranc ‘strip of land’, or a habitational name from any of the places so called.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a rope maker, from Middle High German stranc, German Strang ‘cord, rope’.
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