Matilda Cornwell

Brief Life History of Matilda

When Matilda Cornwell was born on 22 October 1875, in Balaklava, South Australia, Australia, her father, Peter Cornwell, was 32 and her mother, Elizabeth Graham, was 31. She died in 1948, at the age of 73.

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Family Time Line

Peter Cornwell
1843–1920
Elizabeth Graham
1843–1910
Elizabeth Cornwell
1866–1943
Mary Payne Cornwell
1867–1937
Fanny Cornwell
1869–1934
Peter Cornwell
1871–1942
John Cornwell
1874–1932
Matilda Cornwell
1875–1948
George Graham Cornwell
1878–1947
Florence Agnes Cornwell
1882–1959
William Joseph Cornwell
1884–1974
Walter Clifford Cornwell
1887–1971

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    World Events (8)

    1877

    Australia and England play the first-ever cricket Test match in Melbourne.

    1892

    Coolgardie gold-field is discovered.

    1901

    First Federal election.

    Name Meaning

    English:

    habitational name from Cornwell in Oxfordshire, named from Old English corn, a metathesized form of cron, cran ‘crane’ + well(a) ‘spring, stream’.

    variant of Cornwall or Cornhill; in southeastern England mainly a habitational name from Cornhill in London but elsewhere alternatively from Cornhill (Northumberland) or one of the many minor places so called, often becoming Cornell .

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

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