Brief Life History of Elizabeth May
When Elizabeth May Embrey was born on 1 November 1916, in Marburg, Queensland, Australia, her father, Alfred Embrey, was 38 and her mother, Margaret Maria Freeman, was 25. She married Walter Stanley Blake on 6 June 1942, in Rosewood, Queensland, Australia. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 15 February 1985, in Ipswich, Queensland, Australia, at the age of 68, and was buried in Warrill Park Lawn Cemetery, Willowbank, Queensland, Australia.
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Sources (4)
- Australia: Queensland, Birth of Elizabeth May Embrey, 1916
- Elizabeth May Embrey Blake, "Find A Grave Index"
- E M in entry for Walter Daryl Blake, "Australia Cemetery Inscriptions, 1802-2005"
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World Events (7)
1918
Australian troops sent to fight in South African War.
1918
Battle on the Somme. Australian forces capture Mont St. Quentin.
1939
Australia joins Britain in declaration of war on Germany.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Embry 1 and 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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