George Stanley Lister
8 April 1918–30 January 1974 (Age 55)
Elm, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
The Life of George Stanley
When George Stanley Lister was born on 8 April 1918, in Elm, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Sidney Lister, was 24 and his mother, Ethel May Jackson, was 24. He died on 30 January 1974, at the age of 55.
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Family Time Line
Sidney Lister
1894–1954
Ethel May Jackson
1893–1976
Harold Lister
1916–1979
George Stanley Lister
1918–1974
Thomas Robert Lister
1937–1995
Parents and Siblings
1894–1954Male
1893–1976Female
siblings
(3)
1916–1979Male
1918–1974Male
1937–1995Male
World Events (3)
1921 · British Unemployment Reaches Post-War High
Age 3
British unemployment reached a post-war high in July 1921 of 2.5 million people.
1924
Age 6
First UK government led by the Labor party under Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.
1940
Age 22
Winston Churchill becomes prime minister. British fighter pilots repel German air attacks in the Battle of Britain. London and other cities badly damaged in German bombing raids.
Name Meaning
1 English: occupational name for a dyer, Middle English litster, an agent derivative (originally feminine; compare Baxter ) of lit(t)e(n) ‘to dye’ (Old Norse lita). This term was used principally in East Anglia and northern and eastern England (areas of Scandinavian settlement), and to this day the surname is found principally in these regions, especially in Yorkshire.2 Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Fhleisdeir ‘son of the arrow maker’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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