Brief Life History of Douglas Roy
When Douglas Roy Max was born on 23 November 1918, in Nelson, New Zealand, his father, Albert Edward Max, was 39 and his mother, Clara Stanfield Haycock, was 36. He married Joan Legge on 24 August 1940. He died on 1 July 2007, in Bristol, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 88, and was buried in Bristol, England, United Kingdom.
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1921 · British Unemployment Reaches Post-War High
British unemployment reached a post-war high in July 1921 of 2.5 million people.
1924
First UK government led by the Labor party under Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.
1943 · Eleanor Roosevelt Visits During War
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt visited New Zealand during the calmer years of World War II in the Pacific. It was the first time that a first lady of the United States had visited the country alone without their husband.
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German, Flemish, and Dutch: from a short form of the personal name Maximilian (from Latin Maximillianus, a derivative of Maximillus, a diminutive of Maximus ‘greatest’), borne by a 3rd-century Christian saint venerated particularly in the region of Passau, where he founded a church. The personal name was comparatively rare at the most productive period of surname formation; it gained popularity from the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I (born 1459), who was named by his father, Frederick III of Austria, in honor of the Roman heroes Q. Fabius Maximus and Scipio Aemilianus, as if with a combination of their names. The name is also borne by Ashkenazic Jews, presumably as an adoption of the German surname.
English: variant of Macks .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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