When Ethel May Chubb was born in 1881, in Chiltern, Victoria, Australia, her father, William Henry Chubb, was 31 and her mother, Clara Giroud, was 21. She married Robert Leslie Victor Greig in 1904, in Victoria, Australia. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She died in 1957, in Parkville, Victoria, Australia, at the age of 76.
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Coolgardie gold-field is discovered.
First Federal election.
The Australian flag flown for the first time.
English (mainly West Country): nickname from Middle English chubbe ‘chub’, a common freshwater fish, Leuciscus cephalus. The fish is notable for its short, fat shape and sluggish habits, and the word was used in early Modern English for a lazy, spiritless person, a rustic, or a simpleton. It is also probably the origin of modern English chubby, although the term has lost any pejorative overtones.
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