Ida Wren Bentley

Brief Life History of Ida Wren

When Ida Wren Bentley was born on 21 March 1884, in Cooma, New South Wales, Australia, her father, Ernest William Bentley, was 23 and her mother, Alice Margaret Wren, was 27. She married Guy Forrest Antill on 14 April 1910, in Saint James, New South Wales, Australia. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She died in 1963, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, at the age of 79.

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Family Time Line

Guy Forrest Antill
1869–1960
Ida Wren Bentley
1884–1963
Marriage: 14 April 1910
Margaret Jessie Macquarie Antill
1912–2016
Sylvia Selina Macquarie Antill
1914–

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    1892

    Coolgardie gold-field is discovered.

    1901

    First Federal election.

    1911

    Canberra is founded and designated as the capital. The Federal Capital Territory is established as an area of two 360 square kilometers in the Yass-Canberra district.

    Name Meaning

    English: habitational name from any of various places, the chief of which are in Derbyshire, Essex, Hampshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, and East and South Yorkshire. The placename is from Old English beonet ‘bent grass’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.

    In some cases also an Americanized form of South German Bentele or of its Swiss German or South German cognates Bandle and Bandli.

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

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