When George Edward Sumpter was born on 29 November 1900, in New Zealand, his father, John George Howard Sumpter, was 29 and his mother, Marion Harriet Keddell, was 27. He married Beryl Joyce Sunday Sutton in 1930, in New Zealand. He died in 1985, in his hometown, at the age of 85.
English: occupational name for someone who drove a packhorse, from Middle English sompter, sumpter, sometour, sum(m)eter ‘sumpter’ (Old French som(m)etier). Compare Summer 2.
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