Geoffrey Brennan Fahey
5 June 1907–4 May 1974 (Age 66)
Marton, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand
The Life of Geoffrey Brennan
When Geoffrey Brennan Fahey was born on 5 June 1907, in Marton, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand, his father, James Timothy Fahey, was 25 and his mother, Margaret Aiken, was 27. He married Margaret Ellen Cooney in 1949, in New Zealand. He died on 4 May 1974, in Napier, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, at the age of 66.
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Family Time Line
Geoffrey Brennan Fahey
1907–1974
Margaret Ellen Cooney
1900–1971
Marriage: 1949
Spouse and Children
1907–1974Male
1900–1971Female
MARRIAGE
1949
New Zealand
1949
New Zealand
Parents and Siblings
1882–1964Male
1880–1972Female
siblings
(2)
1907–1974Male
1910–1993Female
World Events (7)
1914
Age 7
Outbreak of World War I. New Zealand commits thousands of troops to the British war effort. They suffer heavy casualties in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey in 1915.
1923 · New Zealand's Claim to Antartica
Age 16
The Ross Dependency is a New Zealand dependency located on the Antarctician Continent. It is the only settlement on the Antartica that is claimed by a sovereign nation. New Zealand still owns claim even after the Antarctic Treaty that was signed in 1959 by 11 other nations.
1939
Age 32
WWII. Troops from New Zealand see action in Europe, North Africa and the Pacific during World War II.
Name Meaning
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fathaidh or Ó Fathaigh ‘descendant of Fathadh’, a personal name derived from fothadh ‘base’, ‘foundation’. This name is sometimes Anglicized as Green(e) as a result of erroneous association with faithche ‘lawn’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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