When James Henry Crisp was born on 1 July 1878, in Invercargill, Southland, New Zealand, his father, Arthur Crisp, was 31 and his mother, Jane Elizabeth Pigeon, was 24. He married Lilian Mary Griffiths in 1905, in New Zealand. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He died in 1960, in New Zealand, at the age of 82, and was buried in Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
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Tongariro National Park was the sixth national park established in the world and the first in New Zealand. In the center of the park there lies three active volcanic mountains (Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, and Tongariro). it is home to the famed Tongariro Alpine Crossing day hike and has been recognized as a World Heritage Site for all its natural values.
New Zealand becomes world's first country to give women the vote.
The country becomes a dominion, or self-governing community, within the British empire.
English: nickname for a man with curly hair, from Middle English crisp, crips, scrip, Old English crisp, cryps (from Latin crispus), reinforced in Middle English by an Old French word also from Latin crispus. In some cases this is possibly a nickname from the personal name Crispin .
Americanized form of German Krisp: nickname from Middle High German krisp, krispel ‘curly-haired man’.
Americanized form of German Krisp: from a short form of the medieval personal name Krispin (see Crispin ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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