Dorothy Emily Shinton
10 May 1916–1994 (Age 77)
Dudley, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom
The Life of Dorothy Emily
When Dorothy Emily Shinton was born on 10 May 1916, in Dudley, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Frederick Shinton, was 42 and her mother, Julia Paling, was 41. She died in 1994, in her hometown, at the age of 78.
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Family Time Line
Frederick Shinton
1873–1947
Julia Paling
1875–1967
Minnie Elizabeth Shinton
1898–1999
Julia Shinton
1902–
Frederick Shinton
1905–1990
Lucy Shinton
1908–
Dorothy Emily Shinton
1916–1994
Parents and Siblings
1873–1947Male
1875–1967Female
siblings
(5)
1898–1999Female
Julia Shinton
1902–Female
1905–1990Male
Lucy Shinton
1908–Female
1916–1994Female
World Events (8)
1918
Age 2
WWI ends in November with armistice. The number of UK war dead runs to several hundred thousand.
1921 · British Unemployment Reaches Post-War High
Age 5
British unemployment reached a post-war high in July 1921 of 2.5 million people.
1939 · Britain Enters World War II
Age 23
Britain entered the Second World War as war was declared on Germany on September 3, 1939. World War II came to an end after the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, which killed 140,000 people. Less than a week later, the Japanese surrendered and the war officially ended on August 15, 1945.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: habitational name from any of various places, for example in Lancashire and North and South Yorkshire, so named from Old English swīn ‘pig’, ‘wild boar’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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