Brief Life History of Leonie Lettice Marion
When Leonie Lettice Marion Gore was born in 1884, in Queensland, Australia, her father, Francis Arthur Gore, was 37 and her mother, Emlyn Augusta Drake, was 26. She married Robert Lloyd Patterson on 25 February 1903, in Dibrugarh, Assam, India. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She died on 3 June 1910, in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland, at the age of 26.
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Sources (7)
- Leonie Lettisa Marion Gose, "India Marriages, 1792-1948 "
- Ireland, Civil Registration Deaths Index, 1864-1958
- Leonie Lettice Marion in entry for Adrian Lloyd Patterson, "United Kingdom, British India Office, Births and Baptisms, 1712-1965"
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1892
Coolgardie gold-field is discovered.
1901
First Federal election.
1901
The Australian flag flown for the first time.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English gor(e), gar(e) ‘triangular piece of land’ (Old English gāra, a derivative of gār ‘spear’, with reference to the triangular shape of a spearhead), a topographic name for someone living by a triangular field, or a habitational name from any of various places, for example Gore Court in Tunstall (Kent) and Gore Farm in Hannington (Wiltshire), named from this word.
French: from Old French gore ‘sow’ (a word of allegedly imitative origin, reflecting the grunting of the animal), applied as a metonymic occupational name for a swineherd or as an unflattering nickname.
French: probably also from a pet form of a vernacular form of the personal name Grégoire (see Gregory ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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