Christine Ina Ande Thomson

Brief Life History of Christine Ina Ande

When Christine Ina Ande Thomson was born on 28 March 1921, in Avarua, Rarotonga, Cook Islands, her father, Andrew Nesbit Thomson, was 35 and her mother, Ngarangi Varokura Puru, was 20. She married Tamarua Tai Gideon about 1954, in Wellington, New Zealand. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She died on 6 September 2007, in Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand, at the age of 86, and was buried in Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand.

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Family Time Line

Tamarua Tai Gideon
1909–1985
Christine Ina Ande Thomson
1921–2007
Marriage: about 1954
James Dean Teariki Nesbit Thomson Gideon
1958–2017
Nathan Joseph Gideon
1961–2015

Sources (1)

  • Christine Ande Thomson, "Cook Islands, Public Records, 1846-1989"

World Events (8)

1923 · New Zealand's Claim to Antartica

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

WWII. Troops from New Zealand see action in Europe, North Africa and the Pacific during World War II.

1947

New Zealand gains full independence from Britain.

Name Meaning

Scottish, English and northern Irish: variant of Thompson .

Scottish: sometimes an Anglicized form of Gaelic McThomas; see McTavish , McComish .

Americanized form of Danish, Norwegian, and North German Thomsen . Compare Thompson .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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