Walter Alfred Crump

July 1892–20 April 1969 (Age 76)
Akaroa, Canterbury, New Zealand

The Life of Walter Alfred

When Walter Alfred Crump was born in July 1892, in Akaroa, Canterbury, New Zealand, his father, Alfred Edward Samuel Crump, was 28 and his mother, Martha Kate Jemmett, was 24. He married Adelaide May Morrison in 1920, in New Zealand. He died on 20 April 1969, in Auckland, North Island, New Zealand, at the age of 76, and was buried in Auckland, North Island, New Zealand.

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Family Time Line

Walter Alfred Crump
1892–1969
Adelaide May Morrison
1897–1975
Marriage: 1920

Spouse and Children

MARRIAGE
1920
New Zealand

Parents and Siblings

    Alfred Edward Samuel Crump

    Male1864–1937Male

    Martha Kate Jemmett

    Female1868–1956Female

siblings

(7)

    Walter Alfred Crump

    Male1892–1969Male

    Ernest Frank Crump

    Male1894–Male

    Elsie May Crump

    Female1896–1987Female

    Charles Samuel Crump

    Male1898–Male

    Thomas Edwin Crump

    Male1900–Male

+2 More Children

World Events (8)

1893

Age 1

New Zealand becomes world's first country to give women the vote.
1896 · National Council of Women

Age 4

The National Council of Women of New Zealand was created as an organization after women won the right to vote. Today works to help achieve gender equality in New Zealand and in 2017 introduced Gender Equal NZ, which is fighting for Zealanders to have the freedom and opportunity to determine their own future no matter which gender they are.
1914

Age 22

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.

Name Meaning

1 English (chiefly West Midlands): nickname for a cripple or hunchback, from English cromp, crump ‘bent’, ‘crooked’, ‘stooping’ (from Old English crumb). Compare Croom .2 Americanized spelling of German Krump , the variant Krumpp, or German and Dutch Kramp .

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

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Sources (3)

  • Walter Alfred Crump, "New Zealand, Civil Records Indexes, 1800-1966"
  • W A Crump, "BillionGraves Index"
  • New Zealand, Marriage Index, 1840-1934

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