Brief Life History of Bertha Matilda
When Bertha Matilda Nicholas was born on 9 March 1878, in Australia, her father, Peter Merrifield Nicholas, was 23 and her mother, Sarah Louise Crewe, was 20. She married Ernest Gosling Woodward on 20 July 1896, in Alberni 2, Alberni-Clayoquot, British Columbia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1901 and Comox, British Columbia, Canada in 1911. She died on 13 October 1950, in Alberni 2, Alberni-Clayoquot, British Columbia, Canada, at the age of 72, and was buried in Alberni, Port Alberni, British Columbia, Canada.
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- Bertha M Woodward in household of Ernest G Woodward, "Canada Census, 1911"
- Bertha Makilda Nicholas, "Canada, British Columbia Marriage Registrations, 1859-1932; 1937-1938"
- Bertha Matilda Woodward, "Canada, British Columbia Death Registrations, 1872-1986; 1992-1993"
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World Events (7)
1892
Coolgardie gold-field is discovered.
1901
First Federal election.
1901
The Australian flag flown for the first time.
Name Meaning
English (southwestern England and south Wales) and Dutch: from the personal name Nicholas (from Latin Nicolaus, from Greek Nikolaos, from nikān ‘to conquer’ + laos ‘people’). Forms with -ch- are due to hypercorrection (compare Anthony ). The name in various vernacular forms was popular among Christians throughout Europe in the Middle Ages, largely as a result of the fame of a 4th-century Lycian bishop, about whom a large number of legends grew up, and who was venerated in the Orthodox Church as well as the Catholic. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages and also their patronymics and other derivatives, e.g. Croatian and Serbian Nikolić (see Nikolic ), Greek Papanikolaou ‘(son of) Nicholas the priest’ and Nikolopoulos . Compare Nickolas .
History: The colonial official and revolutionary patriot Robert Carter Nicholas was from a prominent VA family on both sides. His father was a British navy surgeon who emigrated c. 1700 from Lancashire, England, to Williamsburg, VA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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