When Margaret Paul Coutts was born about 1906, in New Zealand, her father, Robert Coutts, was 30 and her mother, Janet Anderson Paul, was 30. She married Lawrence Hamilton Knight in 1930, in New Zealand. She died about 2003, in her hometown, at the age of 99.
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The country becomes a dominion, or self-governing community, within the British empire.
The Dominion of New Zealand was brought about when New Zealand proclaimed itself a political independent government inside the British Empire. The Dominion of New Zealand allowed the British Government to shape its foreign policy, and it followed Britain into the First World War. Full independence was granted in 1931 and adopted by the New Zealand Parliament in 1947.
WWII. Troops from New Zealand see action in Europe, North Africa and the Pacific during World War II.
Scottish: habitational name from Cults in Aberdeenshire, named with Gaelic cuilt ‘nook’, with the later addition of the English plural -s. A crown charter of 1433 granted the earldom of Mar, along with the lands of Ochtercoul or Auchtercoul, to a family of this name.
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