Brief Life History of Mary Isabella
When Mary Isabella Gosling was born in July 1890, in Pongaroa, Tararua, Manawatū-Whanganui, New Zealand, her father, William Gosling, was 31 and her mother, Eleanor Sarah Ordish, was 25. She married Lachlan Ross McLachlan on 6 April 1915, in Pongaroa, Tararua, Manawatū-Whanganui, New Zealand. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She died on 10 July 1985, in Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, at the age of 95, and was buried in Whenua Tapu Cemetery, Porirua, Wellington, New Zealand.
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1893
New Zealand becomes world's first country to give women the vote.
1896 · National Council of Women
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.
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.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English gosling ‘young goose’ (from Old English gōs + the ancient Germanic suffix -ling, partly in imitation of Old Norse gæslingr from gás).
English: variant of Joslin .
German (also Gösling): from a short form of an ancient Germanic personal name formed with god, got ‘god’ or gōd ‘good’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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