Maurice Lancelot Lees

Brief Life History of Maurice Lancelot

When Maurice Lancelot Lees was born on 2 April 1914, in Gunning, New South Wales, Australia, his father, William Lees, was 44 and his mother, Martha Jane Lanham Lawston, was 30. He died on 24 May 1975, in New South Wales, Australia, at the age of 61, and was buried in Upper Lachlan Shire, New South Wales, Australia.

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Family Time Line

William Lees
1870–1950
Martha Jane Lanham Lawston
1883–
Frederick Lees
1906–1906
Ray Kenneth Lees
–1976
Aubrey Cyril Lees
1907–1951
Winifred Eileen Lees
1910–2001
Lawrence Granville Lees
1912–1972
Maurice Lancelot Lees
1914–1975
Carlton Joseph Lees
1916–1980

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  • Maurice Lancelot Lees, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1918

Australian troops sent to fight in South African War.

1918

Battle on the Somme. Australian forces capture Mont St. Quentin.

1939

Australia joins Britain in declaration of war on Germany.

Name Meaning

English and Scottish: topographic name from Middle English lees ‘fields, arable land’, plural of lee (see Lee ), or from Middle English lese ‘pasture, meadow’ (Old English lǣs).

English: habitational name fromLeece or Lees in Lancashire, or Leese in Cheshire, all named from OldEnglish lēas ‘woodland clearings’ (plural oflēah), or from Leece in Cumbria, which was probably namedwith a Celtic word, lïss ‘hall, court, the principalhouse in a district’.

English: variant of Leece 1.

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

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