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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- Maurice Lancelot Lees, "Find A Grave Index"
Parents and Siblings
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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