When Arthur Norman O'Dea was born on 23 September 1888, in George, George, Cape Province, South Africa, his father, John O'Dea, was 43 and his mother, Johanna Varkevisser, was 34. He married Amelia Cecilia Paterson on 1 September 1914, in Beaconsfield, Kimberley, Cape Province, South Africa. He died on 4 September 1958, in Odendaalsrus, Odendaalsrus, Orange Free State, South Africa, at the age of 69.
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Part of Zululand incorporated into British colony of Natal. King Solomon ka Dinizulu exiled.
British troops gather on the Transvaal border and ignore an ultimatum to disperse. The second Anglo-Boer War begins.
British Parliament enacts the South Africa Act, proposed constitution of Union of South Africa.
Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Conor, Declan, Fergus, Maeve, Murphy.
Irish (Clare and Galway): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Deaghaidh (see O'Day ).
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