William Ernest Welsh

Male13 April 1910–1988

Brief Life History of William Ernest

William Ernest Welsh was born on 13 April 1910. He married Edna Phyllis May Smith in 1933, in New Zealand. He died in 1988, in New Zealand, at the age of 78.

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William Ernest Welsh
1910–1988
Edna Phyllis May Smith
1910–1967
Marriage: 1933

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  • Marriage
    1933New Zealand
  • World Events (8)

    1914

    Age 4

    Outbreak of World War I. New Zealand commits thousands of troops to the British war effort. They suffer heavy casualties in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey in 1915.

    1923 · New Zealand's Claim to Antartica

    Age 13

    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. 

    1939

    Age 29

    WWII. Troops from New Zealand see action in Europe, North Africa and the Pacific during World War II.

    Name Meaning

    Scottish, English, and Irish: ethnic name from Middle English welshe (Old English wēalisc, wēlisc) ‘foreign, Welsh’, for someone from Wales or a speaker of the Welsh language. Compare Walsh and Wallace .

    Americanized form of German Welsch .

    Americanized form of Ukrainian and Jewish (from Ukraine) Voloshin or its Polish variant Wołoszyn (see Woloszyn ).

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

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