John Melrose Norman

Male20 April 1913–1981

Brief Life History of John Melrose

When John Melrose Norman was born on 20 April 1913, in Gin Gin, Queensland, Australia, his father, Henry George Norman, was 26 and his mother, Elizabeth Muriel McGuire, was 19. He died in 1981, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, at the age of 68.

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John Melrose Norman
1913–1981
Catherine Mavis Sargent
1918–2016

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    World Events (8)

    1914

    Age 1

    August: Australia becomes involved in World War One as Britain is preparing to declare war on Germany.

    1918

    Age 5

    Australian troops sent to fight in South African War.

    1939

    Age 26

    Australia joins Britain in declaration of war on Germany.

    Name Meaning

    English, Irish (Dublin and Cork), and Scottish: ethnic or habitational name applied either to a Scandinavian or to someone from Normandy in northern France. The Scandinavian adventurers of the Dark Ages called themselves northmenn ‘men from the North’. Before 1066, Scandinavian settlers in England were already fairly readily absorbed, and Northman and Normann came to be used as bynames and later as personal names, even among the Saxon inhabitants. The term gained a new use from 1066 onward, when England was settled by invaders from Normandy, who were likewise of Scandinavian origin but by now largely integrated with the native population and speaking a Romance language, retaining only their original ancient Germanic name.

    English: from the Middle English personal name Norman (recorded in the late Old English period as Northman), derived from northman ‘northerner’.

    Americanized form of German Normann .

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

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