Brief Life History of Lilian May
When Lilian May Fenwick was born on 31 October 1880, in New Zealand, her father, George Fenwick Sir, was 33 and her mother, Jane Atlantic Proudfoot Lady, was 27. She married Percival Ernest James in 1923, in New Zealand. She lived in Halifax St James, Halifax, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom in 1939. She died on 21 January 1957, in Dunedin, New Zealand, at the age of 76, and was buried in Dunedin, New Zealand.
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- Lilian May Fenwick James, "Find A Grave Index"
- Lillian May James, "New Zealand, Obituaries, 1844-1963"
- Lilian May James, "New Zealand, Obituaries, 1844-1963"
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1884
Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).
1887 · New Zealands's First National Park
Tongariro National Park was the sixth national park established in the world and the first in New Zealand. In the center of the park there lies three active volcanic mountains (Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, and Tongariro). it is home to the famed Tongariro Alpine Crossing day hike and has been recognized as a World Heritage Site for all its natural values.
1907
The country becomes a dominion, or self-governing community, within the British empire.
Name Meaning
English (northern) and Scottish: habitational name from either of two places in Northumberland or from one in Yorkshire, all of which are so named from Old English fenn ‘marsh, fen’ + wīc ‘outlying dairy farm’. There is also a place in Ayrshire, Scotland, which has the same name and origin. This last is the source of at least some early examples of the surname: Nicholaus Fynwyk was provost of Ayr in 1313, and Reginald de Fynwyk or Fynvyk appears as bailie and alderman of the same burgh in 1387 and 1401. The name is usually pronounced ‘Fennick’.
History: The name was brought over from England by several forebears, including George Fenwick (1603–56/7), a colonist from Brinkburn, Northumberland. He was one of the group of lords and gentlemen to whom the earl of Warwick, president of the Council for New England, granted forty leagues of territory west of the Narragansett River. George took up residence with his family at Saybrook, CT, in 1639. John Fenwick of Bynfield, Berkshire, England, established himself at Salem, NJ, in June 1675, the first Quaker settlement on the Delaware.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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