When Colinsay Garden was born on 28 August 1910, in New Zealand, his father, Peter Garden, was 37 and his mother, Gertrude Fish, was 39. He married Maureen Catherine Veronica Lynch on 7 October 1939. He died on 8 April 1995, in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, at the age of 84, and was buried in East Taieri, Otago, New Zealand.
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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.
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.
WWII. Troops from New Zealand see action in Europe, North Africa and the Pacific during World War II.
English and Scottish: metonymic occupational name for a gardener or topographic name for one who lived by a garden, from Middle English, Older Scots gardin, garde(i)n ‘garden; enclosed area for ground for cultivation’, Old French gardin. Compare Gardner .
German (North Rhine-Westphalia): patronymic from Gard or Garde .
French: occupational name for a guardian, from gardenc, an old derivative of Old French garde ‘watch, protection’. This surname is rare in France.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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