Ruth Susanna Newland

Female1894–1979

Brief Life History of Ruth Susanna

When Ruth Susanna Newland was born in 1894, in Duanvale, Duanvale District, Trelawny, Jamaica, her father, Walter Newland, was 45 and her mother, Cecilia Grandison Cooper, was 36. She had at least 1 daughter with Melsha Winson Brown. She died in 1979, in her hometown, at the age of 85.

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Family Time Line

Melsha Winson Brown
1893–1973
Ruth Susanna Newland
1894–1979
Naomi Adassa Newland
1928–2003

Sources (2)

  • Rush Newland in entry for Naomi Adassa Newland, "Jamaica, Civil Registration, 1880-1999"
  • Ruth Susanna Newland, "Jamaica, Civil Registration, 1880-1999"

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Children (1)

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Siblings (11)

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World Events (5)

1907

Age 13

City of Kingston destroyed by earthquake.

1944

Age 50

Universal adult suffrage introduced. new constitution providing for a popularly-elected House of Representatives promulgated.

1958

Age 64

Jamaica becomes a member of the British-sponsored Federation of the West Indies.

Name Meaning

English: topographic name from Middle English newe ‘new’ + land ‘land’ (Old English nīwe, land), for someone who lived by a patch of land recently brought into cultivation or recently added to the village, or a habitational name from any of a number of settlements called Newland for this reason.

Americanized form (translation into English) of Scandinavian Nyland or of German Neuland and North German Nieland, from any of several habitational names from any of the places called Neuland or Nieland(e) in Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein.

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

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