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
Sources (2)
- Rush Newland in entry for Naomi Adassa Newland, "Jamaica, Civil Registration, 1880-1999"
- Ruth Susanna Newland, "Jamaica, Civil Registration, 1880-1999"
Spouse and Children
1893–1973 Male
1894–1979 Female
Children (1)
1928–2003 Female
Parents and Siblings
1849–1917 Male
1859–1926 Female
Siblings (11)
1884– Female
1884– Female
1886– Female
1886– Female
1889– Female
+6 More Children
World Events (5)
1907
Age 13
1944
Age 50
1958
Age 64
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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