When Elizabeth Mary Waite was born on 16 July 1892, in Rutherglen, Victoria, Australia, her father, Joseph Thomas Waite, was 29 and her mother, Mary Anne Woollett, was 22. She died in 1978, in Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia, at the age of 86.
English (of Norman origin): occupational name for a watchman, either in a town or castle, from Anglo-Norman French waite ‘watchman, member of the watch’ (of ancient Germanic origin; compare Wachter ). In the Middle Ages the town waits typically combined the functions of watchmen and musicians through being trumpeters or pipers. There may also have been some late confusion with White or Wheat .
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