When Olive May Afford was born on 1 September 1900, in Wisbech St Mary, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Joseph Richard Afford, was 27 and her mother, Kate Susannah Cook, was 21. She died in 1961, in Haywards Heath, Sussex, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 61.
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The Entente Cordiale was signed between Britain and France on April 8, 1904, to reconcile imperial interests and pave the way for future diplomatic cooperation. This ended hundreds of years of conflict between the two states.
London, United Kingdom hosts Summer Olympic Games.
WWI ends in November with armistice. The number of UK war dead runs to several hundred thousand.
English: locative name from Middle English atte forde, a forde ‘at the ford’ (Old English ford ‘ford, river crossing’). Compare Ford .
Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland © University of the West of England 2016
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