When Bessie Graham Fotheringham was born on 27 December 1885, in Medindie, South Australia, Australia, her father, Anthony Skeoch Fotheringham, was 32 and her mother, Margaret Graham Inglis, was 27. She married Walter Gordon Duncan on 20 October 1909, in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She died on 22 July 1966, in Watervale, South Australia, Australia, at the age of 80, and was buried in Penwortham, South Australia, Australia.
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Coolgardie gold-field is discovered.
First Federal election.
Canberra is founded and designated as the capital. The Federal Capital Territory is established as an area of two 360 square kilometers in the Yass-Canberra district.
Scottish: habitational name from Fotheringham near Forfar, a place which takes its name from a corruption of the name of a family who migrated to Angus from Fotheringhay in Northamptonshire, which was held in the 12th century by the royal family of Scotland as part of the honor of Huntingdon. The Northamptonshire place appears in Domesday Book as Fodringeia, probably from Old English fōdring ‘grazing’ (a derivative of fōdor ‘fodder’) + ēg ‘island, low-lying land’. In the case of the Scottish place, the final element was replaced by -hām ‘homestead’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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