Brief Life History of Auckland
When Sir Auckland Campbell Geddes 1st Baron Geddes was born on 21 June 1879, in London, England, his father, Auckland Campbell Geddes, was 48 and his mother, Christina Helen Mcleod Anderson, was 28. He married Isabella Gamble Ross on 8 September 1906, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Saint Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1891 and Newington, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom in 1901. He died on 8 January 1954, at the age of 74, and was buried in St Mary's Church, Betteshanger, Kent, England, United Kingdom.
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- A C Geddes in household of C Helen M Geddes, "England and Wales Census, 1881"
- Auckland Campbell Geddes, "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1940"
- Aukland Campbell-Geddes, "Find A Grave Index"
World Events (8)
1880 · School Attendance Becomes Mandatory for Children
School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
1887 · Monotype Type-Casting Machine
June 7, 1887, Tolbert Lanston patented his Monotype machine. It typed individual characters instead of lines like the Linotype machine.
1904 · The Entente Cordiale
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.
Name Meaning
Scottish: nickname from Gaelic cam ‘crooked, bent’ + beul ‘mouth’. As a result of folk etymology, the surname was often represented in Latin documents as de bello campo ‘of the fair field’, which led to the name sometimes being ‘translated’ into Anglo-Norman French as Beauchamp .
Irish (North Armagh): adopted for Gaelic Mac Cathmhaoil ‘son of Cathmhaol’ (literally ‘battle chief’): see Caulfield and Cowell .
English: variant of Camel , under the influence of the Scottish name (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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