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John AndersonAge: 641834–1898

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John Anderson
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Birth 1834
 

Australian History 1835 (Age 12 months)
 

Note: John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner establish a settlement at Port Phillip, now the city of Melbourne.
Note: William Wentworth establishes Australian Patriotic Association (Australia's first political party) to demand democracy for New South Wales.
Australian History 1836 (Age 2)
 

Note: Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E.
Australian History 1838 (Age 4)
 

Note: First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time.
Australian History 1839 (Age 5)
 

Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.
Australian History 1840 (Age 6)
 

Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council.
Australian History 1841 (Age 7)
 

Note: New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales.
Australian History 1842 (Age 8)
 

Note: Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia.
Australian History 1843 (Age 9)
 

Note: Australia's first parliamentary elections held for the New South Wales Legislative Council (though voting rights are restricted to males of certain wealth or property).
Australian History 1845 (Age 11)
 

Note: The ship Cataraqui is wrecked off King Island in Bass Strait. It is Australia's worst civil maritime disaster, with 406 lives lost.
Note: Copper is discovered at Burra in South Australia.
Australian History 1850 (Age 16)
 

Note: Western Australia becomes a penal colony.
Note: Australian Colonies Government Act [1850] grants representative constitutions to New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania, colonies set about writing constitutions which produced democratically progressive parliaments
Note: Australia's first university, the University of Sydney, is founded.
Australian History 1851 (Age 17)
 

Note: Victoria separates from New South Wales.
Note: The Victorian gold rush starts when gold is found at Summerhill Creek and Ballarat.
Note: Forest Creek Monster Meeting of miners at Chewton near Castlemaine
Australian History 1853 (Age 19)
 

Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo
Australian History 1854 (Age 20)
 

Note: The Eureka Stockade
Australian History 1855 (Age 21)
 

Note: The transportation of convicts to Norfolk Island ceases.
Note: All men over 21 years of age obtain the right to vote in South Australia.
Australian History 1856 (Age 22)
 

Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania.
Australian History 1857 (Age 23)
 

Note: Victorian Committee reported that a 'federal union' would be in the interests of all the growing colonies. However, there was not enough interest in or enthusiasm for taking positive steps towards bringing the colonies together.
Note: Victorian men achieve the right to vote.
Australian History 1858 (Age 24)
 

Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph.
Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote.
Australian History 1859 (Age 25)
 

Note: SS Admella wrecked off south-east coast of South Australia with the loss of 89 lives.
Note: Australian rules football codified, Melbourne Football Club founded
Note: Queensland separates from New South Wales with its western border at 141 degrees E.
Australian History 1860 (Age 26)
 

Note: John McDouall Stuart reaches the centre of the continent. South Australian border changed from 132 degrees E to 129 degrees E.
Australian History 1861 (Age 27)
 

Note: The ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition occurs.
Note: skiing in Australia introduced by Norwegians in the Snowy Mountains goldrush town of Kiandra
Australian History 1862 (Age 28)
 

Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E.
Australian History 1863 (Age 29)
 

Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales.
MarriageAnne Stewart - View family
1865 (Age 31)
 Back Creek, Victoria, Australia

Birth of a daughter
#1		 1865 (Age 31)
 Kyneton, Victoria, Australia

daughter - Annie Anderson
Birth of a son
#2		 1867 (Age 33)
 

son - John Young Anderson
Australian History 1867 (Age 33)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland.
Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
Birth of a son
#3		 1868 (Age 34)
 Black Hill, Victoria, Australia

son - Alexander Stewart Anderson
Australian History 1868 (Age 34)
 

Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.
Australian History 1869 (Age 35)
 

Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies.
Birth of a son
#4		 1870 (Age 36)
 Kyneton, Victoria, Australia

son - James Cochrane Anderson
Australian History 1872 (Age 38)
 

Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.
Birth of a daughter
#5		 1873 (Age 39)
 

daughter - Barbara Grace Anderson
Birth of a son
#6		 1873 (Age 39)
 

son - Robert William Anderson
Australian History 1873 (Age 39)
 

Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
Birth of a daughter
#7		 1874 (Age 40)
 

daughter - Agnes Jane Anderson
Australian History 1875 (Age 41)
 

Note: SS Gothenburg strikes Old Reef off North Queensland and sinks with the loss of approximately 102 lives.
Note: Adelaide Steamship Company is formed.
Birth of a son
#8		 1876 (Age 42)
 

son - David Stephen Anderson
Birth of a daughter
#9		 1878 (Age 44)
 

daughter - Grace Barbara Anderson
Australian History 1878 (Age 44)
 

Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1879 (Age 45)
 

Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Australian History 1880 (Age 46)
 

Note: The bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged.
Note: Parliamentarians in Victoria become the first in Australia to be paid for their work.
Birth of a son
#10		 1882 (Age 48)
 

son - George Andrew Anderson
Australian History 1882 (Age 48)
 

Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1883 (Age 49)
 

Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway
Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Australian History 1887 (Age 53)
 

Note: An Australian cricket team is established, defeating England in the first Ashes series. First direct Inter-colonial passenger trains begin running between Adelaide and Melbourne.
Australian History 1889 (Age 55)
 

Note: The completion of the railway network between Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.
Note: Sir Henry Parkes delivers the Tenterfield Oration.
Australian History 1890 (Age 56)
 

Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.
Australian History 1891 (Age 57)
 

Note: A National Australasian Convention meets, agrees on adopting the name 'the Commonwealth of Australia' and drafting a constitution.
Note: The first attempt at a federal constitution is drafted.
Note: The Convention adopts the constitution, although it has no legal status
Note: A severe depression hits Australia
Marriage of a daughterAnnie Anderson - View family
31 August 1892 (Age 58)
 Victoria, Australia

son-in-law - Walter James Ham
daughter - Annie Anderson
Australian History 1892 (Age 58)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.
Birth of a granddaughter
#1		 21 June 1893 (Age 59)
 Kew, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Vera Grace Ham
Australian History 1893 (Age 59)
 

Note: The Corowa Conference (the 'people's convention') calls on the colonial parliaments to pass enabling acts, allowing the election of delegates to a new constitutional convention aimed at drafting a proposal and putting it to a referendum in each colony.
Australian History 1894 (Age 60)
 

Note: South Australia becomes the first Australian colony, and the second place in the world, to grant women the right to vote, as well the first Parliament in the world to allow women to stand for office.
Birth of a granddaughter
#2		 1895 (Age 61)
 Kew, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Lily Charlotte Ham
Death of a granddaughter 27 October 1895 (Age 61)
 Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Vera Grace Ham
Australian History 1895 (Age 61)
 

Note: The premiers, except for those of Queensland and Western Australia, agree to implement the Corowa proposals.
Note: Waltzing Matilda is first sung in public, in Winton, Queensland
Note: Banjo Paterson publishes The Man from Snowy River
Australian History 1896 (Age 62)
 

Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution
Birth of a grandson
#3		 28 April 1897 (Age 63)
 Kew, Victoria, Australia

grandson - Walter Stewart Ham
Australian History 1897 (Age 63)
 

Note: In two sessions, the Second National Australasian Convention meets (with representatives from all colonies except Queensland present). They agree to adopt a constitution based on the 1891 draft, and then revise and amend it later that year.
Note: Catherine Helen Spence became the first female political candidate for political office, standing for election as a representative for South Australia.
Australian History 1898 (Age 64)
 

Note: The Convention agrees on a final draft to be put to the people.
Note: After much public debate, the Victorian, South Australian and Tasmanian referendums are successful; the New South Wales referendum narrowly fails. Later New South Wales votes 'yes' in a second referendum, and Queensland and Western Australia also vote to join.
Death 9 December 1898 (Age 64)
 

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himself
John Anderson

Birth 1834  

Death 9 December 1898 (Age 64)  

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wife
Anne Stewart

Birth 19 September 1841 38 37  Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

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Marriage: 1865 — Back Creek, Victoria, Australia
#1 daughter
Annie Anderson

Birth 1865 31 23  Kyneton, Victoria, Australia

Death 5 April 1923 (Age 58)  Mount Park, Victoria, Australia

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#2 son
John Young Anderson

Birth 1867 33 25  

Death yes  

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#3 son
Alexander Stewart Anderson

Birth 1868 34 26  Black Hill, Victoria, Australia

Death yes  

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#4 son
James Cochrane Anderson

Birth 1870 36 28  Kyneton, Victoria, Australia

Death yes  

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#5 daughter
Barbara Grace Anderson

Birth 1873 39 31  

Death yes  

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#6 son
Robert William Anderson

Birth 1873 39 31  

Death yes  

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#7 daughter
Agnes Jane Anderson

Birth 1874 40 32  

Death yes  

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#8 son
David Stephen Anderson

Birth 1876 42 34  

Death yes  

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#9 daughter
Grace Barbara Anderson

Birth 1878 44 36  

Death yes  

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#10 son
George Andrew Anderson

Birth 1882 48 40  

Death yes  

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