Annie AndersonAge: 581865–1923
- Name
- Annie Anderson
- Given names
- Annie
- Surname
- Anderson
Birth | 1865 31 23 Kyneton, Victoria, Australia |
Marriage of parents | View family 1865 Back Creek, Victoria, Australia
father -
John Anderson
mother -
Anne Stewart
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Birth of a brother | 1867 (Age 2)
younger brother -
John Young Anderson
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Australian History | 1867 (Age 2) Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland. Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. |
Birth of a brother | 1868 (Age 3) Black Hill, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Alexander Stewart Anderson
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Australian History | 1868 (Age 3) Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases. |
Australian History | 1869 (Age 4) Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies. |
Birth of a brother | 1870 (Age 5) Kyneton, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
James Cochrane Anderson
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Australian History | 1872 (Age 7) Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens. |
Birth of a sister | 1873 (Age 8)
younger sister -
Barbara Grace Anderson
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Birth of a brother | 1873 (Age 8)
younger brother -
Robert William Anderson
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Australian History | 1873 (Age 8) Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock. |
Birth of a sister | 1874 (Age 9)
younger sister -
Agnes Jane Anderson
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Australian History | 1875 (Age 10) 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 brother | 1876 (Age 11)
younger brother -
David Stephen Anderson
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Birth of a sister | 1878 (Age 13)
younger sister -
Grace Barbara Anderson
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Australian History | 1878 (Age 13) Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
Australian History | 1879 (Age 14) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held. |
Australian History | 1880 (Age 15) 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 brother | 1882 (Age 17)
younger brother -
George Andrew Anderson
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Australian History | 1882 (Age 17) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
Australian History | 1883 (Age 18) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill |
Australian History | 1887 (Age 22) 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 24) 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 25) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
Death of a maternal grandfather | 4 November 1891 (Age 26) Tatura, Victoria, Australia
maternal grandfather -
Alexander Stewart
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Australian History | 1891 (Age 26) 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 | Walter James Ham - View family 31 August 1892 (Age 27) Victoria, Australia |
Australian History | 1892 (Age 27) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
Birth of a daughter #1 | 21 June 1893 (Age 28) Kew, Victoria, Australia
daughter -
Vera Grace Ham
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Australian History | 1893 (Age 28) 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 29) 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 daughter #2 | 1895 (Age 30) Kew, Victoria, Australia
daughter -
Lily Charlotte Ham
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Death of a daughter | 27 October 1895 (Age 30) Victoria, Australia
daughter -
Vera Grace Ham
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Australian History | 1895 (Age 30) 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 31) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
Birth of a son #3 | 28 April 1897 (Age 32) Kew, Victoria, Australia
son -
Walter Stewart Ham
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Australian History | 1897 (Age 32) 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. |
Death of a father | 9 December 1898 (Age 33)
father -
John Anderson
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Australian History | 1898 (Age 33) 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. |
Australian History | 1899 (Age 34) Note: The decision is made to site the national capital in New South Wales, but not within 100 miles of Sydney. Note: The Australian Labor Party holds office for a few days in Queensland, becoming the first trade union party to do so anywhere in the world. Note: The first contingents from various Australian colonies are sent to South Africa to participate in the Second Boer War. |
Australian History | 1900 (Age 35) Note: Several delegates visit London to resist proposed changes to the agreed-upon constitution. Note: The constitution is passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom as a schedule to the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, and is given royal assent |
Australian History | 1901 (Age 36) Note: (01 Jan) Australia becomes a federation on 1 January. Edmund Barton becomes Prime Minister; the 7th Earl of Hopetoun becomes Governor-General Note: The first parliament met in Parliament House, Melbourne Note: Immigration Restriction act was introduced- The White Australian Policy Note: The Australian National Flag was flown for the first time |
Birth of a son #4 | 19 October 1902 (Age 37) Kew, Victoria, Australia
son -
Harold John Ham
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Australian History | 1902 (Age 37) Note: The Franchise Act guarantees women the right to vote in federal elections (by this stage, most states had already done this). However, it excludes most non-European ethnic groups, including Aboriginal people, unless already registered to vote on State roles. Note: King Edward VII approved the design of the Australian flag. Note: Breaker Morant is executed for having shot Boers who had surrendered |
Australian History | 1903 (Age 38) Note: The High Court of Australia is established with Samuel Griffith as the first Chief Justice. Note: The Defence Act gives the federal government full control over the Australian Army Note: Alfred Deakin elected Prime Minister |
Australian History | 1904 (Age 39) Note: A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital Note: Chris Watson forms the first federal Labor (minority) government |
Australian History | 1906 (Age 41) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
Australian History | 1908 (Age 43) Note: Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country Note: The Dalgety proposal for the national capital is revoked, and Canberra is chosen instead |
Australian History | 1909 (Age 44) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
Australian History | 1910 (Age 45) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
Australian History | 1911 (Age 46) Note: The Royal Australian Navy is founded Note: The Northern Territory comes under Commonwealth control, being split off from South Australia Note: The first national census is conducted. Note: Australian Capital Territory proclaimed. |
Australian History | 1912 (Age 47) Note: Australia sends women to the Olympic Games for the first time Note: Walter Burley Griffin wins a design competition for the new city of Canberra |
Australian History | 1913 (Age 48) Note: Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth cross the Blue Mountains. Note: Matthew Flinders refers to New South Wales by the name 'Australia'. |
Australian History | 1913 (Age 48) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
Australian History | 1914 (Age 49) Note: Australian soldiers are sent to the First World War. This was first time Australians had fought under the Australian flag, as opposed to that of Britain's. |
Australian History | 1915 (Age 50) Note: (25 APRIL)Australian soldiers land at Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey on 25 April. Note: Jervis Bay Territory comprising 6,677 hectares surrendered and becomes part of the Australia Capital Territory. Note: Surfing is first introduced to Australia Note: Billy Hughes became Prime Minister |
Australian History | 1916 (Age 51) Note: Hotels are forced to close at 6 p.m., leading to the beginning of the 'six o'clock swill' Note: Australia suffers heavy casualties in the Western Front Battle of the Somme. Note: The Returned Sailors� and Soldiers� Imperial League of Australia, the forerunner to the Returned and Services League of Australia is founded Note: The Labor government under Billy Hughes splits over conscription. First referendum on conscription is rejected |
Australian History | 1917 (Age 52) Note: Second referendum on conscription is rejected. Transcontinental railway linking Adelaide to Perth is completed. Note: Australian 4th Light Horse Brigade launches last cavalry charge in modern warfare to capture Beersheba from the Ottoman Turks. |
Australian History | 1918 (Age 53) Note: (08 AUG) Battle of Amiens Note: Australian troops spearhead 8 August offensive against Hindenberg Line - the 'black day of the German Army'. Note: On 12 August, Australian commander General Sir John Monash is knighted in the field of battle by King George V Note: First World War ends - 60,000 Australians dead. Note: The Darwin Rebellion takes place, with 1,000 demonstrators demanding the resignation of the Administrator of the Northern Territory, John A. Gilruth. |
Australian History | 1919 (Age 54) Note: Prime Minister Billy Hughes signs Treaty of Versailles: the first signing of an international treaty by Australia. Australia obtains League of Nations mandate over German New Guinea. |
Australian History | 1920 (Age 55) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
Australian History | 1921 (Age 56) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
Australian History | 1922 (Age 57) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
Australian History | 1923 (Age 58) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
Death | 5 April 1923 (Age 58) Mount Park, Victoria, Australia |
Family with parents - View family |
father |
John Anderson
Birth 1834 Death 9 December 1898 (Age 64) Loading...
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8 years mother |
Anne Stewart
Birth 19 September 1841 38 37 Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland Death yes Loading...
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Marriage: 1865 — Back Creek, Victoria, Australia |
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#1 herself |
Annie Anderson
Birth 1865 31 23 Kyneton, Victoria, Australia Death 5 April 1923 (Age 58) Mount Park, Victoria, Australia Loading...
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2 years #2 younger brother |
John Young Anderson
Birth 1867 33 25 Death yes Loading...
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1 year #3 younger brother |
Alexander Stewart Anderson
Birth 1868 34 26 Black Hill, Victoria, Australia Death yes Loading...
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2 years #4 younger brother |
James Cochrane Anderson
Birth 1870 36 28 Kyneton, Victoria, Australia Death yes Loading...
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3 years #5 younger sister |
Barbara Grace Anderson
Birth 1873 39 31 Death yes Loading...
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#6 younger brother |
Robert William Anderson
Birth 1873 39 31 Death yes Loading...
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1 year #7 younger sister |
Agnes Jane Anderson
Birth 1874 40 32 Death yes Loading...
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2 years #8 younger brother |
David Stephen Anderson
Birth 1876 42 34 Death yes Loading...
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2 years #9 younger sister |
Grace Barbara Anderson
Birth 1878 44 36 Death yes Loading...
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4 years #10 younger brother |
George Andrew Anderson
Birth 1882 48 40 Death yes Loading...
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Family with Walter James Ham - View family |
husband |
Walter James Ham
Birth 5 July 1863 Geelong, Victoria, Australia Death 8 January 1940 (Age 76) Kew, Victoria, Australia Loading...
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18 months herself |
Annie Anderson
Birth 1865 31 23 Kyneton, Victoria, Australia Death 5 April 1923 (Age 58) Mount Park, Victoria, Australia Loading...
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Marriage: 31 August 1892 — Victoria, Australia |
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10 months #1 daughter |
Vera Grace Ham
Birth 21 June 1893 29 28 Kew, Victoria, Australia Death 27 October 1895 (Age 2) Victoria, Australia Loading...
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18 months #2 daughter |
Lily Charlotte Ham
Birth 1895 31 30 Kew, Victoria, Australia Death 6 January 1982 (Age 87) Hamilton, Victoria, Australia Loading...
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2 years #3 son |
Walter Stewart Ham
Birth 28 April 1897 33 32 Kew, Victoria, Australia Death 20 April 1946 (Age 48) Fairfield, Victoria, Australia Loading...
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6 years #4 son |
Harold John Ham
Birth 19 October 1902 39 37 Kew, Victoria, Australia Death yes Loading...
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