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John BiggamAge: 731838–1911

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John Biggam
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Birth 26 April 1838 34 37
 Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Australian History 1838
 

Note: First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time.
Australian History 1839 (Age 8 months)
 

Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.
Birth of a sister 9 April 1840 (Age 23 months)
 Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

younger sister - Grace Biggam
Australian History 1840 (Age 20 months)
 

Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council.
Death of a maternal grandfather 1841 (Age 2)
 Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

maternal grandfather - William Stewart
Australian History 1841 (Age 2)
 

Note: New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales.
Australian History 1842 (Age 3)
 

Note: Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia.
Australian History 1843 (Age 4)
 

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).
Birth of a sister 1844 (Age 5)
 Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

younger sister - Janet Biggam
Birth of a brother 1844 (Age 5)
 

younger brother - William Biggam
Australian History 1845 (Age 6)
 

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.
Death of a brother 23 January 1846 (Age 7)
 

younger brother - William Biggam
Australian History 1850 (Age 11)
 

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 12)
 

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 14)
 

Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo
Australian History 1854 (Age 15)
 

Note: The Eureka Stockade
Australian History 1855 (Age 16)
 

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 17)
 

Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania.
Australian History 1857 (Age 18)
 

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 19)
 

Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph.
Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote.
Australian History 1859 (Age 20)
 

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 21)
 

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 22)
 

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 23)
 

Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E.
Australian History 1863 (Age 24)
 

Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales.
Australian History 1867 (Age 28)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland.
Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
Australian History 1868 (Age 29)
 

Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.
Death of a maternal grandmother 18 June 1869 (Age 31)
 Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

maternal grandmother - Grace Biggam
Australian History 1869 (Age 30)
 

Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies.
Australian History 1872 (Age 33)
 

Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.
Death of a mother 22 July 1873 (Age 35)
 Barr, Scotland

mother - Jane Stewart
Australian History 1873 (Age 34)
 

Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
Australian History 1875 (Age 36)
 

Note: SS Gothenburg strikes Old Reef off North Queensland and sinks with the loss of approximately 102 lives.
Note: Adelaide Steamship Company is formed.
Australian History 1878 (Age 39)
 

Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1879 (Age 40)
 

Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Australian History 1880 (Age 41)
 

Note: The bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged.
Note: Parliamentarians in Victoria become the first in Australia to be paid for their work.
Australian History 1882 (Age 43)
 

Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1883 (Age 44)
 

Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway
Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Australian History 1887 (Age 48)
 

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 50)
 

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 51)
 

Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.
Death of a father 20 August 1891 (Age 53)
 Barr, Scotland

father - John Biggam
Australian History 1891 (Age 52)
 

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
Australian History 1892 (Age 53)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.
Australian History 1893 (Age 54)
 

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 55)
 

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.
Australian History 1895 (Age 56)
 

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 57)
 

Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution
Australian History 1897 (Age 58)
 

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 59)
 

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 60)
 

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 61)
 

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
Death of a sister 1901 (Age 62)
 Govan, Lanarkshire, Scotland

younger sister - Janet Biggam
Australian History 1901 (Age 62)
 

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
Australian History 1902 (Age 63)
 

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 64)
 

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 65)
 

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 67)
 

Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea
Australian History 1908 (Age 69)
 

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 70)
 

Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made.
Australian History 1910 (Age 71)
 

Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government.
Australian History 1911 (Age 72)
 

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.
Death 12 July 1911 (Age 73)
 

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father
John Biggam

Birth 1804  Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Death 20 August 1891 (Age 87)  Barr, Scotland

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mother
Jane Stewart

Birth 1801 31 25  Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Death 22 July 1873 (Age 72)  Barr, Scotland

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#1 elder sister
Agnes Biggam

Birth 13 March 1836 32 35  

Death 26 April 1837 (Age 13 months)  Barr, Scotland

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#2 himself
John Biggam

Birth 26 April 1838 34 37  Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Death 12 July 1911 (Age 73)  

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#3 younger sister
Grace Biggam

Birth 9 April 1840 36 39  Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Death 15 February 1919 (Age 78)  

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#4 younger sister
Janet Biggam

Birth 1844 40 43  Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Death 1901 (Age 57)  Govan, Lanarkshire, Scotland

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#5 younger brother
William Biggam

Birth 1844 40 43  

Death 23 January 1846 (Age 2)  

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John Biggam has 22 first cousins recorded

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Mother's family (22)

Parents Alexander Stewart + Annie Steven
1 Grace Stewart 1825–?
2 John Stewart 1827–1886
3 Sarah Stewart 1830–1907
4 William Stewart 1833–?
5 David Stewart 1835–?
6 Anne Stewart 1841–?
Parents Alexander Stewart + Georgina Rowan
1 Tomina Stewart 1846–1882
2 Jane Stewart 1848–?
3 Andrew Robert Stewart 1850–1891
4 Mary Cleave Stewart 1852–1925
5 James Stewart 1854–1936
6 Ivie Stewart 1853–1937
7 George Stewart 1856–1930
8 Robert Gavin Stewart 1857–1896
9 Elizabeth Stewart 1859–?
Parents Andrew Anderson + Janet Stewart
1 Andrew Anderson 1841–?
2 Janet Anderson ?–?
Parents John Pace + Grace Stewart
1 John Pace 1844–?
2 William Maxwell Pace 1847–1926
3 Ann Pace 1849–1854
4 David Stewart Pace 1853–1936
5 Richard Pace 1853–1854

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