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John PaceAge: 871812–1899

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John Pace
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Birth 1812
 Haddington, Haddingtonshire, Scotland

Australian History 1817 (Age 5)
 

Note: John Oxley charts the Lachlan River
Note: Australia's first bank, the Bank of New South Wales, opens in Macquarie Place, Sydney (it became Westpac in 1982).
Note: Governor Lachlan Macquarie petitioned the British Admiralty to use the name 'Australia' instead of 'New Holland'
Australian History 1818 (Age 6)
 

Note: Oxley charts the Macquarie River.
Australian History 1824 (Age 12)
 

Note: A penal colony is founded at Moreton Bay, now the city of Brisbane.
Note: Bathurst and Melville Islands are annexed.
Note: Permission granted to change the name of the continent from 'New Holland' to 'Australia'
Note: 1824-25 - Hume and Hovell expedition travels overland to Port Phillip Bay, discovers Murray River
Australian History 1825 (Age 13)
 

Note: New South Wales western border is extended to 129 degrees E. Van Diemen's Land is proclaimed.
Australian History 1828 (Age 16)
 

Note: Charles Sturt charts the Darling River.
Australian History 1829 (Age 17)
 

Note: The whole of Australia is claimed as British territory. The settlement of Perth is founded. Swan River Colony is declared by Charles Fremantle for Britain.
Australian History 1830 (Age 18)
 

Note: Sturt arrives at Goolwa, having charted the Murray River.
Australian History 1831 (Age 19)
 

Note: Sydney Herald (later to become The Sydney Morning Herald) first published.
Australian History 1832 (Age 20)
 

Note: Swan River Colony has its name changed to Western Australia.
Australian History 1833 (Age 21)
 

Note: The penal settlement of Port Arthur is founded in Van Diemen's Land.
Australian History 1835 (Age 23)
 

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 24)
 

Note: Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E.
Australian History 1838 (Age 26)
 

Note: First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time.
Australian History 1839 (Age 27)
 

Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.
Australian History 1840 (Age 28)
 

Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council.
Australian History 1841 (Age 29)
 

Note: New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales.
Australian History 1842 (Age 30)
 

Note: Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia.
Australian History 1843 (Age 31)
 

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).
MarriageGrace Stewart - View family
22 April 1844 (Age 32)
 Doughtag, Mochrum, Wigtown, Scotland

Birth of a son
#1		 1844 (Age 32)
 Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

son - John Pace
Australian History 1845 (Age 33)
 

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.
Birth of a son
#2		 1847 (Age 35)
 Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

son - William Maxwell Pace
Birth of a daughter
#3		 1849 (Age 37)
 Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

daughter - Ann Pace
Australian History 1850 (Age 38)
 

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 39)
 

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
Birth of a son
#4		 1853 (Age 41)
 Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

son - David Stewart Pace
Birth of a son
#5		 1853 (Age 41)
 

son - Richard Pace
Australian History 1853 (Age 41)
 

Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo
Death of a daughter 5 August 1854 (Age 42)
 

daughter - Ann Pace
Death of a son 15 August 1854 (Age 42)
 

son - Richard Pace
Australian History 1854 (Age 42)
 

Note: The Eureka Stockade
Australian History 1855 (Age 43)
 

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 44)
 

Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania.
Australian History 1857 (Age 45)
 

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 46)
 

Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph.
Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote.
Australian History 1859 (Age 47)
 

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 48)
 

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 49)
 

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 50)
 

Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E.
Australian History 1863 (Age 51)
 

Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales.
Australian History 1867 (Age 55)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland.
Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
Australian History 1868 (Age 56)
 

Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.
Australian History 1869 (Age 57)
 

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 60)
 

Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.
Australian History 1873 (Age 61)
 

Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
Australian History 1875 (Age 63)
 

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 66)
 

Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1879 (Age 67)
 

Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Australian History 1880 (Age 68)
 

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 70)
 

Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1883 (Age 71)
 

Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway
Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Death of a wife 11 October 1885 (Age 73)
 Monreith, Scotland

wife - Grace Stewart
Australian History 1887 (Age 75)
 

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 77)
 

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 78)
 

Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.
Australian History 1891 (Age 79)
 

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 80)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.
Australian History 1893 (Age 81)
 

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 82)
 

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 83)
 

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 84)
 

Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution
Australian History 1897 (Age 85)
 

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 86)
 

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 87)
 

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.
Death 6 April 1899 (Age 87)
 Monreith, Scotland

Family with Grace Stewart - View family
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John Pace

Birth 1812  Haddington, Haddingtonshire, Scotland

Death 6 April 1899 (Age 87)  Monreith, Scotland

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wife
Grace Stewart

Birth 1812 42 36  Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Death 11 October 1885 (Age 73)  Monreith, Scotland

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Marriage: 22 April 1844 — Doughtag, Mochrum, Wigtown, Scotland
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#1 son
John Pace

Birth 1844 32 32  Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

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3 years
#2 son
William Maxwell Pace

Birth 1847 35 35  Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Death 4 September 1926 (Age 79)  Newton Stewart, Scotland

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2 years
#3 daughter
Ann Pace

Birth 1849 37 37  Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Death 5 August 1854 (Age 5)  

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4 years
#4 son
David Stewart Pace

Birth 1853 41 41  Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Death 10 April 1936 (Age 83)  Newton Stewart, Scotland

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#5 son
Richard Pace

Birth 1853 41 41  

Death 15 August 1854 (Age 19 months)  

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