John Batchelder SiddellAge: 341884–1918
- Name
- John Batchelder Siddell
- Given names
- John Batchelder
- Surname
- Siddell
| Birth | 28 May 1884 36 36 Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA John Batchelder Siddell COB |
| Marriage | Alice Gertrude Hosford - View family yes |
| Australian History | 1887 (Age 2) 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 4) 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 5) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Australian History | 1891 (Age 6) 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 7) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1893 (Age 8) 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 9) 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. |
| Death of a paternal grandfather | 1895 (Age 10) Simsbury, Connecticut, USA
paternal grandfather -
Robert Siddell
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| Australian History | 1895 (Age 10) 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 11) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Australian History | 1897 (Age 12) 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 13) 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 14) 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 15) 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 brother | 17 December 1901 (Age 17) Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, USA
elder brother -
George Abram Siddell Jr.
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| Australian History | 1901 (Age 16) 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 17) 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 18) 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 19) 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 21) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Australian History | 1908 (Age 23) Note: Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country Note: The Dalgety proposal for the national capital is revoked, and Canberra is chosen instead |
| Birth of a son #1 | 25 December 1909 (Age 25) 44 Thomas Street, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, USA
son -
George Arthur Siddell
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| Australian History | 1909 (Age 24) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Occupation | Automobile Finisher 1910 (Age 25) Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, USA |
| Australian History | 1910 (Age 25) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Australian History | 1911 (Age 26) 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 27) 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 28) 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 28) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Australian History | 1914 (Age 29) 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 30) 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 31) 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 32) 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. |
| Military | Draft Registration 12 September 1918 (Age 34)hn Batchelder Siddell Draft Registration |
| Australian History | 1918 (Age 33) 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. |
| Death | 22 December 1918 (Age 34) 24 Victoria St. Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, USA |
| Family with parents - View family |
| father |
Birth 13 March 1848 26 19 Livingston, New York, USA Death 13 January 1933 (Age 84) Goffstown, New Hampshire, USA |
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1 month mother |
Birth 9 April 1848 Plainfield, Washington, Vermont, USA Death 23 March 1932 (Age 83) Chicopee, Hampden, Massachusetts, USA |
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Marriage: 19 September 1867 — Simsburg, Hartford, Connecticut, USA |
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8 months #1 elder brother |
Birth 23 May 1868 20 20 Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA Death 23 April 1876 (Age 7) Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA |
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4 years #2 elder brother |
Robert Batchelder Siddell
Birth 26 June 1872 24 24 Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA Death 28 April 1876 (Age 3) Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA |
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14 months #3 elder sister |
Anna Bertha Siddell
Birth 14 August 1873 25 25 Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA Death 23 May 1958 (Age 84) Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA |
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7 years #4 elder sister |
Margaret Smith Siddell
Birth 7 September 1880 32 32 Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA Death 28 June 1882 (Age 21 months) Erving, Franklin, Massachusetts, USA |
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2 years #5 elder brother |
George Abram Siddell Jr.
Birth 25 January 1883 34 34 Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA Death 17 December 1901 (Age 18) Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, USA |
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16 months #6 himself |
John Batchelder Siddell
Birth 28 May 1884 36 36 Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA Death 22 December 1918 (Age 34) 24 Victoria St. Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, USA |
| Family with Alice Gertrude Hosford - View family |
| himself |
John Batchelder Siddell
Birth 28 May 1884 36 36 Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA Death 22 December 1918 (Age 34) 24 Victoria St. Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, USA |
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13 months wife |
Birth 23 June 1885 Malone, Franklin, New York, USA Death 17 December 1962 (Age 77) Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, USA |
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Marriage: yes |
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| #1 son |
Birth 25 December 1909 25 24 44 Thomas Street, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, USA Death 2 April 1991 (Age 81) Palm Beach, Palm Beach, Florida, USA |
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