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Frances Annie de CourcyAge: 471835–1882

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Frances Annie de Courcy
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Frances Annie
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de Courcy
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Birth 1835
 Dublin, Ireland

Australian History 1835
 

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 12 months)
 

Note: Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E.
Australian History 1838 (Age 3)
 

Note: First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time.
Australian History 1839 (Age 4)
 

Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.
Australian History 1840 (Age 5)
 

Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council.
Australian History 1841 (Age 6)
 

Note: New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales.
Australian History 1842 (Age 7)
 

Note: Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia.
Australian History 1843 (Age 8)
 

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 10)
 

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 15)
 

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 16)
 

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 18)
 

Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo
Australian History 1854 (Age 19)
 

Note: The Eureka Stockade
Australian History 1855 (Age 20)
 

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.
Birth of a daughter
#1		 1856 (Age 21)
 Ararat, Victoria, Australia

daughter - Adelaide Annie Briggs
Australian History 1856 (Age 21)
 

Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania.
Australian History 1857 (Age 22)
 

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 23)
 

Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph.
Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote.
Australian History 1859 (Age 24)
 

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 25)
 

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 26)
 

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 27)
 

Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E.
Australian History 1863 (Age 28)
 

Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales.
Australian History 1867 (Age 32)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland.
Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
Australian History 1868 (Age 33)
 

Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.
Australian History 1869 (Age 34)
 

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 37)
 

Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.
Australian History 1873 (Age 38)
 

Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
Australian History 1875 (Age 40)
 

Note: SS Gothenburg strikes Old Reef off North Queensland and sinks with the loss of approximately 102 lives.
Note: Adelaide Steamship Company is formed.
Marriage of a daughterAdelaide Annie Briggs - View family
1877 (Age 42)
 Clunes, Victoria, Australia

son-in-law - David Madill
daughter - Adelaide Annie Briggs
Australian History 1878 (Age 43)
 

Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Birth of a granddaughter
#1		 9 August 1879 (Age 44)
 Undera, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Annie Elizabeth Madill
Death of a daughter 11 December 1879 (Age 44)
 Ararat, Victoria, Australia

daughter - Adelaide Annie Briggs
Australian History 1879 (Age 44)
 

Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Australian History 1880 (Age 45)
 

Note: The bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged.
Note: Parliamentarians in Victoria become the first in Australia to be paid for their work.
MarriageCharles Henry Briggs - View family
1882 (Age 47)
 

Source: Reg. Victoria 6133
Australian History 1882 (Age 47)
 

Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Death 4 August 1882 (Age 47)
 

Family with Charles Henry Briggs - View family
husband
Charles Henry Briggs

Birth 18 July 1833  

Death  26 Aug 1903

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herself
Frances Annie de Courcy

Birth 1835  Dublin, Ireland

Death 4 August 1882 (Age 47)  

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Marriage: 1882
-26 years
#1 daughter
Adelaide Annie Briggs

Birth 1856 22 21  Ararat, Victoria, Australia

Death 11 December 1879 (Age 23)  Ararat, Victoria, Australia

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MarriageReg. Victoria 6133
MarriageReg. Victoria 6133

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