Catherine Sarah "Kitty" StarrittAge: 751908–1983
- Name
- Catherine Sarah "Kitty" Starritt
- Given names
- Catherine Sarah
- Nickname
- Kitty
- Surname
- Starritt
| Birth | 30 July 1908 33 27 Shepparton, Victoria, Australia |
| Australian History | 1908 Note: Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country Note: The Dalgety proposal for the national capital is revoked, and Canberra is chosen instead |
| Birth of a sister | 20 September 1909 (Age 13 months) Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Jean Francis Starritt
|
| Australian History | 1909 (Age 5 months) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Australian History | 1910 (Age 17 months) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Birth of a brother | 27 May 1911 (Age 2) Australia
younger brother -
Norman George Starritt
|
| Australian History | 1911 (Age 2) 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 3) 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 4) 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 4) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Birthday Card | Letter 30 July 1914 (Age 6)
mother -
Emma Tomina "Sis" Stewart
Card from Emma to Kitty 1914 |
| Australian History | 1914 (Age 5) 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. |
| Event | 30 July 1914 (Age 6)
mother -
Emma Tomina "Sis" Stewart
|
| Birth of a brother | 22 February 1915 (Age 6) Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Alan Robert Starritt
|
| Australian History | 1915 (Age 6) 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 7) 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 8) 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. |
| Death of a paternal grandmother | 25 August 1918 (Age 10) Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
paternal grandmother -
Catherine Gregg
|
| Australian History | 1918 (Age 9) 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 10) 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. |
| Birth of a sister | 13 December 1920 (Age 12) Australia
younger sister -
Phyllis Marjorie Starritt
|
| Australian History | 1920 (Age 11) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
| Death of a paternal grandfather | 22 January 1921 (Age 12) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
paternal grandfather -
Robert Starritt
|
| Australian History | 1921 (Age 12) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Australian History | 1922 (Age 13) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
| Education | Grade 8 Merit Certificate 26 May 1923 (Age 14) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia School or college: Mooroopna West School Grade 8 Merit Certificate Kitty Starritt |
| Australian History | 1923 (Age 14) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
| Occupation | At Home 1924 (Age 15) |
| Australian History | 1926 (Age 17) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held |
| Australian History | 1927 (Age 18) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
| Australian History | 1928 (Age 19) Note: Bert Hinkler makes the first successful flight from Britain to Australia, and Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first flight from the United States to Australia. The Shrine of Remembrance is built. |
| Australian History | 1929 (Age 20) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia. |
| Australian History | 1930 (Age 21) Note: Batsman Don Bradman scores a record 452 not out in one cricket innings Note: Phar Lap wins his first Melbourne Cup |
| Australian History | 1931 (Age 22) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia |
| Australian History | 1932 (Age 23) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister |
| Death of a father | 7 April 1933 (Age 24) Australia
father -
Robert Gregg "Bob" Starritt
|
| Australian History | 1933 (Age 24) Note: Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments |
| Sporting | Tennis - Women's Singles Champion January 1934 (Age 25)The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 2 January 1934 Page 13 Tennis 1934 |
| Residence | May 1936 (Age 27) Buln Buln Road, Drouin East, Victoria, Australia Address: (aka 65 Lockwood Road) |
| Birth of a daughter #1 | 13 November 1936 (Age 28) Warragul, Victoria, Australia
daughter -
Annette Rita Madill
|
| Australian History | 1936 (Age 27) Note: The last Thylacine dies |
| Death of a maternal grandfather | 6 October 1937 (Age 29) Mooroopna Base Hospital, Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
maternal grandfather -
Ivie Stewart
|
| Australian History | 1937 (Age 28) Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins |
| Birth of a son #2 | 23 August 1938 (Age 30) Warragul, Victoria, Australia
son -
Alan James Madill
|
| Letter | Letter 20 October 1938 (Age 30)
mother -
Emma Tomina "Sis" Stewart
|
| Australian History | 1938 (Age 29) Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games |
| Event | 20 October 1938 (Age 30)
mother -
Emma Tomina "Sis" Stewart
|
| Australian History | 1939 (Age 30) Note: (April) Prime Minister Lyons dies in office and is replaced by Robert Menzies and the first Menzies Government Note: (September) Australia enters the Second World War following the German Invasion of Poland. The 2nd Australian Imperial Force is raised. Note: The first flight is made by an Australian-made warplane, the Wirraway Note: Victoria is devastated by the Black Friday bushfires |
| Birth of a son #3 | 16 February 1940 (Age 31)
son -
Ian David Madill
|
| Australian History | 1940 (Age 31) Note: A team of scientists, under Howard Florey, develops penicillin Note: Fascist Italy enters war, Royal Australian Navy engages Italian Navy in the early stages of the Battle of the Mediterranean. |
| Australian History | 1941 (Age 32) Note: 3 Divisions of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force join operations in the Mediterranean. After initial successes against Italy, 2nd AIF suffered defeat against the Germans in Greece, Crete, and North Africa. Note: Apr-Aug, Australian garrison (Rats of Tobruk) halt advance of Hitler's panzers for the first time during the Siege of Tobruk. Note: Menzies resigns and John Curtin becomes Prime Minister in the Curtin Government of 1941-45. |
| Birth of a son #4 | 21 July 1942 (Age 33) Warragul, Victoria, Australia
son -
Noel Stuart Madill
|
| Australian History | 1942 (Age 33) Note: Feb, Fall of Singapore. 15,000 Australians become Prisoners of War of the Japanese Note: 1942-43 - Japanese air raids - almost 100 attacks against sites in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland. Note: The Royal Australian Navy and 6th and 7th Divisions of 2nd AIF are recalled from Mediterranean Theatre to participate in the anticipated Battle of Australia. Note: 1942-3 - Sparrow Force engages in guerilla campaign in Battle of Timor Note: Battle of the Coral Sea - United States and Royal Australian Navy halt advance of the Japanese towards Port Moresby (Australian Territory of Papua) Note: Battle of Kokoda Trail - Australian soldiers halt Japanese march on Port Moresby Note: Aug-Sep, Australian forces inflict the first defeat on the Imperial Japanese Army in the Battle of Milne Bay. Note: Jul-Nov, Australia's 9th Division plays crucial role in the First and Second Battle of El Alamein, which turned the North Africa Campaign in favour of the Allies. Note: National daylight saving is introduced as a war time measure. Note: The UK Statute of Westminster is formally adopted by Australia. The Statute formally grants Australia the right to pass laws that conflict with UK laws. |
| Australian History | 1943 (Age 34) Note: Australia wins its first Oscar, with cinematographer Damien Parer honoured for Kokoda Front Line! documentary. Note: 2,815 Australian Pows die constructing Japan's Burma-Thailand Railway Note: 1943-44 - Australian forces engage Japan in New Guinea, Wau, and the Huon peninsula. |
| Birth of a daughter #5 | 20 March 1944 (Age 35) Warragul, Victoria, Australia
daughter -
Elaine Margaret Madill
|
| Australian History | 1944 (Age 35) Note: Cowra breakout, mass escape of Japanese prisoners of war occurs in NSW. Note: Japanese inflict Sandakan Death March on 2,000 Australian and British prisoners of war - only 6 survive. The single worst war crime perpetrated against Australians. Note: Australian forces battle Japanese garrisons from Borneo to Bougainville. Note: The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme is introduced, providing subsidised medicine to all Australians |
| Australian History | 1945 (Age 36) Note: the Liberal Party of Australia is established with Robert Menzies as its first leader. Note: Australian forces lead Battle of Borneo Note: (7 May) Nazi Germany surrenders Note: (July) Prime Minister Curtin dies and is replaced by Ben Chifley and the Chifley Labor Government Note: (1 August) Japan Surrenders Note: Australia becomes a founding member of the United Nations Note: The Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race is held for the first time |
| Australian History | 1946 (Age 37) Note: Minister for Immigration Arthur Calwell introduces the major post-war immigration scheme Note: Norman Makin, is voted in as the first President of the United Nations Security Council. |
| Australian History | 1948 (Age 39) Note: Minister for External Affairs, Dr. H.V. Evatt is elected President of the United Nations General Assembly. Note: Australia becomes a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. |
| Australian History | 1949 (Age 40) Note: Construction of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme begins Note: All indigenous ex-servicemen and any Indigenous Australians who are eligible to vote in State Elections (NSW, VIC, SA and TAS) are given an unrestricted right to vote in Federal Elections. Note: The Nationality and Citizenship Act is passed. Rather than being identified as subjects of Britain, the Act established Australian citizenship for people who met eligibility requirements. Note: Menzies returns to power as leader of the new Liberal Party Menzies Government. |
| Death of a mother | 4 January 1950 (Age 41) Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
mother -
Emma Tomina "Sis" Stewart
|
| Australian History | 1950 (Age 41) Note: 1950-53 - Australian troops are sent to the Korean War to assist South Korea. Note: Voters reject a referendum to change the Constitution to allow the Menzies Government to ban the Communist Party |
| Australian History | 1951 (Age 42) Note: Australia signs the ANZUS treaty with the United States and New Zealand |
| Australian History | 1952 (Age 43) Note: First nuclear test conducted in Australian territory by the United Kingdom off the coast of Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1954 (Age 45) Note: Elizabeth II and Prince Philip make a royal visit; the Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov defects, leading to the Petrov Affair and another split in the Labor Party |
| Australian History | 1955 (Age 46) Note: Democratic Labor Party splits from Australian Labor Party over concerns of Communist influence in the labour movement Note: Australia becomes involved in Malayan Insurgence Note: Hotels in New South Wales no longer have to close at 6 p.m., ending the 'six o'clock swill' |
| Australian History | 1956 (Age 47) Note: Television in Australia is launched. Note: Melbourne holds the Olympics Note: performing artist Barry Humphries introduces Edna Everage to the Australian stage |
| Death of a brother | 27 June 1957 (Age 48) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Alan Robert Starritt
|
| Australian History | 1957 (Age 48) Note: The song 'Wild One' makes Johnny O'Keefe the first Australian rock'n'roller to reach the national charts. Note: Slim Dusty's Australian country music hit Pub With No Beer becomes the first Australian song to attain international chart success. |
| Letter | Letter 15 May 1958 (Age 49)
daughter -
Annette Rita Madill
|
| Event | 15 May 1958 (Age 49)
daughter -
Annette Rita Madill
|
| Photo | Family Photo 1961 (Age 52) |
| Australian History | 1962 (Age 53) Note: Robert Menzies' Commonwealth Electoral Act provided that all Indigenous Australians should have the right to enrol and vote at federal elections, removing remaining restrictions applying in QLD, WA and NT. Note: Malayan Insurgence ends |
| Australian History | 1964 (Age 55) Note: The Beatles tour Australia; Note: 82 sailors die when HMAS Voyager sinks after being rammed by HMAS Melbourne; Note: The editors of Oz magazine are charged with obscenity; Note: PM Robert Menzies announces the reintroduction of compulsory military service for men aged from 18-25 years old; Note: First troops sent to Vietnam War. |
| Australian History | 1965 (Age 56) Note: Indigenous Australians gain right to vote in state of Queensland |
| Australian History | 1966 (Age 57) Note: The ban on the employment of married women in the Commonwealth Public Service is lifted; Note: Menzies retires as Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister and is succeeded by Harold Holt. |
| Australian History | 14 February 1966 (Age 57) Note: Decimalisation; on 14 February the Australian currency is changed to dollars and cents, with the Australian Dollar replacing the Australian pound. |
| Australian History | 1967 (Age 58) Note: Large areas of Hobart and south-eastern Tasmania are devastated by bushfires on 7 February that kill 62 people; Note: Prime Minister Holt drowns and is succeeded by John Gorton; Note: The constitution is changed to allow Aboriginal Australians to be included in the population count and for the federal government to legislate for them; Sydney is rocked by a series of brutal underworld killings; Note: Talkback radio is introduced; Note: British comedian Tony Hancock commits suicide in Sydney; Note: Gough Whitlam becomes leader of the Labor Party; Note: Ronald Ryan becomes the last person legally executed in Australia. |
| Birth of a grandson #1 | 14 October 1968 (Age 60) Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
grandson -
Bradley Stewart Lyle Potts
|
| Australian History | 1968 (Age 59) Note: Australia signs the nuclear non-proliferation treaty; Aboriginal boxing champion Lionel Rose defeats Masahiko 'Fighting' Harada in Japan to become the world bantamweight champion; Australia's first liver transplant operation is performed in Sydney; |
| Australian History | 1969 (Age 60) Note: French conceptual artist Christo 'wraps' Little Bay in Sydney; Note: Renowned author-artists Norman Lindsay and May Gibbs die; Note: The Australian production of the rock musical Hair premieres in Sydney; Note: Top pop groups The Easybeats and The Twilights break up; Tim Burstall directs2000 Weeks, the first all-Australian feature released since Charles Chauvel's Jedda in 1958 |
| Australian History | 1970 (Age 61) Note: More than 200,000 people participate in the largest demonstrations in Australian history, against the Vietnam War |
| Australian History | 1971 (Age 62) Note: Neville Bonner becomes the first Aborigine to become an Australian Member of Parliament; Note: John Gorton resigns and is succeeded by William McMahon Note: The 1971 Springbok tour sparks protest all throughout Australia. Premier of Queensland Joh Bjelke-Petersen declares a state of emergency in QLD in response to escalating protest. Note: Daylight Saving is introduced to New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, and the Australian Capital Territory. |
| Australian History | 1972 (Age 63) Note: The Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission rules that women doing the same job as men have the right to be paid the same wage. Note: Aboriginal Tent Embassy erected in response to the Coalition government's approval of exploration licences and mining tenements on reserves Note: The first Labor government since 1949 is elected under the leadership of Gough Whitlam Note: Australia recognizes the People's Republic of China Note: Queensland abandons Daylight Saving. |
| Australian History | 1973 (Age 64) Note: The Sydney Opera House is opened Note: The White Australian Policy (established 1901) is officially dismantled Note: Vietnam War ends Note: The federal voting age is dropped from 21 to 18 Note: Unionists save the historic 'The Rocks' area of Sydney from demolition by introducing 'Green Bans' Note: Patrick White becomes the first Australian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature |
| Australian History | 1974 (Age 65) Note: Darwin is devastated by Cyclone Tracy |
| Birth of a grandson #2 | 24 June 1975 (Age 66) Warragul, Victoria, Australia
grandson -
Kelvin Robert Gregg Maisey
|
| Australian History | 1975 (Age 66) Note: (November) A constitutional crisis occurs when Malcolm Fraser blocks supply, bringing the nation to a standstill until Governor-General John Kerr dismisses Prime Minister Gough Whitlam on the 11.11.75. Fraser wins elections and becomes Prime Minister Note: The 'Privy Council (Appeals from the High Court) Act removes the right to appeal High Court decisions to the British Privy Council. Appeals to the Privy Council direct from State Supreme Courts remain until 1988. Note: South Australia becomes the first state in Australia to legalise homosexuality between consenting adults in private. Note: Whitlam government introduced the Aboriginal Land (NT) Bill into Parliament. The bill proposed land rights in the Northern Territory based on land claimed on grounds of need as well as traditional affiliation and traditional landowners maintaining control over mining and development. |
| Australian History | 1976 (Age 67) Note: The Australian Capital Territory legalises homosexuality between consenting adults in private. |
| Australian History | 1977 (Age 68) Note: Advance Australia Fair becomes Australia's official national anthem Note: Granville rail disaster killed eighty-three people |
| Australian History | 1978 (Age 69) Note: The First Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras kicks off in Sydney |
| Australian History | 1979 (Age 70) Note: Australian women win the right to maternity leave Note: Kakadu National Park and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park are both proclaimed. |
| Australian History | 1980 (Age 71) Note: Baby Azaria Chamberlain disappears from a campsite at Uluru (Ayers Rock), reportedly taken by a dingo. The Coalition wins the 1980 Australian federal election. |
| Australian History | 1981 (Age 72) Note: A referendum is held in Tasmania to vote for whether or not the Franklin Dam should be built. |
| Letter | Letter from Ray to Jim and Kitty 22 April 1982 (Age 73) Tatura, Victoria, Australia
husband -
David James "Jim" Madill
first cousin -
George Rathjen "Ray" Starritt O.B.E.
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| Letter | Letter 22 April 1982 (Age 73) Tatura, Victoria, Australia
first cousin -
George Rathjen "Ray" Starritt O.B.E.
husband -
David James "Jim" Madill
grandson -
Private
great-grandson -
Private
Note: Mentions Jason Potts |
| Australian History | 1982 (Age 73) Note: Commonwealth Games held in Brisbane. The National Gallery of Australia is opened. |
| Event | 22 April 1982 (Age 73) Tatura, Victoria, Australia
husband -
David James "Jim" Madill
|
| Event | 22 April 1982 (Age 73) Tatura, Victoria, Australia
first cousin -
George Rathjen "Ray" Starritt O.B.E.
|
| Death of a husband | 7 August 1982 (Age 74) Warragul, Victoria, Australia
husband -
David James "Jim" Madill
|
| Burial of a husband | 10 August 1982 (Age 74) Warragul, Victoria, Australia
husband -
David James "Jim" Madill
|
| Australian History | 1983 (Age 74) Note: Australia wins the America's Cup; Note: Bob Hawke defeats Fraser and leads Labor back to government. Note: The Australian Dollar is floated. Note: The Ash Wednesday fires kill 71 people. |
| Death | 5 August 1983 (Age 75) Warragul, Victoria, Australia |
| Burial | 8 August 1983 (3 days after death) Warragul, Victoria, Australia |
| Religion | Presbyterian |
| Family with parents - View family |
| father |
Birth 16 May 1875 32 30 Gunbower, Victoria, Australia Death 7 April 1933 (Age 57) Australia |
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6 years mother |
Birth 10 March 1881 28 24 North West Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia Death 4 January 1950 (Age 68) Shepparton, Victoria, Australia |
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Marriage: 30 October 1907 — Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia |
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9 months #1 herself |
Birth 30 July 1908 33 27 Shepparton, Victoria, Australia Death 5 August 1983 (Age 75) Warragul, Victoria, Australia |
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14 months #2 younger sister |
Birth 20 September 1909 34 28 Shepparton, Victoria, Australia Death 12 February 1997 (Age 87) Forbes, New South Wales, Australia |
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20 months #3 younger brother |
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4 years #4 younger brother |
Birth 22 February 1915 39 33 Shepparton, Victoria, Australia Death 27 June 1957 (Age 42) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia |
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6 years #5 younger sister |
Birth 13 December 1920 45 39 Australia Death Age: 89 Shepparton, Victoria, Australia |
| Family with David James "Jim" Madill - View family |
| husband |
Birth 28 February 1903 47 20 Albert Park, Victoria, Australia Death 7 August 1982 (Age 79) Warragul, Victoria, Australia |
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5 years herself |
Birth 30 July 1908 33 27 Shepparton, Victoria, Australia Death 5 August 1983 (Age 75) Warragul, Victoria, Australia |
| #1 daughter |
Birth 13 November 1936 33 28 Warragul, Victoria, Australia Death 2 February 2021 (Age 84) Moe, Victoria, Australia |
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21 months #2 son |
Birth 23 August 1938 35 30 Warragul, Victoria, Australia Death 9 December 2006 (Age 68) Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
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18 months #3 son |
Birth 16 February 1940 36 31 Death 18 July 2008 (Age 68) 65 Lockwood Road, Drouin East, Victoria, Australia |
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2 years #4 son |
Birth 21 July 1942 39 33 Warragul, Victoria, Australia Death 26 December 2004 (Age 62) Miriwinni, Queensland, Australia |
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20 months #5 daughter |
Birth 20 March 1944 41 35 Warragul, Victoria, Australia Death 10 May 2018 (Age 74) Warragul, Victoria, Australia |
| #6 daughter |
Catherine Sarah "Kitty" Starritt has 22 first cousins recorded
Father's family (17)
Parents Richard Harry Thomas + Sarah Ann Starritt
Parents James Buchanan Rankin Sr. + Ellenor Mary Starritt
Parents George Starritt OBE + Amanda Rathjen
Parents Alfred Edward Rathjen + Catherine Matilda "Cassie" Starritt
Mother's family (5)
Parents Alexander John "Jack" Stewart + Catherine Thompson
Parents John Fairbairn Dunolp + Naomi Eliza Stewart
Parents Charles Edwin Mc Donald + Florence "Floss" Stewart
| Birth | Noted on Death Record Parents Joseph Jordan & Jane Jenkins (Grandparents) |
| Australian History | Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country |
| Australian History | The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Australian History | Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Australian History | The Royal Australian Navy is founded |
| Australian History | Australia sends women to the Olympic Games for the first time |
| Australian History | Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth cross the Blue Mountains. |
| Australian History | The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Australian History | 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 | (25 APRIL)Australian soldiers land at Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey on 25 April. |
| Australian History | Hotels are forced to close at 6 p.m., leading to the beginning of the 'six o'clock swill' |
| Australian History | Second referendum on conscription is rejected. Transcontinental railway linking Adelaide to Perth is completed. |
| Australian History | (08 AUG) Battle of Amiens |
| Australian History | 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 | The airline Qantas is founded |
| Australian History | Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Australian History | The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
| Australian History | Vegemite is first produced |
| Australian History | The first Miss Australia contest is held |
| Australian History | The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
| Australian History | Bert Hinkler makes the first successful flight from Britain to Australia, and Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first flight from the United States to Australia. The Shrine of Remembrance is built. |
| Australian History | Western Australia celebrates its centenary |
| Australian History | Batsman Don Bradman scores a record 452 not out in one cricket innings |
| Australian History | Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia |
| Australian History | The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens |
| Australian History | Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments |
| Australian History | The last Thylacine dies |
| Australian History | The radio series Dad and Dave begins |
| Australian History | Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games |
| Australian History | (April) Prime Minister Lyons dies in office and is replaced by Robert Menzies and the first Menzies Government |
| Australian History | A team of scientists, under Howard Florey, develops penicillin |
| Australian History | 3 Divisions of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force join operations in the Mediterranean. After initial successes against Italy, 2nd AIF suffered defeat against the Germans in Greece, Crete, and North Africa. |
| Australian History | Feb, Fall of Singapore. 15,000 Australians become Prisoners of War of the Japanese |
| Australian History | Australia wins its first Oscar, with cinematographer Damien Parer honoured for Kokoda Front Line! documentary. |
| Australian History | Cowra breakout, mass escape of Japanese prisoners of war occurs in NSW. |
| Australian History | the Liberal Party of Australia is established with Robert Menzies as its first leader. |
| Australian History | Minister for Immigration Arthur Calwell introduces the major post-war immigration scheme |
| Australian History | Minister for External Affairs, Dr. H.V. Evatt is elected President of the United Nations General Assembly. |
| Australian History | Construction of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme begins |
| Australian History | 1950-53 - Australian troops are sent to the Korean War to assist South Korea. |
| Australian History | Australia signs the ANZUS treaty with the United States and New Zealand |
| Australian History | First nuclear test conducted in Australian territory by the United Kingdom off the coast of Western Australia. |
| Australian History | Elizabeth II and Prince Philip make a royal visit; the Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov defects, leading to the Petrov Affair and another split in the Labor Party |
| Australian History | Democratic Labor Party splits from Australian Labor Party over concerns of Communist influence in the labour movement |
| Australian History | Television in Australia is launched. |
| Australian History | The song 'Wild One' makes Johnny O'Keefe the first Australian rock'n'roller to reach the national charts. |
| Australian History | Robert Menzies' Commonwealth Electoral Act provided that all Indigenous Australians should have the right to enrol and vote at federal elections, removing remaining restrictions applying in QLD, WA and NT. |
| Australian History | The Beatles tour Australia; |
| Australian History | Indigenous Australians gain right to vote in state of Queensland |
| Australian History | The ban on the employment of married women in the Commonwealth Public Service is lifted; |
| Australian History | Decimalisation; on 14 February the Australian currency is changed to dollars and cents, with the Australian Dollar replacing the Australian pound. |
| Australian History | Large areas of Hobart and south-eastern Tasmania are devastated by bushfires on 7 February that kill 62 people; |
| Australian History | Australia signs the nuclear non-proliferation treaty; Aboriginal boxing champion Lionel Rose defeats Masahiko 'Fighting' Harada in Japan to become the world bantamweight champion; Australia's first liver transplant operation is performed in Sydney; |
| Australian History | French conceptual artist Christo 'wraps' Little Bay in Sydney; |
| Australian History | More than 200,000 people participate in the largest demonstrations in Australian history, against the Vietnam War |
| Australian History | Neville Bonner becomes the first Aborigine to become an Australian Member of Parliament; |
| Australian History | The Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission rules that women doing the same job as men have the right to be paid the same wage. |
| Australian History | The Sydney Opera House is opened |
| Australian History | Darwin is devastated by Cyclone Tracy |
| Australian History | (November) A constitutional crisis occurs when Malcolm Fraser blocks supply, bringing the nation to a standstill until Governor-General John Kerr dismisses Prime Minister Gough Whitlam on the 11.11.75. Fraser wins elections and becomes Prime Minister |
| Australian History | The Australian Capital Territory legalises homosexuality between consenting adults in private. |
| Australian History | Advance Australia Fair becomes Australia's official national anthem |
| Australian History | The First Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras kicks off in Sydney |
| Australian History | Australian women win the right to maternity leave |
| Australian History | Baby Azaria Chamberlain disappears from a campsite at Uluru (Ayers Rock), reportedly taken by a dingo. The Coalition wins the 1980 Australian federal election. |
| Australian History | A referendum is held in Tasmania to vote for whether or not the Franklin Dam should be built. |
| Letter | Mentions Jason Potts |
| Australian History | Commonwealth Games held in Brisbane. The National Gallery of Australia is opened. |
| Australian History | Australia wins the America's Cup; |