Robert Gregg "Bob" StarrittAge: 571875–1933
- Name
- Robert Gregg "Bob" Starritt
- Given names
- Robert Gregg
- Nickname
- Bob
- Surname
- Starritt
| Birth | 16 May 1875 32 30 Gunbower, Victoria, Australia |
| Australian History | 1875 Note: SS Gothenburg strikes Old Reef off North Queensland and sinks with the loss of approximately 102 lives. Note: Adelaide Steamship Company is formed. |
| Birth of a sister | 23 August 1877 (Age 2) Gunbower, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Ellenor Mary Starritt
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| Australian History | 1878 (Age 2) Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Birth of a sister | November 1879 (Age 4) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Martha Starritt
|
| Australian History | 1879 (Age 3) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held. |
| Australian History | 1880 (Age 4) Note: The bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged. Note: Parliamentarians in Victoria become the first in Australia to be paid for their work. |
| Birth of a brother | 11 June 1881 (Age 6) Gunbower, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
George Starritt OBE
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| Death of a sister | 4 August 1882 (Age 7) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Martha Starritt
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| Australian History | 1882 (Age 6) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1883 (Age 7) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill |
| Birth of a sister | 1885 (Age 9) Australia
younger sister -
Catherine Matilda "Cassie" Starritt
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| Australian History | 1887 (Age 11) 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 13) 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 14) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Occupation | Farmer 1891 (Age 15) |
| Australian History | 1891 (Age 15) 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 16) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1893 (Age 17) 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 18) 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. |
| Marriage of a sister | Margaret Jane Starritt - View family 1895 (estimated) (Age 19)
brother-in-law -
George Gordon
elder sister -
Margaret Jane Starritt
|
| Australian History | 1895 (Age 19) 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 20) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Australian History | 1897 (Age 21) 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 22) 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 23) 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 24) 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 |
| Marriage of a sister | Sarah Ann Starritt - View family 10 October 1901 (Age 26)
brother-in-law -
Richard Harry Thomas
elder sister -
Sarah Ann Starritt
|
| Australian History | 1901 (Age 25) 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 26) 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 |
| Marriage of a sister | Ellenor Mary Starritt - View family 1903 (Age 27)
brother-in-law -
James Buchanan Rankin Sr.
younger sister -
Ellenor Mary Starritt
|
| Australian History | 1903 (Age 27) 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 28) 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 30) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Marriage | Emma Tomina "Sis" Stewart - View family 30 October 1907 (Age 32) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia Note: The Stewart family lived across the road from that part of the Starritt farm known as "Cobbledicks", so the two families would have known each other fairly well. Robert and Emma were married at "Woodlands", the home of Emma's parents Ivie and Sarah. Robert and Emma Starritt Wedding Certificate |
| Birth of a daughter #1 | 30 July 1908 (Age 33) Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
daughter -
Catherine Sarah "Kitty" Starritt
|
| Australian History | 1908 (Age 32) Note: Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country Note: The Dalgety proposal for the national capital is revoked, and Canberra is chosen instead |
| Birth of a daughter #2 | 20 September 1909 (Age 34) Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
daughter -
Jean Francis Starritt
|
| Australian History | 1909 (Age 33) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Death of a sister | 24 July 1910 (Age 35)
elder sister -
Margaret Jane Starritt
|
| Australian History | 1910 (Age 34) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Birth of a son #3 | 27 May 1911 (Age 36) Australia
son -
Norman George Starritt
|
| Australian History | 1911 (Age 35) 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. |
| Marriage of a brother | George Starritt OBE - View family 9 October 1912 (Age 37) Australia
younger brother -
George Starritt OBE
sister-in-law -
Amanda Rathjen
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| Australian History | 1912 (Age 36) 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 37) 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 37) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
| Australian History | 1914 (Age 38) 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. |
| Birth of a son #4 | 22 February 1915 (Age 39) Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
son -
Alan Robert Starritt
|
| Australian History | 1915 (Age 39) 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 40) 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 41) 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 mother | 25 August 1918 (Age 43) Shepparton, Victoria, Australia
mother -
Catherine Gregg
|
| Photo | Starrit and Rankin Families - Estimated 1918 1918 (estimated) (Age 42) "Kelso Park", North West Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia Starrit and Rankin Families - Estimated 1918 |
| Australian History | 1918 (Age 42) 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 43) 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 daughter #5 | 13 December 1920 (Age 45) Australia
daughter -
Phyllis Marjorie Starritt
|
| Australian History | 1920 (Age 44) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
| Death of a father | 22 January 1921 (Age 45) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
father -
Robert Starritt
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| Australian History | 1921 (Age 45) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
| Australian History | 1922 (Age 46) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
| Australian History | 1923 (Age 47) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
| Australian History | 1926 (Age 50) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held |
| Australian History | 1927 (Age 51) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
| Australian History | 1928 (Age 52) 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 53) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia. |
| Australian History | 1930 (Age 54) 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 55) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia |
| Silver Wedding | Anniverary 30 October 1932 (Age 57)The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Monday 31 October 1932 Page 1
Note:
SILVER WEDDING
STARRITT – STEWART. On the 30th October, 1907, at residence of the bride’s father, N.W. Mooroopna, by the Rev. C.A. Fraser, Robert Gregg, the eldest son of the late Robert and Catherine Starritt, of Kelso Park, N.W. Mooroopna, to Emma Tommina, the second daughter of Ivie and the late Sarah Stewart, of Woodlands, N.W. Mooroopna. (Present address, Rosedale, N.W. Mooroopna.) |
| Australian History | 1932 (Age 56) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister |
| Australian History | 1933 (Age 57) Note: Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments |
| Death | 7 April 1933 (Age 57) Australia Cause of death: Heart Attack |
| Newspaper | In Memory 7 April 1934 (12 months after death)The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Saturday 7 April 1934 Page 13 |
| Newspaper | In Memory 7 April 1936 (3 years after death)The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Tuesday 7 April 1936 Page 1 |
| Newspaper | In Memory 7 April 1937 (4 years after death)The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Wednesday 7 April 1937 Page 1 |
| Newpaper | In Memory 7 April 1941 (8 years after death) |
| Family with parents - View family |
| father |
Birth 1843 33 Gortnalabin, Letterkenny, Donegal, Ireland Death 22 January 1921 (Age 78) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia |
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2 years mother |
Birth 1845 35 Moneylagan, Donegal, Ireland Death 25 August 1918 (Age 73) Shepparton, Victoria, Australia |
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Marriage: 2 August 1870 — Creswick, Victoria, Australia |
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13 months #1 elder sister |
Birth 20 August 1871 28 26 Ballarat, Victoria, Australia Death 24 July 1910 (Age 38) |
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22 months #2 elder sister |
Birth 8 June 1873 30 28 Ballarat, Victoria, Australia Death 16 August 1945 (Age 72) |
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23 months #3 himself |
Birth 16 May 1875 32 30 Gunbower, Victoria, Australia Death 7 April 1933 (Age 57) Australia |
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2 years #4 younger sister |
Birth 23 August 1877 34 32 Gunbower, Victoria, Australia Death 9 December 1958 (Age 81) |
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4 years #5 younger brother |
Birth 11 June 1881 38 36 Gunbower, Victoria, Australia Death 25 May 1971 (Age 89) |
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4 years #6 younger sister |
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-5 years #7 younger sister |
Martha Starritt
Birth November 1879 36 34 Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia Death 4 August 1882 (Age 2) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia |
| Family with Emma Tomina "Sis" Stewart - View family |
| himself |
Birth 16 May 1875 32 30 Gunbower, Victoria, Australia Death 7 April 1933 (Age 57) Australia |
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6 years wife |
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 daughter |
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 daughter |
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 son |
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4 years #4 son |
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 daughter |
Birth 13 December 1920 45 39 Australia Death Age: 89 Shepparton, Victoria, Australia |
Robert Gregg "Bob" Starritt has 35 first cousins recorded
Father's family (21)
Parents John Starritt + Isabella Mc Phee
Parents Alexander Starritt + Martha Gregg
Parents Alexander Starritt + Mattie Rutherford
Mother's family (14)
Parents John Johnston + Mary Gregg
Parents Richard Gregg + Catherine Mc Kay
Parents Robert Gregg + Isabella Gibson
| Australian History | SS Gothenburg strikes Old Reef off North Queensland and sinks with the loss of approximately 102 lives. |
| Australian History | First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | The first congress of trade unions is held. |
| Australian History | The bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged. |
| Australian History | First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway |
| Australian History | 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 | The completion of the railway network between Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. |
| Australian History | The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Australian History | A National Australasian Convention meets, agrees on adopting the name 'the Commonwealth of Australia' and drafting a constitution. |
| Australian History | Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 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 | 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 | The premiers, except for those of Queensland and Western Australia, agree to implement the Corowa proposals. |
| Australian History | The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Australian History | 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. |
| Australian History | The Convention agrees on a final draft to be put to the people. |
| Australian History | The decision is made to site the national capital in New South Wales, but not within 100 miles of Sydney. |
| Australian History | Several delegates visit London to resist proposed changes to the agreed-upon constitution. |
| Australian History | (01 Jan) Australia becomes a federation on 1 January. Edmund Barton becomes Prime Minister; the 7th Earl of Hopetoun becomes Governor-General |
| Australian History | 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. |
| Australian History | The High Court of Australia is established with Samuel Griffith as the first Chief Justice. |
| Australian History | A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital |
| Australian History | Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Marriage | The Stewart family lived across the road from that part of the Starritt farm known as "Cobbledicks", so the two families would have known each other fairly well. Robert and Emma were married at "Woodlands", the home of Emma's parents Ivie and Sarah. |
| Marriage | The Stewart family lived across the road from that part of the Starritt farm known as "Cobbledicks", so the two families would have known each other fairly well. Robert and Emma were married at "Woodlands", the home of Emma's parents Ivie and Sarah. |
| 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 |
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