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Sarah Gailey1810–?

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Sarah Gailey
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Birth 1810 (estimated) 19
 

Birth of a daughter
#1
 Ireland

daughter - Margaret Ann Gregg
Birth of a son
#2
 Ireland

son - Robert Gregg
Birth of a son
#3
 Ireland

son - John Gregg
Birth of a son
#4
 Ireland

son - Finlay Gregg Jr
Australian History 1817 (Age 7)
 

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 8)
 

Note: Oxley charts the Macquarie River.
Australian History 1824 (Age 14)
 

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 15)
 

Note: New South Wales western border is extended to 129 degrees E. Van Diemen's Land is proclaimed.
Death of a maternal grandfather 21 July 1828 (Age 18)
 Moneylaggan, Donegal, Ireland

maternal grandfather - Richard Gregg
Australian History 1828 (Age 18)
 

Note: Charles Sturt charts the Darling River.
Australian History 1829 (Age 19)
 

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 20)
 

Note: Sturt arrives at Goolwa, having charted the Murray River.
Australian History 1831 (Age 21)
 

Note: Sydney Herald (later to become The Sydney Morning Herald) first published.
MarriageFinlay Gregg Sr - View family
1832 (estimated) (Age 22)
 

Australian History 1832 (Age 22)
 

Note: Swan River Colony has its name changed to Western Australia.
Birth of a daughter
#5		 about 1833 (Age 23)
 Moneglagon, Donegal, Ireland

daughter - Mary Gregg
Australian History 1833 (Age 23)
 

Note: The penal settlement of Port Arthur is founded in Van Diemen's Land.
Australian History 1835 (Age 25)
 

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 26)
 

Note: Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E.
Australian History 1838 (Age 28)
 

Note: First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time.
Birth of a son
#6		 1839 (Age 29)
 Kilmacrenan, Donegal, Ireland

son - Richard Gregg
Australian History 1839 (Age 29)
 

Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.
Australian History 1840 (Age 30)
 

Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council.
Australian History 1841 (Age 31)
 

Note: New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales.
Australian History 1842 (Age 32)
 

Note: Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia.
Australian History 1843 (Age 33)
 

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).
Birth of a daughter
#7		 1845 (Age 35)
 Moneylagan, Donegal, Ireland

daughter - Catherine Gregg
Australian History 1845 (Age 35)
 

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 40)
 

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 41)
 

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 43)
 

Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo
Marriage of a sonRobert Gregg - View family
2 March 1854 (Age 44)
 Letterkenny, Donegal, Ireland

son - Robert Gregg
daughter-in-law - Isabella Gibson
Marriage of a daughterMary Gregg - View family
19 December 1854 (Age 44)
 Letterkenny, Donegal, Ireland

son-in-law - John Johnston
daughter - Mary Gregg
Australian History 1854 (Age 44)
 

Note: The Eureka Stockade
Australian History 1855 (Age 45)
 

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 46)
 

Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania.
Australian History 1857 (Age 47)
 

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 48)
 

Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph.
Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote.
Australian History 1859 (Age 49)
 

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.
Birth of a grandson
#1		 1860 (Age 50)
 

grandson - Robert Gregg
Australian History 1860 (Age 50)
 

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 51)
 

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 52)
 

Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E.
Marriage of a sonRichard Gregg - View family
7 May 1863 (Age 53)
 Ascot, Victoria, Australia

son - Richard Gregg
daughter-in-law - Catherine Mc Kay
Australian History 1863 (Age 53)
 

Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales.
Birth of a granddaughter
#2		 13 June 1864 (Age 54)
 Cattle Station Hill, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Sarah Gregg
Birth of a grandson
#3		 28 June 1865 (Age 55)
 Tourello, Victoria, Australia

grandson - Daniel Gregg
Birth of a grandson
#4		 27 October 1866 (Age 56)
 Creswick, Victoria, Australia

grandson - Finley Gregg
Australian History 1867 (Age 57)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland.
Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
Birth of a grandson
#5		 24 May 1868 (Age 58)
 Creswick, Victoria, Australia

grandson - Samuel Alexander Gregg
Australian History 1868 (Age 58)
 

Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.
Australian History 1869 (Age 59)
 

Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies.
Birth of a granddaughter
#6		 about 1870 (Age 60)
 Australia

granddaughter - Eleanor Gregg
Marriage of a daughterCatherine Gregg - View family
2 August 1870 (Age 60)
 Creswick, Victoria, Australia

son-in-law - Robert Starritt
daughter - Catherine Gregg
Birth of a granddaughter
#7		 20 December 1870 (Age 60)
 

granddaughter - Flora Gregg
Death of a granddaughter 25 July 1871 (Age 61)
 

granddaughter - Flora Gregg
Birth of a granddaughter
#8		 20 August 1871 (Age 61)
 Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Margaret Jane Starritt
Birth of a grandson
#9		 27 May 1872 (Age 62)
 Clunes Rd, Creswick, Victoria, Australia

grandson - John Gregg
Australian History 1872 (Age 62)
 

Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.
Birth of a granddaughter
#10		 8 June 1873 (Age 63)
 Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Sarah Ann Starritt
Birth of a grandson
#11		 28 August 1873 (Age 63)
 Creswick, Victoria, Australia

grandson - Angus Nicholson Gregg
Marriage of a granddaughterJane Buchanan - View family
23 December 1873 (Age 63)
 Donegal, Ulster, Ireland

granddaughter's husband - James Young
granddaughter - Jane Buchanan
Australian History 1873 (Age 63)
 

Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
Death of a granddaughter 26 April 1874 (Age 64)
 

granddaughter - Eleanor Gregg
Birth of a grandson
#12		 20 April 1875 (Age 65)
 Australia

grandson - Richard Gregg
Birth of a grandson
#13		 16 May 1875 (Age 65)
 Gunbower, Victoria, Australia

grandson - Robert Gregg "Bob" Starritt
Australian History 1875 (Age 65)
 

Note: SS Gothenburg strikes Old Reef off North Queensland and sinks with the loss of approximately 102 lives.
Note: Adelaide Steamship Company is formed.
Death of a grandson 19 February 1876 (Age 66)
 Australia

grandson - Richard Gregg
Birth of a granddaughter
#14		 14 May 1876 (Age 66)
 Tourello, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Annie "Marnet" Gregg
Birth of a granddaughter
#15		 23 August 1877 (Age 67)
 Gunbower, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Ellenor Mary Starritt
Australian History 1878 (Age 68)
 

Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Birth of a granddaughter
#16		 29 April 1879 (Age 69)
 Tourello, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Euphemia Flora "Phemi" Gregg
Birth of a granddaughter
#17		 November 1879 (Age 69)
 Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Martha Starritt
Australian History 1879 (Age 69)
 

Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Australian History 1880 (Age 70)
 

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 grandson
#18		 11 June 1881 (Age 71)
 Gunbower, Victoria, Australia

grandson - George Starritt OBE
Death of a granddaughter 4 August 1882 (Age 72)
 Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Martha Starritt
Australian History 1882 (Age 72)
 

Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Birth of a granddaughter
#19		 21 August 1883 (Age 73)
 Australia

granddaughter - Christina Catherine Gregg
Australian History 1883 (Age 73)
 

Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway
Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Birth of a granddaughter
#20		 1885 (Age 75)
 Australia

granddaughter - Catherine Matilda "Cassie" Starritt
Death of a grandson 29 May 1885 (Age 75)
 Poowong, Victoria, Australia

grandson - Finley Gregg
Australian History 1887 (Age 77)
 

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.
Death of a granddaughter 26 January 1888 (Age 78)
 Poowong, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Annie "Marnet" Gregg
Marriage of a grandsonRobert Gregg - View family
30 August 1889 (Age 79)
 

grandson - Robert Gregg
grandson's wife - Mattie Burrowes
Australian History 1889 (Age 79)
 

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 80)
 

Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.
Australian History 1891 (Age 81)
 

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 82)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.
Australian History 1893 (Age 83)
 

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 84)
 

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 grandsonDaniel Gregg - View family
27 June 1895 (Age 85)
 Australia

grandson - Daniel Gregg
grandson's wife - Kate Ewers
Marriage of a granddaughterMargaret Jane Starritt - View family
1895 (estimated) (Age 85)
 

granddaughter's husband - George Gordon
granddaughter - Margaret Jane Starritt
Australian History 1895 (Age 85)
 

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
Marriage of a granddaughterSarah Gregg - View family
4 August 1896 (Age 86)
 "Woodland Park", Poowong, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter's husband - Frederick Umbers
granddaughter - Sarah Gregg
Australian History 1896 (Age 86)
 

Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution
Australian History 1897 (Age 87)
 

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 88)
 

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 89)
 

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 90)
 

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 granddaughterSarah Ann Starritt - View family
10 October 1901 (Age 91)
 

granddaughter's husband - Richard Harry Thomas
granddaughter - Sarah Ann Starritt
Australian History 1901 (Age 91)
 

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 92)
 

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 granddaughterEllenor Mary Starritt - View family
1903 (Age 93)
 

granddaughter's husband - James Buchanan Rankin Sr.
granddaughter - Ellenor Mary Starritt
Australian History 1903 (Age 93)
 

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 94)
 

Note: A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital
Note: Chris Watson forms the first federal Labor (minority) government
Marriage of a grandsonAngus Nicholson Gregg - View family
1906 (estimated) (Age 96)
 

grandson - Angus Nicholson Gregg
grandson's wife - Jessie Cowper Hamilton
Australian History 1906 (Age 96)
 

Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea
Marriage of a granddaughterEuphemia Flora "Phemi" Gregg - View family
1907 (Age 97)
 

granddaughter's husband - Donald Mc Lennan
granddaughter - Euphemia Flora "Phemi" Gregg
Marriage of a grandsonRobert Gregg "Bob" Starritt - View family
30 October 1907 (Age 97)
 Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

grandson - Robert Gregg "Bob" Starritt
grandson's wife - Emma Tomina "Sis" Stewart
Australian History 1908 (Age 98)
 

Note: Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country
Note: The Dalgety proposal for the national capital is revoked, and Canberra is chosen instead
Australian History 1909 (Age 99)
 

Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made.
Death of a granddaughter 24 July 1910 (Age 100)
 

granddaughter - Margaret Jane Starritt
Australian History 1910 (Age 100)
 

Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government.
Australian History 1911 (Age 101)
 

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 grandsonGeorge Starritt OBE - View family
9 October 1912 (Age 102)
 Australia

grandson - George Starritt OBE
grandson's wife - Amanda Rathjen
Australian History 1912 (Age 102)
 

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 103)
 

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 103)
 

Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place
Australian History 1914 (Age 104)
 

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.
Deathyes
 

Family with parents - View family
father
John Gailey

Birth  Ireland

Death yes  

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mother
Mattie Gregg

Birth about 1791 51  Donegal, Ireland

Death yes  

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Marriage: yes
#1 brother
John Gailey

Death yes  

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#2 herself
Sarah Gailey

Birth 1810 (estimated) 19  

Death yes  

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Family with Finlay Gregg Sr - View family
husband
Finlay Gregg Sr

Birth  Ireland

Death yes  

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herself
Sarah Gailey

Birth 1810 (estimated) 19  

Death yes  

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Marriage: 1832 (estimated)
1 year
#1 daughter
Mary Gregg

Birth about 1833 23  Moneglagon, Donegal, Ireland

Death yes  

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#2 daughter
Mattie Gregg

Death yes  

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#3 daughter
Jean Gregg

Death yes  

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#4 daughter
Ellenor Gregg

Death yes  

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#5 daughter
Elizabeth Gregg

Death yes  

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#6 daughter
Margaret Ann Gregg

Birth  Ireland

Death yes  

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#7 son
Richard Gregg

Birth 1839 29  Kilmacrenan, Donegal, Ireland

Death 1922 (Age 83)  Loch, Victoria, Australia

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#8 son
Robert Gregg

Birth  Ireland

Death yes  

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#9 son
John Gregg

Birth  Ireland

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#10 daughter
Gregg Catherine.jpg Catherine Gregg

Birth 1845 35  Moneylagan, Donegal, Ireland

Death 25 August 1918 (Age 73)  Shepparton, Victoria, Australia

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#11 son
Finlay Gregg Jr

Birth  Ireland

Death yes  

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Sarah Gailey has 25 first cousins recorded

Father's family (0)

Mother's family (25)

Parents Robert Gregg + Mattie Mc Clure
1 Richard Gregg 1790–1864
2 Finlay Gregg Sr ?–?
3 Robert Gregg 1810–?
4 Mary Gregg 1815–?
5 Jeanie Gregg ?–?
6 Eliza Gregg ?–?
Parents Robert Gregg + Peggy Starritt
1 Margaret Rose Gregg ?–?
2 Daniel Mc Entosh Gregg Sr. 1819–1889
3 Nancy Gregg ?–?
4 Martha "Mattie" Gregg 1822–1885
5 William Gregg 1837–?
Parents Daniel Gregg + Jane Graham
1 Moses Gregg Sr 1806–1884
2 Jane Gregg 1808–1809
3 Richard Gregg 1809–1829
4 Daniel Gregg Jr 1812–1875
5 Jean Gregg 1812–1828
6 Isabella Gregg 1814–1836
7 Robert Gregg 1817–1909
8 William Gregg 1817–1909
9 Martha Gregg 1819–1820
10 Martha Gregg 1821–1880
11 Eleanor Graham Gregg 1828–1887
Parents Richard Gregg + Fanny McClure
1 Sarah Gregg 1812–1894 Birth
2 John Gregg 1829–1908 Birth
3 Daniel Gregg 1831–1901 Birth

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