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Georgina RowanAge: 801820–1900

Name
Georgina Rowan
Given names
Georgina
Surname
Rowan

Georgina Stewart

Name
Georgina Stewart
Given names
Georgina
Surname
Stewart
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Birth 3 January 1820 37 27
 Barr, Scotland

Address:
Ayr
Birth of a sister 20 January 1823 (Age 3)
 Barr by Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland

younger sister - Mary Rowan
Australian History 1824 (Age 3)
 

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
Birth of a brother 16 March 1825 (Age 5)
 Berneight Farm, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland

younger brother - Andrew Rowan
Australian History 1825 (Age 4)
 

Note: New South Wales western border is extended to 129 degrees E. Van Diemen's Land is proclaimed.
Birth of a brother 18 March 1827 (Age 7)
 Barr by Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland

younger brother - Thomas Rowan
Australian History 1828 (Age 7)
 

Note: Charles Sturt charts the Darling River.
Birth of a brother 26 August 1829 (Age 9)
 Barr by Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland

younger brother - John Rowan
Australian History 1829 (Age 8)
 

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 9)
 

Note: Sturt arrives at Goolwa, having charted the Murray River.
Death of a maternal grandfather 28 July 1831 (Age 11)
 Dalgig, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland

maternal grandfather - Ivie Campbell
Birth of a sister 6 December 1831 (Age 11)
 Barr by Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland

younger sister - Elizabeth Rowan
Australian History 1831 (Age 10)
 

Note: Sydney Herald (later to become The Sydney Morning Herald) first published.
Australian History 1832 (Age 11)
 

Note: Swan River Colony has its name changed to Western Australia.
Australian History 1833 (Age 12)
 

Note: The penal settlement of Port Arthur is founded in Van Diemen's Land.
Australian History 1835 (Age 14)
 

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 15)
 

Note: Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E.
Australian History 1838 (Age 17)
 

Note: First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time.
Australian History 1839 (Age 18)
 

Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.
Australian History 1840 (Age 19)
 

Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council.
Death of a mother 5 November 1841 (Age 21)
 Kellintrae, Mochrum, Wigtown, Scotland

mother - Tomina Campbell
Australian History 1841 (Age 20)
 

Note: New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales.
Australian History 1842 (Age 21)
 

Note: Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia.
Marriage of a sisterMargaret Rowan - View family
1843 (Age 22)
 

brother-in-law - Robert Wilson
elder sister - Margaret Rowan
Australian History 1843 (Age 22)
 

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).
Death of a maternal grandmother 4 August 1844 (Age 24)
 Dalgig, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland

maternal grandmother - Margaret Dunbar
MarriageAlexander Stewart - View family
17 June 1845 (Age 25)
 Killantrae, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Australian History 1845 (Age 24)
 

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.
Birth of a daughter
#1		 2 May 1846 (Age 26)
 Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

daughter - Tomina Stewart
Baptism of a daughter 17 May 1846 (Age 26)
 

daughter - Tomina Stewart
Death of a brother 25 November 1847 (Age 27)
 Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland

elder brother - Ivie Rowan
Birth of a daughter
#2		 22 February 1848 (Age 28)
 Mochrum, Scotland

daughter - Jane Stewart
Baptism of a daughter 11 March 1848 (Age 28)
 

daughter - Jane Stewart
Birth of a son
#3		 1850 (Age 29)
 Mochrum, Scotland

son - Andrew Robert Stewart
Australian History 1850 (Age 29)
 

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.
Census 30 March 1851 (Age 31)
 Mochrum, Scotland

Note: 
Wife mar 32 bn Minnigaff KKD
Drughtag, Mochrum, Scotland Note : IGI (Minnigaff KKD on 1851 census) Note: Went to Australia Residence: 1889 Gowrie Park, Tatura, Australia Note: at death of brother Andrew Death: 26 OCT 1889 in Australia Note: Lived Barbower, Kyneton,VIC, Australia (or 1886) Census: 30 MAR 1851 Drughtag, Mochrum, WIG, SCT Note: Wife mar 32 bn Minnigaff KKD Census: 04 APR 1881
Australian History 1851 (Age 30)
 

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
Birth of a daughter
#4		 1852 (Age 31)
 Mochrum, Scotland

daughter - Mary Cleave Stewart
Birth of a son
#5		 1853 (Age 32)
 Mochrum, Wigtown, Scotland

son - Ivie Stewart
Australian History 1853 (Age 32)
 

Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo
Birth of a son
#6		 31 October 1854 (Age 34)
 Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

son - James Stewart
Australian History 1854 (Age 33)
 

Note: The Eureka Stockade
Australian History 1855 (Age 34)
 

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 son
#7		 7 June 1856 (Age 36)
 Daughtay Farm, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

son - George Stewart
Australian History 1856 (Age 35)
 

Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania.
Birth of a son
#8		 19 November 1857 (Age 37)
 Drughtag, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

son - Robert Gavin Stewart
Australian History 1857 (Age 36)
 

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 37)
 

Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph.
Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote.
Marriage of a brotherAndrew Rowan - View family
14 April 1859 (Age 39)
 Mochrum, Scotland

younger brother - Andrew Rowan
sister-in-law - Margaret Mactier
Immigration October 1859 (Age 39)
 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Note: Ship Saldanha
1859 'SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.', The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1956), 4 October, p. 4,
1859 'SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.', The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1956), 4 October, p. 4,

Note: 
The Black Ball ship Saldanha,
Under the command of Captain M. Flinn, anchored in Hobson’s Bay yesterday, having accomplished the passage from Liverpool in 80 days. She experienced light and baffling wind during the principle portion of her passage. She brings over 200 passengers, all in good health; and, amongst others, six ladies of the Order of the Sisterhood of Mercy, and three Roman Catholic priests, who are to form a convent of that Order in the colony of New South Wales.

Birth of a daughter
#9		 about 1859 (Age 38)
 

daughter - Elizabeth Stewart
Marriage of a brotherThomas Rowan - View family
1859 (Age 38)
 Victoria, Australia

younger brother - Thomas Rowan
sister-in-law - Annie Anderson
Marriage of a sisterElizabeth Rowan - View family
29 April 1859 (Age 39)
 Penninghame, Wigtownshire, Scotland

brother-in-law - Thomas Armstrong Rattray
younger sister - Elizabeth Rowan
Australian History 1859 (Age 38)
 

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 39)
 

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 40)
 

Note: The ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition occurs.
Note: skiing in Australia introduced by Norwegians in the Snowy Mountains goldrush town of Kiandra
Death of a father 3 July 1862 (Age 42)
 Ayr, Scotland

father - Alexander Rowan
Australian History 1862 (Age 41)
 

Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E.
Australian History 1863 (Age 42)
 

Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales.
Marriage of a sisterMary Rowan - View family
1864 (Age 43)
 Victoria, Australia

brother-in-law - George Toogood Hickox
younger sister - Mary Rowan
Australian History 1867 (Age 46)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland.
Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
Australian History 1868 (Age 47)
 

Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.
Australian History 1869 (Age 48)
 

Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies.
Marriage of a brotherJohn Rowan - View family
1871 (Age 50)
 Victoria, Australia

younger brother - John Rowan
sister-in-law - Helen Ferguson
Australian History 1872 (Age 51)
 

Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.
Australian History 1873 (Age 52)
 

Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
Marriage of a daughterTomina Stewart - View family
1874 (Age 53)
 Victoria, Australia

son-in-law - Andrew David Barron
daughter - Tomina Stewart
Australian History 1875 (Age 54)
 

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 granddaughter
#1		 1876 (Age 55)
 Toolamba, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Jane Bowie Barron
Birth of a granddaughter
#2		 1876 (Age 55)
 Toolamba, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Mary Georgina Barron
Marriage of a sonJames Stewart - View family
2 August 1876 (Age 56)
 Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

son - James Stewart
daughter-in-law - Margaret Ann Cobbledick
Marriage of a daughterJane Stewart - View family
6 June 1877 (Age 57)
 Toolamba, Victoria, Australia

son-in-law - George Houston Bowie
daughter - Jane Stewart
Birth of a grandson
#3		 22 August 1877 (Age 57)
 Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

grandson - George Alexander Stewart
Marriage of a sonIvie Stewart - View family
14 November 1878 (Age 58)
 Tatura, Victoria, Australia

son - Ivie Stewart
daughter-in-law - Sarah Ann Lupton
Australian History 1878 (Age 57)
 

Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Birth of a grandson
#4		 1879 (Age 58)
 Toolamba, Victoria, Australia

grandson - Robert Barron
Death of a grandson 27 March 1879 (Age 59)
 Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

grandson - George Alexander Stewart
Birth of a granddaughter
#5		 7 September 1879 (Age 59)
 Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Annie Isobel Stewart
Australian History 1879 (Age 58)
 

Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Birth of a granddaughter
#6		 17 January 1880 (Age 60)
 

granddaughter - Mary Jane Hickox "Jeannie" Stewart
Australian History 1880 (Age 59)
 

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
#7		 1881 (Age 60)
 Tatura, Victoria, Australia

grandson - Alexander Stewart Barron
Birth of a granddaughter
#8		 10 March 1881 (Age 61)
 North West Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Emma Tomina "Sis" Stewart
Census 4 April 1881 (Age 61)
 

Birth of a grandson
#9		 25 January 1882 (Age 62)
 Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

grandson - James William Stewart
Birth of a grandson
#10		 29 January 1882 (Age 62)
 Tatura, Victoria, Australia

grandson - Andrew Thomas Barron
Death of a daughter 29 January 1882 (Age 62)
 Tatura, Victoria, Australia

daughter - Tomina Stewart
Death of a grandson 8 November 1882 (Age 62)
 

grandson - Andrew Thomas Barron
Australian History 1882 (Age 61)
 

Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Birth of a granddaughter
#11		 19 January 1883 (Age 63)
 Tatura, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Georgina Stewart
Australian History 1883 (Age 62)
 

Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway
Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Birth of a grandson
#12		 1884 (Age 63)
 

grandson - Andrew Robert Stewart
Birth of a grandson
#13		 5 August 1884 (Age 64)
 Tatura, Victoria, Australia

grandson - Arthur Robert Stewart
Birth of a grandson
#14		 14 April 1886 (Age 66)
 Tatura, Victoria, Australia

grandson - Alexander John "Jack" Stewart
Birth of a grandson
#15		 29 August 1886 (Age 66)
 Coonboona, Victoria, Australia

grandson - Henry Scott Stewart
Birth of a granddaughter
#16		 1887 (Age 66)
 Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Annie May Stewart
Birth of a granddaughter
#17		 9 December 1887 (Age 67)
 Tatura, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Elizabeth Ivena Stewart
Death of a brother 1887 (Age 66)
 Devenish, Victoria, Australia

younger brother - John Rowan
Australian History 1887 (Age 66)
 

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.
Birth of a grandson
#18		 26 February 1889 (Age 69)
 Tatura, Victoria, Australia

grandson - Andrew James Stewart
Death of a brother 26 October 1889 (Age 69)
 Barbower, Kyneton, Victoria, Australia

younger brother - Andrew Rowan
Residence 1889 (Age 68)
 Tatura, Victoria, Australia

Note: 
at death of brother Andrew
Gowrie Park
Australian History 1889 (Age 68)
 

Note: The completion of the railway network between Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.
Note: Sir Henry Parkes delivers the Tenterfield Oration.
Birth of a granddaughter
#19		 29 November 1890 (Age 70)
 Tatura, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Naomi Eliza Stewart
Australian History 1890 (Age 69)
 

Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.
Death of a son 28 February 1891 (Age 71)
 Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

son - Andrew Robert Stewart
Death of a husband 4 November 1891 (Age 71)
 Tatura, Victoria, Australia

husband - Alexander Stewart
Burial of a husband 6 November 1891 (Age 71)
 Tatura, Victoria, Australia

husband - Alexander Stewart
Australian History 1891 (Age 70)
 

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
Birth of a grandson
#20		 20 May 1892 (Age 72)
 Tatura, Victoria, Australia

grandson - Thomas Campbell "Tom" Stewart
Australian History 1892 (Age 71)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.
Birth of a grandson
#21		 26 December 1893 (Age 73)
 Tatura, Victoria, Australia

grandson - Lindsay Ivie Stewart
Australian History 1893 (Age 72)
 

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 73)
 

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.
Australian History 1895 (Age 74)
 

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
Death of a son 21 June 1896 (Age 76)
 Western Australia, Australia

son - Robert Gavin Stewart
Australian History 1896 (Age 75)
 

Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution
Birth of a granddaughter
#22		 27 October 1897 (Age 77)
 Tatura, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Florence "Floss" Stewart
Australian History 1897 (Age 76)
 

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 77)
 

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.
Birth of a grandson
#23		 27 February 1899 (Age 79)
 Tatura, Victoria, Australia

grandson - Charles Rodney Stewart
Death of a sister 1899 (Age 78)
 Elmore, Victoria, Australia

younger sister - Elizabeth Rowan
Australian History 1899 (Age 78)
 

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 79)
 

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 22 November 1900 (Age 80)
 Tatura, Victoria, Australia

Alexander, Georgina, Andrew and Mary Cleave Stewart
Alexander, Georgina, Andrew and Mary Cleave Stewart


Stewart Headstone
Stewart Headstone


1902 'Advertising.', The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1956), 8 March, p. 10, viewed 2 December, 2011, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article9631114
1902 'Advertising.', The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1956), 8 March, p. 10, viewed 2 December, 2011, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article9631114

Family with parents - View family
father
Alexander Rowan

Birth 8 February 1782  

Death 3 July 1862 (Age 80)  Ayr, Scotland

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mother
Tomina Campbell

Birth 17 January 1792 37 31  New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland

Death 5 November 1841 (Age 49)  Kellintrae, Mochrum, Wigtown, Scotland

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Marriage: 24 June 1815 — New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland
10 months
#1 elder sister
Margaret Rowan

Birth 3 May 1816 34 24  Barr, Ayrshire, Scotland

Death yes  

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#2 elder brother
Ivie Rowan

Birth 6 June 1817 35 25  Kellintrae, Barr By Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland

Death 25 November 1847 (Age 30)  Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland

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#3 herself
Georgina Rowan

Birth 3 January 1820 37 27  Barr, Scotland

Death 22 November 1900 (Age 80)  Tatura, Victoria, Australia

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3 years
#4 younger sister
Mary Rowan

Birth 20 January 1823 40 31  Barr by Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland

Death yes  

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#5 younger brother
Andrew Rowan

Birth 16 March 1825 43 33  Berneight Farm, New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland

Death 26 October 1889 (Age 64)  Barbower, Kyneton, Victoria, Australia

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#6 younger brother
Thomas Rowan

Birth 18 March 1827 45 35  Barr by Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland

Death yes  

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#7 younger brother
John Rowan

Birth 26 August 1829 47 37  Barr by Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland

Death 1887 (Age 57)  Devenish, Victoria, Australia

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#8 younger sister
Elizabeth Rowan

Birth 6 December 1831 49 39  Barr by Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland

Death 1899 (Age 67)  Elmore, Victoria, Australia

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Family with Alexander Stewart - View family
husband
Alexander Stewart

Birth 1803 33 27  Mochrum, Wigtown, Scotland

Death 4 November 1891 (Age 88)  Tatura, Victoria, Australia

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17 years
herself
Georgina Rowan

Birth 3 January 1820 37 27  Barr, Scotland

Death 22 November 1900 (Age 80)  Tatura, Victoria, Australia

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Marriage: 17 June 1845 — Killantrae, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland
10 months
#1 daughter
Tomina Stewart Tomina Stewart

Birth 2 May 1846 43 26  Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Death 29 January 1882 (Age 35)  Tatura, Victoria, Australia

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#2 daughter
Jane Stewart

Birth 22 February 1848 45 28  Mochrum, Scotland

Death yes  

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#3 son
Andrew Robert Stewart

Birth 1850 47 29  Mochrum, Scotland

Death 28 February 1891 (Age 41)  Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

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2 years
#4 daughter
Mary Cleave Stewart

Birth 1852 49 31  Mochrum, Scotland

Death 5 June 1925 (Age 73)  

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3 years
#5 son
James Stewart

Birth 31 October 1854 51 34  Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Death 17 February 1936 (Age 81)  Bunbury, Western Australia, Australia

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#6 son
Stewart Ivie.jpg Ivie Stewart

Birth 1853 50 32  Mochrum, Wigtown, Scotland

Death 6 October 1937 (Age 84)  Mooroopna Base Hospital, Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

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3 years
#7 son
George Stewart

Birth 7 June 1856 53 36  Daughtay Farm, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Death 5 December 1930 (Age 74)  

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17 months
#8 son
Robert Gavin Stewart

Birth 19 November 1857 54 37  Drughtag, Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Death 21 June 1896 (Age 38)  Western Australia, Australia

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13 months
#9 daughter
Elizabeth Stewart

Birth about 1859 56 38  

Death yes  

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husband
Alexander Stewart

Birth 1803 33 27  Mochrum, Wigtown, Scotland

Death 4 November 1891 (Age 88)  Tatura, Victoria, Australia

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1 year
husband's wife
Annie Steven

Birth 1804  Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Death 16 August 1843 (Age 39)  Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

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Marriage: 5 October 1823 — Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland
15 months
#1 step-daughter
Grace Stewart

Birth 1825 22 21  Mochrum, Wigtown, Scotland

Death yes  

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2 years
#2 step-son
John Stewart

Birth 1827 24 23  Mochrum, Wigtown, Scotland

Death 28 April 1886 (Age 59)  Barnstable, Devonshire, England

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3 years
#3 step-daughter
Sarah Stewart

Birth 14 February 1830 27 26  Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Death 18 January 1907 (Age 76)  Shelby, Missouri, USA

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3 years
#4 step-son
William Stewart

Birth 1833 30 29  Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Death yes  

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3 years
#5 step-son
David Stewart

Birth 25 June 1835 32 31  Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Death yes  

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6 years
#6 step-daughter
Anne Stewart

Birth 19 September 1841 38 37  Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland

Death yes  

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Georgina Rowan has 50 first cousins recorded

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Mother's family (50)

Parents William Graham + Isabel Campbell
1 Ivie (Campbell) Graham 1813–1891
2 Margaret Graham 1813–1873
3 Jean Graham 1816–1895
4 Isabella Graham 1822–1895
5 Elizabeth Graham 1823–1859
6 James Graham 1825–1905
7 Janet Graham 1827–1849
8 Douglas Wills Graham 1829–1906
9 William Graham 1832–1897
10 David Graham 1839–?
Parents William Brown + Jean Campbell
1 William Brown 1814–1881
2 Margaret Brown 1813–1875
3 Janet Brown 1819–1894
4 Mary Brown 1823–?
5 Ivie Brown 1821–1881
6 George Brown 1825–1862
7 Elizabeth Brown 1827–1908
8 Jane Brown 1829–1899
9 Hugh Brown 1833–1915
Parents Andrew Campbell + Janet Campbell
1 Margaret Dunbar Campbell 1821–1889
2 Jane Campbell 1822–1889
3 John Campbell 1823–1882
4 Ivie Campbell 1826–?
5 Isabella Agnes Campbell 1827–?
6 Janet Campbell 1830–1859
7 William Richmond Campbell 1832–1888
8 Helen Campbell 1835–?
9 Andrew Campbell 1838–1903
10 Euphemia Duncan Campbell 1840–1858
Parents David Ferguson + Helen Campbell
1 David Ferguson 1821–?
2 Jane Ferguson 1826–1862
3 Margaret Ferguson 1823–1856
4 Helen Ferguson 1827–?
5 Agnes Ferguson 1828–1923
6 Jessie Campbell Ferguson 1831–1902
7 Ivie Ferguson 1833–1894
8 Elizabeth Ferguson 1838–?
9 William Ferguson 1841–1898
Parents Ivie Campbell + Jean Richmond
1 Ivie Campbell 1833–1910
Parents Thomas McCaig + Wilhemina Campbell
1 Hugh Dunbar McCaig 1826–1883
2 Robert McCaig 1826–1912
3 Ivie McCaig 1829–1890
4 Margaret McCaig 1832–1900
5 Christina McCaig 1832–1892
6 John McCaig 1834–1914
7 George McCaig 1836–1897
8 Edward Irvin McCaig 1838–1918
9 Thomas McCaig 1840–1915
10 William McCaig 1844–1925
11 Jane Richmond McCaig 1848–1868
 
Australian History
A penal colony is founded at Moreton Bay, now the city of Brisbane.

Australian History
New South Wales western border is extended to 129 degrees E. Van Diemen's Land is proclaimed.

Australian History
Charles Sturt charts the Darling River.

Australian History
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
Sturt arrives at Goolwa, having charted the Murray River.

Australian History
Sydney Herald (later to become The Sydney Morning Herald) first published.

Australian History
Swan River Colony has its name changed to Western Australia.

Australian History
The penal settlement of Port Arthur is founded in Van Diemen's Land.

Australian History
John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner establish a settlement at Port Phillip, now the city of Melbourne.

Australian History
Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E.

Australian History
First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time.

Australian History
Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.

Australian History
Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council.

Australian History
New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales.

Australian History
Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia.

Australian History
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
The ship Cataraqui is wrecked off King Island in Bass Strait. It is Australia's worst civil maritime disaster, with 406 lives lost.

Australian History
Western Australia becomes a penal colony.

Census
Wife mar 32 bn Minnigaff KKD Drughtag, Mochrum, Scotland Note : IGI (Minnigaff KKD on 1851 census) Note: Went to Australia Residence: 1889 Gowrie Park, Tatura, Australia Note: at death of brother Andrew Death: 26 OCT 1889 in Australia Note: Lived Barbower, Kyneton,VIC, Australia (or 1886) Census: 30 MAR 1851 Drughtag, Mochrum, WIG, SCT Note: Wife mar 32 bn Minnigaff KKD Census: 04 APR 1881

Australian History
Victoria separates from New South Wales.

Australian History
Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo

Australian History
The Eureka Stockade

Australian History
The transportation of convicts to Norfolk Island ceases.

Australian History
Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania.

Australian History
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.

Australian History
Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph.

Immigration
Ship Saldanha

Australian History
SS Admella wrecked off south-east coast of South Australia with the loss of 89 lives.

Australian History
John McDouall Stuart reaches the centre of the continent. South Australian border changed from 132 degrees E to 129 degrees E.

Australian History
The ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition occurs.

Australian History
Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E.

Australian History
South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales.

Australian History
Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland.

Australian History
The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.

Australian History
Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies.

Australian History
Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.

Australian History
Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.

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.

Residence
at death of brother Andrew Gowrie Park

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.



Photos
Alexander, Georgina, Andrew and Mary Cleave Stewart
Alexander, Georgina, Andrew and Mary Cleave Stewart
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Stewart Headstone
Stewart Headstone
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Documents
1902 'Advertising.', The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1956), 8 March, p. 10, viewed 2 December, 2011, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article9631114
1902 'Advertising.', The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1956), 8 March, p. 10, viewed 2 December, 2011, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article9631114
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1859 'SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.', The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1956), 4 October, p. 4,
1859 'SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.', The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1956), 4 October, p. 4,
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