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Matthew Madill 1830-1903

Matthew MadillAge: 781830–1908

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Matthew Madill
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Birth 1830
 Monaghan, Ireland

Australian History 1830
 

Note: Sturt arrives at Goolwa, having charted the Murray River.
Australian History 1831 (Age 12 months)
 

Note: Sydney Herald (later to become The Sydney Morning Herald) first published.
Australian History 1832 (Age 2)
 

Note: Swan River Colony has its name changed to Western Australia.
Australian History 1833 (Age 3)
 

Note: The penal settlement of Port Arthur is founded in Van Diemen's Land.
Australian History 1835 (Age 5)
 

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 6)
 

Note: Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E.
Australian History 1838 (Age 8)
 

Note: First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time.
Australian History 1839 (Age 9)
 

Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko.
Australian History 1840 (Age 10)
 

Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council.
Australian History 1841 (Age 11)
 

Note: New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales.
Australian History 1842 (Age 12)
 

Note: Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia.
Australian History 1843 (Age 13)
 

Note: Australia's first parliamentary elections held for the New South Wales Legislative Council (though voting rights are restricted to males of certain wealth or property).
Australian History 1845 (Age 15)
 

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 20)
 

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 21)
 

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
MarriageMary Ann Hall - View family
5 February 1852 (Age 22)
 Clones, Monaghan, Ireland

Matthew and Mary Ann Madill
Matthew and Mary Ann Madill


Wedding certificate of Matthew and Mary Ann
Wedding certificate of Matthew and Mary Ann

Residence 1852 (Age 22)
 Mullaghboy, Monaghan, Ireland

Birth of a daughter
#1		 11 March 1853 (Age 23)
 Mullaghboy, Monaghan, Ireland

daughter - Ann Jane Madill
Australian History 1853 (Age 23)
 

Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo
Australian History 1854 (Age 24)
 

Note: The Eureka Stockade
Birth of a son
#2		 22 July 1855 (Age 25)
 Mullaghboy, Monaghan, Ireland

son - David Madill
Australian History 1855 (Age 25)
 

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 26)
 

Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania.
Australian History 1857 (Age 27)
 

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.
Birth of a daughter
#3		 20 June 1858 (Age 28)
 Mullaghboy, Monaghan, Ireland

daughter - Eliza Madill
Birth of a daughter
#4		 20 June 1858 (Age 28)
 Mullaghboy, Monaghan, Ireland

daughter - Elizabeth Madill
Australian History 1858 (Age 28)
 

Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph.
Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote.
Birth of a daughter
#5		 1 July 1859 (Age 29)
 Mullaghboy, Monaghan, Ireland

daughter - Letitia Madill
Australian History 1859 (Age 29)
 

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 daughter
#6		 11 August 1860 (Age 30)
 Mullaghboy, Monaghan, Ireland

daughter - Mary Ellinor Madill
Australian History 1860 (Age 30)
 

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 31)
 

Note: The ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition occurs.
Note: skiing in Australia introduced by Norwegians in the Snowy Mountains goldrush town of Kiandra
Immigration 6 January 1862 (Age 32)
 Australia

Note: 1852 living in Mullaghboy, Parrish Currin, County Monaghan. Arrived in Victoria, Australia 1865/6 with wife, Mary Ann, Ann Jane 12, David 10, Mary Ellenor 5, maybe others?
Note: 
Arrival Date: 6 Jan 1862
Arrival Port: Melbourne, Australia Departure Port: Liverpool Ship: Royal Saxon Nationality: Irish
Australian History 1862 (Age 32)
 

Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E.
Australian History 1863 (Age 33)
 

Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales.
Australian History 1867 (Age 37)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland.
Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.
Australian History 1868 (Age 38)
 

Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases.
Death of a daughter before 1869 (Age 39)
 

daughter - Eliza Madill
Death of a daughter before 1869 (Age 39)
 

daughter - Elizabeth Madill
Death of a daughter before 1869 (Age 39)
 

daughter - Letitia Madill
Birth of a daughter
#7		 3 January 1869 (Age 39)
 Clunes, Victoria, Australia

daughter - Margaret Ann Madill
Australian History 1869 (Age 39)
 

Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies.
Australian History 1872 (Age 42)
 

Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens.
Marriage of a daughterAnn Jane Madill - View family
1873 (Age 43)
 Colac, Victoria, Australia

son-in-law - John Sherry
daughter - Ann Jane Madill
Australian History 1873 (Age 43)
 

Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock.
Letter
Letter
16 April 1874 (Age 44)
 Shepparton, Victoria, Australia

Letter from Matthew Madill to Margaret Tailor
Letter from Matthew Madill to Margaret Tailor

Note: Note that the photo in this article is of David Madill, Matthew's son even though it states Matthew Madill.
Note: 
Letters open up whole new world
A letter from Matthew Madill to his orphan niece Margret Tailor in Drumsoad, Clones, County Monaghan, Ireland, April 16, 1874. Your aunt and cousins had a letter wrote about six months ago. I would not let them seal it because they were encouraging you to come out and that was what I did not like because I had not a way that time to keep you from the strangers, but thanks be to God, it is not so now for I have selected 160 acres of land. I have one year’s rent paid on it and has got my licence. I am not labouring it nor won’t til November. The rent is only 2shillings an acre and in 10 years I have it free, so thanks be to God it won’t be so bad with you as it is at present if the Lords spares me, for dear Margaret, I am going to send you £2 now and Ann Jane’s husband, Mr John Sherry, is going to send you £1. If you be a wise good girl and stop single. The ‘assistant emigration” is stopped for a time; we expect it will commence again. Make up your mind and send me word if you will come out to this country and I will pay your passage.
Note: 
His daughter Mary Ellen Madill also wrote to her cousin Margaret on January 21, 1875.
Dear cousin Margaret, I think long to see you out here till you and I take a horse each and a kangaroo’s dog and then go a hunt after the kangaroos and emus. The girls here does no outside work. It is all housework. If you were in this country you would never see porridge anymore. In this country you would have to learn to ride for you cannot go to your next neighbour without riding, it is so far. When I go out I always ride on horseback. If you were here you could not sleep in the morning for laughing jackasses and cockatoos and parrots and curlews and native companions and a lot of other birds. Father shot some emus and it took three men to lift it into the cart. The old man kangaroo is much about the same weight ... I wish you were out here cousin Margaret. We would have such fun. We have our house build in about 10 acres of pine trees. They are about eight foot high. We have about 100 large trees father is going to cut down and get sawed for building purposes.

Birth of a grandson
#1		 1875 (Age 45)
 Clunes, Victoria, Australia

grandson - John Thomas Sherry
Australian History 1875 (Age 45)
 

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 grandson
#2		 1877 (Age 47)
 Mundoona, Victoria, Australia

grandson - Edwin David Sherry
Marriage of a sonDavid Madill - View family
1877 (Age 47)
 Clunes, Victoria, Australia

son - David Madill
daughter-in-law - Adelaide Annie Briggs
Australian History 1878 (Age 48)
 

Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Birth of a granddaughter
#3		 1879 (Age 49)
 Wyuna, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Mary Ann Sherry
Birth of a granddaughter
#4		 9 August 1879 (Age 49)
 Undera, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Annie Elizabeth Madill
Australian History 1879 (Age 49)
 

Note: The first congress of trade unions is held.
Australian History 1880 (Age 50)
 

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
#5		 1881 (Age 51)
 Undera, Victoria, Australia

grandson - Thomas Mathew Sherry
Marriage of a sonDavid Madill - View family
about 1881 (Age 51)
 

son - David Madill
daughter-in-law - Mary Ellen Ryan
Marriage of a daughterMary Ellinor Madill - View family
1881 (Age 51)
 

son-in-law - James Alfred Bilson
daughter - Mary Ellinor Madill
Birth of a granddaughter
#6		 16 May 1882 (Age 52)
 Undera, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Edith May Madill
Birth of a grandson
#7		 1882 (Age 52)
 Undera, Victoria, Australia

grandson - Walter Frankling Bilson
Australian History 1882 (Age 52)
 

Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide.
Australian History 1883 (Age 53)
 

Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway
Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill
Birth of a granddaughter
#8		 1884 (Age 54)
 Undera, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Lela Maud Sherry
Birth of a granddaughter
#9		 4 January 1884 (Age 54)
 Undera, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Ethel Madill
Birth of a grandson
#10		 1884 (Age 54)
 Undera, Victoria, Australia

grandson - Reginald Madill Bilson
Birth of a granddaughter
#11		 9 December 1885 (Age 55)
 Undera, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Margaret Rebecca Ellen Madill
Birth of a grandson
#12		 1886 (Age 56)
 Undera, Victoria, Australia

grandson - Francis Henry Sherry
Birth of a granddaughter
#13		 1886 (Age 56)
 Undera, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Ellen May Bilson
Birth of a granddaughter
#14		 25 August 1887 (Age 57)
 Undera, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Elizabeth Isabel Madill
Australian History 1887 (Age 57)
 

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
#15		 1888 (Age 58)
 Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

grandson - David Leslie Bilson
Birth of a granddaughter
#16		 24 August 1889 (Age 59)
 Undera, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Alice Madill
Marriage of a daughterMargaret Ann Madill - View family
1889 (Age 59)
 Victoria, Australia

son-in-law - James Henry Ryan
daughter - Margaret Ann Madill
Australian History 1889 (Age 59)
 

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
#17		 1890 (Age 60)
 Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Voilet May Sherry
Birth of a grandson
#18		 1890 (Age 60)
 Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia

grandson - Alfred Osland Bilson
Australian History 1890 (Age 60)
 

Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention.
Birth of a granddaughter
#19		 1891 (Age 61)
 Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Winifred Sherry
Birth of a granddaughter
#20		 14 September 1891 (Age 61)
 Undera, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Daisy Madill
Birth of a granddaughter
#21		 1891 (Age 61)
 Wyuna, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Eva Adelaide Ryan
Australian History 1891 (Age 61)
 

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 62)
 

Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia.
Birth of a grandson
#22		 27 June 1893 (Age 63)
 Undera, Victoria, Australia

grandson - Albert Ernest Madill
Birth of a grandson
#23		 1893 (Age 63)
 Trafalgar, Victoria, Australia

grandson - James Arthur Bilson
Birth of a grandson
#24		 1893 (Age 63)
 Wyuna, Victoria, Australia

grandson - Herbert Ernest Ryan
Australian History 1893 (Age 63)
 

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.
Death of a grandson 1894 (Age 64)
 Trafalgar, Victoria, Australia

grandson - Walter Frankling Bilson
Death of a grandson 1894 (Age 64)
 Trafalgar, Victoria, Australia

grandson - James Arthur Bilson
Registration
Easement
5 October 1894 (Age 64)
 Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

The Kyabram Union and Rodney Shire Advocate (Vic. : 1894 - 1894) (about) Friday 5 October 1894 Page 13
The Kyabram Union and Rodney Shire Advocate (Vic. : 1894 - 1894) (about) Friday 5 October 1894 Page 13

Note: From C.A. Argyle, solicitor to the Trust, intimating that the following easements had been duly registered, - Nos. 298 John Colliver, 208 Charles Maher, 187 Kenneth McDonald, 209 Henry Mulholland, 330 Ivie Stewart, 306 George Robbins, 316 David Madill, 318 Matthew Madill, ……. – Received.

Australian History 1894 (Age 64)
 

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.
Birth of a granddaughter
#25		 1895 (Age 65)
 Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Margaret Ellen Sherry
Birth of a granddaughter
#26		 6 June 1895 (Age 65)
 Undera, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Ida Lilian Madill
Birth of a granddaughter
#27		 1895 (Age 65)
 Trafalgar, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Adelaide Elizabeth Bilson
Australian History 1895 (Age 65)
 

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 66)
 

Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution
Australian History 1897 (Age 67)
 

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.
Marriage of a sonDavid Madill - View family
1898 (Age 68)
 66 Herbet Street, Albert Park, Victoria, Australia

son - David Madill
daughter-in-law - Abina Maude Lynas
Australian History 1898 (Age 68)
 

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 69)
 

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.
Birth of a granddaughter
#28		 10 September 1900 (Age 70)
 Undera, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Abina Maude Madill
Birth of a granddaughter
#29		 1900 (Age 70)
 Barwon, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Irene Mary Bilson
Australian History 1900 (Age 70)
 

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 of a wife 11 September 1901 (Age 71)
 Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

wife - Mary Ann Hall
Australian History 1901 (Age 71)
 

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 72)
 

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
Birth of a grandson
#30		 28 February 1903 (Age 73)
 Albert Park, Victoria, Australia

grandson - David James "Jim" Madill
Australian History 1903 (Age 73)
 

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
Birth of a grandson
#31		 1 February 1904 (Age 74)
 Undera, Victoria, Australia

grandson - Thomas Matthew Madill
Marriage of a granddaughterLela Maud Sherry - View family
1904 (Age 74)
 Victoria, Australia

granddaughter's husband - Charles Stevenson
granddaughter - Lela Maud Sherry
Marriage of a granddaughterEdith May Madill - View family
26 August 1904 (Age 74)
 101 Gore Street, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter's husband - John "Arthur" Lynas
granddaughter - Edith May Madill
Australian History 1904 (Age 74)
 

Note: A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital
Note: Chris Watson forms the first federal Labor (minority) government
Birth of a granddaughter
#32		 15 October 1905 (Age 75)
 Undera, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Elsie Madill
Marriage of a grandsonEdwin David Sherry - View family
1906 (Age 76)
 Victoria, Australia

grandson - Edwin David Sherry
grandson's wife - Florence Jean Edmonds
Australian History 1906 (Age 76)
 

Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea
Birth of a granddaughter
#33		 11 July 1907 (Age 77)
 Undera, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Florence "May" Madill
Birth of a granddaughter
#34		 7 August 1907 (Age 77)
 Richmond, Victoria, Australia

granddaughter - Vera Mabel Ryan
Australian History 1908 (Age 78)
 

Note: Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country
Note: The Dalgety proposal for the national capital is revoked, and Canberra is chosen instead
Death 21 January 1908 (Age 78)
 Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Friday 31 January 1908 Page 3
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Friday 31 January 1908 Page 3

Will 9 February 1908 (19 days after death)
 Shepparton, Victoria, Australia

Will of David Madill

Note: This is the Last Will and Testament of me Matthew Madill of Undera in Victoria, Farmer. I bequeath to my daughter Mary Ellen Bilson the wife of James Bilson of Undera Store Keeper the sum of Seventy pounds, and to my daughter Margaret Ryan wife of James Henry Ryan of near Broken Hill New South Wales Grazier the sum of Fifty pounds, and I give device and bequeath all the residue of my property real and personal whatsoever and wheresoever unto my son David Madill of Undera aforesaid Farmer for his sole use and benefit. And I hereby appoint the said David Madill and the said James Bilson Execution hereof. I revoke all prior Wills made by me and I declare this to be my Last Will and Testament.

Probate 4 March 1908 (43 days after death)
 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Matthew Madill Affidavit and Executors

Family with parents - View family
father
Thomas Madill

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mother
Elizabeth Mc Connell Elizabeth Mc Connell

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Marriage: yes
#1 himself
Matthew Madill 1830-1903 Matthew Madill

Birth 1830  Monaghan, Ireland

Death 21 January 1908 (Age 78)  Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

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Family with Mary Ann Hall - View family
himself
Matthew Madill 1830-1903 Matthew Madill

Birth 1830  Monaghan, Ireland

Death 21 January 1908 (Age 78)  Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

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2 months
wife
Mary Ann Hall Mary Ann Hall

Birth 28 February 1830 20 26  Killeaven, Monaghan, Monaghan, Ulster, Ireland

Death 11 September 1901 (Age 71)  Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia

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Marriage: 5 February 1852 — Clones, Monaghan, Ireland
6 years
#1 daughter
Eliza Madill

Birth 20 June 1858 28 28  Mullaghboy, Monaghan, Ireland

Death before 1869 (Age 10)  

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#2 daughter
Ann Jane Madill

Birth 11 March 1853 23 23  Mullaghboy, Monaghan, Ireland

Death 15 July 1927 (Age 74)  Footscray, Victoria, Australia

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#3 son
Madill David.jpg David Madill

Birth 22 July 1855 25 25  Mullaghboy, Monaghan, Ireland

Death 10 March 1933 (Age 77) Age: 77  Undera North, Victoria, Australia

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3 years
#4 daughter
Elizabeth Madill

Birth 20 June 1858 28 28  Mullaghboy, Monaghan, Ireland

Death before 1869 (Age 10)  

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1 year
#5 daughter
Letitia Madill

Birth 1 July 1859 29 29  Mullaghboy, Monaghan, Ireland

Death before 1869 (Age 9)  

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13 months
#6 daughter
Mary Ellinor Madill

Birth 11 August 1860 30 30  Mullaghboy, Monaghan, Ireland

Death 1957 (Age 96)  Huntly, Victoria, Australia

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8 years
#7 daughter
Margaret Ann Madill Margaret Ann Madill

Birth 3 January 1869 39 38  Clunes, Victoria, Australia

Death May 1952 (Age 83)  Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia

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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.

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.

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.

Immigration
1852 living in Mullaghboy, Parrish Currin, County Monaghan. Arrived in Victoria, Australia 1865/6 with wife, Mary Ann, Ann Jane 12, David 10, Mary Ellenor 5, maybe others?

Immigration
Arrival Date: 6 Jan 1862 Arrival Port: Melbourne, Australia Departure Port: Liverpool Ship: Royal Saxon Nationality: Irish

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.

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.

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(01 Jan) Australia becomes a federation on 1 January. Edmund Barton becomes Prime Minister; the 7th Earl of Hopetoun becomes Governor-General

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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.

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The High Court of Australia is established with Samuel Griffith as the first Chief Justice.

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A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital

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Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country



Letter from Matthew Madill to his orphan niece Margret Tailor in Drumsoad, Clones, County Monaghan, Ireland, April 16, 1874.

Your aunt and cousins had a letter wrote about six months ago. I would not let them seal it because they were encouraging you to come out and that was what I did not like because I had not a way that time to keep you from the strangers, but thanks be to God, it is not so now for I have selected 160 acres of land. I have one year’s rent paid on it and has got my licence. I am not labouring it nor won’t til November. The rent is only 2shillings an acre and in 10 years I have it free, so thanks be to God it won’t be so bad with you as it is at present if the Lords spares me, for dear Margaret, I am going to send you £2 now and Ann Jane’s husband, Mr John Sherry, is going to send you £1. If you be a wise good girl and stop single. The ‘assistant emigration” is stopped for a time; we expect it will commence again. Make up your mind and send me word if you will come out to this country and I will pay your passage.

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His daughter Mary Ellen Madill also wrote to her cousin Margaret on January 21, 1875. Dear cousin Margaret, I think long to see you out here till you and I take a horse each and a kangaroo’s dog and then go a hunt after the kangaroos and emus. The girls here does no outside work. It is all housework. If you were in this country you would never see porridge anymore. In this country you would have to learn to ride for you cannot go to your next neighbour without riding, it is so far. When I go out I always ride on horseback. If you were here you could not sleep in the morning for laughing jackasses and cockatoos and parrots and curlews and native companions and a lot of other birds. Father shot some emus and it took three men to lift it into the cart. The old man kangaroo is much about the same weight ... I wish you were out here cousin Margaret. We would have such fun. We have our house build in about 10 acres of pine trees. They are about eight foot high. We have about 100 large trees father is going to cut down and get sawed for building purposes.

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Matthew and Mary Ann Madill
Matthew and Mary Ann Madill
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Matthew Madill 1830-1903
Matthew Madill 1830-1903
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Wedding certificate of Matthew and Mary Ann
Wedding certificate of Matthew and Mary Ann
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The Kyabram Union and Rodney Shire Advocate (Vic. : 1894 - 1894) (about) Friday 5 October 1894 Page 13
The Kyabram Union and Rodney Shire Advocate (Vic. : 1894 - 1894) (about) Friday 5 October 1894 Page 13
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Will of David Madill
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Matthew Madill Affidavit and Executors
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Letter from Matthew Madill to Margaret Tailor
Letter from Matthew Madill to Margaret Tailor
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Friday 31 January 1908 Page 3
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) Friday 31 January 1908 Page 3
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