John StarrittAge: 771834–1911
- Name
- John Starritt
- Given names
- John
- Surname
- Starritt
- Also known as
- James Brown Starritt
| Birth | 1834 24 Letterkenny, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland |
| Australian History | 1835 (Age 12 months) 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 2) Note: Province of South Australia proclaimed with its western border at 132 degrees E. |
| Australian History | 1838 (Age 4) Note: First Prussian settlers arrive in South Australia; the largest group on non-British migrants in Australia at the time. |
| Australian History | 1839 (Age 5) Note: Paul Edmund Strzelecki becomes first European to ascend and name Australia's highest peak, Mount Kosciuszko. |
| Australian History | 1840 (Age 6) Note: Australia's first municipal authority, the City of Adelaide, is established, followed by Sydney City Council. |
| Australian History | 1841 (Age 7) Note: New Zealand is proclaimed as a separate colony, no longer part of New South Wales. |
| Australian History | 1842 (Age 8) Note: Copper is discovered at Kapunda in South Australia. |
| Birth of a brother | 1843 (Age 9) Gortnalabin, Letterkenny, Donegal, Ireland
younger brother -
Robert Starritt
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| Australian History | 1843 (Age 9) 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 brother | 26 June 1844 (Age 10) Donegal, Ulster, Ireland
younger brother -
Alexander Starritt
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| Australian History | 1845 (Age 11) 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 brother | 1847 (Age 13) Donegal, Ulster, Ireland
younger brother -
George Starritt
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| Australian History | 1850 (Age 16) 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 17) 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 19) Note: Bendigo Petition and Red Ribbon Rebellion at Bendigo |
| Australian History | 1854 (Age 20) Note: The Eureka Stockade |
| Australian History | 1855 (Age 21) 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 22) Note: Van Diemen's Land name changed to Tasmania. |
| Australian History | 1857 (Age 23) 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 24) Note: Sydney and Melbourne linked by electric telegraph. Note: New South Wales men achieve the right to vote. |
| Australian History | 1859 (Age 25) 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 26) 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 27) Note: The ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition occurs. Note: skiing in Australia introduced by Norwegians in the Snowy Mountains goldrush town of Kiandra |
| Marriage | Isabella Mc Phee - View family 1862 (Age 28) Ballarat, Victoria, Australia |
| Australian History | 1862 (Age 28) Note: Stuart reaches Port Darwin, founding a settlement there. Queensland's western border is moved to 139 degrees E. |
| Australian History | 1863 (Age 29) Note: South Australia takes control of the Northern Territory which was part of the colony of New South Wales. |
| Marriage of a brother | Alexander Starritt - View family 1866 (Age 32)
younger brother -
Alexander Starritt
sister-in-law -
Martha Gregg
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| Birth of a son #1 | 1867 (Age 33)
son -
Thomas James Starritt
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| Australian History | 1867 (Age 33) Note: Gold is discovered at Gympie, Queensland. Note: Saint Mary MacKillop founds Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. |
| Birth of a daughter #2 | 1868 (Age 34) Australia
daughter -
Margaret Isabella Starritt
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| Death of a father | 1868 (Age 34)
father -
Thomas Starritt
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| Australian History | 1868 (Age 34) Note: The transportation of convicts to Western Australia ceases. |
| Death of a brother | 1869 (Age 35) Altrincham, Cheshire, England
younger brother -
George Starritt
|
| Australian History | 1869 (Age 35) Note: Children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are removed from their families by Australian and State government agencies. |
| Marriage of a brother | Robert Starritt - View family 2 August 1870 (Age 36) Creswick, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Robert Starritt
sister-in-law -
Catherine Gregg
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| Australian History | 1872 (Age 38) Note: Overland Telegraph Line linking Darwin and Adelaide opens. |
| Australian History | 1873 (Age 39) Note: Uluru is first sighted by Europeans, and named Ayers Rock. |
| Birth of a daughter #3 | 1875 (Age 41)
daughter -
Rubina Starritt
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| Death of a mother | 1 March 1875 (Age 41) Gortnalabin, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland
mother -
Margaret Brown
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| Australian History | 1875 (Age 41) 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 son #4 | about 1876 (Age 42)
son -
John "Jack" Starritt
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| Birth of a daughter #5 | 1878 (Age 44) Australia
daughter -
Mary Ann Starritt
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| Economic | Payment of old mining debt 29 June 1878 (Age 44)Address: Riverine Herald (Echuca, Vic. : Moama, NSW ) Saturday 29 June 1878 Page 3 Riverine Herald (Echuca, Vic. : Moama, NSW) Saturday 29 June 1878 Page 3 |
| Residence | Isabella Mc Phee - View family 1 July 1878 (Age 44) Echuca, Victoria, Australia John Starritt Applicatoin for Grant |
| Australian History | 1878 (Age 44) Note: First horse-drawn trams in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Birth of a son #6 | 1879 (Age 45) Australia |
| Australian History | 1879 (Age 45) Note: The first congress of trade unions is held. |
| Australian History | 1880 (Age 46) Note: The bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged. Note: Parliamentarians in Victoria become the first in Australia to be paid for their work. |
| Australian History | 1882 (Age 48) Note: First water-borne sewerage service in Australia commenced operations in Adelaide. |
| Australian History | 1883 (Age 49) Note: The opening of the Sydney-Melbourne railway Note: Silver is discovered at Broken Hill |
| Marriage of a brother | Alexander Starritt - View family 1886 (estimated) (Age 52)
younger brother -
Alexander Starritt
sister-in-law -
Mattie Rutherford
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| Australian History | 1887 (Age 53) 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 55) 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 56) Note: The Australian Federation Conference calls a constitutional convention. |
| Australian History | 1891 (Age 57) 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 58) Note: Gold is discovered at Coolgardie, Western Australia. |
| Australian History | 1893 (Age 59) 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 60) 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 61) 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 62) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
| Australian History | 1897 (Age 63) 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 64) 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 65) 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 66) 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 |
| Australian History | 1901 (Age 67) 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 68) 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 |
| Australian History | 1903 (Age 69) 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 70) 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 72) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
| Australian History | 1908 (Age 74) Note: Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country Note: The Dalgety proposal for the national capital is revoked, and Canberra is chosen instead |
| Birth of a granddaughter #1 | 1909 (Age 75)
granddaughter -
Elsie Starritt
|
| Australian History | 1909 (Age 75) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
| Australian History | 1910 (Age 76) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
| Australian History | 1911 (Age 77) 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. |
| Death | 21 January 1911 (Age 77) Echuca, Victoria, Australia Address: District Hospital John Starritt Death Cert |
| Family with parents - View family |
| father |
Thomas Starritt
Birth Donegal, Donegal, Ireland Death 1868 |
| mother |
Margaret Brown
Birth 1810 (estimated) Death 1 March 1875 (Age 65) Gortnalabin, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland |
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Marriage: yes |
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| #1 himself |
John Starritt
Birth 1834 24 Letterkenny, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland Death 21 January 1911 (Age 77) Echuca, Victoria, Australia |
| #2 brother |
Thomas Starritt
Birth Donegal, Ulster, Ireland Death yes |
| #3 younger brother |
Birth 1843 33 Gortnalabin, Letterkenny, Donegal, Ireland Death 22 January 1921 (Age 78) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia |
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18 months #4 younger brother |
Alexander Starritt
Birth 26 June 1844 34 Donegal, Ulster, Ireland Death 25 August 1911 (Age 67) Letterkenny, Donegal, Ireland |
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3 years #5 younger brother |
George Starritt
Birth 1847 37 Donegal, Ulster, Ireland Death 1869 (Age 22) Altrincham, Cheshire, England |
| Family with Isabella Mc Phee - View family |
| himself |
John Starritt
Birth 1834 24 Letterkenny, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland Death 21 January 1911 (Age 77) Echuca, Victoria, Australia |
| wife |
Isabella Mc Phee
Death yes |
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Marriage: 1862 — Ballarat, Victoria, Australia |
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5 years #1 son |
Thomas James Starritt
Birth 1867 33 Death Queensland, Australia |
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1 year #2 daughter |
Margaret Isabella Starritt
Birth 1868 34 Australia Death yes |
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7 years #3 daughter |
Rubina Starritt
Birth 1875 41 Death yes |
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1 year #4 son |
John "Jack" Starritt
Birth about 1876 42 Death 1915 (Age 39) Age: 39 Bussleton, Western Australia, Australia |
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2 years #5 daughter |
Mary Ann Starritt
Birth 1878 44 Australia Death 1951 (Age 73) Australia |
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1 year #6 son |
William Alexander Starritt
Birth 1879 45 Australia Death 1929 (Age 50) Australia |
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